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Executions: Explore 700 Years of Public Punishment in London by Jackie Keily
RRP: £16.99£11.81A fascinating record of how London and Londoners were shaped by nearly 700 years of public executions. More frequent in London than in any other city or town in Britain, these morbid spectacles often attracted tens of thousands of onlookers at... -
Growing Out: Black Hair and Black Pride in the Swinging 60s by Barbara Blake Hannah
RRP: £10.99£6.52'A gorgeously exuberant account. . . writing that is natural and vivacious . . . a fascinating and hugely enjoyable read.' Bernardine Evaristo, from the IntroductionTravelling over from Jamaica as a teenager, Barbara's journey is remarkable. She finds... -
The Industrial Revolution 1760-1830 by T. S. Ashton 9780192892898
RRP: £35.99£33.44The Industrial Revolution has sometimes been regarded as a catastrophe which desecrated the English landscape and brought social opporession and appalling physical hardship to the workers. In this book, however, it is presented as an important and... -
Flight Craft 16: The Hawker Hunter in British Service by Martin Derry 9781526742490
RRP: £16.99£13.28The Hawker Hunter is one of Britain's classic post-war jet aircraft. Initially introduced in 1954 as a swept-wing, transonic, single-seat day interceptor, it rapidly succeeded the first-generation jet fighters in RAF service such as the Gloster Meteor... -
Six Miles from Home by Stephen Morrin
RRP: £9.99£7.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528905572Author Stephen MorrinFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers -
The Grand Fleet 1914-19: The Royal Navy in the First World War by Daniel George Ridley-Kitts
RRP: £19.99£15.42During the First World War the reputation of the British Royal Navy was put on the line in its defence of the country, and, crucially, it was in those years, 1914-19, that the Grand Fleet became the single most potent weapon of war of any nation. In this... -
There Once Was A Man With Six Wives: Our Kings and Queens in Limericks by Mick Twister 9781911042235
RRP: £12.99£8.48A hugely entertaining collection of clever and fun limericks, one for each monarch in British history - and more! Royal history as you've never seen it before - in limericks! ... -
Beaconsfield by Beaconsfield and District Local History Society 9780750909303
RRP: £12.99£9.62BeaconsfieldBook InformationISBN 9780750909303Author Beaconsfield and District Local History SocietyFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Sutton Publishing LtdPublisher The History Press Ltd -
Great War Britain Derby: Remembering 1914-18 by Mike Galer
RRP: £12.99£9.62The First World War claimed over 995,000 British lives, and its legacy continues to be remembered today. Great War Britain: Derby offers an intimate portrayal of the city and its people living in the shadow of the A'war to end all warsA'. A beautifully... -
The Battle of St Monans by Leonard Low 9781904246466
RRP: £9.95£7.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904246466Author Leonard LowFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Steve Savage Publishers LimitedPublisher Steve Savage Publishers Limited -
Haunted Bristol by Sue Le'Queux 9780752433004
RRP: £14.99£11.55A unique glimpse into the ghostly legacy of Bristol's past that is sure to appeal to anyone interested in a spot of ghost-hunting!Book InformationISBN 9780752433004Author Sue Le'QueuxFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The... -
Civil War London: Mobilizing for Parliament, 1641–5 by Jordan S. Downs 9781526174444
RRP: £25.00£17.92This book looks at London's provision of financial and military support for parliament's war against King Charles I. It explores for the first time a series of episodic, circumstantial and unique mobilisations that spanned from late 1641 to early 1645... -
Rare Birds: Voices of Holloway Prison by Natalie Scott
RRP: £12.00£8.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912436255Author Natalie ScottFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Valley PressPublisher Valley PressDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 10mm -
Investment in Blood: The True Cost of Britain's Afghan War by Frank Ledwidge 9780300205268
RRP: £10.99£9.37In this follow-up to the extremely successful Losing Small Wars, Frank Ledwidge analyses the cost - both financial and human - of Britain's involvement in the Afghanistan war. With the aid of interviews, on-the-ground research and countless Freedom of... -
London Folk Tales by Helen East 9780752461854
RRP: £12.99£9.62London is a world unto itself; an outrageous, quirky and diverse microcosm where all walks of life cross paths, their languages jostling and mingling - and there are tales whichever way you turn. Now thirty of the best, drawn from oral history and newly... -
Malverns by Brian Iles 9780752436678
RRP: £15.99£12.25With over 200 archive photographs, this collection documents life in the Malverns from the 1860s until the 1950s. All aspects of everyday life are featured, including shops and businesses, work and leisure and the war years. Local events such as the... -
A Century of Grimsby: Events, People and Places Over the 20th Century by David Cuppleditch
RRP: £14.99£11.55This fascinating selections of photographs illustrates the extraordinary transformation that has taken place in Grimsby during the 20th century. The book offers an insight into the daily lives and living conditions of local people and gives the reader... -
Unmaking the East India Company: British Art and Political Reform in Colonial India, c. 1813-1858 by Tom Young
RRP: £40.00£33.59Illuminates how new modes of artistic production in colonial India shaped the British state's nationalisation of the East India Company, transforming the relationship between nation and empire This pioneering book explores how art shaped the... -
Unlocking the Church: The lost secrets of Victorian sacred space by William Whyte 9780198796169
RRP: £13.49£12.85The Victorians built tens of thousands of churches in the hundred years between 1800 and 1900. Wherever you might be in the English-speaking world, you will be close to a Victorian built or remodelled ecclesiastical building. Contemporary experience of... -
Dickens and the Workhouse: Oliver Twist and the London Poor by Ruth Richardson 9780199645886
RRP: £19.99£15.02The recent discovery that as a young man Charles Dickens lived only a few doors from a major London workhouse made headlines worldwide, and the campaign to save the workhouse from demolition caught the public imagination. Internationally, the media... -
Cooperative Rule: Community Development in Britain's Late Empire by Aaron Windel
RRP: £30.00£23.29While many have interpreted the cooperative movement as propagating a radical alternative to capitalism, Cooperative Rule shows that in the late British Empire, cooperation became an important part of the armory of colonialism. The system was rooted in... -
Household Inventories of Helmingham Hall, 1597-1741 by Moira Coleman
RRP: £35.00£34.31Edition of extremely rich household inventories provides a wealth of information about life at the time. It is rare to find a sequence of household inventories surviving on the site they record; and rarer still when that house has been occupied... -
Elizabeth I and Her Circle by Susan Doran 9780199574957
RRP: £28.99£21.72This is the story of Elizabeth I's inner circle and the crucial human relationships which lay at the heart of her personal and political life. Using a wide range of original sources - including private letters, portraits, verse, drama, and state papers -... -
Royal Flying Corps Kitbag: Aircrew Uniforms and Equipment from the War Over the Western Front in WWI by Mark Hillier 9781526752994
RRP: £25.00£18.02The Royal Flying Corps was formed by Royal Warrant on 13 April 1912, and came into being a month later when the Air Battalion was absorbed into the Military Wing of the new Corps in May. In the days following the outbreak of war in 1914, the programme... -
Britain's Industrial Revolution in 100 Objects by John Broom
RRP: £25.00£17.62The period of Britain's Industrial Revolution was perhaps the most transformative era in the nation's history. Between about 1750 and 1914, life and work, home and school, church and community changed irreversibly for Britain's rapidly expanding... -
Tea and Empire: James Taylor in Victorian Ceylon by Angela McCarthy
£34.51This book brings to life for the first time the remarkable story of James Taylor, 'father of the Ceylon tea enterprise' in the nineteenth century. Publicly celebrated in Sri Lanka for his efforts in transforming the country's economy and shaping the... -
How to Create the Perfect Wife: The True Story of One Gentleman, Two Orphans and an Experiment to Create the Ideal Woman by Wendy Moore
RRP: £10.99£7.40From the No.1 bestselling author of WEDLOCK. The Georgian scandal of one gentleman, two orphans and an experiment to create the ideal wife.This is the story of how Thomas Day, a young man of means, decided he could never marry a woman with brains, spirit... -
Childhood and Child Labour in the British Industrial Revolution by Jane Humphries 9780521248969
RRP: £30.99£23.25This is a unique account of working-class childhood during the British industrial revolution, first published in 2010. Using more than 600 autobiographies written by working men of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Jane Humphries illuminates... -
Old Clydebank by Sheila Struthers 9781872074405
RRP: £11.95£10.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781872074405Author Sheila StruthersFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 180mm * 240mm * 4mm -
Rebel Women Between the Wars: Fearless Writers and Adventurers by Sarah Lonsdale
RRP: £20.00£14.93What did it mean to be a 'rebel woman' in the interwar years? Taking the form of a multiple biography, this book traces the struggles, passions and achievements of a set of 'fearlessly determined' women who stopped at nothing to make their mark in the... -
Heinemann Advanced History: The Extension of the Franchise: 1832-1931 by Bob Whitfield
£29.13A study of the period 1832 to 1931 and the extension of the franchise. It is designed to fulfil the AS and A Level specifications in place from September 2000. The two AS sections deal with narrative and explanation of the topic. There are extra notes,... -
The Secret Agent's Pocket Manual: 1939-1945 by Stephen Bull
RRP: £9.99£7.67A remarkable insight into the training and techniques of Allied agents operating behind enemy lines during the Second World War. Most wars have had some element of espionage and subterfuge, but few have included as much as the Second World War, where... -
The Irish Diaries (1994-2003): Alastair Campbell by Kathy Gilfillan
£17.79The four volumes of spokesman and strategist Alastair Campbell's diaries were a publishing sensation.As British Prime Minister Tony Blair's right-hand man, former journalist and political analyst Campbell played a critical role in every aspect of New... -
Nighthawk One: Recollections of a Helicopter Pilot's Tour of Duty in Northern Ireland During the Troubles by Peter Shaw 9781804512401
RRP: £16.95£12.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804512401Author Peter ShawFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Cunard Story by Chris Frame 9780752459141
RRP: £9.99£6.09Since 1840, Cunard ships have been transiting the North Atlantic with speed, grace and elegance. These great ships helped to populate nations, served during both world wars and have transported millions of passengers, amongst them celebrities,... -
Royal Naval Cordite Factory Holton Heath: A Pictorial History by Malcolm Bowditch 9780992855444
RRP: £24.99£24.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992855444Author Malcolm BowditchFormat HardbackPage Count 244Imprint Folly Books LtdPublisher Folly Books LtdWeight(grams) 1290gDimensions(mm) 260mm *... -
Death and the Virgin: Elizabeth, Dudley and the Mysterious Fate of Amy Robsart by Chris Skidmore 9780753827017
RRP: £10.99£7.40The dramatic story of Elizabeth's first ten years on the throne and the unexplained death that scandalised her court.Elizabeth came to the throne in 1558 a 25-year-old virgin - the most prized catch in Christendom. For the first ten years of her reign,... -
Bradford: Images of England by Gary Firth 9780752430195
RRP: £14.99£11.55This book is part of the Images of England series, which uses old photographs and archived images to show the history of various local areas in England, through their streets, shops, pubs, and people.Book InformationISBN 9780752430195Author Dr Gary... -
Hertfordshire: A Landscape History by Anne Rowe
RRP: £18.99£17.38Dividing the county of Hertfordshire into four broad regions-the "champion" countryside in the north, the Chiltern dip slope to the west, the fertile boulder clays of the east, and the unwelcoming London Clay in the south-this volume explains how, in the... -
A History of Sunderland: Third Edition by Glen Lyndon Dodds 9780993252730
RRP: £26.00£20.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993252730Author Glen Lyndon DoddsFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint Albion PressPublisher Albion PressWeight(grams) 576gDimensions(mm) 246mm * 189mm *...