Great Britain

Why and how did the British people come to see themselves as living in a society centred around a middle class? The answer provided by Professor Wahrman challenges most prevalent historical narratives: the key to understanding changes in...

This collection of memories follows a Warwickshire girl as she grows up during an era of huge transformation in Britain. Written to reflect her childhood impression of the world around her, this memoir reminds readers of the realities of everyday life in...

This fascinating book brings together the memories of people who have lived and grown up in Filton during the last century, watching it grow from a small village on the outskirts of Bristol into a fully fledged conurbation. Reminiscences range from...

Since the early 1970s the increasingly effective conduct of archaeological work in the City of London and surrounding parts of the conurbation have revolutionised our view of the development and European importance of London between 1100 and 1600. There...

By the mid-eighteenth century, the transatlantic slave trade was considered to be a necessary and stabilizing factor in the capitalist economies of Europe and the expanding Americas. Britain was the most influential power in this system which seemed to...

In this book, Professor Donaldson provides a truly historical account of the origins and progress of the Scottish Reformation based on research in the documents of the period. He begins with an outline of church life and the need for reform at the end of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780197635094Author BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint OUP IndiaPublisher OUP IndiaWeight(grams) 685gDimensions(mm) 237mm * 155mm * 37mm

In the early sixteenth century, a young English sugar trader spent a night at what is now the port of Agadir in Morocco, watching from the tenuous safety of the Portuguese fort as the local tribesmen attacked the 'Moors'. Having recently departed the...

England in the 1670s provides a welcome introduction to the politics, war and religion of this tumultuous period in English history and paints a revealing and vibrant portrait of a society grappling with change.About the AuthorJohn Spurr is Senior...

Originally published in 1959, this book provides a detailed study of the Council of Florence (originally known as the Council of Basel). The existence of the Council, which operated in various forms from 1431 until the mid-fifteenth century, constituted...

This book re-evaluates the nature of Elizabethan politics and Elizabeth's queenship in late sixteenth-century England, Wales and Ireland. Natalie Mears shows that Elizabeth took an active role in policy-making and suggests that Elizabethan politics has...

As early as the 1930s, Britain had a highly innovative and profitable mortgage sector that promoted a major extension in home ownership. These controversial and risky offerings had an equivalent in numerous hire purchase agreements, with which new homes...

Suffolk's coastline faces east, and through most of its history has therefore been one of the areas of this country that has been at risk from invasion during times of conflict. This title delves into history of military Suffolk, from Saxon shore forts...

This fascinating collection of around 200 old photographs portrays the history of the town and the people of Sudbury from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1960s. At the beginning of this period, Sudbury was a small town of fewer than 6,000 people,...

The Irish Famine of 1846-50 was one of the great disasters of the nineteenth century, whose notoriety spreads as far as the mass emigration which followed it. Cormac O'Grada's concise survey suggests that a proper understanding of the disaster requires...

In the reign of Henry VIII a lay, as distinct from a clerical, staff of administrators was rapidly emerging as an essential instrument of government. To a remarkable degree the Crown depended on the servants of great ministers to supply the deficiencies...

British history in the period from the restoration of 1660 to the revolution of 1688, no less than in other periods, has been subject to 'revisionism'. This volume examines and analyses some of the challenging new theories relating to politics, society,...

In an age when authoritative definitions of currency were in flux and small change was scarce, money enjoyed a rich and complex social life. Deborah Valenze shows how money became involved in relations between people in ways that moved beyond what we...

Outram Evennett was a university lecturer in history at Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity College. This book, based on his Birkbeck Lectures of 1951, represents some twenty years' work on the sources of the Counter-Reformation. Evennett did not live to...

Dangerous Talk examines the 'lewd, ungracious, detestable, opprobrious, and rebellious-sounding' speech of ordinary men and women who spoke scornfully of kings and queens. Eavesdropping on lost conversations, it reveals the expressions that got people...

From Europe to India and America, Britain's Colonial Wars relates empire to the fortunes of war. In less than a century, between the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and the settlement following the War of the American Revolution, the modern British state was...

During the twentieth century, men and women across Ireland picked up cameras, photographing days out at the beach, composing views of Ireland's cities and countryside, and recording political events as they witnessed them. Indeed, while foreign...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804510469Author Ken WhartonFormat PaperbackPage Count 420Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913515102Author Charles MackayFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint Ditto BooksPublisher Ditto BooksDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 26mm

Generations of young Britons made their careers in Malaya. Some scaled the heights of the administrative service and are well recorded in the formal histories. Others served in less high profile but equally challenging departments, carrying out the work...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781859839928Author Yorkshire Evening PostFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint DB PublishingPublisher DB PublishingDimensions(mm) 276mm * 195mm * 16mm

The idea of `economic planning' was a central theme of the radical economic policy debate in the 1930s. Born of the inter-war economic crisis, the call for the reconstruction of the economy according to a `plan' of one kind or another spanned practically...

Bringing together researchers in modern British religious, political, intellectual and social history, this volume considers the persistence of the Church's public significance, despite its falling membership. During the twentieth century, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643132297Author Michael JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 488Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 155mm *...

Waltham Memories is the unique and fascinating result of many conversations and interviews with local people, recalling life in the village over the past century. Compiled by Local History Librarian Jennie Mooney, vivid memories are recounted, including...

An authoritative study of the bloodless revolution which transformed Britain's political system.Book InformationISBN 9780582314009Author D. G. WrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 453g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780788416934Author The Marquis of Ruvigny and RainevalFormat PaperbackPage Count 674Imprint Heritage BooksPublisher Heritage BooksWeight(grams) 767g

"A thick, tangled and deliciously idiosyncratic history of hair." Times Literary Supplement 19th and early 20th-century hair appears to be everywhere when you start to look, from the abundant locks of the pre-Raphaelites to the myriad objects on show...

This text aims to cover four main area of change during the 20th century: the political scene, social changes, economic developments and culture and educational features.About the AuthorD. Gareth Evans was born in Alltwen, Pontardawe. He held the post of...

1215 is one of the most famous dates in English history, and with good reason, since it marks the signing of the Magna Carta by King John and the English barons, which altered the entire course of English and world history.John Lackland was born to King...

This is an innovative study of the role of Ireland and the Irish in the British Empire which examines the intellectual, cultural and political interconnections between nineteenth-century British imperial, Irish and Indian history. Barry Crosbie argues...

This 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. The focus is on England because the legal positions, and other circumstances, of unmarried mothers...

This fascinating collection of extracts contains diarists famous and ordinary, young and old, serious and cynical, but with Brighton always setting the scene. Many legendary writers - including Walter Scott, Arnold Bennett and Virginia Woolf (who...

This book traces the history of the outlawed mystical fellowship, the 'Family of Love', in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. The Familists, devoted followers of a Messianic Dutch mystic named 'H. N.', were passionately denounced by many...