Filter By
- Book
- Qty in Cart
- Quantity
- Price
- Subtotal
-
Alba: Celtic Scotland in the Medieval Era by E.J. Cowan
RRP: £20.00£14.05This 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: £12.99£9.09The 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: £12.99£8.32Apologies 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 -
The First Industrial Nation: The Economic History of Britain 1700-1914 by Peter Mathias 9780415266727
RRP: £29.99£27.04This celebrated and seminal text examines the industrial revolution, from its genesis in pre-industrial Britain, through its development and into maturity. A chapter-by-chapter analysis explores topics such as economic growth, agriculture, trade finance,... -
Dublin's Great Wars: The First World War, the Easter Rising and the Irish Revolution by Richard S. Grayson 9781108930628
RRP: £18.99£13.73For the first time, Richard S. Grayson tells the story of the Dubliners who served in the British military and in republican forces during the First World War and the Irish Revolution as a series of interconnected 'Great Wars'. He charts the full scope... -
London Enviro 400 by Matthew Wharmby 9781473862319
RRP: £25.00£13.98Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
People of Colour and the Royals by Lady Colin Campbell 9781916131705
RRP: £19.99£14.28With her royal insider's knowledge and historical insight, Lady Colin Campbell turns her attention to People of Colour and the Royals. She herself is strongly vested in the subject of colour, being the proud product of one of the most prominent families... -
Rotten Bodies: Class and Contagion in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Kevin Siena
RRP: £32.50£31.98A revealing look at how the memory of the plague held the poor responsible for epidemic disease in eighteenth-century Britain "This work will be required reading in fields of research that do not often overlap such as the histories of medical thought,... -
The Face of Britain: The Stories Behind the Nation's Portraits by Simon Schama
RRP: £16.99£13.28Simon Schama brings Britain to life through its portraits, as seen in the five-part BBC series The Face of Britain and the major National Portrait Gallery exhibitionChurchill and his painter locked in a struggle of stares and glares; Gainsborough... -
The Story of Coventry by Peter Walters 9781860776922
RRP: £20.00£15.04The Story of Coventry traces the evolution of the city, from the myths of Godiva, through to the issues, challenges and opportunities facing it in the twenty-first century. Exploring Coventry's heritage through records, architectural developments and... -
Scotland's Future History by McHardy Stuart
RRP: £7.99£5.94McHardy presents a new approach to history, changing our mindset to look at Scotland as the centre of our story. Rather than starting from the Mediterranean, from the classical/Christian bias we have been taught for centuries. Rather than being a remote... -
The Bridges of Medieval England: Transport and Society 400-1800 by David Harrison 9780199226856
£54.30Medieval bridges are startling achievements of design and engineering comparable with the great cathedrals of the period, and are also proof of the great importance of road transport in the middle ages and of the size and sophistication of the medieval... -
Cholera: The Victorian Plague by Amanda J Thomas 9781526781819
RRP: £14.99£10.95Discover the story of the disease that devastated the Victorian population, and brought about major changes in sanitation. Drawing on the latest scientific research and a wealth of archival material, Amanda Thomas uses first-hand accounts, blending... -
Stalybridge and Dukinfield by Alan Rose 9780752410982
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 9780752410982Author Alan... -
Welsh at Passchendaele 1917, The by Jonathan Hicks
RRP: £14.99£8.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784613747Author Jonathan HicksFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y Lolfa -
Old Maryhill by Guthrie Hutton 9781872074542
RRP: £10.95£9.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781872074542Author Guthrie HuttonFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 180mm * 240mm * 3mm -
Learning from Experience: v. III: Lessons from the United Kingdom's Astute Submarine Program by John F. Schank 9780833058973
£20.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780833058973Author John F. SchankFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint RANDPublisher RAND -
Birkenhead: A History by Elizabeth Davey
RRP: £17.99£13.64Birkenhead is essentially a 19th-century 'new town', its planned grid of streets still stretching westwards from the Georgian elegance of Hamilton Square. Two hundred years ago it did not exist. The settlement, such as it was, consisted of a mere scatter... -
When Women Ruled the World: Making the Renaissance in Europe by Maureen Quilligan 9781324092377
RRP: £14.99£11.42Sixteenth-century Europe was a time of destabilisation of age-old norms and the waging of religious wars-yet it also witnessed the remarkable flowering of a pacific culture cultivated by a cohort of extraordinary women rulers who sat on Europe's thrones,... -
Haunted Nottingham by Andrew James Wright 9780752441948
RRP: £14.99£11.55Haunted Nottingham explores the supernatural side of the city and its surrounding areas and finds many reports of unexplained happenings, weird goings-on and ghostly appearances.About the AuthorThe author, Andrew James Wright, has been a ghost... -
The Story of Calton Jail: Edinburgh's Victorian Prison by Malcolm Fife
RRP: £14.99£11.55Located a short distance from Edinburgh's Princes Street, the castellated design of Calton Prison was often mistaken by nineteenth-century visitors to the city for Edinburgh Castle. Occupying a prominent site on the rocky slope of Calton Hill, the then... -
1066: A Guide to the Battles and the Campaigns by Michael Livingston 9781526751973
RRP: £14.99£10.95Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Useful Knowledge of William Hutton: Culture and Industry in Eighteenth-Century Birmingham by Susan E. Whyman
RRP: £46.49£37.56The Useful Knowledge of William Hutton shows the rapid rise of a self-taught workman and the growing prominence of the city of Birmingham during the two major events of the eighteenth-century - the Industrial Revolution and the Enlightenment. Hutton... -
Drogheda: Ireland in Old Photographs by Joe Curtis 9781845887988
RRP: £16.99£12.94Drogheda nestles on the east coast of Ireland, on the border of Louth and Meath. A lively medieval town, it is home to a host of contemporary music and theatre companies, an international Samba festival, and was the birthplace of many famous Irish... -
Bournemouth in the 1950s & '60s by John Needham
RRP: £14.99£11.55Bournemouth in the 1950s & '60s offers a rare glimpse of life in the town during a fascinating period, which started with post-war austerity and ended with Britain becoming the music and fashion capital of the world. This volume - featuring a superb... -
Mother Country: Britain's Black Community on the Home Front, 1939-45 by Stephen Bourne 9780752456102
RRP: £14.99£11.55Very little attention has been given to black British and West African and Caribbean citizens who lived and worked on the 'front line' during the Second World War. Yet black people were under fire in cities like Bristol, Cardiff, Liverpool, London and... -
The History of the London Water Industry, 1580-1820 by Leslie Tomory 9781421422046
RRP: £47.50£42.37Beginning in 1580, a number of competing London companies sold water directly to consumers through a large network of wooden mains in the expanding metropolis. This new water industry flourished throughout the 1600s, eventually expanding to serve tens of... -
Victoria and Albert by Brenda Williams
RRP: £6.00£4.44'He seems perfection and I think that I have the prospect of very great happiness before me...' Victoria in a letter of 15 October 1839 One of the greatest royal love matches of all time was that of Queen Victoria and her consort, Prince Albert. The... -
The Break-Up of Britain: Crisis and Neo-Nationalism by Tom Nairn 9781612297248
RRP: £47.00£33.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612297248Author Tom NairnFormat PaperbackPage Count 390Imprint Common Ground PublishingPublisher Common Ground Publishing -
Churchill's Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India during World War II by Madhusree Mukerjee
RRP: £20.00£15.16A dogged enemy of Hitler, resolute ally of the Americans, and inspiring leader through World War II, Winston Churchill is venerated as one of the truly great statesmen of the last century. But while he has been widely extolled for his achievements, parts... -
West Bromwich Yesterdays: Britain in Old Photographs by Terry Price 9780752469980
RRP: £17.99£13.64Once known as 'the Chicago of the Midlands', in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries West Bromwich was a renowned industrial town of a thousand trades without equal. Its bustling High Street also offered a range of goods and services which were... -
Hell or Some Worse Place: Kinsale 1601 by Des Ekin 9781847179593
RRP: £15.99£12.37Kinsale, Ireland: Christmas Eve, 1601 As thunder crashes and lightning rakes the sky, three very different commanders line up for a battle that will decide the fate of a nation. General Juan del Aguila has been sprung from a prison cell to command... -
Walking Over the Waves: Quintessential British Seaside Piers by Chris Foote Wood 9781904445678
RRP: £18.99£15.65In words and pictures, Chris describes in fascinating detail the history, the personalities, the stories and legends and the present condition of this very British institution, the seaside pleasure pier. Read about how they were built and who built them,... -
Johnnie Johnson's 1942 Diary: The War Diary of the Spitfire Ace of Aces by Dilip Sarkar MBE
RRP: £25.00£17.62Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Robert Harley: Speaker, Secretary of State and Premier Minister by Brian Hill 9780300042849
£39.89The first biography of Robert Harley (1661-1724)-a dominant figure in English politics in the late seventeenth century and throughout the reign of Queen Anne, when British political institutions underwent crucial changes. Brian W. Hill sets Harley's... -
The Bastard's Sons: Robert, William and Henry of Normandy by Jeffrey James 9781445683140
RRP: £20.00£13.34William the Conqueror's intellect is said to have remained clear right up to his death. He would have questioned whether any of his three sons individually had the ability to rule the troublesome amalgam of England, Normandy and Maine once he was gone... -
Lord Salisbury by Eric Midwinter 9781904950547
RRP: £9.99£7.06This is a biography of the first Prime Minister of the 20th Century during the height of the British Empire.Book InformationISBN 9781904950547Author Eric MidwinterFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Haus PublishingPublisher Haus PublishingWeight(grams)... -
Jennie Churchill: Winston's American Mother by Anne Sebba
RRP: £14.99£9.80Jennie Churchill was said to have had two hundred lovers, three of whom she married. But her love for her son Winston never wavered. Jennie Churchill is an intimate picture of her glittering but ultimately tragic life, and the powerful mutual infatuation... -
The Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Peter Gilliver 9780198826163
£29.70This book tells the history of the Oxford English Dictionary from its beginnings in the middle of the nineteenth century to the present. The author, uniquely among historians of the OED, is also a practising lexicographer with nearly thirty years'... -
Spiritual Wounds: Trauma, Testimony and the Irish Civil War by Siobhra Aiken
£43.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788551663Author Siobhra AikenFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Irish Academic Press LtdPublisher Irish Academic Press Ltd