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Queen Caroline: Cultural Politics at the Early Eighteenth-Century Court by Joanna Marschner
RRP: £40.00£34.59As the wife of King George II, Caroline of Ansbach became queen of England in 1727. Known for her intelligence and strong character, Queen Caroline wielded considerable political power until her death in 1737. She was enthusiastic and energetic in her... -
The Northern Ireland Conflict: A Beginner's Guide by Aaron Edwards 9781851687299
RRP: £9.99£7.11The Northern Ireland conflict was one of the most bloody, protracted, and bitter campaigns of terrorist violence in modern history. Rooted in the partition of Ireland in 1921, over 50,000 people were killed or seriously injured because of the hostilities... -
Disney's British Gentleman: The Life and Career of David Tomlinson by Nathan Morley
RRP: £12.99£9.62'A wonderful account of a life filled with far more ups and downs than its subject's languid demeanour ever suggested.' Miles Jupp.Even if the name doesn't ring a bell, you'd recognise David Tomlinson's face - genial and continually perplexed, he was Mr... -
The End is Nigh: British Politics, Power, and the Road to the Second World War by Robert Crowcroft 9780198823698
RRP: £31.49£22.51Few decades have given rise to such potent mythologies as the 1930s. Popular impressions of those years prior to the Second World War were shaped by the single outstanding personality of that conflict, Winston Spencer Churchill. Churchill depicted... -
The Scottish Immigrant by Isobell McConnell 9780994617453
RRP: £18.00£13.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994617453Author Isobell McConnellFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint Meredian Pictures & WordsPublisher Meredian Pictures & WordsWeight(grams)... -
Medieval Children by Nicholas Orme 9780300097542
£50.37What was childhood like for medieval boys and girls in England? How were children named and brought up, what hazards faced them, what games did they play, and how were they prepared for adulthood? This richly detailed book provides for the first time a... -
Poetical Dust: Poets' Corner and the Making of Britain by Thomas A. Prendergast
RRP: £58.00£50.17In the South Transept of Westminster Abbey in London, the bodies of more than seventy men and women, primarily writers, poets, and playwrights, are interred, with many more memorialized. From the time of the reburial of Geoffrey Chaucer in 1556, the... -
Assignment Moscow: Reporting on Russia from Lenin to Putin by James Rodgers 9781350356108
RRP: £16.99£13.16The story of western correspondents in Russia is the story of Russia's attitude to the west. Russia has at different times been alternately open to western ideas and contacts, cautious and distant or, for much of the twentieth century, all but closed off... -
Culloden: Scotland's Last Battle and the Forging of the British Empire by Trevor Royle 9781408704011
RRP: £25.00£14.66The Battle of Culloden has gone down in history as the last major battle fought on British soil: a vicious confrontation between Scottish forces supporting the Stuart claim to the throne and the English Royal Army. But this wasn't just a conflict between... -
Weapon: A Visual History of Arms and Armor by Roger Ford
RRP: £40.00£30.52Discover the origin, design, range, and function of arms including stone axes, swords, machine-guns, and sniper rifles, and meet the warriors who wielded them.An epic, 4,000-year illustrated volume, Weapon: A Visual History of Arms and Armor traces the... -
Clayton and Openshaw by Jill Cronin 9780752435213
RRP: £12.99£9.62A history of Clayton and Openshaw.Book InformationISBN 9780752435213Author Jill CroninFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 165mm * 8mm -
English Catholicism 1558-1642 by Alan Dures
RRP: £36.99£30.39Newly revised and updated, the second edition of English Catholicism 1558-1642 explores the position of Catholics in early modern English society, their political significance, and the internal politics of the Catholic community.The Elizabethan religious... -
Widnes by Widnes Historical Society
RRP: £12.99£9.62Extensive changes to the Widnes scene over the last forty years have made collections of old photographs like this one an even more valuable asset than ever before. New road, bridges, housing estates and shopping centres follow on from factory closures,... -
Henry V: The Conscience of a King by Malcolm Vale
RRP: £12.99£11.46More than just a single-minded warrior-king, Henry V comes to life in this fresh account as a gifted ruler acutely conscious of spiritual matters and his subjects' welfare Shakespeare's centuries-old portrayal of Henry V established the king's reputation... -
Mael Coluim III, 'Canmore': The World of an Eleventh-Century King by Neil McGuigan
RRP: £100.00£68.97Winner of the Frank Watson Book Prize for the best book published on Scottish History Shortlisted for the Saltire Society History Book of the Year The legendary Scottish king Mael Coluim III, also known as 'Malcolm Canmore', is often held to... -
Rebirth of a Nation: A History of Modern Wales by Kenneth O. Morgan 9780198217602
RRP: £43.49£38.78In Rebirth of a Nation the acclaimed historian Kenneth O. Morgan provides a wide-ranging and comprehensive analysis of modern Welsh history. Taking as its starting-point 1880, the book covers all aspects of the nations history from political, social,... -
The Magnificent Monarch: Charles II and the Ceremonies of Power by Anna Keay 9781847252258
RRP: £65.00£64.97In the year that the English monarchy was abolished, the Prince of Wales's governor posed the poignant question: what was it that made kings different from their subjects? The answer to him was obvious, and the word that described it was 'ceremony'. From... -
Victorian Fashions for Women by Storey, Neil R
RRP: £20.00£14.29_Victorian Fashions_ _for Women_ explores the British styles and clothing throughout the long reign of Queen Victoria, from the late 1830s to the first years of the 20th century. Within are a superb overview of the dresses, hats, hair styles, corsetry,... -
Luton In Old Photographs by Luton Borough Council 9780752410869
RRP: £14.99£11.55A history of LutonBook InformationISBN 9780752410869Author Active Luton for Mark StubbsFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm) 240mm * 172mm * 10mm -
In Service: The Story of a Welsh Guardsman by Tim Rees
RRP: £14.99£11.55In Service is the tale of one person's journey into manhood, ultimately finding himself in the theatre of war. It is a journey littered with colourful anecdotes and diverse experience: from military training in the Guards Depot to Trooping the Colour;... -
The Colchester Book of Days by Simon Webb 9780752482866
RRP: £9.99£7.55Taking you through the year day by day, The Colchester Book of Days contains quirky, eccentric, amusing and important events and facts from different periods in the history of Britain's oldest recorded town. Ideal for dipping into, this addictive little... -
Agent Moliere: The Life of John Cairncross, the Fifth Man of the Cambridge Spy Circle by Geoff Andrews
RRP: £35.00£26.73The Cambridge Spies continue to fascinate - but one of them, John Cairncross, has always been more of an enigma than the others. He worked alone and was driven by his hostility to Fascism rather than to the promotion of Communism. During his war-time... -
Anglo-Saxon Farms and Farming by Debby Banham
RRP: £41.49£34.39Anglo-Saxon farming made England so wealthy by the eleventh century that it attracted two full-scale invasions. In Anglo-Saxon Farms and Farming, Debby Banham and Rosamond Faith explore how Anglo-Saxon farmers produced the food and other crops and animal... -
British Fascism, 1918-1939: Parties, Ideology and Culture by Thomas Linehan
RRP: £19.99£16.80A major new and balanced study of British Facism which surveys the development of British fascism between 1918 and 1939. Provides an accessible guide to the essential features of British fascism in the interwar period. Considers a previously... -
The Aristocracy of Norman England by Judith A. Green 9780521524650
RRP: £29.99£27.80This book provides the first rounded account of the new ruling elite of England in the century after 1066. It deals with the revolution in landholding by which the old English aristocracy was swept aside, and the nature of aristocratic power, as... -
Completely Useless Guide to London by Martin Pullen 9781782197713
£9.59Did you know: - that, with more than 17,000 skeletons in its collection, the Museum of London has over three times the amount of dead bodies than a full-capacity audience at the Royal Albert Hall? - that 'Farting Lane' (Carting Lane, off the Strand) was... -
Beda: A Journey to the Seven Kingdoms at the Time of Bede by Henrietta Leyser
RRP: £20.00£15.72Written by the Oxford historian Henrietta Leyser, BEDA is a gazetteer to the remaining Anglo-Saxon ruins in England, many of them from the time of the Venerable Bede. For those who have bought Simon Jenkins' 100 Best Churches and now want something... -
The Murder of King James I by Alastair Bellany
RRP: £32.50£27.95A year after the death of James I in 1625, a sensational pamphlet accused the Duke of Buckingham of murdering the king. It was an allegation that would haunt English politics for nearly forty years. In this exhaustively researched new book, two leading... -
Case of the Chocolate Cream Killer by Kaye Jones 9781781593752
RRP: £12.99£9.09"The trial which terminated yesterday...revealed one of the strangest and most horrible stories possibly ever told in a court of justice." (Morning Post). When the news broke in 1871 of a series of mysterious poisonings in Brighton, shock and horror... -
Labour's First Century by Duncan Tanner 9780521037990
RRP: £44.99£38.54The Labour Party's centenary is an appropriate moment to evaluate its performance across the twentieth century, and to reflect on why a party which has so many achievements to its credit nonetheless spent so much of the period in opposition. Duncan... -
Liable to Floods: Village Landscape on the Edge of the Fens A D 450-1850 by J.R. Ravensdale 9780521082846
RRP: £30.99£25.45This book studies the evolution and destruction of a part of the English landscape, following the history of three peasant communities - Landbeach, Waterbeach and Cottenham - on the margin of the Fens. Here, lord and peasant together developed a society... -
Lindsay: The Origins of the Clan Lindsay and Their Place in History by Iain Gray 9781852171148
RRP: £3.99£3.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781852171148Author Iain GrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Lang Syne Publishers LtdPublisher Lang Syne Publishers Ltd -
The Longest Campaign: Britain'S Maritime Struggle in the Atlantic and Northwest Europe, 1939-1945 by Brian Walter 9781612008561
RRP: £25.00£20.71For four centuries the British realm depended upon sea power to defend its interest and independence against a myriad of threats both military and economic. During this time the Royal Navy established itself as the sovereign of the Seas, helping... -
English Medieval Embroidery: Opus Anglicanum by Clare Browne
RRP: £27.50£24.49An introduction to the design, production and use of luxury embroideries in medieval England (c. 1200-1530) In medieval Europe, embroidered textiles were indispensable symbols of wealth and power. Owing to their quality, complexity and magnificence,... -
Thomas Hardy: Half a Londoner by Mark Ford
RRP: £35.95£29.36Because Thomas Hardy is so closely associated with the rural Wessex of his novels, stories, and poems, it is easy to forget that he was, in his own words, half a Londoner. Focusing on the formative five years in his early twenties when Hardy lived in the... -
Justice Denied: Friends, Foes and the Miners' Strike by David Allsop 9780850367300
RRP: £18.99£16.98TV portraits of the Miners' strike of 1984/5 stressed the violence of the pickets and responsible policing. This book challenges those images, looks at the impact of the strike on participants, and reflects on ongoing controversies and community pride... -
Jane Austen, the Secret Radical by Helena Kelly
RRP: £20.00£13.46'A sublime piece of literary detective work that shows us once and for all how to be precisely the sort of reader that Austen deserves.' Caroline Criado-Perez, GuardianAlmost everything we think we know about Jane Austen is wrong. Her novels don't... -
Making Oscar Wilde by Michele Mendelssohn 9780198802365
RRP: £22.99£17.09Witty, inspiring, and charismatic, Oscar Wilde is one of the Greats of English literature. Today, his plays and stories are beloved around the world. But it was not always so. His afterlife has given him the legitimacy that life denied him. Making Oscar... -
The Nail in the Skull and Other Victorian Urban Legends by Simon Young 9781496839466
£28.46In the last fifty years, folklorists have amassed an extraordinary corpus of contemporary legends including "the Choking Doberman," "the Eaten Ticket," and "the Vanishing Hitchhiker." But what about the urban legends of the past? These legends and tales... -
Witham A Pictorial History by Marion A. Marriage 9781860770005
RRP: £13.99£10.85Witham, Kelvedon, Hatfield Peverel, Rivenhall and Silver End all feature in this book about this now mainly residential area straddling the old Roman road. Witham was a Saxon settlement and the manor was given to the Knights Templar in 1148. In 1215 they...