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Tales From When I Were A Lad: More snapshots from a time that Health & Safety forgot by Andrew Davies
RRP: £9.99£6.64Take a nostalgic trip back to a time when children played on the street, the local bobby could clip your ear and anywhere beyond Bridlington was an exotic holiday. Awwww, the old days. A time when grime were fashionable, school sports a menace... -
Brian Clough: Nobody Ever Says Thank You: The Biography by Jonathan Wilson
£3.78 - £9.80The final word on Brian CloughIn this first full, critical biography, Jonathan Wilson draws an intimate and powerful portrait of one of England's greatest football managers, Brian Clough, and his right-hand man, Peter Taylor. It was in the unforgiving... -
The Women Who Saved the English Countryside by Matthew Kelly
RRP: £11.99£10.15A vibrant history of English landscape preservation over the last 150 years, told through the lives of four remarkable women In Britain today, a mosaic of regulations protects the natural environment and guarantees public access to green spaces. But... -
The Guide to Mysterious Glasgow by Geoff Holder 9780752448268
RRP: £15.99£11.96This is the essential guide to everything strange, marvellous, mysterious and paranormal in Glasgow, with a street-by-street description of all things bizarre and supernatural connected with the city. As well as a complete guide to all of the city's... -
What the Romans Did for Us: Age 7-8, Below Average Readers by Alison Hawes 9781408112861
RRP: £6.99£5.37The White Wolves brand is known for providing engaging books that children want to pick up, at a range of different reading levels. The new non-fiction strand reflects the range of non-fiction texts that children will come across in the real world, from... -
Legacy: One Family, a Cup of Tea and the Company that Took On the World by Thomas Harding
RRP: £10.99£7.77'I was riveted: this is a fascinating social history.' NIGELLA LAWSON'Five stars... history on a scale at once intimate and grand.' TELEGRAPHA panoramic new history of modern Britain, as told through the story of one extraordinary family, and one... -
My Revision Notes: Edexcel GCSE (9-1) History: Early Elizabethan England, 1558-88 by John Wright
£3.39 - £4.99Exam Board: Pearson EdexcelLevel: GCSESubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: Summer 2018Endorsed for EdexcelTarget success in Edexcel GCSE (9-1) History with this proven formula for effective, structured revision.Key content coverage... -
The Ministry of Nostalgia: Consuming Austerity by Owen Hatherley 9781784780753
£3.78 - £22.00In this brilliant polemical rampage, Owen Hatherley shows how our past is being resold in order to defend the indefensible. From the marketing of a "make do and mend" aesthetic to the growing nostalgia for a utopian past that never existed, a cultural... -
The SBS in World War II by Gavin Mortimer
£6.08 - £9.09A gripping history of Britain's Special Boat Squadron in World War II, drawing on veteran interviews and including rare photographs from the SAS Regimental Association. The Special Boat Squadron was Britain's most exclusive Special Forces unit during... -
British Napoleonic Uniforms by C. E. Franklin 9781862274846
RRP: £60.00£44.94For the first time in print a book identifies each regiment and illustrates the change in uniforms, the colour of the facings and the nature and shape of the lace for the officers, NCOs and private soldiers over the period of the Napoleonic War 1793-1815... -
London's Secret Square Mile by David Long 9781803994864
RRP: £12.99£9.37The streetscape of London's historic square mile has been evolving for centuries, but the City's busy commercial heart still boasts an extensive network of narrow passages and alleyways, secret squares and half-hidden courtyards.Using his wealth of local... -
The Living Wells of Wales: New photographs and old tales of our sacred springs, holy wells and spas by Phil Cope 9781781724965
RRP: £20.00£15.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781724965Author Phil CopeFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales Press -
Shelley: The Pursuit by Richard Holmes
RRP: £19.99£13.73A fantastic reissue of Richard Holmes' epic biography of this most enigmatic and intriguing of the Romantic poets. This is simply one of the greatest biographical achievements of recent years. Shelley, the most neglected of all the great... -
Ten Men Dead by David Beresford
RRP: £14.99£9.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780586065334Author David BeresfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins PublishersWeight(grams) 230gDimensions(mm)... -
The English Civil War: A Military History by Peter Gaunt
RRP: £21.99£19.28Sir, God hath taken away your eldest son by a cannon shot. It brake his leg. We were necessitated to have it cut off, whereof he died.' In one of the most famous and moving letters of the Civil War, Oliver Cromwell told his brother-in-law that on 2 July... -
People of Abandoned Character by Clare Whitfield 9781838932756
£3.78 - £7.07What if you thought your husband was Jack the Ripper? London, 1888. Susannah rushes into marriage to a young and wealthy surgeon. After a passionate honeymoon, she returns home with her new husband wrapped around her little finger. But then everything... -
Our Wild Farming Life: Adventures on a Scottish Highland Croft by Lynn Cassells
RRP: £18.99£12.75[F]or anyone who has ever sat in a city office dreaming of owning a smallholding one day and living off the land, this book will inspire them to take the plunge. Rated 5 stars by The Telegraph I raced through this beautiful story with mounting awe and... -
Lancaster And York: The Wars of the Roses by Alison Weir
RRP: £14.99£9.53A lucid, gripping account of the human side of one of the bloodiest chapters of British history. The war between the houses of Lancaster and York for the throne of England was characterised by treachery, deceit and - at St Albans, Blore Hill and Towton,... -
The Secret Serial Killer: The True Story of Kieran Kelly by Mulhern, Robert 9781526722768
RRP: £19.99£14.28Journalist Robert Mulhern has spent three years investigating claims Kieran Kelly, a two-time convicted killer, has in fact murdered many more people - 31 to be exact. Kelly's claims first emerged in 1983 after he killed his cellmate in London's Clapham... -
A-Z Cambridge Hidden Walks: Discover 20 routes in and around the city by Ruth Meyer
RRP: £6.99£4.80Discover hidden gems around Cambridge with 20 walking routes. Featuring 20 walks in and around the city, including lesser-known circuits and details on popular walks. Accompanied by guided walking instructions and written by a local expert,... -
Scotland's Merlin: A Medieval Legend and its Dark Age Origins by Tim Clarkson
RRP: £14.99£10.77Who was Merlin? Is the famous wizard of Arthurian legend based on a real person? In this book, Merlin's origins are traced back to the story of Lailoken, a mysterious 'wild man' who is said to have lived in the Scottish Lowlands in the sixth century AD... -
The Prince Rupert Hotel for the Homeless: A True Story of Love and Compassion Amid a Pandemic by Christina Lamb 9780008487584
RRP: £10.99£7.25'There will be an avalanche of books about the pandemic. None will be as eye-opening or humane or moving as Lamb's' DAILY TELEGRAPH A story of poverty, generosity and worlds colliding in modern Britain When... -
Thomas Cromwell: A Life by Diarmaid MacCulloch
RRP: £18.99£12.48A SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, SPECTATOR, FINANCIAL TIMES, GUARDIAN, BBC HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR'This is the biography we have been awaiting for 400 years' Hilary Mantel'A masterpiece' Dan Jones, Sunday TimesThomas Cromwell is one of the... -
Homecoming: Voices of the Windrush Generation by Colin Grant
RRP: £10.99£7.77'A remarkable oral history of black postwar British life... Homecoming is an extraordinary and compelling book' Daily TelegraphHomecoming draws on over a hundred first-hand interviews, archival recordings and memoirs by the women and men who came to... -
Lifestyle Revolution: How Taste Changed Class in Late 20th-Century Britain by Ben Highmore
RRP: £25.00£18.32In postwar Britain, journalists and politicians predicted that the class system would not survive a consumer culture where everyone had TVs and washing machines, and where more and more people owned their own homes. They were to be proved hopelessly... -
The Decline And Fall Of The British Empire by Dr. Piers Brendon
RRP: £16.99£12.68No empire has been larger or more diverse than the British Empire. At its apogee in the 1930s, 42 million Britons governed 500 million foreign subjects. Britannia ruled the waves and a quarter of the earth's surface was painted red on the map. Yet no... -
Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World by Niall Ferguson
RRP: £12.99£9.09Niall Ferguson's acclaimed bestseller on the highs and lows of Britain's empireOnce vast swathes of the globe were coloured imperial red and Britannia ruled not just the waves, but the prairies of America, the plains of Asia, the jungles of Africa and... -
Serial Killers: The World's Most Evil by Nigel Blundell 9781526781741
RRP: £14.99£10.95On an internationally acknowledged Scale of Evil, these are the worlds worst serial killers. The qualifications for entry to this list of the vilest criminals of all time are a propensity for sadism, torture and murder without a shred of remorse. Using... -
The Time Traveller's Guide to Regency Britain by Ian Mortimer
RRP: £12.99£9.09'Excellent... Mortimer's erudition is formidable' The TimesA time of exuberance, thrills, frills and unchecked bad behaviour...Ian Mortimer turns to what is arguably the most-loved period in British history - the Regency, or Georgian England.This is the... -
A History of Norfolk in 100 Places by David Robertson
RRP: £17.99£13.33Norfolk has a wealth of important archaeological sites, historic buildings and landscapes. This guide is the first to use them to tell the county's rich history.Starting with real footprints of people who lived here nearly 1 million years ago, A History... -
The Awakenings by Sarah Maine
RRP: £8.99£6.20An immersive and compelling novel that explores the struggle by two women, divided across centuries, for control over their lives, set against a beautiful historical backdrop.'An echo of Daphne du Maurier' IndependentA grieving woman . . .Yorkshire,... -
The Mummy's Curse: The true history of a dark fantasy by Roger Luckhurst 9780199698714
£21.30In the winter of 1922-23 archaeologist Howard Carter and his wealthy patron George Herbert, the Fifth Earl of Carnarvon, sensationally opened the tomb of Tutenkhamen. Six weeks later Herbert, the sponsor of the expedition, died in Egypt. The popular... -
Uncommon Wealth: Britain and the Aftermath of Empire by Kojo Koram
RRP: £12.99£8.60WINNER OF THE PEN HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE 2023Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political WritingLonglisted for the British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural UnderstandingA Guardian Book of the Year'Brilliantly arranged and rich with fresh... -
A Sultry Month by Alethea Hayter 9780571372294
RRP: £12.99£8.56Wine and dine with Victorian London's literati in a heatwave in one of the first ever group biographies, introduced by Francesca Wade (author of Square Haunting).Though she loved the heat she could do nothing but lie on the sofa and drink lemonade and... -
WJEC Eduqas GCSE History: Changes in Health and Medicine in Britain, c.500 to the present day by R. Paul Evans
£24.12Exam Board: EduqasLevel: GCSESubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: Summer 2018Endorsed by EduqasBring out the best in every student, enabling them to develop in-depth subject knowledge and historical skills with the market-leading... -
Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self by Claire Tomalin
£3.78 - £9.09From the acclaimed author of Charles Dickens: A Life comes a celebrated biography that casts new light on the remarkable diaries of Samuel Pepys.Samuel Pepys achieved fame as a naval administrator, a friend and colleague of the powerful and learned, a... -
The Wall: Rome's Greatest Frontier by Alistair Moffat
£6.42 - £8.56Hadrian's Wall is the largest, most spectacular and one of the most enigmatic historical monument in Britain. Nothing else approaches its vast scale: a land wall running 73 miles from east to west and a sea wall stretching at least 26 miles down the... -
The Ship Asunder: A Maritime History of Britain in Eleven Vessels by Tom Nancollas
RRP: £10.99£7.12A Sunday Times Book of the Year 'Three and a half millennia of British Maritime history, from the Middle Bronze Age to the early 20th century ... This book is written with passion and sympathy. It will live with me for a very long time' Francis Pryor,... -
The Christmas Castle in Scotland (Romantic Escapes, Book 9) by Julie Caplin
RRP: £8.99£6.02Unwrap this gorgeous gift of a book for an escape to the snow-peaked caps of the Scottish Highlands and a romance that will melt your heart... Izzy McBride had never in a million years expected to inherit an actual castle from her great uncle... -
The Reading Quiz Book by Adam Sowan 9781901677768
RRP: £8.99£6.34Local historian Adam Sowan has explored the town of Reading has to offer, and presents here a challenging set of questions to stimulate the reader's curiosity and develop a deeper acquaintance with this much-maligned town.Book InformationISBN...