Filter By
- Book
- Qty in Cart
- Quantity
- Price
- Subtotal
-
Samurai William: The Adventurer Who Unlocked Japan by Giles Milton
RRP: £12.99£8.60In 1611 an astonishing letter arrived at the East India Trading Company in London after a tortuous seven-year journey. Englishman William Adams was one of only twenty-four survivors of a fleet of ships bound for Asia, and he had washed up in the... -
English Castles: England's most dramatic castles and strongholds (Collins Little Books) by Historic UK
RRP: £6.99£4.80The perfect stocking filler for lovers of English Castles. A handy guide to England's most dramatic castles and strongholds, many of which are open to visitors. Includes an eight-page map section showing the locations of castles covered in the... -
The Dissolution of the Monasteries: A New History by James Clark
RRP: £16.99£15.01The first account of the dissolution of the monasteries for fifty years-exploring its profound impact on the people of Tudor England "This is a book about people, though, not ideas, and as a detailed account of an extraordinary human drama with a cast... -
Courtiers: The Secret History of the Georgian Court by Lucy Worsley
RRP: £12.99£8.56In the eighteenth century, the palace's most elegant assembly room was in fact a bloody battlefield. This was a world of skulduggery, politicking, wigs and beauty-spots, where fans whistled open like flick-knives...Ambitious and talented people flocked... -
The Decline of Magic: Britain in the Enlightenment by Michael Hunter
RRP: £12.99£11.46A new history that overturns the received wisdom that science displaced magic in Enlightenment Britain-named a Best Book of 2020 by the Financial Times In early modern Britain, belief in prophecies, omens, ghosts, apparitions and fairies was commonplace... -
The British in India: Three Centuries of Ambition and Experience by David Gilmour
RRP: £16.99£12.28A SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, SPECTATOR, NEW STATESMAN, TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR'A richly panoramic exploration of the British experience of India ... hugely researched and elegantly written, sensitive to the ironies of the past and brimming with colourful... -
It Never Snows in September by Robert Kershaw
RRP: £9.99£7.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910809617Author Robert J KershawFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Goodall Publications LtdPublisher Crecy PublishingDimensions(mm) 194mm * 130mm *... -
1415: Henry V's Year of Glory by Ian Mortimer
RRP: £16.99£12.28Henry V is regarded as the great English hero. Lionised in his own day for his victory at Agincourt, his piety and his rigorous application of justice, he was elevated by Shakespeare into a champion of English nationalism for all future generations. But... -
A Visitor's Companion to Tudor England by Suzannah Lipscomb
RRP: £14.99£10.95Join historian Suzannah Lipscomb as she reveals the hidden secrets of palaces, castles, theatres and abbeys to uncover the stories of Tudor England. From the famous palace at Hampton Court where dangerous court intrigue was rife, to less well-known... -
Palmerston: A Biography by David Brown
RRP: £19.99£17.37A grand and fascinating figure in Victorian politics, the charismatic Lord Palmerston (1784-1865) served as foreign secretary for fifteen years and prime minister for nine, engaged in struggles with everyone from the Duke of Wellington to Lord John... -
Heirs of Ambition: The Making of the Boleyns by Claire Martin 9780750999984
RRP: £20.00£15.04Heirs of Ambition: The Making of the Boleyns uncovers the story and the family behind England's most obsessed-over queen, Anne Boleyn.From the fields of Norfolk to the royal court, via city commerce, local government, liberal education and numerous... -
Fighting for Life: The Twelve Battles that Made Our NHS, and the Struggle for Its Future by Isabel Hardman 9780241991862
RRP: £10.99£7.77'The book the NHS has always deserved' Andrew Marr'A sensational and much-needed book . . . thorough, scholarly and above all readable' Chris van Tulleken--------------------------------------------------How does our National Health Service really work,... -
Stonehouse: Cabinet Minister, Fraudster, Spy by Julian Hayes
RRP: £10.99£6.47The true story behind the 2023 ITV series, STONEHOUSE, starring Matthew Macfayden and Keeley Hawes. 'An extraordinary life . . . a vivid account' Telegraph 'Completely absorbing' CAROL ANN LEE, author of The Murders at White House Farm and A Passion For... -
The Kings & Queens of England by Nicholas Best 9780297834878
RRP: £8.99£5.45A beautifully illustrated companion to the Royal family throughout historySpanning ten dynasties of England's monarchs, The Kings and Queens of England presents portraits and potted biographies of England's monarchs. Spanning from the Normans through to... -
No Such Thing as Society: A History of Britain in the 1980s by Andy McSmith
RRP: £10.99£7.40The 1980s was the revolutionary decade of the twentieth century. To look back in 1990 at the Britain of ten years earlier was to look into another country. The changes were not superficial, like the revolution in fashion and music that enlivened the... -
Penal Servitude: Convicts and Long-Term Imprisonment, 1853-1948 by Helen Johnston
RRP: £36.00£21.78Established in 1853, after the end of penal transportation to Australia, the convict prison system and the sentence of penal servitude offered the most severe form of punishment - short of death - in the criminal justice system, and they remained in... -
The Early Anglo-Saxon Kings by Tony Sullivan
RRP: £22.00£15.62The Early Anglo-Saxon Kings takes a new look at the adventus Saxonum, the arrival of the Saxons, recorded in the earliest literary sources. As the Roman provincial structure fragmented, new cultural identities emerged. In fifth century Britain whatever... -
How Was It For You?: Women, Sex, Love and Power in the 1960s by Virginia Nicholson
RRP: £9.99£7.11'One of the great social historians of our time. No one else makes history this fun' Amanda Foreman'How Was It For You? subtly but powerfully subverts complacent male assumptions about a legendary decade' David Kynaston--------------------------------"A... -
Northumberland: Strange But True by Robert Woodhouse
RRP: £15.99£12.25Northumberland - Strange but True brings together a series of unusual, curious and altogether extraordinary buildings, incidents and people from all parts of the county. Included in these pages are the amazing achievements of Sir Charles Algernon... -
The Strangest Family: The Private Lives of George III, Queen Charlotte and the Hanoverians by Janice Hadlow
RRP: £19.99£14.91An intensely moving account of George III's doomed attempt to create a happy, harmonious family, written with astonishing emotional force by a stunning new history writer. George III came to the throne in 1760 as a man with a mission. He was... -
Turning Points: Crisis and Change in Modern Britain, from 1945 to Truss by Steve Richards Media Limited 9781035015351
RRP: £22.00£14.71The Times Best Politics and Current Affairs Books of the YearAn entertaining and revealing history of modern British politics from Steve Richards, broadcaster, journalist, and author of The Prime Ministers We Never Had.'Through wonderful vignettes,... -
Elizabeth of York, the Last White Rose: Tudor Rose Book 1 by Alison Weir
RRP: £20.00£18.02The captivating new historical novel from Alison Weir, Sunday Times bestselling author of the Six Tudor Queens series . 'With Elizabeth of York, Alison Weir gives us her most compelling heroine yet... This is where the story of the Tudors begins and is... -
Henry III: The Rise to Power and Personal Rule, 1207-1258 by David Carpenter
RRP: £16.99£15.51The first in a groundbreaking two-volume history of Henry III's rule "Professor Carpenter is one of Britain's foremost medievalists. . . . No one knows more about Henry, and a lifetime of scholarship is here poured out, elegantly and often humorously... -
A History of Manchester by Stuart Hylton
RRP: £30.00£22.43Manchester has a story that is no ordinary local history. Its life has been inextricably entwined with the rise and fall of the nation's fortunes and, tono small extent, those of the British Empire. Manchester was the shock city of the early 19th... -
Baldwin Papers: A Conservative Statesman, 1908-1947 by Philip Williamson 9780521118477
RRP: £46.99£38.54As Conservative party leader from 1923 to 1937 and three times prime minister, Stanley Baldwin was one of the pre-eminent public figures of interwar Britain. This edition of his letters, reports of his private conversations and related documents and... -
Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth by John Garth
RRP: £10.99£7.25* TOLKIEN * Now a major motion picture Acclaimed as 'the best book about Tolkien', this award-winning biography explores J.R.R. Tolkien's wartime experiences and their impact on his life and his writing of The Hobbit and The Lord of The Rings... -
Soldier, Rebel, Traitor: John, Lord Wenlock and the Wars of the Roses by Brondarbit, Alexander R 9781399003476
RRP: £19.99£14.28John Wenlock, first Lord Wenlock, was a leading diplomat, courtier and soldier during the Wars of the Roses whose remarkable career offers us a fascinating insight into one of the most turbulent periods in English medieval history. And yet he has... -
Attlee: A Life in Politics by Nick Thomas-Symonds 9780755636136
RRP: £14.99£11.75A biography of a key figure in British political life, now with a new foreword by Keir Starmer, providing a vivid portrait of the man and his politics. Clement Attlee - the man who created the welfare state and decolonised vast swathes of the British... -
My Revision Notes: OCR AS/A-level History: Britain 1930-1997 by Mike Wells
RRP: £10.50£9.62Exam Board: OCRLevel: A-LevelSubject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: Summer 2016Target success in OCR AS/A-level History with this proven formula for effective, structured revision; key content coverage is combined with exam preparation... -
Rivets, Trivets and Galvanised Buckets: Life in the village hardware shop by Tom Fort
RRP: £22.00£14.96'A hymn to hardware, charming, lyrical' - The Sunday Times, BOOK OF THE WEEK'A paean to DIY' - The Times'Strung together very agreeably, with dry wit and, dare I say it, considerable polish' - Country LifeIn 2018 Tom Fort's daughter-in-law took over a... -
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 ... -
The RAF's Armourers: Safely Making Aircraft Dangerous Since the First World War by Tony Lamsdale 9781399010337
RRP: £28.00£19.62It is said that one of the earliest trades in the world is that of the Armourer. Historically, it is a profession dated slightly after prostitution, but well before banking! Since the birth of the Royal Flying Corps in 1912 through to the modern Royal... -
The Anglo-Saxon World: An Anthology by Kevin Crossley-Holland
RRP: £7.99£5.79Beowulf, The Battle of Maldon, The Dream of the Rood, The Wanderer, and The Seafarer are among the greatest surviving Anglo-Saxon poems. They, and many other treasures, are included in The Anglo-Saxon World: chronicles, laws and letters, charters and... -
Burying the Dead: An Archaeological History of Burial Grounds, Graveyards and Cemeteries by Lorraine Evans 9781526706676
RRP: £19.99£14.28Deep in the heart of North Yorkshire, at a place called Walkington Wold, there lies a rather unusual burial ground, an Anglo-Saxon execution cemetery. Twelve skeletons were unearthed by archaeologists, ten without skulls, later examination of the... -
Snowdonia Folk Tales by Eric Maddern
RRP: £12.99£9.62The old kingdom of Gwynedd - the mountains of Eryri (Snowdonia), Ynys (Anglesey) and the Llyn Peninsula - may be the most mythic landscape in Britain. The ancient Druids and from it sprang the tales of Blessed Bran who protected the land, wizards who... -
The Bridleway: How Horses Shaped the British Landscape by Tiffany Francis-Baker 9781399403184
RRP: £17.99£13.80WINNER OF THE ELWYN HARTLEY-EDWARDS AWARD FOR EQUINE WRITING, 2023. Tiffany Francis-Baker explores how the relationship between humans and horses has shaped the British landscape and how this connection has become part of our nation's ecosystems. ... -
At the King's Table: Royal Dining Through the Ages by Susanne Groom
RRP: £24.95£19.78Here are the feasts that really are fit for a king - or queen. This delightful book explores the history of royal dining from the bustling kitchens of the Middle Ages to the informal dinner parties of today. Susanne Groom, a former curator at Historic... -
Elizabeth I's Last Favourite: Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex by Sarah-Beth Watkins
RRP: £12.99£11.46Despite widespread interest in Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, little has been written about him in decades past. In Elizabeth I's Last Favourite, Sarah-Beth Watkins brings the story of his life, and death, back into the public eye. In the later... -
Clanlands: Whisky, Warfare, and a Scottish Adventure Like No Other by Sam Heughan 9781529342000
RRP: £20.00£13.75THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWith a foreword by Diana Gabaldon. Two men. One country. And a lot of whisky.As stars of Outlander, Sam and Graham eat, sleep and breathe the Highlands on this epic road trip around their homeland. They discover that the real... -
Henry III (Penguin Monarchs): A Simple and God-Fearing King by Stephen Church
RRP: £7.99£5.79'Most contemporaries would have argued that it was a king's job to put in peril his soul for the good of his Church and of his people. But Henry was too determined to live a life of a saint'Henry III, the son of King John, was catapulted onto the...