Great Britain

This book investigates what a case study of a northern market town and its rural hinterland can tell us about village differentiation, exploring how and why rural communities developed in what was chiefly an industrial region and, notably, how the...

Despite the frequency with which criminals were sentenced to death, crime was still on the rise in England in the mid-1700s. Men were thrown in jail daily for everything from associating with gypsies to cutting down fruit trees and stealing sheep...

Everyone has heard of, say, the Irish Fusliliers, the Glorious Glosters, or Royal Scots Greys. But where are these regiments today? What are they called? And what were they called a hundred years ago? The painful and much-resented rationalisation of the...

The first full-length survey of Britain's role in Latin America as a whole from the early 1800s to the 1950s, when influence in the region passed to the United States. Rory Miller examines the reasons for the rise and decline of British influence, and...

This book reassesses the religious politics of Elizabethan England through a study of one of its most unusual figures. Sir Christopher Hatton, a royal favourite turned senior minister, was unique among Elizabeth's leading ministers in being a consistent...

Homicide has a history. In early modern England, that history saw two especially notable developments: one, the emergence in the sixteenth century of a formal distinction between murder and manslaughter, made meaningful through a lighter punishment than...

Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Sculpture, XIV, Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire surveys the counties of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire with a substantial catalogue of all known pre-Conquest stone sculpture, illustrated by high-quality photographs, maps, and...

In 1500 fewer than three million people spoke English; today English speakers number at least a billion worldwide. This book asks how and why a small island people became the nucleus of an empire 'on which the sun never set'. David Rollison argues that...

This work tells the story of the war years in Leicester. It describes the meticulous planning of such men as Charles Keene, chairman of the Emergency Committee, and of the air raids that demolished many parts of the city - claiming 122 victims and...

Explores early modern interpretations of Roman Scotland Examines an important aspect of the development of Scottish identity, a subject being brought to the fore again in recent debates surrounding Scottish independence Offers an in-depth study of a...

Experience 100 key dates that shaped Darlington's history, highlighted its people's genius (or silliness) and embraced the unexpected. Featuring an amazing mix of social, criminal and sporting events, this book reveals a past that will fascinate, delight...

This is a major re-evaluation of the life and legacy of Gertrude Lowthian Bell (1868-1926), the renowned scholar, explorer, writer, archaeologist, and British civil servant. The book examines Gertrude Bell's role in shaping British policy in the Middle...

A collection of photographs for the Livingston Development Corporation and associated commentary forms the basis of this lively and colourful history, celebrating the town's 50th birthday. This collection will be supplemented by additional images, as...

In the late 1890s, Britain was basking in the high noon of empire, albeit with the sobering experience of the Boer War just around the corner. By 1956, the year of the Suez debacle and less than a lifetime later, the age of empire was drawing rapidly to...

The sixth edition of British Cultural Identities assesses the degree to which being British impinges on the identity of the many people who belong to contemporary Britain. Twenty-first-century British identity is analysed through the various and changing...

Edinburgh and Glasgow enjoy a famously scratchy relationship. Resembling other intercity rivalries throughout the world, from Madrid and Barcelona, to Moscow and St. Petersburg, to Beijing and Shanghai, Scotland's sparring metropolises just happen to be...

This dazzling and yet intimate book is the first modern one-volume history of London from Roman times to the present. An extraordinary city, London grew from a backwater in the Classical age into an important medieval city, a significant Renaissance...

Between 1885 and 1921 the question of Irish Home Rule became increasingly focused on the province of Ulster, and especially on Ulster Unionist responses to a Dublin parliament. This book explores the making of a specifically Ulster dimension to this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840333992Author Carol McNeillFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingWeight(grams) 154gDimensions(mm) 175mm...

An authoritative and comprehensive account of an important area centred upon Great Driffield. Great Driffield, a thriving market town serving an extensive agricultural hinterland, stands at the junction of the Yorkshire Wolds and Holderness. The...

How did Aberdeen revolutionise modern midwifery and mother and baby care? Whether you were born in - or gave birth in - Aberdeen or elsewhere, you will probably have benefitted from the pioneering work of some of the people mentioned in this book...

The Story of the Death of Anne Boleyn is a critical edition and translation of a long narrative poem written by the secretary to the French ambassador in London within two weeks of Anne Boleyn's execution. It was intended as a diplomatic dispatch,...

English society in the eighteenth century was allegedly marked by a 'gambling mania', such was the prevalence and intensity of different forms of 'gaming'. Gambling in Britain in the Long Eighteenth Century subjects this notion to systematic scrutiny,...

We live in an age of terrorism and like to think that the United Kingdom is a reasonably peaceful place, largely untroubled by the atrocity committed by foreign fanatics. This book throws light on the links between English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh...

This book is a biographical study of the geographer/explorer and banker Francis Rodd, the second Lord Rennell of Rodd (1895-1978). Rodd's life is interesting for the way it connected the worlds of geography, international finance, politics, espionage,...

The first comprehensive history of marine insurance transacted in London from the industry's beginnings, to the early-nineteenth-century, when legislative change ended parliamentary monopolies over the business. This book describes the development...

A collection of approximately 200 archive images of Central Leicester, accompanied by captions.Book InformationISBN 9780752436746Author Stephen ButtFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams)...

My Lai, Wounded Knee, Sandy Hook: the place names evoke grief and horror, each the site of a massacre. Massacres-the mass slaughter of people-might seem as old as time, but the word itself is not. It worked its way into the English language in the late...

Whitechapel 1888. The blood-red skies ushered in the Autumn of Terror with panic on the streets of London. Inspector Frederick George Abberline is under pressure to capture Jack the Ripper. He failed ... or did he?Book InformationISBN 9780750954532Author...

Watford has witnessed an unprecedented number of changes over the century covered in this volume (around 1870 to 1970). The nineteenth and early twentieth centuries saw a great industrial and residential expansion; then followed the Blitz, the...

The past fifty years have seen many important changes for Ashford. It was once a quaint and sleepy market town, but for many people recent developments have changed it beyond all recognition. It would be unfair to say that this Kentish town has changed...

Before they had an empire in the East, the British travelled into the Islamic world to pursue trade and to form strategic alliances against the Catholic powers of France and Spain. First-hand encounters with Muslims, Jews, Greek Orthodox, and other...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781859838730Author Jim BrownFormat PaperbackImprint DB PublishingPublisher DB Publishing

The Lilliput Press is proud to reissue this iconic view of Dublin's northside docks area in the 1980s, which comprises Ronan Sheehan's text and over 50 black and white photographs by Brendan Walsh. Widely regarded as one of the finest studies of Dublin...

Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History (ASSAH) is a series concerned with the archaeology and history of England and its neighbours during the period circa AD 400-1100. ASSAH offers researchers an opportunity to publish new work in an inter- and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840335651Author Richard StenlakeFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake Publishing

The author draws on extensive research in the rich archives of the Scottish noble houses to demonstrate that the conventional view of the Scottish nobility is wrong. He shows that the nobility were as steeped in contemporary European debates and...

These outstanding books bring to life the people, places and events of the past in these islands, from the earliest settlers to the present day. They explore the everyday lives of people of all kinds across the centuries, charting the great moments of...

If objectivity was the great discovery of the nineteenth century, uncertainty was the great discovery of the twentieth century. This book explores the tangled relationships between knowledge and politics during the first fifty years of the twentieth...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784564438Author Max Chevers c/o Adrian Wynne MorganFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint FastPrint PublishingPublisher Upfront PublishingDimensions(mm)...