Great Britain

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474459471Author Fraser RaeburnFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637160923Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 172gDimensions(mm)...

This book recovers the stories of two remarkable Victorian working men. Thomas Cooper and Arthur O'Neill were both imprisoned for seditious offences in 1843. The friendship they formed in Stafford Gaol lasted for fifty years. These two men wanted to be...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375727528Author Clark BlaiseFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 213gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Barnet VoicesBook InformationISBN 9780752415628Author Percy ReboulFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 230gDimensions(mm) 240mm * 172mm * 10mm

A comparative study of the effects of local, regional, and national changes on nine parishes in Britain's Upper Eden Valley during the Victorian period, this book reveals demographic trends among the parishes of Appleby, Brough, and Kirkby Stephen and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250049025Author Pete BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 213mm...

The Exeter Cathedral Fabric Accounts document the history of Exeter Cathedral during a period when it was being extensively rebuilt by a series of active bishops. They show how the rebuilding was financed and give a detailed account of what was involved...

In the reign of James II, minority groups from across the religious spectrum, led by the Quaker William Penn, rallied together under the Catholic King James in an effort to bring religious toleration to England. Known as repealers, these reformers aimed...

Over the past twenty-five years Luke Over has written 300 articles chronicling the history of Maidenhead and its surrounding villages. These range from pre-historic landscapes through the Roman, Saxon and Medieval periods to the present day. This volume...

Surveying government and crowd responses ranging from the late Middle Ages through to the early modern era, Buchanan Sharp's illuminating study examines how the English government responded to one of the most intractable problems of the period: famine...

This compact and accessible reference work provides all the essential facts and figures about major aspects of modern British history from the death of Queen Anne to the end of the 1990s. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History has been extended...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692590973Author Douglas EdmundsFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Fouchon PublicationsPublisher Fouchon PublicationsWeight(grams) 390g

Silent Partners restores women to their place in the story of England's Financial Revolution. Women were active participants in London's first stock market beginning in the 1690s and continuing through the eighteenth century. Whether playing the state...

Common law rules made litigation between husband and wife impossible in the 16/17th century, except in ecclesiastical courts. In practice, however, a few wives and husbands sued their spouses in courts of equity. This volume reproduces twenty such suits...

Common sense has always been a cornerstone of American politics. In 1776, Tom Paine's vital pamphlet with that title sparked the American Revolution. And today, common sense-the wisdom of ordinary people, knowledge so self-evident that it is beyond...

Many books have focused on the rise of, and success of, the Labour party in Wales, but this one focuses on its decline in an understudied part of Wales.About the AuthorAndrew Edwards is Dean of Arts and Humanities and Senior Lecturer in modern Welsh and...

As a maritime trading nation, the issue of quarantine was one of constant concern to Britain. Whilst naturally keen to promote international trade, there was a constant fear of importing potentially devastating diseases into British territories. In this...

This book offers a major reassessment of the place of propertied people in eighteenth-century England. Common views of politics in this period postulate aristocratic dominance coexisting with plebian vitality. Paul Langford explores the terrain which lay...

Originally published in 1991 and focussing on the countryside, this book examines patterns of settlement and agriculture in Scotland and considers how these were increasingly altered during the 17th and 18th Centuries by the first Improvers and then by...

Witham VoicesBook InformationISBN 9780752418544Author Arthur FlynnFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm) 240mm * 172mm * 10mm

Writing the Radio War merges the fields of sound studies, radio studies, and Second World War literary studies through considerations of both major and marginalized figures of wartime broadcasting.Book InformationISBN 9781474452540Author Ian...

This major work of synthesis presents an up-to-date assessment of the issues at the very root of the troubles in Northern Ireland. Framed against the background of Ulster history since the early seventeenth century, the major factors in the development...

In mid-Victorian England there were new racial categories based upon skin colour. The 'races' familiar to those in the modern west were invented and elaborated after the decline of faith in Biblical monogenesis in the early nineteenth century, and before...

Making substantial use of new and underexplored archive resources that provide a wealth of information and insight on the period in question, this book offers a fresh perspective on the major resurgence of creativity and international appeal experienced...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781870352611Author Marian MaletFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint LibrisPublisher Libris

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781628726954Author Philip HoareFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Arcade PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 226mm *...

The 'memsahibs' of the British Raj in India are well-known figures today, frequently depicted in fiction, TV and film. In recent years, they have also become the focus of extensive scholarship. Less familiar to both academics and the general public,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820444246Author Tom A. O'DonoghueFormat HardbackPage Count 183Imprint Peter Lang AGPublisher Peter Lang AGWeight(grams) 390g

Elmdon is a social history of a village in north-west Essex between 1861 and 1964. Throughout this period the population of Elmdon, which lies only fifty miles from London, was comparatively small, and this has enabled Jean Robin to follow the lives of...

How did the rise of consumer society impact the domestic lives of ordinary workers? Funded by English Heritage, this study offers the first book-length archaeology of a 17th through 20th century household site in Great Britain. Adopting a...

Scottish nationalism is a powerful movement in contemporary politics, yet the goal of Scottish independence emerged surprisingly recently into public debate. The origins of Scottish nationalism lie not in the medieval battles for Scottish statehood, the...

Financial diplomacy was vital to Britain during the Second World War. Over half the British war effort was sustained by US Lend-Lease assistance and Canadian Mutual Aid. In 1945 the country emerged victorious in the greatest war in history but...

A nostalgic look at Leicestershire's nine market towns in the company of the county's foremost local historian.About the AuthorTrevor Hickman is a well-known local historian, author and publisher. This is his fifteenth book for Sutton. Some of his...

Throughout the Second World War, Suffolk airfields and the airmen of Bomber Command made a large and vital contribution to the war effort. Just four airfields were established in the county at the outbreak of war in September 1939 - Mildenhall,...

In the nineteenth century, a woman who could prove a man had broken his promise to marry her was legally entitled to compensation for damages. Bridging the gap between history and literature, Ginger S. Frost offers an in-depth examination of these...

A revealing glimpse into the tumultuous history of England's medieval period, full of knights in shining armor and terrible peasant suffering. Covering the violent and disease-ridden period between 1272 to 1399, England in the Age of Chivalry. . . And...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784867457603Author Malcolm ArchibaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint Next ChapterPublisher Next ChapterWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm) 178mm * 111mm *...

A Century of Oxford offers an insight into the daily lives and living conditions of local people and gives the reader glimpses and details of familiar places during a century of unprecedented change. Many aspects of Oxford's recent history are covered,...

This volume presents for the first time the results of the excavation and scientific analysis between 2005 and 2013 of seventeen Iron Age cauldrons discovered in a large pit on farmland in the parish of Chiseldon, Wiltshire, and consequently acquired by...