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Records of the Ayrshire Militia from 1802 to 1883 by Hew Hamilton-Dalrymple 9780901567284
RRP: £8.99£8.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780901567284Author Hew Hamilton-DalrympleFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint South Ayrshire CouncilPublisher South Ayrshire CouncilWeight(grams) 127g -
Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain by Joad Raymond 9780521028776
RRP: £44.99£38.54By the end of the seventeenth century the most effective means of persuasion and communication was the pamphlet, which created influential moral and political communities of readers, and thus formed a 'public sphere' of popular, political opinion. This... -
Famous Last Words: Confessions, Humour and Bravery of the Departing by Chris Wood
RRP: £14.99£10.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781526770899Author Chris WoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Pen and Sword HistoryPublisher Pen and Sword HistoryWeight(grams) 152g -
Protest: Britain on the March by Mirrorpix
RRP: £12.99£9.62'Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.' - Margaret Mead Britain was built on protest. From Magna Carta to the suffragettes, the Peasants' Revolt to the Iraq War;... -
The Moral Economy of the Countryside: Anglo-Saxon to Anglo-Norman England by Rosamond Faith 9781108720069
RRP: £23.99£20.37How were manorial lords in the twelfth and thirteenth century able to appropriate peasant labour? And what does this reveal about the changing attitudes and values of medieval England? Considering these questions from the perspective of the 'moral... -
The Real Queen Charlotte : Inside the Real Bridgerton Court by Curzon, Catherine 9781399097017
£20.53Known to millions as the imperious matriarch of Bridgerton's court, Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz was still a teenager when she was chosen to be the bride of King George III. Shy, innocent, and sheltered, the orphaned princess and her youthful groom... -
Railways of Oxford: A Transport Hub that Links Britain by Laurence Waters 9781526740380
RRP: £25.00£17.62This is a history of the railways of Oxford ,looking at the operations and development of services , from the opening of the Oxford Railway by the Great Western on 12 June 1844 through to the present day. This volume covers the development of the railway... -
SAS Warlord: Shoot to Kill by Tom Siegriste 9781612000350
RRP: £12.99£8.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612000350Author Tom SiegristeFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint CasematePublisher Casemate -
Watford: A History by Mary Forsyth
RRP: £17.99£13.64This volume explores the history of Watford from the earliest times to the 1970s. Set against a background of some of the major events in English history, it tells the story of how a small medieval settlement became the town we see today. Drawing on... -
Chariots, Swords and Spears: Iron Age Burials at the Foot of the East Yorkshire Wolds by Mark Stephens
RRP: £50.00£45.59This volume brings together recent excavations at two sites in Pocklington, East Yorkshire. The main focus of the volume is examination of Iron Age burials, which included chariots, swords, and spears, along with inclusion of earlier Prehistoric and... -
After the Lost Franklin Expedition: Lady Franklin and John Rae by Peter Baxter 9781526765864
RRP: £14.99£10.95The fate of the lost Franklin Expedition of 1847 is an enigma that has tantalised generations of historians, archaeologists and adventurers. The expedition was lost without a trace and all 129 men died in what is arguably the worst disaster in Britain's... -
Air Marshal Sir Keith Park: Victor of the Battle of Britain, Defender of Malta by Murray Rowlands 9781526767905
RRP: £19.99£14.28Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Loos - Hill 70: French Flanders by Andrew Rawson 9780850529043
RRP: £10.99£7.77The Battle of Loos formed part of a wider offensive conducted by both French and British Forces in September 1915. The British First Army, under the leadership of General Haig, were to break through the German line at Loos thanks in part to their... -
Haunted St Ives by Ian Michael Addicoat
RRP: £12.99£9.62The town has long been associated with a strong haunted heritage and reputation. Incredibly the local authorities still employed a professional ghost-layer right up until about 150 years ago, long after most other local towns had dispensed with the... -
The RAF's Cross-Channel Offensive: Circuses, Ramrods, Rhubarbs and Rodeos 1941-1942 by John Starkey
RRP: £25.00£17.62The story of the RAF, and in particular Fighter Command, during the Battle of Britain has been told many times. It is a tale of the gallant pilots of The Few', in their Hurricanes and Spitfires, with the nation's back to the wall, fighting off the... -
The Forgotten Tudor Royal: Margaret Douglas, Grandmother to King James VI & I by Beverley Adams 9781399085908
RRP: £22.00£15.62As the daughter and cousin of queens and the granddaughter and niece of kings, Lady Margaret Douglas was an integral part of the Tudor royal dynasty. A favourite of her uncle King Henry VIII and a close friend of Queen Mary I she courted scandal which... -
English Women's Clothing in the Nineteenth Century by C. Willett Cunnington 9780486263236
RRP: £29.49£26.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486263236Author C. W. CunningtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 460Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
A Photographic History of Sheffield Steel: Britain in Old Photographs by Geoffrey Howse 9780752459851
RRP: £14.99£11.55Sheffield has built its worldwide reputation on steelmaking. For centuries the area was renowned for its cutlery and tools and from the mid-eighteenth century Sheffield began to build a reputation for the production of high-quality steels. A hundred... -
"A General Plague of Madness": The Civil Wars in Lancashire, 1640-1660 by Stephen Bull 9781859361917
RRP: £18.99£14.01Lord Derby, Lancashire's highest-ranked nobleman and its principal royalist, once offered the opinion that the English civil wars had been a 'general plague of madness'. Complex and bedevilling, the earl defied anyone to tell the complete story of 'so... -
Imperial Wine: How the British Empire Made Wine's New World by Jennifer Regan-Lefebvre
RRP: £30.00£23.29A fascinating and approachable deep dive into the colonial roots of the global wine industry.Imperial Wine is a bold, rigorous history of Britain's surprising role in creating the wine industries of Australia, South Africa, and New Zealand. Here,... -
Faces of the Few: The Battle for Survival in the Summer of 1940 by Dilip Sarkar
RRP: £25.00£17.62There remains an enduring fascination with the Battle of Britain, and the RAF aircrew who fought and won this unprecedented aerial conflict, immortalised by Churchill in August 1940 as The Few'. Unlike today, when photography is a huge part of... -
Old Gateshead by Alan Brazendale 9780752420738
RRP: £12.99£9.62This fascinating collection of over 200 photographs of the old part of Gateshead captures the essence of the town in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This was a period of great expansion and change, during which the last vestiges of the... -
Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain by Joad Raymond 9780521819015
RRP: £114.00£93.23By the end of the seventeenth century the most effective means of persuasion and communication was the pamphlet, which created influential moral and political communities of readers, and thus formed a 'public sphere' of popular, political opinion. This... -
Haunted Wigan by Sarah Carberry 9780752474816
RRP: £14.99£11.55The vibrant industrial town of Wigan has a long and distinguished history. However, the area also harbours some disturbing secrets. Discover the darker side of the Wigan with this terrifying collection of true-life tales from across the region. From the... -
The Marches: A Borderland Journey Between England and Scotland by Rory Stewart 9781328745651
RRP: £18.99£13.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781328745651Author Rory StewartFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 135mm *... -
Donald Ross and the Highland Clearances: 'Yet still the Blood is Strong' by Andrew Ross
RRP: £25.00£16.43The Highland Clearances was a dark episode in Scottish history when many thousands of people were forced off lands that they and their kin had lived on for generations. Some boarded ships destined for the colonies of America and Australia, others ended... -
Railways and Industry in the Tondu Valleys: Bridgend to Treherbert by John V. Hodge 9781526727251
RRP: £30.00£22.55The book begins with a history of the industrial development of the Tondu Valleys, including the succession of great industrialists who led the way in the area. This is followed by a chapter on the position of the Tondu Valleys in the South Wales... -
Bloody Welsh History: Swansea by Geoff Brookes 9780752480534
RRP: £14.99£11.55Swansea has long been a busy industrial port and has always had an edgy history. Explore the hidden stories from its long and dangerous past, with tales of rebellion, shipwreck and murder. From Romans to the Red Lady, Viking raids to English attacks,... -
Alfred: Queen Victoria's Second Son by John Van der Kiste 9781781553190
RRP: £14.99£10.95Prince Alfred, who was created Duke of Edinburgh in 1866 and became Duke of Saxe-Coburg Gotha in 1893, was the second son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. A patron of the arts, pioneer philatelist and amateur violinist, he joined the Royal Navy as a... -
Warfare State: Britain, 1920-1970 by David Edgerton 9780521856362
RRP: £105.00£82.41A challenge to the central theme of the existing histories of twentieth-century Britain, that the British state was a welfare state, this book argues that it was also a warfare state, which supported a powerful armaments industry. This insight implies... -
Churchill: A Study in Greatness by Geoffrey Best 9781852852535
£65.33This work aims to make sense of the extraordinary man - whom many people feel they know well. His career, personal life and his role in Britain's survival during World War II, including her help in the defeat of Hitler, are investigated.About the... -
A Century of Brighton & Hove: Events, People and Places Over the 20th Century by David Arscott
RRP: £14.99£11.55This fascinating selection of photographs illustrates the extraordinary transformation that has taken place in Brighton & Hove during the 20th century. The book offers an insight into the daily lives and living conditions of local people and gives the... -
Catherine of Aragon: Infanta of Spain, Queen of England by Theresa Earenfight
RRP: £29.95£26.91Catherine of Aragon is an elusive subject. Despite her status as a Spanish infanta, Princess of Wales, and Queen of England, few of her personal letters have survived, and she is obscured in the contemporary royal histories. In this evocative biography,... -
Old South Queensferry, Dalmeny and Blackness by John Hood 9781840333954
RRP: £7.99£7.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840333954Author John HoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingWeight(grams) 152gDimensions(mm) 174mm *... -
A Brief History of the Age of Steam by Thomas Crump
RRP: £12.99£2.91In 1710 an obscure Devon ironmonger Thomas Newcomen invented a machine with a pump driven by coal, used to extract water from mines. Over the next two hundred years the steam engine would be at the heart of the industrial revolution that changed the... -
Not a Guide to: Durham by Chris Daniel
RRP: £5.99£4.78This is not a guidebook. This little book brings together past and present to offer a taste of DURHAM. Learn about the movers and shakers who shaped this fantastic city. The great and the good; the bad and the ugly. Small wonders, tall stories, TRIUMPH... -
The Queen: The Life and Times of Elizabeth II by Catherine Ryan
RRP: £18.99£13.15The Queen is a timely book with beautiful photos and fascinating details about one of the most famous women of modern times: Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, the longest reigning British monarch in history. "Throughout all my life and with all my heart I... -
An Anthology of Neo-Latin Literature in British Universities by Dr. Gesine Manuwald
RRP: £29.99£26.67Compiled by a team of experts in the field, this volume brings to view an array of Latin texts produced in British universities from c.1500 to 1700. It includes a comprehensive introduction to the production of Neo-Latin and Neo-Greek in the early modern... -
Read All About It!: A History of the British Newspaper by Kevin Williams 9780415346245
RRP: £35.99£31.69This Text-book traces the evolution of the newspaper, documenting its changing form, style and content as well as identifying the different roles ascribed to it by audiences, government and other social institutions. Starting with the early 17th century,... -
The Oxford Companion to British Railway History: From 1603 to the 1990s by Jack Simmons 9780192116970
£88.77Of all the products of the Industrial Revolution, none left its mark on the landscape of Britain, or changed the lives of the British people, more than the railway. The encyclopedic Oxford Companion to British Railway History reveals, for the first time,...