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Victorian Engineering by L. T. C. Rolt
RRP: $21.92$16.31L T C Rolt was an engineer and pioneer of industrial history; in this book he combined these two passions to give us a fascinating account of the men who 'made' Britain. From Brunel to Telford, he takes us on a journey from the first railway tracks being... -
Philip's Highlands of Scotland: Leisure and Tourist Map 2020 Edition: Leisure and Tourist Map by Philip's Maps
RRP: $10.31$7.47A folded map specially created for touring the glories of the Scottish Highlands, with a wealth of places of interest clearly marked. It includes detailed coverage of the area's road network with easy-to-read road mapping perfect for route-planning... -
House of Treason: The Rise and Fall of a Tudor Dynasty by Robert Hutchinson
RRP: $19.34$5.92King-makers - Conspirators - Criminals - Nobles - Seducers The Howard family - the Dukes of Norfolk - were the wealthiest and most powerful aristocrats in Tudor England, regarding themselves as the true power behind the throne. They were certainly... -
Posh Boys: How English Public Schools Ruin Britain by Robert Verkaik
$7.52 - $10.02'The latest in the series of powerful books on the divisions in modern Britain, and will take its place on many bookshelves beside Reni Eddo-Lodge's Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race and Owen Jones's Chavs.' -Andrew Marr, Sunday... -
The Rise and Fall of the British Nation: A Twentieth-Century History by David Edgerton
RRP: $24.50$17.56'Forget almost everything you thought you knew about Britain ... You will not find a better informed history' David Goodhart, Evening Standard'A striking new perspective on our past' Piers Brendon, Literary ReviewFrom the acclaimed author of Britain's... -
Crown and Country: A History of England through the Monarchy by David Starkey
$4.88 - $12.51An exploration of the British monarchy from the retreat of the Romans up until the modern day. This compendium volume of two earlier books is fully revised and updated. The monarchy is one of Britain's most revered institutions - but also one... -
Women of the Right Spirit: Paid Organisers of the Women's Social and Political Union (Wspu), 1904-18 by Krista Cowman
RRP: $25.79$21.18This book is the first investigation on how official organizers built and sustained the national militant campaign of the Women's Social and Political Union between 1903 and 1918. Whilst the overall policy of the Union was devised by an ever-decreasing... -
Britain'S Secret Defences: Civilian Saboteurs, Spies and Assassins in the Second World War by Andrew Chatterton
RRP: $25.74$16.56The narrative surrounding Britain's anti-invasion forces has often centred on 'Dad's Army'-like characters running around with pitchforks, on unpreparedness and sense of inevitability of invasion and defeat. The truth, however, is very different... -
The King Over the Water: A Complete History of the Jacobites by Desmond Seward
RRP: $19.34$12.64Shortlisted for the Military History Matters Book of the Year Award Few causes have given rise to such dramatic tales of loyalty, passion and betrayal as the Jacobite dream of restoring the Stuarts to the British throne. Although its failure brought... -
OCR A Level History: Britain 1930-1997 by Mike Wells
$41.14Exam Board: OCRLevel: A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: June 2016This is an OCR endorsed resource.Build strong subject knowledge and skills in A Level History using the in-depth analysis and structured support in this... -
George IV by E. A. Smith 9780300088021
$38.20This engrossing biography of George IV, king of England from 1820 to 1830, gives a full and objective reassessment of the monarch's character, reputation, and achievement. Previous writers have tended to accept the unfavorable verdicts of the king's... -
The Complete History of the SAS: The World's Most Feared Elite Fighting Force by Nigel McCrery
RRP: $12.89$8.77Specializing in covert reconnaissance, counter-terrorism and hostage rescue, the SAS is one of the world's most famous, feared and respected elite fighting forces.This book tells the full, fascinating story of the regiment, from formation in the sand... -
The House by the Dvina: A Russian Childhood by Eugenie Fraser
RRP: $14.18$10.02The House by the Dvina is the riveting story of two families separated in culture and geography but bound together by a Russian-Scottish marriage. It includes episodes as romantic and dramatic as any in fiction: the purchase by the author's... -
Robert The Bruce: King Of Scots by Ronald McNair Scott
RRP: $14.18$10.02Robert the Bruce had himself crowned King of Scots at Scone on a frozen March morning in 1306. After years of struggle, Scotland had been reduced to a vassal state by Edward I of England and its people lived in poverty. On the day he seized the crown... -
The Anthology of English Folk Tales by Folk Tales Authors 9780750990042
$9.07 - $12.09This enchanting collection of stories gathers together folk tales from across England in one special volume. Drawn from The History Press' popular Folk Tales series, herein lies a treasure trove of tales from a wealth of talented storytellers performing... -
Our Hidden Lives: The Remarkable Diaries of Postwar Britain by Simon Garfield
$4.37 - $17.56In 1936 anthropologist Tom Harrison, poet and journalist Charles Madge, and documentary filmmaker Humphrey Jennings set up the Mass Observation Project. The idea was simple: ordinary people would record, in diary form, the events of their everyday lives... -
Our Stories: 75 Years of the NHS from the People Who Built It, Lived It and Love It by Stephanie Snow 9781802793468
RRP: $21.92$12.36FOREWORD BY ADAM KAY, AUTHOR OF THIS IS GOING TO HURTPortion of proceeds go to NHS Charities Together.A beautiful and heart-warming collection of stories, this landmark publication tells, for the first time ever, the rich history of the NHS through the... -
The British Empire: A Very Short Introduction by Ashley Jackson
RRP: $11.60$8.32From the eighteenth century until the 1950s the British Empire was the biggest political entity in the world. The territories forming this empire ranged from tiny islands to vast segments of the world's major continental land masses. The British Empire... -
Court Number One: The Trials and Scandals that Shocked Modern Britain by Thomas Grant
RRP: $16.76$11.09A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEARA TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARA WATERSTONES PAPERBACK OF THE YEAR'Superbly told' Simon Heffer, Daily Telegraph'A hamper of treats' Sunday Telegraph'[Grant employs] scholarship and depth of evidence' London Review of Books'These... -
A Night of Flames by Matthew Harffy
RRP: $12.89$10.00In the wild lands of Norway, Hunlaf must quell a violent revolt in Matthew Harffy's new historical adventure. Northumbria, AD 794. Those who rule the seas, rule the land. None know the truth of this more than the Vikings. To compete with the seafaring... -
Elizabeth by David Starkey
$4.37 - $14.13'The best account in English of the early years of Elizabeth' Evening Standard A woman in a man's world, Queen Elizabeth I was to become England's most successful ruler. Confident in her destiny, intensely intelligent, passionately sexual yet (she said)... -
A Short History of London: The Creation of a World Capital by Simon Jenkins
RRP: $16.76$11.73LONDON: a settlement founded by the Romans, occupied by the Saxons, conquered by the Danes and ruled by the Normans. This changeful place became a medieval maze of alleys and courtyards, later to be chequered with grand estates of Georgian splendour. It... -
NKJV, Personal Size Reference Bible, Sovereign Collection, Leathersoft, Brown, Red Letter, Comfort Print: Holy Bible, New King James Version by Thomas Nelson
RRP: $38.70$26.48This elegant Bible edition honors the beauty and richness of the New King James Version in a convenient portable size with essential study tools and traditional red-letter text for the Words of Christ.The New King James Version in the Sovereign... -
The Granite Men: A History of the Granite Industries of Aberdeen and North East Scotland by Jim Fiddes 9780750990011
RRP: $25.80$20.27Granite is the most unyielding of building materials. The great granite quarries of the North East are silent now, as are virtually all of the 100 granite yards that existed in Aberdeen around the year 1900. Yet in its time, the granite industry of... -
Diamond Street: The Hidden World of Hatton Garden by Rachel Lichtenstein
RRP: $20.63$14.98Diamond Street is Rachel Lichtenstein's fascinating account of London's Hatton Garden.Enter Hatton Garden, one of London's most mysterious streets. Home to ancient burial sites, diamond workshops, underground vaults, monastic dynasties, subterranean... -
Lady Katherine Knollys: The Unacknowledged Daughter of King Henry VIII by Sarah-Beth Watkins 9781782795858
RRP: $12.89$11.08Katherine Knollys was Mary Boleyn's first child, born in 1524 when Mary was having an affair with King Henry VIII. Katherine spent her life unacknowledged as the king's daughter, yet she was given prime appointments at court as maid of honour to both... -
Set in Stone: The Geology and Landscapes of Scotland by Alan McKirdy
RRP: $12.89$8.64The land that was to become Scotland has travelled across the globe over the last 3,000 million years - from close to the South Pole to its current position. During these travels, there were many continental collisions, creating mountain belts as high as... -
A Treasury of British Folklore: Maypoles, Mandrakes and Mistletoe by Dee Dee Chainey
RRP: $16.76$10.94An entertaining and engrossing collection of British customs, superstitions and legends from past and present. Did you know, in Cumbria it was believed a person lying on a pillow stuffed with pigeon's feathers could not die? Or that green is an... -
Vikings in Scotland: An Archaeological Survey by James Graham-Campbell
RRP: $39.99$33.60This book provides a full overview of the archaeology of the Vikings in Scotland, incorporating many results from the recent period of intense fieldwork and excavation. This work has necessitated a thorough re-appraisal of our knowledge of the process,... -
Angel Meadow: Victorian Britain's Most Savage Slum by Dean Kirby
RRP: $19.34$14.13"It is all free fighting here. Even some of the windows do not open, so it is useless to cry for help. Dampness and misery, violence and wrong, have left their handwriting in perfectly legible characters on the walls."(Manchester Guardian, 1870... -
Defiant: The Untold Story of the Battle of Britain by Robert Verkaik
RRP: $14.18$9.55'Robert Verkaik makes a revisionist case for an unsung aircraft, the Boulton Paul Defiant. This two-seat gun-turret fighter is, argues Verkaik, the forgotten fighter of Dunkirk and the Battle of Britain; the effectiveness as well as the courage of its... -
How Britain Really Works: Understanding the Ideas and Institutions of a Nation by Stig Abell
$4.57 - $11.09'Absorbing . . . an intelligent and clear-eyed account of much that goes on in our country' Sunday TimesGetting to grips with Great Britain is harder than ever. We are a nation that chose Brexit, rejects immigration but is dependent on it, is getting... -
Hugh Despenser the Younger and Edward II: Downfall of a King's Favourite by Kathryn Warner 9781526751751
RRP: $19.34$14.13Hugh Despenser the Younger and Edward II tells the story of the greatest villain of the fourteenth century', his dazzling rise as favourite to the king and his disastrous fall. Born in the late 1280s, Hugh married King Edward I of England's eldest... -
British Gunboats of Victoria's Empire by Angus Konstam
RRP: $15.47$10.87A beautifully illustrated history of the iconic ocean-going gunboats of British 'gunboat diplomacy', the hundreds of little warships that for 50 years demonstrated the power of the Royal Navy worldwide, and which maintained and enforced the rule of the... -
The Victorians by A. N. Wilson 9780099451860
$10.98 - $14.64People, not abstract ideas, make history, and nowhere is this more revealed than in A. N. Wilson's superb portrait of the Victorians, in which hundreds of different lives have been pieced together to tell a story - one which is still unfinished in our... -
Rave Art: Flyers, invitations and membership cards by Chelsea Louise Berlin
RRP: $21.92$15.40In the mid- to late 1980s, rave culture developed. It influenced music, design, art, drugs, fashion, language and even the law. Originally emerging in the USA, it was refined in the UK by people who wanted to dance, party and express themselves in terms... -
History+ for Edexcel A Level: Democracies in change: Britain and the USA in the twentieth century by Nick Shepley
$51.97Exam Board: EdexcelLevel: AS/A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: June 2016Endorsed for EdexcelEnable your students to develop high-level skills in their Edexcel A level History breadth and depth studies through expert... -
Second City: Birmingham and the Forging of Modern Britain by Richard Vinen 9780141993171
RRP: $19.34$14.13A DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022'There is unlikely to be a fuller or more informative history of Birmingham than Vinen's' Jonathan Coe, Financial Times'Vinen has written a history of Birmingham, but it is also a theory of Birmingham. And also,... -
Never Again: Britain 1945-1951 by Peter Hennessy
RRP: $19.34$14.13Winner of the Duff Cooper PrizeWinner of the NCR Award for Non-Fiction From the high politics of Court and Cabinet room to the kitchen or the queue, Peter Hennessy's Never Again: Britain 1945-51, the first part of his Post-War Trilogy, recreates life in... -
Lancaster Target by Jack Currie
RRP: $11.60$8.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910809433Author Jack CurrieFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Goodall Publications LtdPublisher Crecy Publishing