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Cladh Hallan: Roundhouses and the dead in the Hebridean Bronze Age and Iron Age, Part I: stratigraghy, spatial organisation and chronology by Mike Parker Pearson 9781789256932
RRP: $45.15$41.58This first of two volumes presents the archaeological evidence of a long sequence of settlement and funerary activity from the Beaker period (Early Bronze Age c. 2000 BC) to the Early Iron Age (c. 500 BC) at the unusually long-occupied site of Cladh... -
Death in the Air: The True Story of a Serial Killer, the Great London Smog, and the Strangling of a City by Kate Winkler Dawson 9780316506830
RRP: $19.34$15.04London in 1952 was a still recovering from the devastation wrought by World War II: rationing was still in effect, rates of crime and unemployment were high, and the national economy was in shambles. In an effort to repay its massive war debt, the... -
Copper Wings: British South Africa Police Reserve Air Wing: Volume 1 by Guy Ellis 9781804513972
RRP: $25.74$18.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804513972Author Guy EllisFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
County Wicklow: Ireland in Old Photographs by Derek Stanley
RRP: $21.92$16.69County Wicklow, with its golden beaches, wooded valleys, majestic mountains and stunning lakes, rivers and waterfalls, is an area of great natural beauty and its vibrant history is uniquely captured in this collection of archive images. Derek Stanley... -
The Parisi: Britains and Romans in Eastern Yorkshire by Peter Halkon
RRP: $29.03$22.18According to the ancient Greek geographer Ptolemy, the Parisi tribe occupied the area of the present-day East Riding of Yorkshire during the Roman period. Over the last few decades our understanding of this region and its inhabitants has been transformed... -
The Early Middle Ages: Europe 400-1000 by Rosamond McKitterick 9780198731726
$45.69The Early Middle Ages (400-1000) was one of the most dynamic and crucial periods in the formation of Europe. It covers the transition from the relatively diverse world of Roman Empire in late antiquity, to the disparate world of early medieval Europe,... -
The Structure of Politics at the Accession of George III by Sir Lewis Namier 9780333067161
RRP: $90.29$84.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780333067161Author Sir Lewis NamierFormat PaperbackPage Count 514Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 680g -
Simon de Montfort by J.R. Maddicott 9780521376365
RRP: $58.04$49.72This book provides a new account of one of the most famous men of the English middle ages: Simon de Montfort. It traces his career from his origins as the younger son of a French noble family, through his elevation in England as the close friend and... -
The History Behind Game of Thrones: The North Remembers by David C Weinczok 9781526781451
RRP: $19.34$14.13A wall in the distant north cuts the world in two. Ruthless seaborne warriors raid the coasts from their war galleys, yearning to regain lost glories. A young nobleman and his kin are slaughtered under a banner of truce within a mighty castle. A warrior... -
Victorian Maps of England: The county and city maps of Thomas Moule by Thomas Moule
RRP: $38.70$29.35The most beautiful Victorian maps of England's counties and cities - in large format - by one of Britain's great cartographer's Thomas Moule. Thomas Moule was one of the finest Victorian mapmakers and is regarded as the true follower of John Speed in... -
Protestant and Irish: The minority's search for place in independent Ireland: 2019 by Ian D'Alton 9781782053811
$26.25In 1989 Edna Longley remarked that if Catholics were born Irish, Protestants had to 'work their passage to Irishness'. With eighteen essays by scholars with individual perspectives on Irish Protestant history, this book explores a number of those... -
When the Girls Come Out to Play: Teenage Working-Class Girls' Leisure between the Wars by Katharine Milcoy
$37.50Filling a long-standing gap both in women's history and in the material history of class culture, this book is a unique and necessary reassessment of the social and cultural scene during the inter-war period in England. By combing over the everyday... -
James of St George and the Castles of the Welsh Wars by Malcolm Hislop 9781526741301
RRP: $32.25$22.73James of St George has a reputation as one of the most significant castle builders of the Middle Ages. His origins and early career at the heart of Europe, and his subsequent masterminding of Edward I of England's castle-building programmes in Wales and... -
The Story of Sheppey by John Clancy
RRP: $24.50$18.47The Isle of Sheppey, just 9 miles long and 4 miles wide, is situated in the Thames Estuary at the mouth of the Medway. It is a mysterious and ancient place, separated from the mainland by arm and of the sea known as The Swale. Sheppey, once mainly known... -
Barry Island: The Making of a Seaside Playground, c.1790- c.1965 by Andy Croll 9781786835864
RRP: $25.79$19.65Barry Island was one of the most cherished leisure spaces in twentieth-century south Wales, a playground of generations of working-class day-trippers. This book considers its rise as a seaside resort and reveals a history that is much more complex,... -
Scottish Clans & Tartans by Ian Grimble 9781842046678
RRP: $7.73$6.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781842046678Author Ian GrimbleFormat PaperbackImprint Lomond BooksPublisher Lomond Books -
Hoolies: True Stories of Britian's Biggest Street Battles by Garry Bushell 9781844549078
$14.13These warring youth factions inspired copycat cultures around the globe. This in-depth book cuts through the myths that Fleet Street built up around the cults; it tells the truth about the young, angry Britain of the 1970s that inspired a kaleidoscope of... -
Berkshire Folk Tales by David England 9780752467450
RRP: $12.89$9.74This collection, inspired by the folklore of the Royal County, contains a plethora of tales robustly retold for a contemporary audience. The exploits of well-known figures such as Herne the Hunter and Dick Turpin feature alongside many of the county's... -
The Quest For Corvo by A. J. A. Symons
RRP: $23.21$16.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780940322615Author A.J.A. SymonsFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
Love in the Time of Victoria: Sexuality and Desire Among Working-Class Men and Women in 19th Century London by Francoise Barret-Ducrocq 9780140173260
$18.65Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Shitshow: An 'Is It Just Me Or Is Everything Shit?' Special by Steve Lowe
RRP: $16.76$11.09It was shit. Then the shit hit the fan. Would someone find a way of making it worse? Of course they would! Welcome to THE SHITSHOW...'There's a lot going on these days. Trump, Brexit, Call the Midwife . . . The rise of the robots . . . The rise of Easy... -
A University Education by David Willetts 9780198767268
RRP: $37.40$27.35Universities have a crucial role in the modern world. In England entrance to universities is by nation-wide competition which means English universities have an exceptional influence on schools - a striking theme of the book. This important book first... -
The Great Siege of Chester by John Barratt 9780752423456
RRP: $32.25$23.92The appalling effects of civil war are often suffered most horrifically by the ordinary men, women and children involuntarily caught up in it, as it tears asunder the very fabric of their lives. Such was the fate of the citizens of Chester, who for... -
Around Hambrook by Sydney Marks 9780752422053
RRP: $14.18$10.64Around HambrookBook InformationISBN 9780752422053Author Sydney MarksFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 165mm * 10mm -
The Killing of the Iron Twelve: An Account of the Largest Execution of British Soldiers on the Western Front in the First World War by Malloch, Hedley 9781526718570
RRP: $25.79$18.94Why did the Germans brutally and illegally execute a group of British soldiers who had been trapped behind the lines during the retreat to the Marne in 1914? Hedley Malloch, in this gripping and meticulously researched account, vividly describes the fate... -
Crow Court by Andy Charman
RRP: $21.92$15.17LONGLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE 2021 SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA DAGGERS HISTORICAL AWARD 2022 Spring, 1840. In the Dorset market town of Wimborne Minster, a young choirboy drowns himself. Soon after, the choirmaster-a belligerent man with a... -
Basingstoke Canal by Dieter Jebens
RRP: $19.34$14.90The Basingstoke Canal was built towards the end of the 'great canal mania' in the eighteenth century. It was intended to provide a transport route to and from London via the Wey and the Thames, but the expectations of its promoters were never realised;... -
Manors and Manorial Documents after 1500: a guide for local and family historians in England and Wales by Mark Forrest 9780948140068
RRP: $12.90$11.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780948140068Author Mark ForrestFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint British Association for Local HistoryPublisher British Association for Local... -
Dryburgh Abbey by Richard Fawcett 9780752434391
RRP: $20.63$15.80Widely regarded as the most beautiful of Scotland's ruined abbeys, Dryburgh has one of the most completely surviving monastic ranges. Surprisingly, however, this is the first full-length study of Scotland's premier Premonstratensian abbey which goes back... -
The Little Book of Derry by Cathal McGuigan 9780750992343
RRP: $16.76$12.41The Little Book of Derry is a compendium of fascinating, obscure, strange and entertaining facts about County Derry. Here you will find out about Derry's history and archaeology, its arts and culture, its proud sporting heritage and its famous (and... -
John Wheatley by John Hannan 9780851244976
$14.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851244976Author John HannanFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Spokesman BooksPublisher Spokesman Books -
English Society, 1660-1832: Religion, Ideology and Politics during the Ancien Regime by J. C. D. Clark 9780521666275
RRP: $58.04$49.72This is a revised and extensively rewritten edition of a work first published in 1985 as English Society 1688-1832. That book arrived at the opening of a new phase in English historiography, which questioned much of the received picture of English... -
Giving Back: How to Do Good, Better by Derek A. Bardowell 9780349701981
RRP: $16.76$11.09Do you wish you could do more to change the world but don't know how? Do you ever look around at the many charities asking for donations and feel overwhelmed? This inspiring and uplifting book explores the effectiveness of charity and calls for more... -
Practical Cues and Social Spectacle in the Chester Plays by Matthew Sergi
RRP: $33.54$32.06Amid the crowded streets of Chester, guild players portraying biblical characters performed on colorful mobile stages hoping to draw the attention of fellow townspeople. In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, these Chester plays employed flamboyant... -
Bayonet to Barrage: Weaponry on the Victorian Battlefield by Stephen Manning 9781526777218
RRP: $32.25$22.73Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Conversion of Britain: Religion, Politics and Society in Britain, 600-800 by Barbara Yorke 9780582772922
$54.52The Britain of 600-800 AD was populated by four distinct peoples; the British, Picts, Irish and Anglo-Saxons. They spoke 3 different languages, Gaelic, Brittonic and Old English, and lived in a diverse cultural environment. In 600 the British and the... -
The Hundred Years War: Trial by Battle: v.1: Trial by Battle by Jonathan Sumption 9780812216554
$73.43A History Book Club selectionAbout the AuthorA former history fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, Jonathan Sumption is the author of The Hundred Years War, Volume 2: Trial by Fire, The Hundred Years War, Volume 3: Divided Houses, and The Hundred Years... -
Dirty Politics, Dirty Times by Michael A. Ashcroft 9781849540094
RRP: $11.60$8.51This is a newly revised and updated paperback edition of the former Conservative Party Treasurer's personal account of his battle over unsubstantiated claims concerning his business affairs which culminated in a libel action against "The Times" newspaper... -
Sinking of the Prince of Wales & Repulse, The: the End of the Battleship Era by Martin Middlebrook 9781844150755
$25.62On the third day of the war with Japan, two Royal Navy capital ships were sunk off Malaya by air torpedo attack. They had not requested the air support that could have saved them and 840 men died in the battleship HMS Prince of Wales and the battle... -
Mining in Cornwall Vol 7: South Crofty Mine, The East Pool & Agar Mine by L. J. Bullen
RRP: $16.76$12.41Continuing the Mining in Cornwall series, L.J. Bullen depicts three mines from the Central Mining District. Most of the scenes date from around 1900 to the early twenty-first century. This was the period that saw the decline of the industry, but renews...