Great Britain

Ipswich Town's Championship win of 1961/62 was one the greatest shocks in the history of professional football in England. No one could have conceived of how a small-town club would break into the top division of English football and take the...

Frank Barlow's magisterial biography, first published in 1970 and now reissued with new material, rescues Edward the Confessor from contemporary myth and subsequent bogus scholarship. Disentangling verifiable fact from saintly legend, he vividly...

From AD 61, when Queen Boudicca - outraged at her treatment at the hands of the Romans - marched on the city and burned it to the ground, London has been hit by wave upon wave of destruction. This fascinating and unique book tells the story of over 2000...

In the last two centuries Britain has experienced a revolution in higher education, with the number of students rising from a few hundred to several million. Yet the institutions that drove - and still drive - this change have been all but ignored by...

A Century of Kingston-upon-Thames offers an insight into the daily lives and living conditions of local people and gives the reader glimpses and details of familiar places during a century of unprecedented change. Many aspects of Kingston's recent...

Around Pontardawe: The Second SelectionBook InformationISBN 9780752416557Author Jeff ChildsFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint NPI Media GroupPublisher The History Press Ltd

The management of image in the service of power is a familiar tool of twenty-first- century politics. Yet as long ago as the sixteenth century, British monarchs deployed what we might now describe as "spin." In this book a leading historian reveals how...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957679153Author Jeff StewartFormat PaperbackImprint Cambria PublishingPublisher Cambria Publishing

A Century of Lowestoft offers an insight into the daily lives and living conditions of local people and gives the reader glimpses and details of familiar places during a century of unprecedented change. Many aspects of Lowestoft's recent history are...

Made by Lawrence Stone himself, this abridgement of his highly-regarded study omits many statistical details not needed by the non-specialized reader. It presents a new interpretation of the long-term social changes leading up to the English Revolution...

From pre-war murmurings to postwar memorials, John Fidler's engaging account of Lancaster in World War II draws on first-hand recollections, newspaper articles and museum resources to tell the tale of how the city fared with dignity and resilience in...

This collection of essays by the eminent financial and monetary historians Forrest Capie and Geoffrey Wood examines and offers explanations of the parts played by money and the banking system in the British economy over the last two centuries. ...

In February 1793, in the wake of the War of American Independence and one year after British prime minister William Pitt the Younger had predicted fifteen years of peace, the National Convention of Revolutionary France declared war on Great Britain and...

The first single-volume demographic history of England covering the entire period since the Norman conquest. It charts the magnitude and characteristics of population change in England since the eleventh century, describes the major explanations for...

Chapters cover food and society in the sixteenth century, kitchens and cooking, what people drank, food and health (including Tudor ideas on healthy eating), setting the table and table manners, feasting and banquets. Alison Sim shows that dining habits...

The state regulation of prostitution, as established under the Contagious Diseases Acts of 1864, 1866 and 1869, and the successful campaign for the repeal of the Acts, provide the framework for this study of alliances between prostitutes and feminists...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909644717Author James CrumpFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint YouCaxton PublicationsPublisher YouCaxton Publications

The decisive role of Britain's wartime newspaper journalism in shaping public opinion and government policy has been majorly overlooked. Much of the existing historiography has framed Britain's newspapers as mouthpieces of state propaganda, readily...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781802586831Author Horatio ClareFormat HardbackPage Count 80Imprint Graffeg LimitedPublisher Graffeg Limited

The Century of Calamity is the story of a nation's fall, and the men who caused it. It is the story of how AEthelraed the Unready's calamitous and vicious rule took England to the brink of collapse; of how Cnut subsumed the country within a northern...

The Knights Templar were among the most famous of Christian military orders. Created after the First Crusade of 1096 and endorsed by the Catholic Church in 1129, the Order grew rapidly in membership and power. Templar knights were some of the best...

The aim of this book is to place developments in the region of West Dunbartonshire, that is, the area covered by Clydebank, Dumbarton and the Vale of Leven running up to the southern end of Loch Lomond, in the context of the larger national - and indeed...

Louis Greig, a war hero and rugby international, entered the privileged world of the British royal family as mentor, physician and friend to a young and hesitant Prince Albert, the man who became King George VI and whose challenges were so vividly...

For 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...

During the Age of Sail, black seamen could be found in many shipboard roles in the Royal Navy, such as gunners, deck-hands and 'top men', working at heights in the rigging. In the later Age of Steam, black seamen were more likely to be found on...

This is a study in English of the Carlist Movement, the extreme right-wing party in Spain, during the climactic decade of the 1930s. Carlism represents the oldest existing movement of the traditionalist right in Europe. In 1931 Carlists had already been...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913380069Author Robert HewisonFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Goldsmiths, Unversity of LondonPublisher Goldsmiths, Unversity of London

Focusing upon the horse in Celtic culture, this text should be of general interest as well as of importance within the wider context of horsemanship and military tactics in Medieval Britain and Europe.About the AuthorSioned Davies is Professor and Head...

An evocative exploration of the impact of the Mediterranean on British culture, ranging from the mid-eighteenth century to today Ever since the age of the Grand Tour in the eighteenth century, the Mediterranean has had a significant pull for...

Brexit means exit, but what exactly will we be leaving behind? Entry into the European Community in 1973 was a momentous event - one which had seismic effects on the politics and constitution of Britain. Brexit, while equally as momentous, has almost...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781859839324Author Yorkshire Evening PostFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint DB PublishingPublisher DB PublishingDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 13mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956482709Author Buchanan SharpFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Breviary Stuff PublicationsPublisher Breviary Stuff PublicationsWeight(grams) 361g

Chipping Norton today is a thriving Oxfordshire market town of some 6,500 people at the eastern edge of the Cotswolds. Its handsome Georgian houses and iconic tweed mill are well known, but the town's history goes back much further, and by looking...

A new generation of Muslims - activists, academics, religious scholars and professionals - are drawing on contemporary reformist thinking emerging from outside their parents' or grandparents' tradition and are using this to inform their activism. This...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611450101Author Jasper RidleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Arcade PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 425gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

The passage of the Reform Bill of 1867 is one of the major problems in nineteenth-century British history. Mr Cowling provides a full-scale explanation, based on a wide range of archive material, including four major manuscript collections not previously...

Contents: Part One: Introduction Part Two: The Norman Conquest Why was there an Invasion? The Norman Victory The Victory Completed Keeping Control: The Feudal System Keeping Control: Motte and Bailey Castles Keeping Control: Square Keep Castles The Land...

In this compelling military and political history of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom, Paul Hill explores England's birth amidst the devastation and fury of the Danish invasions of the ninth century. He provides insight into the English response to the new...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780862436117Author Mike ParkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y Lolfa

Imagine a workplace where workers enjoyed a well-paid job for life, one where they could start their day with a pint of stout and a smoke, and enjoy free meals in silver service canteens and restaurants. During their breaks they could explore acres of...