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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 *... -
Thomas Telford: Master Builder of Roads and Canals by Anthony Burton
RRP: £14.99£10.95Thomas Telford's life was extraordinary: born in the Lowlands of Scotland, where his father worked as a shepherd, he ended his days as the most revered engineer in the world, known punningly as The Colossus of Roads. He was responsible for some of the... -
The River Hamble: A History by David Chun 9780752499666
RRP: £12.99£9.62The Hamble rises at Bishop's Waltham in Hampshire and flows into Southampton Water. It is a relatively small river but it has an interesting and varied history. Above Botley, the Hamble powered a number of mills, and in the 17th century plans to make... -
Poverty and Welfare in England, 1700-1850: A Regional Perspective by Steve King 9780719049408
RRP: £19.99£17.82The first comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the literature on poverty, communal welfare systems and alternative welfare strategies. Offers a new perspective on how we should conceptualise poverty and how ordinary families and communities responded... -
The Little Book of London by David Long 9780750948005
£4.76The Little Book of London is a funny, fast-paced, fact-packed compendium full of the sort of frivolous, fantastic or simply strange information which no-one will want to be without. London's looniest laws, its most eccentric inhabitants, the realities of... -
The Zoo: The Wild and Wonderful Tale of the Founding of London Zoo by Isobel Charman 9780241975060
RRP: £15.99£11.61How one man's mad mission became one of the best-loved places in the worldThe creation of London Zoo - when only one other existed across the world - is a story of jaw-dropping audacity. It is the story of trailblazing scientists, rival keepers and... -
Owain Glyndwr by Glanmor Williams 9780708319413
RRP: £2.99£2.69Offers a brief, attractively written account of Owain Glyndwr (1359-1415) and his Rebellion (1400-1415), one of the most exciting and romantic episodes in the history of Wales.About the AuthorSir Glanmor Williams was the author of many books and articles... -
The Flying Sikh: The Story of a WW1 Fighter Pilot Flying Officer Hardit Singh Malik by Barker, Stephen 9781399083294
RRP: £25.00£17.62The Flying Sikh tells the unique story of the only Sikh airman to fly with the RFC and the RAF during the First World War. It is the remarkable account of one man's struggle to enlist, against discrimination, and then his service as a fighter pilot over... -
A Tiger Loose on an Ice Floe: The Ferozepore Brigade on the Western Front, 1914-1915 by David Snape
RRP: £29.95£20.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915113696Author David SnapeFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Queen Victoria's Matchmaking: The Royal Marriages That Shaped Europe by Deborah Cadbury 9781541768024
RRP: £18.99£12.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541768024Author Deborah CadburyFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint PublicAffairsPublisher PublicAffairsWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 137mm *... -
The Scotch-Irish: A Social History by James Graham Leyburn 9780807842591
RRP: £24.95£16.58Dispelling much of what he terms the 'mythology' of the Scotch-Irish, James Leyburn provides an absorbing account of their heritage. He discusses their life in Scotland, when the essentials of their character and culture were shaped; their removal to... -
The A to Z of Whisky Place-Names: Landscape, Language & Invention by Jacob King 9781849955034
RRP: £16.99£14.10Have you ever wondered about the place-names that appear on Scotch whisky bottles? What language the names come from, what they mean or if they are even real places? If you feel baffled about where to start looking for such information, then this... -
Bloomsbury: Beyond the Establishment by Matthew Ingleby 9780712356565
RRP: £10.00£6.80Bloomsbury lies at the heart of cultural and intellectual London, famed for its museums, universities and literary heritage. Matthew Ingleby's new history ranges across the neighbourhood to explore hidden corners and reveal unexpected connections between... -
George V's Children by John van der Kiste
RRP: £11.99£8.93The six children of King George V and Queen Mary all lived to maturity except the youngest, Prince John. The eldest, who was Prince of Wales and heir to the throne, reigned as King Edward VIII for less than a year. His infamous romance with Mrs Simpson... -
Britain's Glorious Aircraft Industry: 100 Years of Success, Setback and Change by J Paul Hodgson
RRP: £30.00£20.95Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Britain's Railways in the Second World War by Michael Foley 9781526772282
RRP: £25.00£17.62The outbreak of the Second World War had an enormous effect on the railway system in Britain. Keeping the trains running through times of conflict was not such a distant memory for the railway companies and their workers but in this second major war of... -
Building Jerusalem: The Rise and Fall of the Victorian City by Tristram Hunt
RRP: £16.99£12.28'History writing at its compulsive best' A. N. WilsonThis is a history of the ideas that shaped not only London, but Manchester, Glasgow, Liverpool, Leeds, Birmingham, Sheffield and other power-houses of 19th-century Britain. It charts the controversies... -
The Whispers of War by Julia Kelly 9781409189473
RRP: £8.99£6.20August, 1939, Britain watches the headlines in fear of another devastating war with Germany and three women must choose between friendship or country. Socialite Nora is determined to find her place in the Home Office's Air Raid Precautions Department,... -
Gilbert Szlumper and Leo Amery of the Southern Railway: The Diaries of a General Manager and a Director by John King 9781473835276
RRP: £25.00£11.18Very few diaries of directors and senior managers of the Big Four railways have survived to enter the public domain. There are, however, two notable Southern Railway diarists whose records have been available in archives for some years, but have been... -
Ovid and the Politics of Emotion in Elizabethan England by C. Fox 9780230617049
RRP: £44.99£44.97Elizabethan English culture is saturated with tales and figures from Ovid s Metamorphoses. While most of these narratives interrogate metamorphosis and transformation, many tales - such as those of Philomela, Hecuba, or Orpheus - also highlight... -
Country House Life: A century in photographs by Elizabeth Drury
RRP: £14.99£10.10A collection of over 250 photographs sourced from the archives of the National Trust's historic properties depicting life in Britain's country homes and estates. An intriguing look at the life that was led in the country homes and estates now... -
Cheltenham: A New History by Anthea Jones
£5.05Cheltenham is well known as the most complete Regency town in Britain. It boasts a wonderful ensemble of broad streets, handsome terraces and sweeping crescents, as well as a remarkable number of generously proportioned squares and gardens. Grand... -
The Evolution of Scotland's Towns: Creation, Growth and Fragmentation by Pat Dennison 9781474432979
RRP: £31.00£26.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474432979Author Patricia DennisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams)... -
Inside the Tudor Home: Daily Life in the Sixteenth Century by Bethan Watts 9781399089272
£26.53Power. Politics. Prosperity. Plague. Tudor England; a country replete with sprawling landscapes, dense forests and twisting urban labyrinths. This is a place of stagnation and of progress; of glorious cultural revolution, where the wheel of fortune is... -
RAF and East German Fast-Jet Pilots in the Cold War: Thinking the Unthinkable by Nigel Walpole
RRP: £19.99£14.28RAF and East German Fast-Jet Pilots in the Cold War is the result of ten years of research, involving many visits to the former German Democratic Republic by a small Anglo/German team of military specialists. Their purpose was to explore the lives of RAF... -
The End of Empire: Cyprus: A Soldier's Story by Martin Bell 9781473848184
RRP: £25.00£17.62Martin Bell, the former BBC war reporter and Independent MP, served as a soldier in the British army in Cyprus in the late 1950s during the EOKA rebellion against British rule, and recently he discovered the letters he had written home during the... -
Anne of Cleves: Henry VIII's Unwanted Wife by Sarah-Beth Watkins
RRP: £10.99£9.37Anne of Cleves left her homeland in 1539 to marry the king of England. She was not brought up to be a queen, yet out of many possible choices she was the bride Henry VIII chose as his fourth wife. But, from their first meeting the king decided he liked... -
Memoirs of a Bush War Operator: Further Memoirs of the Rhodesian Light Infantry, Selous Scouts and Beyond by A.J. Balaam 9781913118587
RRP: £16.95£12.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913118587Author A.J. BalaamFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Spirit of the Oxford Movement by Christopher Dawson 9780813236063
RRP: £24.95£22.11This is the book we have been waiting for . . . a permanent enrichment of our understanding of the Oxford Movement" proclaimed The Downside Review upon the publication of Christopher Dawson's masterwork in 1933, exactly 100 years after John Keble's... -
Collins Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds - The Loch Ness Mystery: Band 06/Orange by Sarah Rice
RRP: £6.25£5.76Discover the mystery of Scotland's Loch Ness Monster - from its origins and sightings to the latest scientific research - in this non-fiction report. Discover the mystery of Scotland's Loch Ness Monster - from its origins and sightings to the... -
Haunted Rotherham by Richard Bramall 9780752461175
RRP: £14.99£11.55This fascinating book contains a terrifying collection of true-life tales from in and around Rotherham. Featuring stories such as the Lunatic of Ulley Reservoir and the Old Hag of Hellaby Hall, this pulse-raising compilation of unexplained phenomena,... -
Sunderland at War 1939-45 by Craig Armstrong 9781473891258
RRP: £14.99£10.95Sunderland was a key shipbuilding and repair facility with a long history of providing vessels for the British Merchant Navy. As well as its shipbuilding industry, the town also possessed other important industries such as paint manufacturing and... -
Empire and Emancipation: Scottish and Irish Catholics at the Atlantic Fringe, 1780-1850 by S. Karly Kehoe 9781487541088
RRP: £22.99£19.19Empire and Emancipation explores how the agency of Scottish and Irish Catholics redefined understandings of Britishness and British imperial identity in colonial landscapes. In highlighting the relationship of Scottish and Irish Catholics with the... -
The Pain and the Privilege: The Women in Lloyd George's Life by Ffion Hague 9780007219506
RRP: £12.99£9.70'Men's lives are a perpetual conflict. The life that I have mapped out will be so especially - as lawyer and politician. Woman's function is to pour oil on the wounds - to heal the bruises of spirit...and to stimulate to renewed exertion.' ... -
East Belfast: Ireland in Old Photographs by Keith Haines 9781845887780
RRP: £16.99£12.94Local history of East Belfast.Book InformationISBN 9781845887780Author Keith HainesFormat PaperbackImprint Nonsuch PublishingPublisher The History Press Ltd -
Bridport and West Bay: The buildings of the flax and hemp industry by Mike Williams 9781873592861
RRP: £16.99£15.64Bridport is an industrial market town on the west Dorset coast which has played a pivotal role in the region's hemp and flax industry for over 700 years. The industrial heritage of this town is not widely known outside the area and very little has been... -
The Education of the Eye: Painting, Landscape, and Architecture in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Peter De Bolla
RRP: £24.99£21.67The Education of the Eye examines the origins of visual culture in eighteenth-century Britain. It claims that at the moment when works of visual art were first displayed and contemplated as aesthetic objects two competing descriptions of the viewer or... -
Tudor Textiles by Eleri Lynn
RRP: £27.50£22.89A detailed study of Tudor textiles, highlighting their extravagant beauty and their impact on the royal court, fashion, and taste At the Tudor Court, textiles were ubiquitous in decor and ceremony. Tapestries, embroideries, carpets, and hangings were... -
The 2000s: Britain in Pictures by PA Photos 9781906672577
RRP: £14.99£10.20This title offers a beautifully produced tribute to the 2000s, featuring images straight from the archives of the "Press Association". This illuminating collection offers fascinating images that depict both major historical events and smaller, but no... -
Liverpool and the Slave Trade by Anthony Tibbles
RRP: £16.45£15.59During the course of more than four centuries, merchants in Liverpool were responsible for forcibly transporting over a million and a half Africans across the Atlantic to work as enslaved labourers on the plantations of the Caribbean as their ships...