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Shadow King: The Life and Death of Henry VI by Lauren Johnson
RRP: £12.00£7.73A thrilling new account of the tragic life and troubled times of Henry VI. 'The best life of Henry VI now in print' DAN JONES. 'Vivid, absorbing and richly detailed' HELEN CASTOR. 'A well-crafted moving account of a tragic reign' MICHAEL JONES. ... -
Our Hidden Lives: The Remarkable Diaries of Postwar Britain by Simon Garfield
RRP: £18.99£13.61In 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... -
Elizabeth by David Starkey
RRP: £14.99£10.95'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)... -
81: The Inside Story of Our Iconic Fa Cup Victory by Steve Perryman
RRP: £40.00£27.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913412449Author Steve PerrymanFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Vision Sports Publishing LtdPublisher Vision Sports Publishing LtdWeight(grams)... -
'Enemy Sighted': The Story of the Battle of Britain Bunker and the World s First Integrated Air Defence System by Dilip Amin 9781399049306
RRP: £25.00£17.62Enemy Sighted is the story of the world's first integrated air defence system and how the coalition of Hurricanes and Spitfires, Fighter Command's Operations Rooms and Sector Stations, Radar Stations, Observer Corps posts, anti-aircraft gun and... -
Changing Minds Britain 1500-1750 Pupil's Book by Jamie Byrom
£29.13Powerful narrative hooks pupils into topicsand builds a secureknowledge base fromwhich to learn historicalskills with confidence. Exciting enquiries engage pupils with meaningfulhistorical questions and developimportant historical skills. Access for... -
Diamond Street: The Hidden World of Hatton Garden by Rachel Lichtenstein
RRP: £15.99£11.61Diamond 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... -
The Defence of the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5 by Christopher Andrew
RRP: £18.99£14.01'Sensationally good ... A riveting story, the real-life spooks and spies far more compelling than anything you will see on the screen ... history doesn't come more fascinating than this' Evening Standard For over 100 years, the agents of MI5 have... -
Re-discovering the Twentieth-Century World: A World Study after 1900 by Colin Shephard
£24.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780719585487Author Colin ShephardFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Hodder MurrayPublisher Hodder EducationWeight(grams) 400gDimensions(mm) 274mm * 210mm... -
The Wit and Wisdom of Winston Churchill: A Treasury of More Than 1000 Quotations by James C. Humes 9780060925772
£11.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060925772Author James C. HumesFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Angel Meadow: Victorian Britain's Most Savage Slum by Dean Kirby
RRP: £14.99£10.95"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... -
S.O.E.: An outline history of the special operations executive 1940 - 46 by M. R. D. Foot 9781847922939
RRP: £20.00£14.29SOE, the Special Operations Executive, was a small, tough British secret service, a dirty tricks department established in July 1940 and encouraged by Churchill to 'set Europe ablaze'. Recruited from remarkably diverse callings, the men and women who... -
The Granite Men: A History of the Granite Industries of Aberdeen and North East Scotland by Jim Fiddes 9780750990011
RRP: £20.00£16.04Granite 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... -
The Secret History of Our Streets: London by Joseph Bullman
RRP: £16.99£12.28The Secret History of Our Streets explores six roads spread across inner London - from Camberwell, Holland Park and Islington to Shoreditch, Deptford and Bermondsey - through the experiences of the people who lived there. Stories of poverty and violence,... -
The Manner of Men: 9 PARA's Heroic D-Day Mission by Stuart Tootal
RRP: £12.99£8.60In June 1944, an elite unit of British paratroopers was sent on a daring and highly risky behind-the-lines mission, which was deemed vital to the success of D-Day. Dropping ahead of the main Allied invasion, 9 PARA were tasked with destroying an... -
Boudica: Warrior Woman of Roman Britain by Caitlin Gillespie 9780197503652
RRP: £25.49£22.95In AD 60/61, Rome almost lost the province of Britain to a woman. Boudica, wife of the client king Prasutagus, fomented a rebellion that proved catastrophic for Camulodunum (Colchester), Londinium (London), and Verulamium (St Albans), destroyed part of a... -
Culloden: Battle & Aftermath by Paul O'Keeffe
RRP: £12.99£9.09'Excellent... It is a tremendous tale - one of the most dramatic in our island's history - and O'Keeffe tells it beautifully' The TimesCharles Edward Stuart's campaign to seize the British throne ended with one of the quickest defeats in history: on 16... -
A Very British Conspiracy: The Shrewsbury 24 and their Campaign For Justice by Eileen Turnbull
RRP: £16.99£14.10In 1973 a group of North Wales building workers were arrested for picketing-related offences during the first and only national building workers strike in Britain the year before. It was a turning point for halting the growth of trade unionism in the... -
The Falklands War - There and Back Again: The Story of Naval Party 8901 by Mike Norman 9781526791924
RRP: £15.99£11.61On 1 April 1982 Major Mike Norman, commander of Naval Party 8901, was looking forward to a peaceful year-long tour of duty on the Falkland Islands. But events turned out differently, for the next day the Argentinians invaded and he and his small Royal... -
Manchester: Mapping the City by Terry Wyke
RRP: £30.00£21.30Manchester is one the world's most iconic cities. Not only was it the first industrial city, it can claim to be the first post-industrial city. This book uses historic maps and unpublished and original plans to chart the dramatic growth and... -
New Oxford Organ Method by Anne Marsden Thomas 9780193518322
RRP: £35.95£28.38A single piece of repertoire is the primary focus for each chapter, with preparatory exercises providing the necessary technical work building towards the piece. Each lesson covers four main topics, which are systematically developed: practice methods,... -
The Scarfolk Annual by Richard Littler
RRP: £12.99£8.88'Horrific and hilarious ... a dystopic vision of an England that would have given Orwell the heebie-jeebies' Independent 'A brilliant work of satire' The Quietus A SCARFOLK SANCTIONED BOOK ... -
Entitled: A Critical History of the British Aristocracy by Chris Bryant
RRP: £12.99£9.09"A proudly partisan history of the British aristocracy - which scores some shrewd hits against the upper class themselves, and the nostalgia of the rest of us for their less endearing eccentricities. A great antidote to Downton Abbey." (Mary... -
Walking Dickens' London by Lee Jackson
RRP: £9.99£7.67Written by the acclaimed historical novelist Lee Jackson, this book recreates the sights and sounds of Dickens' London and provides a detailed itinerary for those keen to follow in the footsteps of 'The Inimitable Boz'. Each of the eight walks conjures... -
The Making of Oliver Cromwell by Ronald Hutton
RRP: £12.99£11.46The first volume in a pioneering account of Oliver Cromwell-providing a major new interpretation of one of the greatest figures in history"Hutton's book is intelligent, well documented, and stylish."-Keith Thomas, New York Review of Books Oliver Cromwell... -
The Quest for Queen Mary by James Pope-Hennessy
RRP: £12.99£8.60'A delightful insight into an eclectic life'The Daily Telegraph'Very funny and astute . . . a loathly feast for royal-watchers' Hilary Mantel, New Statesman Books of the Year 2018'A complete delight, conjuring up, with a few sharp strokes of the pen, a... -
William Wallace by Andrew Fisher
RRP: £10.99£7.32William Wallace has always been one of the great heroes of Scottish history. By no means prepared by birth, education or training for leadership, Wallace nevertheless rose to prominence during the Wars of Independence, leading forces which broke the... -
A History of Torture in Britain by Webb, Simon
RRP: £12.99£9.09There is an ancient and quite baseless myth that the use of torture has never been legal in Britain. This old wives' tale arose because torture had been neither endorsed nor forbidden by either statute or common law. In other words; the law has, until... -
Fighting Vichy from Horseback: British Mounted Cavalry in Action, Syria 1941 by Jonathan Washington 9781915113764
RRP: £25.00£17.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915113764Author Jonathan WashingtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Guy Liddell Diaries Vol.II: 1942-1945: MI5's Director of Counter-Espionage in World War II by Nigel West
RRP: £54.99£48.12WALLFLOWERS is the codename given to one of the Security Service's most treasured possessions, the daily journal dictated from August 1939 to June 1945 by MI5's Director of Counter-Espionage, Guy Liddell, to his secretary, Margo Huggins. The document was... -
London's Railway Stations by Oliver Green
RRP: £8.99£6.96An illustrated historical tour of London's 13 great railway termini, on a clockwise circuit from Paddington to Victoria. London's railway termini are among the most recognisable and familiar landmarks in the city. Famed for their bustling platforms... -
German Heavy Cruisers vs Royal Navy Heavy Cruisers: 1939-42 by Mark Lardas
RRP: £13.99£9.75This superbly illustrated study explores the epic clashes of British and German heavy cruisers at the beginning of World War II. The opposing heavy cruisers of the German Kriegsmarine and the Royal Navy engaged in a global game of cat and mouse during... -
Suffragettes: The Fight for Votes for Women by Joyce Marlow
RRP: £10.99£7.40Queen Victoria is most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad wicked folly of women's rights, with all its attendant horrors, on which her poor sex is bent' - 1870It was a bloody and dangerous war lasting several... -
The Scourging Angel: The Black Death in the British Isles by Benedict Gummer
RRP: £14.99£10.95Nothing experienced in human history, before or since, eclipses the terror, tragedy and scale of the Black Death, the disease which killed millions of people in Medieval Europe. The Scourging Angel tells the story of Britain immediately before, during... -
Out of My Depth by Anne Darwin
RRP: £8.99£6.45When Anne Darwin told the world and her family that her husband, John, had disappeared while canoeing in the North Sea, her life changed forever.She had just lied to the police, the press, her friends and neighbours, insurance companies and her own sons... -
Victorious Century: The United Kingdom, 1800-1906 by Mr David Cannadine
RRP: £16.99£12.28SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2018 'This is stupendous. The British nineteenth century, in all its complexity, all its horror, all its energy, all its hopes is laid bare. This is the definitive history, and will remain so for generations' A.N... -
Dunkirchen 1940: The German View of Dunkirk by Robert Kershaw
RRP: £20.00£17.68'Kershaw's book is a welcome rebalancing; a thoughtful, well-researched and well-written contribution to a narrative that has long been too one-sided and too mired in national mythology.' The Times The British evacuation from the beaches of the... -
Nancy: The Story of Lady Astor by Adrian Fort
RRP: £16.99£12.28In 1919, Nancy Astor became the first woman to take a seat in parliament.She was not what had been expected. Far from a virago who had suffered for the cause of female suffrage, she was already near the centre of the ruling society that had for so long... -
Eliminating Poverty in Britain by Helen Rowe 9781803992471
RRP: £18.99£14.32Can we really end poverty in Britain?Yes, we can.In this groundbreaking book, Helen Rowe brings together the latest research with stories from across Britain to show us that ending poverty in the twenty-first century is possible. She describes the... -
We Are All Witches by Mairi Kidd
RRP: £16.99£12.68From 1563 to 1736 Scotland put thousands of women to death for witchcraft. Their supposed crimes have much to tell us about attitudes to women in the past, and in the present day. This book introduces sixteen women who lost their lives or lived in the...