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Explores the revival and impact of evangelicalism within the Church of Scotland after the Disruption of 1843 Locates the chronological development of established evangelicalism within the broader context of British imperialism, German biblical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781859373668Author Clive HardyFormat PaperbackPage Count 87Imprint Frith Book Company Ltd.Publisher Frith Book Company Ltd.

We've been sending one another postcards for well over a century now - usually brief messages to our friends and family telling them about the weather on our holidays or where we're visiting next on our travels. A hundred years ago we sent postcards with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910461532Author Denis MacShaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 326Imprint Claret PressPublisher Claret PressDimensions(mm) 178mm * 127mm * 73mm

Presents a collection of more than 200 photographs, exploring the history of Didcot during the twentieth century. Every aspect of life in Didcot is captured in this tribute to the town: weddings and parties, schools and sports teams, churches, local...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840331905Author Walter KerrFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 165mm * 173mm * 4mm

This collection of sources demonstrates the variety of evidence that survives of English women in all walks of life from the time of Edward I to the eve of the Reformation. The sources are introduced by a substantial overview of current thinking about...

Trevor Royle examines Scotland's role in the Second World War from a wide range of perspectives. The country's geographical position gave it great strategic importance for importing war materiel and reinforcements, for conducting naval and aerial...

The thousand years explored in this book witnessed developments in the history of Ireland that resonate to this day. Interspersing narrative with detailed analysis of key themes, the first volume in the Cambridge History of Ireland presents the latest...

Available in paperback for the first time, Cricket and Community in England: 1800 to the Present Day is a path-breaking enquiry into the social history of the summer game. It is written by two specialist cricket historians and based on extensive primary...

The rebellion that set Ireland free, told as a graphic novel. The 1916 Easter Rising was an attempt by a small group of militant Irish republicans to win independence from Britain. It was the most significant rebellion in Ireland. Though a military...

Straddling the main western route into Scotland, Dumfriesshire was the focus of successive waves of immigrants from the Stone Age people onwards. They were followed by the Beaker people of the Bronze Age, and later the Celts, renowned for their...

Making substantial use of new and underexplored archive resources that provide a wealth of information and insight on the period in question, this book offers a fresh perspective on the major resurgence of creativity and international appeal experienced...

The Nonconformism Revolution explores the evolution of dissenting thought and how Nonconformity shaped the transformation of England from a rural to an urban, industrialised society. The foundations for the Industrial Revolution were in place from the...

Edition of original letters and other documents sheds light on a major ecclesiastical controversy. In 1881, after decades of mouldering into ruin, the grand fifteenth-century church of Blythburgh, Suffolk, "The Cathedral of the Marshes", was closed as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250017659Author Alison MaloneyFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams) 386g

Bournemouth was known as a health resort long before it became a holiday destination. W.H. Smith was one of the first patrons of the town's National Sanatorium for the treatment of chest diseases, including tuberculosis. Here 'invalids', including Robert...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804172714Author Bill BrysonFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 369gDimensions(mm) 202mm * 131mm...

The story of the reign of Charles I - through the lives of his people. Prize-winning historian David Cressy mines the widest range of archival and printed sources, including ballads, sermons, speeches, letters, diaries, petitions, proclamations, and...

This spendid selection of nearly 200 photographs documents a poignant journey through the historical development of Burnley from the 1850s to the 1960s.About the AuthorThe author, Mike Townend, is Keeper of History at the Towneley Hall Museum in Burnley...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992841508Author Hatfield WEAFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Hatfield Local History SocietyPublisher Hatfield Local History Society

This fascinating new volume of archive photographs covers the Whitehaven area from St Bees in the south to Parton in the north. The majority of the images have never appeared in print before, and many have come from recently discovered private...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840334654Author Jason FreemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake Publishing

The idea of a "Greater London" emerged in the 18th century with the expansion of the city's suburbs. In Landscapes of London, Elizabeth McKellar traces this growth back to the 17th century, when domestic retreats were established in outlying areas. This...

THE YORKSHIRE DALES, so beloved of visitors today, was once remote, wild and undiscovered, invaded by settlers who left their stories in scars on the land and hints of their origins in the place names that remain. As the written word developed, a...

Castles, lochs, seascapes. Coastal Scotland is one of the world's most romanticized tourist destinations, yet it is in the midst of severe economic decline. The North Atlantic fisheries crisis has hit Scottish communities hard and local fisherfolk are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781874336587Author Paul HylandFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint The Dovecote PressPublisher The Dovecote Press

From the mid-eighteenth century to the early nineteenth century, the English Old Poor Law was waning, soon to be replaced by the New Poor Law and its dreaded workhouses. In Writing the Lives of the English Poor, 1750s-1830s Steven King reveals colourful...

An Open Access edition of this book will be made available on publication on our website and on the OAPEN Library, funded by the LUP Open Access Author Fund.The Persistence of Memory is a history of the public memory of transatlantic slavery in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957004337Author John A. ClaytonFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Barrowford PressPublisher Barrowford Press

The arrival of Charles-Maurice, Prince de Talleyrand-Perigord, as French ambassador in London in September 1830, was regarded as a great event by the British government. Two months earlier the July Revolution in Paris, overthrowing the reactionary rule...

This second volume of The Official History of the British Civil Service explores the radical restructuring of the Civil Service that took place during the Thatcher and Major premierships from 1982 until 1997, after a period of confusion and disagreement...

An industrial accident in a wire factory and the chance discovery of a birth certificate. Church services held in a ruined swimming pool. An unidentified elephant skull.Midland tells the stories of three young women as they fight to find their feet...

On the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Northern Ireland `Troubles', Ulster's once dominant unionists are an increasingly alienated people. In this timely assessment of the prospects for peace, Steve Bruce examines the embittered world-view of two key...

Sinners? Scroungers? Saints? is the first book to describe the real lives of unmarried mothers, and attitudes towards them, in England from the First World War to the present day. Pat Thane and Tanya Evans use biographies and memoirs, as well as archives...

Rich in detail but vigorous, authoritative and unsentimental, A History ofModern Wales is a comprehensive and unromanticised examination of Wales as it was and is. It stresses both the long-term continuities in Welsh history, and also the significant...

For years Netherton has lived in the shadow of Dudley, of which it is a part. However, this book shows that Netherton was a remarkably complete community in its own right - even though this was never recognised by the organisation of local government...

In 1290, Jews were expelled from England and subsequently largely expunged from English historical memory. Yet for two centuries they occupied important roles in medieval English society. England's Jews revisits this neglected chapter of English...

The Tudor and Stuart inns of court were major centres of learning and literature, as well as professional associations of practising lawyers. This book sketches the evolution of the inns from their medieval origins and traces the dramatic impact of the...

Based on extensive research, Cinderella Soldiers uncovers the experiences of the Liverpool Irish Battalion during the Great War. The ethnic core of the battalion represented more than mere shamrock sentimentality: they had been raised within the Catholic...