Filter By
- Book
- Qty in Cart
- Quantity
- Price
- Subtotal
-
Got, Not Got: Manchester City: The Lost World of Manchester City by Derek Hammond
RRP: $16.76$11.73Got, Not Got: The Lost World of Manchester City is an Aladdin's cave of memories and memorabilia, guaranteed to whisk you back to Maine Road's fondly remembered 'Golden Age' of mud and magic - as well as a City-mad childhood of miniature tabletop games... -
Uppies and Downies: The Extraordinary Football Games of Britain by Hugh Hornby
RRP: $28.38$17.21Association football, aka 'soccer', is the world's most popular sport. As is known, its rules were drawn up in England between the 1840s and 1860s, largely at the behest of ex public school and university players. Rugby, another version of football honed... -
Protective Practices: A History of the London Rubber Company and the Condom Business by Jessica Borge
RRP: $46.44$40.74From humble beginnings wholesaling at a small tobacconist-hairdresser shop in 1915, the London Rubber Company rapidly became the UK's biggest postwar producer and exporter of disposable rubber condoms. A first-mover and innovator, the company's... -
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Collins Classics) by Jessie Weston 9780008485535
RRP: $3.86$3.02HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. A green horse great and tall;A steed full stiff to guide,In broidered bridle allHe worthily bestrides Dating from around 1400 and composed by... -
Willenhall to Horseley Fields: Images of England by Alec Brew 9780752415109
RRP: $19.34$14.90This collection of over 200 old photographs illustrates scenes from the communities of Willenhall and Horseley Fields. These pictures show how relatively unchanged the streets and buildings of Willenhall are. A walk around the town today shows that it is... -
Terriers in India: British Territorials 1914-19 by Peter Stanley
RRP: $38.64$26.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804510513Author Peter StanleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 364Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Bill Edgar's Quirky Football Quiz Book by Bill Edgar 9781472146304
RRP: $15.47$10.32'Bill Edgar is simply the best. His quizzes draw upon one of the greatest minds in football. This is a book nobody with a love of the game can afford to miss'MATTHEW SYED'It must be good if it's Bill's book!!'JAMIE CARRAGHER'The stuff he comes up with is... -
Played in Liverpool: Charting the heritage of a city at play by Ray Physick 9781850749905
$30.44Becher's Brook at Aintree, the legendary Kop at Anfield, the 18th tee at Hoylake - just three hallowed Liverpool landmarks on the map of international sport. But sporting heritage on Merseyside permeates the entire region and its unique cultural legacy. ... -
Haunted Peterborough by Stuart Orme 9780752476544
RRP: $16.76$12.41Peterborough has a rich and fascinating history, stretching back 3,500 years to the Bronze Age. The city is a vibrant place with a new town surrounding an ancient town centre, still dominated by its Norman cathedral. But the city has a sinister and... -
A Journey Through Ruins: The Last Days of London by Patrick Wright 9780199541942
RRP: $34.17$26.10A unique evocation of Britain at the height of Margaret Thatcher's rule, A Journey Through Ruins views the transformation of the country through the unexpected prism of every day life in East London. Written at a time when the looming but still... -
In the City: A Celebration of London Music by Paul Du Noyer
RRP: $19.34$14.13'A dense and colourful account of one of the most vibrant musical centres in the world, In the City almost puts you on that train to London' GuardianIn this fascinating history of London's music, which was the 2009 Sunday Times 'Music Book of the Year',... -
Operation Barbarossa: Nazi Germany's War in the East, 1941-1945 by Christian Hartmann
RRP: $15.47$10.87The war between Nazi Germany and Stalin's Soviet Union that raged between 1941 and 1945 was the ultimate confrontation between the two great totalitarian ideologies of the twentieth century. Unprecedented in the scale of the destruction that it wrought... -
Forest Gate by Dorcas Saunders
RRP: $16.76$12.41This book is part of the Images of London 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 9780752400495Author Dorcas... -
Druidry: A Practical & Inspirational Guide by Philip Shallcrass 9781915604002
RRP: $33.53$24.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915604002Author Philip ShallcrassFormat HardbackPage Count 204Imprint Pretanic PressPublisher Pretanic Press -
Bexhill-on-Sea:: A History by Julian Porter 9780750967365
RRP: $19.34$14.90Bexhill-on-Sea has a long and eventful history, yet the fascinating past of this remarkable town is not as well known as it deserves to be. This is probably because its major development occurrred very rapidly at the end of the 19th century - whereby it... -
Today's London Underground by Reiss O'Neill 9781473823471
RRP: $38.70$27.03The Underground network in London has always held a fascination for historians and transport enthusiasts, from the early days of the steam operated system in the 1860s. Todays London Underground covers the network as it is today, with features on the... -
The Great Miss Lydia Becker: Suffragist, Scientist and Trailblazer by Williams, Joanna M 9781399014809
RRP: $32.25$22.73Fifty years before women were enfranchised, a legal loophole allowed a thousand women to vote in the general election of 1868/. This surprising event occurred due to the feisty and single-minded dedication of Lydia Becker, the acknowledged, though... -
Section D for Destruction: Forerunner of SOE by Malcolm Atkin 9781473892606
RRP: $32.25$23.25When Neville Chamberlain made his famous Peace in Our Time statement in 1938, after the Munich Agreement with Hitler, he may, or may not, have been aware that the new Section D of the Secret Intelligence Service was already making plans to mount an... -
The Black Prince and King Jean II of France: Generalship in the Hundred Years War by Peter Hoskins 9781526749871
RRP: $25.79$18.42What were the essential qualities for a military commander during the Hundred Years War? How important were strategic vision, tactical skill and powers of leadership in medieval warfare? These are the questions that Peter Hoskins explores in this... -
Bygone Govan by George Rountree 9781840332650
RRP: $15.42$14.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840332650Author George RountreeFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 174mm * 240mm * 4mm -
Fifty Years On: The Troubles and the Struggle for Change in Northern Ireland by Malachi O'Doherty
RRP: $24.50$22.16Fifty years ago, an eruption of armed violence traumatized Northern Ireland and transformed a period of street protest over civil rights into decades of paramilitary warfare by republicans and loyalists. In this evocative memoir, Malachi O'Doherty not... -
Dockers' Stories from the Second World War by Henry T. Bradford 9780752456881
RRP: $16.76$12.41Dockers' Stories from the Second World War is a collection of several true stories, drawn from Henry Bradford's time as a Registered Docker in the Port of London. Men were often killed and injured during their every-day work on the docks; nonetheless,... -
Hymn to Murder (Hugh Corbett 21) by Paul Doherty
RRP: $27.08$19.27Hugh Corbett returns in the twenty-first gripping mystery in Paul Doherty's ever-popular series. If you love the historical mysteries of C. J. Sansom, E. M. Powell and Bernard Cornwell you will love this.Secrets simmer in the lonely wasteland of Dartmoor... -
The British Museum by James Hamilton
RRP: $24.50$9.64A concise history of one of the world's greatest and most comprehensive museum collections, from its founding in 1753. A product and symbol of the 18th-century Enlightenment, the British Museum is as iconic an expression of that cultural tendency as... -
England in the Age of Dickens: 1812-70 by Jeremy Black
RRP: $25.80$18.43Beginning with an overview of the age of Dickens, Professor Jeremy Black guides the reader through the biography and writings of the great man to show how his work not only expressed his experience of Victorian England, but also defined it, for his... -
Stories of Independent Women from 17th-20th Century: Genteel Women Who Did Not Marry by Charlotte Furness 9781526704382
RRP: $25.79$18.42As the fight for women's rights continues, and whilst men and women alike push for gender equality around the globe, this book aims to introduce readers to four women who, in their own way, challenged and defied the societal expectations of the time in... -
Britain and the Great War: a depth study by Greg Hetherton
$39.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780719573477Author Greg HethertonFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Hodder MurrayPublisher Hodder EducationWeight(grams) 320gDimensions(mm) 274mm * 212mm... -
Escape to Gwrych Castle: A Jewish refugee story by Andrew Hesketh
RRP: $24.50$19.35In 2020 and 2021, at the height of the Covid pandemic, Gwrych Castle was familiar to the British public as the setting of I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! Lesser known is that, at the beginning of the Second World War, this once-grand country house... -
Streets of Brum: Pt. 2 by Carl Chinn 9781858582627
$18.37Birmingham's streets, roads and lanes are an absorbing aspect of our history. They call out to us about long dead landowners, notable figures from the history of England, Brummies long forgotten, farms that have been swept away by the outpouring of our... -
Mrs Gaskell and Me: Two Women, Two Love Stories, Two Centuries Apart by Nell Stevens
RRP: $19.34$17.35Winner of the 2019 Somerset Maugham Award'A great galloping joy of a book - funny, lyrical, fast paced, heart-warming - a delicious celebration of love and life' Rebecca Stott, author of In the Days of RainIn 1857, after two years of writing The Life of... -
Aberdeen at War 1939-45 by Craig Armstrong 9781473899162
RRP: $16.76$11.73Scotland was of grave strategic importance during the war due to its geographical position, while its capital was the location of a significant number of important military and civil organisations. Aberdeen possessed important shipbuilding facilities,... -
Craiginches: Life in Aberdeen's Prison by Bryan Glennie
RRP: $12.89$9.74CRAIGINCHES - Life in Aberdeen's Prison is the story of this forbidding place from its early days to its recent closure, told by former prison officer Bryan Glennie. Having lived and breathed the life of the prison up to his retirement, this is the real... -
Edwardian Murder: Ightham and the Morpeth Train Robbery by Diane Janes 9780752449456
RRP: $16.76$12.41Caroline Luard was shot near Ightham in Kent in 1908. Within weeks her husband, a respectable Major-General, committed suicide. Two years later John Nisbet, a colliery cashier, was robbed and murdered on a train in Northumberland. Police arrested a man... -
Royal Navy Lynx by Larry Jeram-Croft
RRP: $32.25$24.02This book tells the story of an incredibly capable naval aircraft, based primarily on the words of those who flew and maintained it. Beginning with the Lynx's entry into service in 1976, it goes on to discuss its remarkable performance in the Falklands... -
The Church in Anglo-Saxon Society by John Blair 9780199211173
RRP: $92.88$54.75From the impact of the first monasteries in the seventh century, to the emergence of the local parochial system five hundred years later, the Church was a force for change in Anglo-Saxon society. It shaped culture and ideas, social and economic... -
EVERY DAY BRADFORD by Martin Greenwood 9781838342319
$30.28In May 2022 Bradford was awarded the honour of being UK City of Culture 2025. Bradford is one of the most fascinating places in the country. This history provides a unique reference of what Bradford has already achieved and how it can now build on that... -
Art and Identity in Scotland: A Cultural History from the Jacobite Rising of 1745 to Walter Scott by Viccy Coltman
RRP: $47.72$37.13This lively and erudite cultural history of Scotland, from the Jacobite defeat of 1745 to the death of an icon, Sir Walter Scott, in 1832, examines how Scottish identity was experienced and represented in novel ways. Weaving together previously... -
New Perspectives on Welsh Industrial History by Louise Miskell 9781786835000
RRP: $32.24$24.25This volume tells a story of Welsh industrial history different from the one traditionally dominated by the coal and iron communities of Victorian and Edwardian Wales. Extending the chronological scope from the early eighteenth- to the late... -
Neville Chamberlain's Legacy: Hitler, Munich and the Path to War by Nicholas Milton 9781526732255
RRP: $32.25$23.25Neville Chamberlain has gone down in history as the architect of appeasement, the Prime Minister who by sacrificing Czechoslovakia at Munich in September 1938 put Britain on an inevitable path to war. In this radical new appraisal of the most vilified... -
To Rule the Waves by Arthur Herman 9780060534257
RRP: $15.47$14.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060534257Author Arthur HermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 648Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 567g