Great Britain

The Eastern Association has an assured place in any history of the Civil War. Within the region, early in 1643, Oliver Cromwell and his 'Iron-sides' first rose to prominence; in 1644 the seven constituent countries raised the force which, at Marston...

There is little doubt that the '45 rebellion was the greatest challenge to the eighteenth-century British state. The battle of Culloden in which it culminated was certainly one of the most dramatic of the century. This study, based on extensive archival...

The late Victorian period brought a radical change in cultural attitudes toward middle-class women and work. Anxiety over the growing disproportion between women and men in the population, combined with an awakening desire among young women for personal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992841515Author Hatfield WEAFormat PaperbackImprint Hatfield Local History SocietyPublisher Hatfield Local History Society

Examines the experiences of Catholics during the period when England was ruled by Puritan Protestants. This is the first book to examine thoroughly the ways in which Catholics adapted to political and social change during the turbulent years of the...

This volume contains all the surviving early-Stuart surveys of Mariners and Shipping for Devon and Cornwall, including a hitherto unknown one of south Devon discovered in the Pepys Library at Magdalene College Cambridge. From parish to parish, all along...

The years leading up to this book's publication had seen a re-assessment by historians of the Elizabethan parliament. David Dean's book contributed to this development by offering the first detailed account and analysis of the legislative impulses of the...

This second volume of John Rule's major two-volume portrait of Georgian England is a comprehensive and authoritative survey of eighteenth-century society, incorporating the exciting new research findings of recent years. It deals in turn with the upper...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474448543Author Robert McColl MillarFormat HardbackPage Count 260Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams)...

This fascinating selection of photographs illustrates the extraordinary transformation that has taken place in Chester during the twentieth century. The book offers an insight into the daily lives and living conditions of local people and gives the...

How did the Protestants gain a monopoly over the running of Ireland and replace the Catholics as rulers and landowners? To answer this question, Toby Barnard:- examines the Catholics' attempt to regain control over their own affairs, first in the 1640s...

'My name is Vortigern ... ' Generations before Arthur's birth, a British warlord looks back on his life: his rise from humble roots to shake the thrones of a dying empire; his stand against chaos amid the aftermath of Rome; his struggle with the greedy,...

A History of Ireland explores the story of Ireland from the 12th century to the present day. This new edition has been revised, updated and expanded to take into account the latest scholarship and major recent political, economic, social, and cultural...

The culture of all nations is rooted in past experience, individual and communal. In Scotland's Future History McHardy looked at the misrepresentation of so much of Scotland's political and social history. In this new volume he takes a wider look...

Exeter possesses the best series of local customs accounts from medieval England, beginning in 1266 and surviving for almost 70 per cent of the years up to 1498. They are also far more complete than other local accounts: listing ships' names, home ports,...

A Grim Almanac of Glasgow is a day-by-day catalogue of 366 ghastly tales from around the city. Full of dreadful deeds, strange disappearances and a multitude of mysteries, this almanac explores the darker side of Glasgow's past. Here are stories of...

The Progresses, Processions, and Royal Entries of King Charles I, 1625-1642 is the first study to focus on the history, and the political and cultural significance, of the travels and public profile of Charles I. As well as offering a much fuller account...

Drawing on his detailed knowledge of the city's history, in this book Brian Lee takes the reader on a pictorial journey of the Cardiff of yesteryear. A fascinating selection of archive postcards has been chosen to reflect the changing fashions and...

The only survey of the urban, commercial and industrial history of the period between the Norman conquest and the Black Death.Reviews'Offers an excellent survey of the historical work in the English Economy between the post-conquest and pre-plague...

This 1997 book provides a penetrating account of death and disease in England during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Using a wide range of sources for the south-east of England, the author highlights the tremendous variation in levels of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781861511423Author Jim LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Memoirs PublishingPublisher Mereo BooksWeight(grams) 425g

A history of Gilwern & surrounding areas.Book InformationISBN 9780752432854Author Dave EdgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 172mm * 9mm

Dreaming the English Renaissance examines ideas about dreams, actual dreams people had and recorded, and the many ways dreams were used in the culture and politics of the Tutor/Stuart age in order to provide a window into the mental life and the most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635575804Author William DalrympleFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Bloomsbury PublishingPublisher Bloomsbury PublishingWeight(grams)...

The Tudor and Stuart Town brings together many of the most important articles in the field of urban history.Book InformationISBN 9780582051300Author Jonathan BarryFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint LongmanPublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams)...

Hadleigh has watched over the River Thames since the early 13th century. Together with the Royal Park the castle brought much activity to the village. The little Norman church is more than a century older and there is evidence of Saxon, Roman and...

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

This book explores the preaching and printing of sermons by royalists during the English Revolution. While scholars have long recognised the central role played by preachers in driving forward the parliamentarian war-effort, the use of the pulpit by the...

The idea that land should be--or even could be--treated like any other commodity has not always been a given. For much of British history, land was bought and sold in ways that emphasized its role in complex networks of social obligation and political...

This is a fascinating study of religious culture in England from 1050 to 1250. Drawing on the wealth of material about religious belief and practice that survives in the chronicles, Carl Watkins explores the accounts of signs, prophecies, astrology,...

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In Working Class Heroes, David Simonelli explores the influence of rock and roll on British society in the 1960s and '70s. At a time when social distinctions were becoming harder to measure, rock musicians appeared to embody the mythical qualities of the...

The First World War claimed over 995,000 British lives, and its legacy continues to be remembered today.Great War Britain: Manchester offers an intimate portrayal of the city and its people living in the shadow of the Great War. A beautifully illustrated...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643782690Author Ray Barron-WoolfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Austin Macauley Publishers LLCPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers...

A volume dealing with the regional and local history of South East England, this covers the landcape and society of the modern counties of Surrey, Kent, East and West Sussex and Greater London, south of the Thames from late Anglo-Saxon times to the...

This book brings together twelve of the most influential articles on the English Civil War, including coverage of all the major debates on this key period in British history.About the AuthorPeter Gaunt is Reader in History at Chester College of Higher...

This study of recruitment to the ministry of the Church of England in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries overturns many long-standing assumptions about the education and backgrounds of the clergy in late HanoverianEngland and Wales. ...

This is an integrated range of studies, focussing on Wales, by a long-established, internationally-recognised academic authority and member of the House of Lords, on the advance of democracy and the evolving idea of national identity in modern Britain...

This book is an unusual history of doctors trained in Britain in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, and their careers in Britain and the empire. Anne Crowther and Marguerite Dupree describe the experience of a whole generation of doctors at a...

This significant new work by a prominent medievalist focusses on the period of transition between 1250 and 1550, when the wealth and power of the great lords was threatened and weakened, and when new social groups emerged and new methods of production...