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Scotland's Foreshore' tells the story of the battle that took place during the nineteenth century and into the early twentieth century between the Crown and private proprietors over the ownership of the foreshore.Book InformationISBN 9781474436915Author...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781859379868Author Alan DuckworthFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint The Francis Frith CollectionPublisher The Francis Frith Collection

The Social Context of Technology explores non-ferrous metalworking in Britain and Ireland during the Bronze and Iron Ages (c. 2500 BC to 1st century AD). Bronze-working dominates the evidence, though the crafting of other non-ferrous metals - including...

Insolent proceedings brings together leading scholars working on the politics, religion and literature of the English Revolution. It embraces new approaches to the upheavals that occurred in the mid-seventeenth century, in daily life as well as in...

Dr Hulbert's researches into City Status in the UK gave him a unique insight into the situation in Scotland and especially in Perth. As Provost of Perth & Kinross, and leader of Perth's campaign, he is the ideal person to tell the inside story of the...

This intriguing collection of over 200 archive photographs, postcards and engravings from collections housed in Birmingham Central Library, recreates scenes from many of the industries that once thrived in the heart of the Midlands. The skilled jobs of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853036159Author Alyson PendleburyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdWeight(grams)...

A lark for the sake of their country tells the tale of the upper and middle-class 'volunteers' in the 1926 General Strike in Great Britain. With behaviour derived from their play traditions - the larks, rags, fancy dress parties, and treasure hunts that...

One of the fastest-growing and most exciting areas of historical research in recent years has been the study of crime and the criminal. The intrinsic fascination of the subject is enhanced by the fact that between the mid eighteenth century and early...

This volume explores the commemoration of the Battle of Trafalgar and Admiral Lord Nelson's death over the past two centuries. It includes the extraordinary celebrations of 2005, which saw hundreds of official, commercial, and popular events celebrating...

Insight into the politics of Victorian and Edwardian BritainHistoric changes in British politics are examined in Class, Party and the Political System in Britain 1867-1914. The book takes readers through the time period beginning with the second Reform...

This book is about the transformation of England's trade and government finances in the mid-seventeenth century, a revolution that destroyed Ireland. In 1642 a small group of merchants, the 'Adventurers for Irish land', raised an army to conquer Ireland...

The book 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 Norwich's recent history are covered, famous...

The years since New Labour came to power in 1997 have seen changes to the British institutions of political power on an unprecedented scale. The reforms have been widespread, ranging from devolution of power in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, to...

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

Francis Place (1771-1854) was one of Britain's most important political actors during the momentous political and social changes of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. His collection of letters, newspaper clippings, autobiography, and...

This wide-ranging and accessible book examines the effects of British imperial involvements on history writing in Britain since 1750. It provides a chronological account of the development of history writing in its social, political and cultural...

John Wyclif (d. 1384) was among the leading schoolmen of fourteenth-century Europe. He was an outspoken controversialist and critic of the Church, and, in his last days at Oxford, the author of the greatest heresy that England had known. This volume...

Offers an account of the origins and development of Cardiff's, and Wales', medical school during the first four decades of its existence. This book focuses on the history of medical education in the United Kingdom, and also on the history of the...

Travel and the British country house explores the ways in which travel by owners, visitors and material objects shaped country houses during the long eighteenth century. It provides a richer and more nuanced understanding of this relationship, and how it...

A volume of essays offering a refreshing insight into the reaction of the Welsh people to war, focusing on a series of conflicts dating from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries; including tables of information, maps and black-and-white...

This volume provides the most comprehensive analysis to date of women's involvement in British political culture in the first half of the nineteenth century. It is based upon extensive archival research, but also engages with recent feminist theories in...

The Irish parliament was both the scene of frequent political battles and an important administrative and legal element of the state machinery of early modern Ireland. This institutional study looks at how parliament dispatched its business on a...

For centuries, the priest John Ball was one of the most infamous or famous figures in the history of English rebels, best known for his saying 'When Adam delved and Eve Span, Who was then the gentleman'. But over the past hundred years his memory has...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398429024Author Sean BruntonFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637161050Author Captivating HistoryFormat HardbackPage Count 110Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm)...

Quaker women were unusually active participants in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century cultural and religious exchange, as ministers, missionaries, authors and spiritual leaders. Drawing upon documentary evidence, with a focus on women's personal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909646940Author Edward OwensFormat HardbackPage Count 428Imprint University of London PressPublisher University of London

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250001603Author Chris SkidmoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 456Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm)...

Challenging accepted notions of Elizabethan foreign policy, Gehring argues that the QueenaEURO (TM)s relationship with the Protestant Princes of the Holy Roman Empire was more of a success than has been previously thought. Based on extensive archival...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143124924Author Dan JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 442gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 138mm *...

Did you know that the Declaration of Independence was based on a Scottish declaration of independence from the English from nearly 700 years ago? This book will take you from the days of William 'Braveheart' Wallace and Robert the Bruce during the Wars...

When Henry IV seized the throne from his cousin Richard II, people saw it as a hopeful new beginning for England. The first monarch to have English as his mother tongue since the Norman conquest, Henry seemed to embody the ideals of chivalric kingship:...

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Was Princess Diana murdered? Yes, she was. That part is easily seen-even the means are known. She was gravely injured in a deliberate car wreck that immediately killed two other people, and she was then allowed to slowly bleed to death from internal...

St Swithun was an obscure ninth-century bishop of Winchester about whom little was, and is, known. But following the translation of his relics from a conspicuous tomb into the Old Minster, Winchester, on 15 July 971, the massive rebuilding of the...

A new and definitive account of one of the most famous and mysterious manuscripts in the world. The Book of Kells is a mystery. It is distinct from all copies of the gospels from the early Middle Ages, not only in the quality and amount of its...

High Pasture Cave, located on the island of Skye, Scotland, occupies a liminal location on the very edge of a settlement, and appears to have been a focus for specific and special activities. Its extended period of use is indicated by ephemeral signs of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785621581Author Andrew GreenFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Gomer PressPublisher Gomer PressDimensions(mm) 227mm * 205mm * 27mm