Great Britain

This is a classic study of a disease which had a profound impact on the history of Tudor and Stuart England. Plague was both a personal affliction and a social calamity, regularly decimating urban populations. Paul Slack vividly describes the stresses...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957260443Author L. Anne HullFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Heritage PublicationsPublisher Heritage PublicationsWeight(grams) 603g

A Grim Almanac of Cornwall is a day-by-day catalogue of 365 ghastly tales from around the county. Full of dreadful deeds, macabre deaths, strange occurrences and heinous homicides, this almanac explores the darker side of the county's past. Read about...

O ne of the popular myths of the Second World War is that the British on the home front united heroically in common cause against the German enemy. Reading at War takes a dispassionate look at the realities of wartime life in this typical English town in...

In 476 AD the last of Rome's emperors was deposed by a barbarian general, the son of one of Attila the Hun's henchmen, and the imperial vestments were despatched to Constantinople. The curtain fell on the Roman Empire in Western Europe, its territories...

Gregory's life culminated in his holding the office of pope (590 - 604). He is generally regarded as one of the outstanding figures in the long line of popes, and by the late ninth century had come to be known as 'the Great'. Along with Ambrose, Jerome...

Known the world over as a symbol of the United Kingdom, the Union Jack is an intricate construction based on the crosses of St George, St Andrew and St Patrick. Nick Groom traces its long and fascinating past, from the development of the Royal Standard...

The landscape of Britain and Ireland has been the inspiration for myths and legends for centuries. From ancient kings to infamous murderers, this book will open your eyes to the magic and history to be found on your doorstep. In "Myths and Legends of...

A study of one of the most intense and formative periods of modern political history. The years 1899-1914 witnessed a fundamental challenge to many Victorian values and institutions: Free Trade, the new Poor Law, the House of Lords, the Irish Union - all...

Many men and boys from Leeds enlisted as volunteer soldiers at the outset of the First World War as part of the national phenomenon of 'Pals' that sprang up across the Britain. The Leeds Pals, who made up the 15th Battalion (Prince of Wales's Own) West...

The scope of this study of the Pakistan Army must be wide and in-depth, as the army has played a major part in the country's history. The author describes Pakistan's violent internal politics and erratic international relations with a deep knowledge...

In common with other volumes in the Thames Through Time series, this account of the Thames Valley in the millennium and a half before the Roman conquest seeks to examine change in human society from a thematic point of view. The geographical and ...

This book traces the conditions for the development of the Iron Age hillfort at Cadbury Castle, the violent suppression of its population in the first century AD and its major refortification in the post-Roman period. Using the evidence from both the...

In December 1774, Benjamin Franklin met Caroline Howe, the sister of British Admiral Richard and General William Howe, in a London drawing room for "half a dozen Games of Chess". As Julie Flavell reveals, the games concealed a matter of the utmost...

Chapel Street was a row of old Georgian terraced lodging houses in Altrincham, home to some 400 Irish, English, Welsh and Italian lodgers. From this tight-knit community of just sixty houses, 161 men volunteered for the First World War. They fought in...

The main focus of this book is on the contribution of Welsh scientists, engineers and facilities in Wales to the British nuclear programme - especially the military programme - from the Second World War through to the present day. After the war, a number...

This timely history explores the entry, reception and resettlement of refugees across twentieth-century Britain. Focusing on four cohorts of refugees - Jewish and other refugees from Nazism; Hungarians in 1956; Ugandan Asians expelled by Idi Amin; and...

This intriguing selection of old images recalls the history of Hackenthorpe and the surrounding villages of Moorhole, Owlthorpe, Sothall, Frecheville and Birley Vale. Illustrated with over 200 archive pictures, this book offers an insight into the...

This delightful book by John Stoye allows us to accompany the seventeenth-century British traveller on his journeys into France, Italy, Spain, and the Netherlands. It is a travel book for historians and a piece of history for travellers.Book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909796676Author Juliet WebsterFormat PaperbackPage Count 153Imprint Poppyland PublishingPublisher Poppyland Publishing

Henrietta Barnett is known for her role as the founder of Hampstead Garden Suburb, an innovative and imaginative housing development planned to provide attractive and affordable accommodation for all, regardless of income or social class. This book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956232885Author Anne CrowFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint CrowscapesPublisher CrowscapesWeight(grams) 148g

The University of Wales Trinity Saint David was originally founded in 1822 as St David's College, Lampeter. It is now the oldest higher education collegiate institution in Wales, and in its two hundred years of history has been the recipient of many...

The Industrial Revolution in Scotland is the first new student text on this subject for more than two decades. While the focus is on Scotland, Dr Whatley's approach is largely comparative and he places the Scottish experience of industrialisation within...

This is the first ever full book on the subject of male witches addressing incidents of witch-hunting in both Britain and Europe.Uses feminist categories of gender analysis to critique the feminist agenda that mars many studies. Advances a more bal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788885058Author Richard DargieFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Arcturus Publishing LtdPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd

The seventeenth century was one of the most dramatic periods in Scotland's history, with two political revolutions, intense religious strife culminating in the beginnings of toleration, and the modernisation of the state and its infrastructure. This book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593138090Author Tina BrownFormat HardbackPage Count 592Imprint Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House IncPublisher Random House USA...

For 800 years, Magna Carta has inspired those prepared to face torture, imprisonment and even death in the fight against tyranny. But the belief that the Great Charter gave us such freedoms as democracy, trial by jury and equality beneath the law has its...

Taking you through the year day by day, The Bury Book of Days contains quirky, eccentric, shocking, amusing and important events and facts from different periods in the history of the town. Ideal for dipping into, this addictive little book will keep you...

The Afterlife of King James IV explores the survival stories following the Scottish king's defeat at the battle of Flodden in 1513, and how his image and legacy were used in the years that followed when he remained a shadow player in the politics of a...

This is the first full-length work devoted to aedan mac Gabrain, 6th century king of Dal Riata in Scotland. An associate of the famous St. Columba, he was the first recorded king to be ordained in the British Isles and was the most powerful ruler in his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385313315Author William ManchesterFormat PaperbackPage Count 800Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing...

Elizabethan Secret Agent: The Untold Story of William Ashby (1536-1593) is the biography of William Ashby, Elizabethan intelligence agent and diplomat who served as ambassador to Scotland during the Spanish Armada crisis. It provides a fresh social,...

In 1865 the Victorian poet Matthew Arnold rejoiced in the charm of Oxford, 'that sweet City with her dreaming spires'. A century and a half later, That Sweet City offers a visual and poetic tribute to what is still one of the fairest and most enthralling...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780788452703Author Philip D SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint Heritage BooksPublisher Heritage BooksWeight(grams) 612g

On 9 thermidor Year 2, Robespierre fell; on18 brumaire Year 8, a coup d'etat brought Bonaparte to power. This book demonstrates that the interval between these two momentous events was also of crucial importance. Using the findings of recent research, it...

A history of Stourport-on-SevernBook InformationISBN 9780752420585Author Stourport-on-Severn Civic SocietyFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 165mm * 10mm

Published in 1966, The Stuart Constitution at once established itself as the standard documentary textbook for courses in English seventeenth-century history in schools (A-level), polytechnics, and universities, and one which at the same time offered an...

This book traces the beginnings of a shift from one model of gendered power to another. Over the course of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, traditional practices of local government by heads of household began to be undermined by new legal...