Great Britain

A history in pictures of Ripley and Codnor, Derbyshire in old photographs with detailed captions, providing the reader with a window in to a bygone age.Book InformationISBN 9780752400426Author David BuxtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint NPI Media...

In 1910, when Evelyn Wrench founded the Royal Over-Seas League, King George V was on the throne, the British Empire seemed invincible and for most people international travel was a new and exciting opportunity. One hundred years later, the world and...

Presents a pictorial history of Barton-upon-Humber through a series of old and rare photographs and images. This work contains historical captions.Book InformationISBN 9780752415529Author John HollandFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint The History...

Robert Halliday's new book about Cambridgeshire (including the old county of Huntingdonshire and the city of Peterborough) illustrates and describes unusual, odd and extraordinary people, places and incidents. We discover how Cambridge University began,...

Around BirtleyBook InformationISBN 9780752403663Author George NairnFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm) 240mm * 170mm * 10mm

This book looks at all the main phases of British foreign policy from the 1890s to the 1990s. It not only explores such major events as the Boer War, Appeasement, and the Suez Crisis, but also looks well beyond traditional diplomacy, taking in strategic,...

The summer of 2022 saw the celebration of the seventieth anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II's coronation, the first time in British history that a monarch has reached this remarkable milestone.As the event was the first of its kind to be televised, images...

As much as 70 per cent of Essex is agricultural, and given its proximity to the capital it is not surprising that so many members of the Women's Land Army found themselves on Essex farms and in Essex fields during the two world wars, doing their bit to...

'By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.' - Samuel Johnson It is the people who make London what it is. The men and women living within its walls, with all their successes and failures, their loves and lies, their dramas...

In this, the last book published during his lifetime, renowned historian of the English Revolution Christopher Hill uses the literary culture of the seventeenth century to explore the immense social changes of the period as well as the expressions of...

Dee Gordon's new book is the unique and fascinating result of many conversations with people who lived and worked in Stepney during the 1950s and '60s. Vivid memories are recounted - focusing particularly on social change. As well as school days, work...

"The Friendly Invasion of Leominster" relates the activities of a number of American units based in Leominster during World War II. During its history the Herefordshire market town had been no stranger to invasions from across the Welsh border, but in...

The nineteenth-century's steam railway epitomised modernity's relentlessly onrushing advance. In Railways and culture in Britain Ian Carter delves into the cultural impact of train technology, and how this was represented in British society. Why, for...

Considered to be the classic introduction to the subject, this third edition has been carefully revised and updated to take account of the developments in the subject, and includes an extensive newly compiled bibliography and twice the number of...

'The pride in who we are is not part of our past, it defines our present and our future' - The QueenFrom Big Ben to James Bond, from the Battle of Hastings to the Beatles, from William Shakespeare to the Royal Family, our tiny island nation has a famed...

This intriguing collection of over 200 photographs and postcards covers Bradford-on-Avon and the surrounding villages of Turleigh, Winsley, Limpley Stoke, Freshford, Avoncliff, Ilford, Westwood and Farleigh Hungerford. Each picture illustrates everyday...

This book forms a continuation of the research published in Medieval Parks, Anne Rowe's highly regarded volume of 2009. Now she turns her attention to the deer parks that existed in Hertfordshire during the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609803469Author Jean-Marie DeguignetFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 477g

The Coupe d'Aviation Maritime Jacques Schneider (commonly called the Schneider Trophy, or prize or cup) was a prize competition for seaplanes. Announced by Jacques Schneider, a financier, balloonist and aircraft enthusiast, in 1911, it offered a prize of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909544536Author Eddie ParlourFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Memoirs PublishingPublisher Mereo BooksWeight(grams) 231gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781735287522Author Conrad Jay BladeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 462Imprint Hutman ProductionsPublisher Hutman ProductionsWeight(grams) 1061gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913993450Author Kathleen RankinFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Ulster Historical FoundationPublisher Ulster Historical Foundation

Kwasi Kwarteng is the child of parents whose lives were shaped as subjects of the British Empire, first in their native Ghana, then as British immigrants. He brings a unique perspective and impeccable academic credentials to a narrative history of the...

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How the philosophers and polemicists of eighteenth-century Britain used ridicule in the service of religious toleration, abolition, and political justiceThe relaxing of censorship in Britain at the turn of the eighteenth century led to an explosion of...

This is the story of Scotland as it's never been told before. From the 4th millennium BC, when the first Scot was expelled from Eden, right up to the 21st century, when US intelligence identified a distillery on Islay as a possible threat to world peace,...

Whilst in certain quarters it may be fashionable to suppose that there is no such thing as society historians have had no difficulty in finding their subject. The difficulty, rather, is that the advance has occurred through such an outpouring of research...

Unseen Grantham features 200 previously unpublished photographs and postcards that will appeal to everyone with an interest in the period of Grantham's history from the middle of the Victorian era until the 1960s. Accompanied by informative captions,...

This charming collection of oer 240 photographs documents life in this thriving seaside town in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. All aspects of everyday life are recorded here, from shops, schools and hospitals to sport, entertainment and the...

The third book in the series of historic photographs of the area around Hayes and West Drayton.Book InformationISBN 9780750927680Author Philip SherwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams)...

This book, first published in 1995, demonstrates the central role of the 'people', the empire, and the citizen in eighteenth-century English popular politics. Pioneering in its focus on provincial towns, its attention to the imperial contexts of urban...

THIS unique collection of over 150 old photographs of Winslow has ben compiled largely from the collection of local historian Terry Foley, a former Mayor of Winslow. His own photographs are supplemented by many postcards loaned by friends in the town...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780934223508Author Dale PorterFormat HardbackPage Count 285Imprint Lehigh University PressPublisher Associated University Presses

This book is a study of popular responses to the English Reformation. It takes as its subject not the conversion of English subjects to a new religion but rather their political responses to a Reformation perceived as an act of state and hence, like all...

Britain in 1946 witnessed extraordinary episodes of direct action. Tens of thousands of families walked into empty army camps and took them over as places to live. A nationwide squatters' movement was born and it was the first challenge to the 1945...

Understanding Scotland has been recognised since publication as the key text on the sociology of Scotland. This wholly revised edition provides the first sustained study of post-devolution Scottish society. It contains new material on:* the establishment...

The foundation of the English state from the reigns of the Tudors to the age of Queen Victoria was a partnership between the crown and the country gentlemen who exercised administration and justice in the localities. This book is about a formative period...

The area covered by this book is that of the villages of Hazel Grove and Bramhall, which once formed the Hazel Grove and Bramhall Urban District Council, and are now part of Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council. While Bramhall retains its original...

This book unearths the practical social theology of the 19th Century Church in Scotland. It has been widely believed that the church was largely mute on the widespread poverty and deprivation which accompanied the rapid expanse of urban life. This study...

Burned in a barrel of tar! Brighton's Historical Horrors Revealed! Brighton scandals including rioting rockers, military misdemeanours and three terrible trunk murders! Strike! Barbarity at the Battle of Lewes Road. Baptised then beheaded: Stories of...