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The Blair Years: Extracts from the Alastair Campbell Diaries by Alastair Campbell
RRP: $21.92$16.36The Blair Years is the most compelling and revealing account of contemporary politics you will ever read. Taken from Alastair Campbell's daily diaries, it charts the rise of New Labour and the tumultuous years of Tony Blair's leadership, providing the... -
Hurrah For The Blackshirts!: Fascists and Fascism in Britain Between the Wars by Martin Pugh
RRP: $16.76$11.73Britain is celebrated for having avoided the extremism, political violence and instability that blighted many European countries between the two world wars. But her success was a closer thing than has been realized. Disillusionment with parliamentary... -
Brighton Folk: People Watching, for Sport by Oleg Pulemjotov
RRP: $23.22$18.12Brighton's residents have a reputation for their vivid eccentricity. This book does not set out to prove whether this is true or not, but is a documentation of what stands out to the photographer, however exciting or mundane it may seem. A lot of the... -
London: A Social History by Roy Porter
RRP: $19.34$14.13'Roy Porter, a historian of formidable range, turns to urban history in this marvellously lucid, informative and passionate book... Porter's facts are always at the service of the narrative, which has a finely maintained momentum, balancing statistics... -
Priestley'S England: J. B. Priestley and English Culture by John Baxendale 9780719072871
RRP: $25.79$18.73Priestley's England is the first full-length academic study of J B Priestley - novelist, playwright, screen-writer, journalist and broadcaster, political activist, public intellectual and popular entertainer, one of the makers of twentieth-century... -
Voices of Leigh-on-Sea by Judith Williams 9780752459387
RRP: $16.76$12.41This book comprises the memories of more than fifty people who lived and worked in Leigh between 1914 and 1960. They have personally witnessed its transformation from a small fishing village into a bustling commuter town. However, here is the evidence... -
Devil-Land: England Under Siege, 1588-1688 by Clare Jackson
RRP: $21.92$15.84*WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2022*A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021, AS CHOSEN BY THE TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, TELEGRAPH AND TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT 'A big historical advance. Ours, it turns out, is a very un-insular "Island Story". And its 17th-century... -
The Making of Poetry: Coleridge, the Wordsworths and Their Year of Marvels by Adam Nicolson
RRP: $14.18$9.35SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2019 'This is a book of wonders' Sunday Times 'Spellbinding and intelligent' Financial Times ... -
When France Fell: The Vichy Crisis and the Fate of the Anglo-American Alliance by Michael S. Neiberg
RRP: $33.48$29.06Winner of the Society for Military History's Distinguished Book AwardShocked by the fall of France in 1940, panicked US leaders rushed to back the Vichy government-a fateful decision that nearly destroyed the Anglo-American alliance.According to US... -
Her Majesty. A Photographic History 1926–2022 by Christopher Warwick
RRP: $64.50$44.45Born in 1926, married in 1947, crowned as Queen in 1953, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II carried out her duty with great dedication for more than seven decades. TASCHEN celebrates her remarkable royal story with a new edition of Her Majesty, a definitive... -
Prince Albert: The Man Who Saved the Monarchy by A. N. Wilson
RRP: $14.18$9.18Chosen as a Book of the Year in The Times and the Daily Mail'Highly entertaining' Sunday Times'Enthralling' Daily TelegraphFor more than six decades, Queen Victoria ruled a great Empire at the height of its power. Beside her for more than twenty of those... -
Bannockburn: Scotland's Greatest Victory by Peter Reese
RRP: $16.76$11.041314. On a marsh-fringed plain south of Stirling Castle, King Robert the Bruce led the Scottish army in a singularly devastating victory over the English. Bannockburn was Scotland's greatest battlefield triumph, achieved against the odds by a combination... -
Noblewomen, Aristocracy and Power in the Twelfth-Century Anglo-Norman Realm by Susan M. Johns 9780719063053
RRP: $25.79$24.78The first major work on noblewomen in the twelfth century and Normandy, and of the ways in which they exercised power. Offers an important reconceptualisation of women's role in aristocratic society and suggests new ways of looking at lordship and the... -
Wexford: Ireland in Old Photographs by Nicky Rossiter 9781845882167
RRP: $21.92$16.69The historic town of Wexford has a rich and vibrant history, which is uniquely encapsulated in this selection of archive images taken from the John Scanlon Collection, curated by Dominic Kiernan and preserved by Paddy Donovan. A native of Wexford, the... -
The Women of the Cousins' War: The Real White Queen And Her Rivals by Philippa Gregory
RRP: $12.89$8.27Elizabeth Woodville, The White Queen(2009), Margaret Beaufort, The Red Queen(2010), and Jacquetta, Lady Rivers, The Lady of the Rivers (2011) are the subjects of the first three novels in Philippa Gregory's Cousins' War series, and of the three... -
Jane Boleyn: The Infamous Lady Rochford by Julia Fox 9780753823866
RRP: $14.18$9.55The story of Henry VIII's queens - as seen through the eyes of Jane Rochford, sister-in-law to Anne Boleyn and cousin to Katherine Howard.'Outstanding ... fascinating and moving' Amanda Foreman, bestselling author of THE DUCHESSJane Rochford was... -
The Twelve Days of Murder by Andreina Cordani 9781804182208
RRP: $19.34$13.39LOVEREADING'S BOOK OF THE MONTH! The perfect murder mystery to gift this Christmas.Find the truth. Solve the murder. Never reveal your secret.Twelve years ago, eight friends ran an exclusive group at university: The Murder Masquerade Society. The... -
Haunted Derbyshire by Jill Armitage 9780752448862
RRP: $16.76$12.41Drawing on contemporary and historical sources, Haunted Derbyshire contains many creepy accounts of spirits, spectres and poltergeists - including the Mad Monk of North Wingfield, the crying angel of Etwell and the headless ghost of Wenley Hill. It also... -
An Utterly Exasperated History of Modern Britain: or Sixty Years of Making the Same Stupid Mistakes as Always by John O'Farrell
RRP: $14.18$10.02Following his hugely popular account of the previous 2000 years, John O'Farrell now comes bang up to date with a hilarious modern history asking 'How the hell did we end up here?' An Utterly Exasperated History of Modern Britain informs, elucidates and... -
My Revision Notes: Edexcel GCSE (9-1) History: Crime and punishment in Britain, c1000-present and Whitechapel, c1870-c1900 by Alec Fisher
$6.44Exam board: Pearson EdexcelLevel: GCSESubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: Summer 2018Endorsed for EdexcelTarget success in Edexcel GCSE (9-1) History with this proven formula for effective, structured revision.Key content coverage... -
Athelstan (Penguin Monarchs): The Making of England by Tom Holland
RRP: $10.31$7.47The acclaimed Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers - now in paperbackThe formation of England happened against the odds - the division of the country into rival kingdoms, the assaults of the Vikings, the precarious... -
Queen Mary by James Pope-Hennessy
RRP: $19.34$12.64The official biography of Queen Mary, grandmother of the current Queen, originally commissioned in 1959 - with a new foreword by Hugo Vickers.When Queen Mary died in 1953, James Pope-Hennessy was commissioned to write an official biography of her -... -
City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late Victorian London by Judith R. Walkowitz 9780226871462
RRP: $34.83$34.66From tabloid exposes of child prostitution to the grisly tales of Jack the Ripper, narratives of sexual danger pulsated through Victorian London. Expertly blending social history and cultural criticism, Judith Walkowitz shows how these narratives reveal... -
The Human Tide: How Population Shaped the Modern World by Paul Morland
RRP: $16.76$11.09'Superbly explained' Washington Post'Fascinating' Sunday Times'Engrossing' Evening StandardEvery phase since the advent of the industrial revolution - from the fate of the British Empire, to the global challenges from Germany, Japan and Russia, to... -
The Story of Jaywick Sands Estate by Mary Lyons 9781860773365
RRP: $19.34$14.90Jaywick Sands Estate has a chequered history. Renowned for its expanse of golden sand, it has long attracted fisherman and smugglers. Only in the 20th century, however, did people settle there, responding to the offer from F.C. Stedman, the original... -
Tudor Houses Explained by Trevor York 9781846741500
RRP: $7.68$6.55The book is divided into six sections. First, Trevor Yorke looks at the changes in Tudor society and how this affected the housing of the period. The next chapter explains their structure and the different materials used. He goes on to explore the... -
Ghost Tales of the United Kingdom: Historic Hauntings and Supernatural Stories from the UK by Charles River Editors 9781722030681
RRP: $17.08$14.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781722030681Author Charles RiverFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
The Hungry Empire: How Britain's Quest for Food Shaped the Modern World by Lizzie Collingham
RRP: $16.76$11.73'A wholly pleasing book, which offers a tasty side dish to anyone exploring the narrative history of the British Empire' Max Hastings, Sunday TimesWINNER OF THE GUILD OF FOOD WRITERS BOOK AWARD 2018The glamorous daughter of an African chief shares a... -
London: Immigrant City by Nazneen Khan-Ostrem
RRP: $25.80$17.74TRANSLATED BY ALISON McCULLOUGH'One of the best books on the many diverse migrations to London . . . revealing the extent to which the diversity of immigrant origins has had transformative effects - through food, music, diverse types of knowledge and so... -
Churchill at War: 1940-45 by Baron Charles McMoran Wilson Moran 9781841196084
$20.10This new edition of extracts from the extremely candid diaries of Churchill's doctor Lord Moran, his devoted friend and confidant, contains material not previously revealed. It sheds a new light on how the great man faced up to and absorbed the strain of... -
1536: The Year that Changed Henry VIII by Suzannah Lipscomb
RRP: $16.76$11.73One of the best-known figures of British history, collective memory of Henry VIII presents us with the image of a corpulent, covetous, and cunning king whose appetite for worldly goods met few parallels, whose wives met infamously premature ends, and... -
Battle of Brothers: William, Harry and the Inside Story of a Family in Tumult by Robert Lacey
RRP: $12.89$8.57AS SEEN IN THE TIMES AND UPDATED WITH NEW MATERIAL The Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller 'THE ROYAL BOOK OF THE YEAR' Daily Mail THIS CRISIS IS... -
Edinburgh: Mapping the City by Chris Fleet 9781839830433
RRP: $45.15$32.86Maps can tell much about the story of a place that traditional histories fail to communicate. This is particularly true of Edinburgh, one of the most visually stunning cities in the world and a place rich in historical and cultural associations. This... -
Pillboxes and Tank Traps by Bernard Lowry
RRP: $11.60$8.98A concise, illustrated guide to these Second World War defences scattered across the British landscape. With invasion a very real threat, in 1940 Great Britain began a huge military construction programme designed to stop an invading army in its... -
The Reign: The Story of Elizabeth's Britain, Part One: 1952-1979 by Matthew Engel
RRP: $32.25$21.40***A Waterstones Best Books of 2022 pick***Book of the Year in the Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph and New Statesman'A powerful illumination of a lost world that is nevertheless part of living memory.' Simon Heffer, 'Books of the Year' , Daily Telegraph'A... -
Medieval Castles of England and Wales by Bernard Lowry
RRP: $11.60$8.32Designed to dominate the surrounding area, to house powerful garrisons, offer sumptuous quarters for local nobility, and to discourage and repel enemy attacks, castles dominated England and Wales for more than half a millennium. Though some were built... -
The Illustrated Letters of Jane Austen: Selected and Introduced by Penelope Hughes-Hallett by Penelope Hughes-Hallet
RRP: $23.16$21.27A beautifully illustrated account of the letters and correspondence of Jane Austen. It has been said that Jane Austen the woman and Jane Austen the author are all of a piece, and nowhere is this more evident to the lovers of her novels than in the pages... -
Concorde, A Designer's Life: The Journey to Mach 2 by Ted Talbot 9780752489285
$21.72Do you remember the time we used to do New York in three hours?Even twenty years after its final flight, Concorde remains the pinnacle of aviation design. The aircraft is still unmatched, which has led to a vast swathe of material being written about the... -
Koh-I-Noor: The History of the World's Most Infamous Diamond by William Dalrymple
RRP: $19.34$14.13'Riveting. This highly readable and entertaining book ... finally sets the record straight on the history of the Koh-i-Noor' Tarquin Hall, Sunday Times 'Dynamic, original and supremely readable' Maya Jasanoff, Guardian The first comprehensive and... -
Outrageous!: The Story of Section 28, Britain's Homophobic Law by Paul Baker 9781789145618
RRP: $25.80$18.43On 23 May 1988, Paul Baker sat down with his family to eat cake on his sixteenth birthday while The Six O'Clock News played in the background. But something was not quite right. There was muffled shouting - 'Stop Section 28!' - and a scuffle. The morning...