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Royal Navy and Army Helicopters of the 1970s and '80s by Chris Goss 9781802822595
RRP: $21.92$15.84Focusing on the helicopters used specifically by the Royal Navy and British Army, this book looks at the Lynx, Sea King, Wasp Scout, Wessex, Whirlwind and some minor types. With over 180 black and white and colour photographs, this book, the sixth in a... -
Alive, Alive Oh!: And Other Things that Matter by Diana Athill
RRP: $12.89$8.64What matters in the end? In the final years of life, which memories stand out? Writing from her retirement home in Highgate, London, as she approaches her 100th year, Diana Athill recalls in sparkling detail the moments in her life which sustain her... -
The Grand Scuttle: The Sinking of the German Fleet at Scapa Flow in 1919 by Dan Van der Vat
RRP: $12.89$8.41At Scapa Flow on 21 June 1919, there occurred an event unique in naval history. The German High Seas Fleet, one of the most formidable ever built was deliberately sent to the bottom of the sea at the British Grand Fleet's principal anchorage at Orkney by... -
The Avenue: A Newcastle Backstreet Boyhood by Samuel W. Herbert 9780752468860
RRP: $12.89$9.74This is a hard-hitting account of growing up in Newcastle's West End during the uncertain years of the First World War and the Depression. Samuel Herbert had to grow up fast when his mother moved the family to a cockroach-infested tenement in Elswick... -
Brief History of the Bodleian Library, A by Mary Clapinson
RRP: $32.25$26.99How did a library founded over 400 years ago grow to become the world-renowned institution it is today, home to over thirteen million items? From its foundation by Sir Thomas Bodley in 1598 to the opening of the Weston Library in 2015, this... -
Devon by W. G. Hoskins 9781860772702
RRP: $38.70$29.71DEVON has a great sense of its own separate history. Throughout the centuries it was relatively isolated, with two long coastlines and comparatively short land boundaries, both ancient: Celtic Cornwall to the west and the rest of England to the east... -
Beach Huts and Bathing Machines by Kathryn Ferry 9780747807001
RRP: $11.60$9.55Behind the enduring popularity of beach huts lies a story of classic British eccentricity. Immensely photogenic and appealing, these colourful seaside buildings are direct successors of the Georgian bathing machine, which first appeared in the 1730s as a... -
Mad and Bad: Real Heroines of the Regency by Bea Koch
RRP: $19.34$14.84Regency England is a world immortalized by Jane Austen and Lord Byron in their beloved novels and poems. The popular image of the Regency continues to be mythologized by the hundreds of romance novels set in the period, which focus almost exclusively on... -
The Beau Street Hoard by Eleanor Ghey
$6.44In 2007 during an archaeological excavation in advance of a hotel development situated 150 metres from the Roman Baths in Bath, a Roman silver coin hoard was unearthed. This hoard was an exceptional find, not only because of its size - 17,500 coins in... -
The King's War by Mark Logue
RRP: $14.18$9.55The broadcast that George VI made to the nation on the outbreak of war in September 1939 - which formed the climax of the multi Oscar-winning film The King's Speech - was the product of years of hard work with Lionel Logue, his iconoclastic... -
Labour in Power 1945-1951 by Kenneth O. Morgan 9780192851505
$55.66This is the only detailed and comprehensive account of the policies, programs, and personalities of the powerful and influential Attlee government. Based on a vast range of previously unpublished material, personal papers, and recently released public... -
Black London: The Imperial Metropolis and Decolonization in the Twentieth Century by Marc Matera 9780520284302
RRP: $32.25$25.79This vibrant history of London in the twentieth century reveals the city as a key site in the development of black internationalism and anticolonialism. Marc Matera shows the significant contributions of people of African descent to London's rich social... -
Shadows from the Trenches: Veterans of the Great War and the Irish Revolution (1918-1923) by Emmanuel Destenay
RRP: $32.25$30.68Approximately 150, 000 Irish officers and men joined the British Army during the First World War. What happened to them when they returned home? What determining role (if any) did they play? Most importantly, did they fall victims of selective... -
The Girl Prince: Virginia Woolf, Race and the Dreadnought Hoax by Danell Jones 9781805260066
RRP: $25.80$23.01A new look at a revolutionary writer, a diverse imperial city, and a controversial trick on the Royal Navy. In February 1910, the future Virginia Woolf played the most famous practical joke in British military history. Blackening her face and... -
Robert the Bruce: Scotland's True Braveheart by Carradice, Phil 9781399002608
RRP: $25.80$18.43Robert the Bruce is a detailed account of the life and times of the Scottish hero and monarch. It covers his life from childhood to death, looking at the political, social and military life of Scotland before, during and after the time of Robert the... -
1942: Britain at the Brink by Taylor Downing
RRP: $16.76$11.09'Taylor Downing is a wonderful historian and a wonderful history communicator' Dan Snow, History Hit'Vividly brings to life a terrible year' Max Hastings, Sunday Times'Sheds intriguing light on just how close Churchill was to losing his grip on power'... -
The Little Book of Cambridgeshire by Caroline Clifford
RRP: $12.89$9.74The Little Book of Cambridgeshire is a compendium full of information which will make you say, 'I never knew that!' Contained within is a plethora of entertaining stories about the county and its famous - and occasionally infamous - men and women, its... -
Perthshire Folk Tales by Lindsey Gibb 9780750982542
RRP: $16.76$12.41Storytellers Lindsey Gibb & C.A. Hope bring together stories from Perthshire, the heart of Scotland, with its bleak moors and majestic mountains, rushing rivers and great woodlands. In this treasure trove of tales you will meet witches and faeries, black... -
L.E.L.: The Lost Life and Mysterious Death of the 'Female Byron' by Lucasta Miller
RRP: $15.47$9.96A famous poet, a mysterious death and a story stranger than fiction. - this is the lost life and mytserious death of the 'Female Byron' On 15 October 1838, the body of a thirty-six-year-old woman was found in Cape Coast Castle, West Africa, a bottle of... -
The Personality of Ireland: Habitat, Heritage and History by E. Estyn Evans 9780521020145
RRP: $39.98$32.83The history of Ireland has been conceived in two ways: as the history of the English in Ireland or as the history of Gaelic Ireland, but both kinds have been concerned with personalities and institutions rather than with society as a whole. None of the... -
Henrietta Maria by Dominic Pearce
RRP: $15.47$10.14At the heart of the English Civil War stands the wife of Charles I, Henrietta Maria. She came to England in 1625 at the age of fifteen, undermined by her greedy French entourage, blocked by the forceful Duke of Buckingham and weighed down by instructions... -
The Last Army: The Battle of Stow-on-the-Wold and the End of the Civil War in the Welsh Marches 1646 by John Barratt 9781912390212
RRP: $25.74$22.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912390212Author John BarrattFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Medieval Women and Urban Justice: Commerce, Crime and Community in England, 1300–1500 by Teresa Phipps 9781526171795
RRP: $32.25$28.42This book provides a detailed analysis of women's involvement in litigation and other legal actions within their local communities in late-medieval England. It draws upon the rich records of three English towns - Nottingham, Chester and Winchester - and... -
London: A View from the Streets by Anna Maude
RRP: $12.89$8.77Mesmerizing, exhilarating and awe-inspiring, London has provided a rich subject for the many artists, satirists, map-makers and engravers who have tried to make a lasting record of their impressions of the city. Representations of London are... -
The Official Downton Abbey Afternoon Tea Cookbook: Teatime Drinks, Scones, Savories & Sweets by Downton Abbey
RRP: $25.79$19.36Capture the elegance of teatime at Downton Abbey with this official afternoon tea cookbook.Afternoon tea is a revered and treasured English tradition-and no one knows better how to prepare and enjoy a proper tea than the residents of Downton Abbey!... -
The Brunei Revolt, 1962 1963 by Bijl, Nick van der 9781399013543
RRP: $19.34$14.13In December 1962, nationalists in Brunei, the hugely wealthy small kingdom on the North Coast of Borneo, formed the Army of North Kalimantan (TNKU) and, demanding greater democracy, engineered a rebellion against the Sultan and seized a large number of... -
Great Harry's Navy: How Henry VIII Gave England Sea Power by Geoffrey Moorhouse
RRP: $14.18$9.55Ground-breaking history of how King Henry VIII created England's navyIt was Henry VIII who began the process of making England a first-rate sea-power. He inherited no more than seven warships from Henry VII, yet at his own death the King's Navy had 53... -
Choose Your Weapons: The British Foreign Secretary by Rt. Hon Lord Douglas Hurd
RRP: $19.34$12.64Noisy popular liberal interventionism? Or a more conservative, diplomatic approach concentrating on co-operation between nations? This is the debate that lies at the heart of modern politics and Hurd traces its most interesting and influential exponents... -
Bloody British History: Liverpool by Ken Pye 9780752465517
RRP: $19.34$14.90Here is the LOATHSOME, LURID and DOWNRIGHT LAMENTABLE history of Liverpool! Beginning with the mysteries of the Druids and featuring astonishing tales of bloodshed, battles and the Black Death, Viking assaults, Victorian gangland riots, the mud, blood... -
A History of Bury St Edmunds by Frank Meeres
RRP: $25.80$19.92Bury St. Edmunds has an extraordinary history. The ancient Saxon settlement of Bedricesworth was transformed when the body of Edmund, the martyred King of the East Saxons, was brought to the town in the early 10th century. Around his tomb grew one of the... -
A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Britain by Chris Williams 9781405156790
RRP: $59.28$53.03A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Britain presents 33 essays by expert scholars on all the major aspects of the political, social, economic and cultural history of Britain during the late Georgian and Victorian eras. Truly British, rather than English,... -
Eve's War: The diaries of a military wife during the second world war by Evelyn Shillington
RRP: $14.18$9.55THE DIARIES OF A MILITARY WIFE DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARIn 1935, Evelyn Shillington started a diary, little knowing the years of turmoil it would cover, and how insightful her experiences as an army wife would be to the following generations.Eve joined... -
The Absent-Minded Imperialists: Empire, Society, and Culture in Britain by Bernard Porter 9780199299591
$77.03The British empire was a huge enterprise. To foreigners it more or less defined Britain in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Its repercussions in the wider world are still with us today. It also had a great impact on Britain herself: for... -
Rare British Breeds: Endangered Species in the UK by Sophie McCallum
RRP: $32.25$24.02Rare British Breeds is a book inspired by the Rare Breed Survival Trust Watchlist, which is published annually, listing the species of sheep, cattle, horses, pigs, goats and poultry (chickens, turkeys, ducks and geese) that are endangered in the United... -
Faces of the Home Front, 1939-1945 by Neil R Storey
RRP: $32.25$23.25_Faces of the Home Front_ presents a fascinating insight into the people, wartime organisations, events, life and work on the British Home Front during the Second World War. This is the story of ordinary people in extraordinary times told through an... -
Thunderstruck by Erik Larson
RRP: $24.50$14.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400080670Author Erik LarsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Crown Publishing Group (NY)Publisher Crown Publishing Group (NY)Weight(grams)... -
Lifescapes: The Experience of Landscape in Britain, 1870–1960 by Jeremy Burchardt 9781009199872
RRP: $38.70$33.99Why does landscape matter to us? We rarely articulate the often highly individual ways it can do so. Drawing on eight remarkable unpublished diaries, Jeremy Burchardt demonstrates that responses to landscape in modern Britain were powerfully affected by... -
Alba: Celtic Scotland in the Medieval Era by E.J. Cowan
RRP: $25.80$18.12This book is the first volume to scrutinise in detail the history of the Highlands and Islands incorporating the most up-to-date research. It examines the evolution of the idea of 'Celtic Scotland', tracing the historiography of the Gaidhealtachd through... -
Cycling is My Life by Tommy Simpson
RRP: $16.76$11.73The cyclist Tom Simpson is a legend. The first British world champion, the first Briton to pull on the fabled yellow jersey of the Tour de France - he brought professional cycling to a nation and inspired generations of riders. His autobiography, Cycling... -
Running a Big Ship: The Classic Guide to Managing a Second World War Battleship by Rory O'Conor 9781910860199
RRP: $16.76$10.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910860199Author Rory O'ConorFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint The Pool of London PressPublisher The Pool of London Press