Great Britain

Family Newspapers? provides the first detailed historical study of the modern popular press's coverage of sex and private life, from the start of the mass newspaper reading boom in 1918 to the triumph of the Sun's sexualised journalism in 1978. In...

Challenges the tired orthodoxy that the Church of England had a bad First World War. In telling the story of the Church and its people in Colchester, a garrison town, Robert Beaken enlivens our understanding of the First World War - not only as a...

Before the First World War, Essex was a very different county from that which we know today. The economy was largely based on agriculture, and the people rarely travelled beyond its borders, or even out of their towns or villages. The war opened up a...

This compelling study explores food programs initiated by the British government across two centuries, from the workhouses of the 1830s to the post-war Welfare State. Challenging the assumption that state ideologies and practices were progressive and...

This volume is a study of popular behaviour during the English Civil War. The book makes three claims. The first is that English counties did not behave as homogeneous units during the conflict of 1642-46, but that they divided instead along regional...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781859839614Author Raymond AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint DB PublishingPublisher DB PublishingDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 13mm

Morgan goes far beyond the question of Russian gold, to dig beneath a host of myths and misconceptions. He shows that Labour's parliamentary advance was itself inconceivable solely on the basis of the workers' and trade union 'pennies' with which it is...

Excavations conducted between 1981 and 1986 in advance of gravel extraction in Gravelly Guy field, Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire, revealed archaeological evidence spanning from the Neolithic through to the Saxon period. Neolithic and early Bronze Age...

What did women from the Ipswich area have to do with getting the vote? Surely it was only in London that suffragettes chained themselves to railings, held enormous processions, went to prison, and burnt down buildings. But women were also making their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647484477Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 358gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992946609Author Roger BallFormat PaperbackPage Count 375Imprint Breviary Stuff PublicationsPublisher Breviary Stuff PublicationsWeight(grams) 578g

In this fascinating and evocative book, Rosemary Taylor and Christopher Lloyd recall the extraordinary effect of wartime on the lives of the inhabitants of the East End. The Boer War and the First World War form the early part of the story but it is the...

This fascinating selection of photographs illustrates the extraordinary transformation that has taken place in Nottingham during the 20th century. The book offers an insight into the daily lives and living conditions of local people and gives the reader...

Covenanting Citizens throws new light on the origins of the English civil war and on the radical nature of the English Revolution. An exercise in writing the 'new political history', the volume challenges the discrete categories of high and popular...

Scandalous Liaisons tells the story of the most hedonistic, loose-living court in English history, from Charles II's youthful years and mistresses in France, to his tempestuous relationship with the hot-tempered, sexually and financially voracious...

Women and the Land examines English women's legal rights to land and the reality and consequences of their land ownership over four centuries. Women and the Land examines the pre-history of gendered property relations in England, focusing on the...

Buildings of Empire takes the reader on an exciting journey through thirteen territories of the British Empire. From Dublin Castle to the glass and steel of Sir Norman Foster's Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank skyscraper, these buildings capture the essence...

The greatest politician and statesmen of the twentieth century by Britain's leading military historian.'Superbly accessible ... witty, opinionated, but above all authoritative' MAIL ON SUNDAY'Keegan's lively, loving biography is a very useful...

One Man in His Time is the biography of the Laird of Torosay Castle, traveller, wartime hero and escaper and distinguished politician.Book InformationISBN 9781862270367Author John RobsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Spellmount Publishers...

This work makes an original and important contribution both to the field of British fascist/extreme Right studies and to the Ulster question. Given that British fascism was a phenomenon of the inter-war period, first making its appearance shortly after...

This is an extremely important collection of essays in historical social structure. The volume represents the first attempt to examine in historical and comparative terms the general belief that in the past all families were larger than they are today;...

Death, burial, and the commemoration of the dead have been much studied by historians in recent years, but far less has been done to make available the sources on which these studies are based. This book sets out to fill the gap with an anthology of the...

This is a photographic album covering three long-gone tramway systems, including many previously unpublished images of the towns and their public transport from as long ago as the 1890s. Historical backgrounds are provided, as well as route maps and...

The village of Axmouth has a very special community spirit which has built up over the years. No doubt the rich history and heritage that Axmouth has is the reason why its inhabitants are so justifiably proud of the place in which they live. With its...

The Wales TUC is the national institution representing the organised workers of Wales. Joe England seeks to explain and assess its achievements over the past thirty years of dramatic change: the rundown of the coal and steel industries, the decline in...

Early modern stereotypes used to be studied as evidence of popular belief, something mired with prejudices and commonly held assumptions. Stereotypes and stereotyping in early modern England goes beyond this view by exploring practices of stereotyping as...

Seven discrete areas of land were excavated by Archaeological Solutions to the north-east of Stowmarket in Mid Suffolk, on the clay hillside above the river Gipping. Four phases of medieval and post-medieval land use were identified; the main period of...

This book features various accounts of a cholera outbreak in West London that killed over 500 people in ten days during the late summer of 1854. What had happened? Local authorities were flummoxed about the mode by which the disease had spread. What has...

Kent has been on England's first line of defence. In all major conflicts many people in the county have lived closer to the enemy in Europe than they did to London. Much of the county's coastline has been the site of training and weapon development,...

The Sword of Scotland is the story of Scotlands military heritage. Scotlands fighting men have played a part in shaping the history of our world, and many of the individual countries in it. Its contribution and its sacrifices have been out of all...

Long Live Southbank documents the history and culture of this iconic London landmark, which was threatened by a [120 million redevelopment, announced in March 2013. The Southbank Centre proposed designs to transform the Southbank Undercroft skate park...

A history of WhickhamBook InformationISBN 9780752422619Author Alan BrazendaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 380gDimensions(mm) 248mm * 172mm * 10mm

A brilliantly compelling portrayal of the five-day inferno that torched London. Following on his tremendously successful book, "Custom of the Sea", Neil Hanson presents a new and thrilling narrative of the pivotal event that destroyed one of the world's...

The Making of London explores the rich history of the Metropolis from the Roman settlement established 2,000 years ago in the area that came to be known as the 'Square Mile' and traces the process whereby it eventually emerged as the world's greatest...

In her Great Books of Record Anne Clifford places herself within the dynamic history of the ancient Clifford family, providing an unbroken view into medieval and early modern life for nearly six centuries. In this annotated edition, we glimpse the lives...

Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in England. Plantation owners, shipbuilders, and merchants connected with the slave trade accumulated vast fortunes that established banks and heavy industry in Europe and expanded the reach of capitalism...

Modern Britain is still living with the legacy of Margaret Thatcher's widespread policy of privatisation. How did this dramatic change in company structure effect modern British society? What are the implications for today's volatile economic situation?...

Did you know the Battle of Bannockburn had its own poet-in-residence? Starting in 1314 and coming right up to the present day, poet and critic Robert Crawford examines how writers have set out in poetry, fiction, plays and on film the ideal of Scottish...

This fully updated second edition uses the career of Edward the Black Prince to explore key developments in the history of late medieval Europe.The eruption of the Hundred Years War, the arrival of the Black Death, England's first religious heresy, and...

Authoritative account of villages on the edge of the Chilterns, including the historic settlement of Ewelme. Occupying a varied landscape in south-east Oxfordshire, the fourteen rural parishes covered in this volume extend from the river valleys of...