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The Families of Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Female Network of Power in the Middle Ages by J.F. Andrews
RRP: £20.00£15.44The lives of the sons of Eleanor of Aquitaine are the stuff of legend. Her daughters, however, are less well known, and the fascinating personalities of her daughters-in-law have been almost entirely overlooked, as have those of the daughters she bore... -
1950s Childhood by Janet Shepherd
RRP: £7.99£6.25Children of the 1950s have much to look back on with fondness: Muffin the Mule, Andy Pandy, and Dennis the Menace became part of the family for many, while for others the freedom of the riverbank or railway platform was a haven away from the watchful... -
The A-Z of Curious Aberdeenshire: Strange Stories of Mysteries, Crimes and Eccentrics by Duncan Harley 9780750983792
RRP: £14.99£11.55Duncan Harley takes the reader on a grand tour of the curious and the bizarre, the strange and the unusual from Aberdeenshire's past. Read about the Beatles' first, and almost their last, tour of the North-east, the Deeside artist who tended plaster... -
Paper Bullets: Two Artists Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis by Jeffrey H Jackson
RRP: £12.99£9.70"A Nazi resistance story like none you've ever heard or read." -Hampton Sides, author of Ghost Soldiers and On Desperate Ground"Every page is gripping, and the amount of new research is nothing short of mind-boggling. A brilliant book for the ages!"... -
The Book of Phobias and Manias: A History of the World in 99 Obsessions by Kate Summerscale
RRP: £16.99£12.28THE PERFECT GIFT FOR ALL BIBLIOMANES A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, SPECTATOR AND DAILY MAIL AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 WOMAN'S HOUR AND START THE WEEK Plunge into this rich, surprising and stunningly designed A-Z compendium to... -
The Amateur and the Professional: Antiquarians, Historians and Archaeologists in Victorian England 1838-1886 by Professor Philippa Levine 9780521530507
RRP: £39.99£33.26This book highlights the growing divide in nineteenth-century intellectual circles between amateur and professional interest, and explores the institutional means whereby professional ascendancy was achieved in the broad field of studies of the past. It... -
The Crisis of the Meritocracy: Britain's Transition to Mass Education since the Second World War by Peter Mandler 9780198840145
RRP: £31.49£22.34Before the Second World War, only about 20% of the population went to secondary school and barely 2% to university; today everyone goes to secondary school and half of all young people go to university. How did we get here from there? The Crisis of... -
Elizabeth and Philip: The Story of Young Love, Marriage and Monarchy by Tessa Dunlop
RRP: £20.00£14.29'A riveting take on an extraordinary relationship' - Richard Eden, Daily Mail'A fresh and original approach' - Hugo Vickers, Royal BiographerShe was 'sugar pink' innocence; he was a handsome war hero. Both had royal blood coursing through their veins... -
Barges & Bread: Canals & Grain to Bread & Baking by Di Murrell 9781909248519
RRP: £16.00£13.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909248519Author Di MurrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Prospect BooksPublisher Prospect BooksWeight(grams) 400gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 135mm *... -
Queen Elizabeth II: A Glorious 70 Years by Alison James
RRP: £21.00£15.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorAlison James, a successful historian and journalist who writes about royals and celebrities for the Daily Mail, the Daily Express and Yours magazine in the UK and... -
At the Yeoman's House by Ronald Blythe 9781904634881
RRP: £15.00£10.96What happens in an old farmhouse when the farmers have left? Perhaps only a poet-historian-storyteller can say. These traditional work centres were established centuries ago, sometimes in the village street, often far away in their own fields. But the... -
Yeats Now: Echoing into Life by Joseph M. Hassett 9781843517788
RRP: £13.00£11.02W. B. Yeats believed that a poet's life should be an experiment in living. His poems fashion into memorable words the sometimes puzzling emotions that hover over important life events. Yeats's remarkable work can clarify our own thinking about similar... -
Heaven's Command by Jan Morris
RRP: £12.99£8.56Jan Morris tells the epic story of the rise of the British Empire, from the accession of Queen Victoria in 1837 to her Diamond Jubilee in 1897. In this celebrated masterwork she vividly evokes every aspect of the 'great adventure', ranging from ships and... -
Midnight at Marble Arch (Thomas Pitt Mystery, Book 28): Danger is only ever one step away... by Anne Perry
RRP: £9.99£6.80Loyal, honest and, above all, principled. There is no finer detective in Victorian London than Thomas Pitt.It is 1896, and Thomas Pitt is in charge of Special Branch. He is beginning to understand the power he now commands, but is still ill at ease at... -
The Real World of Victorian Steampunk: Steam Planes and Radiophones by Webb, Simon 9781526732859
RRP: £12.99£9.09In the last few decades, steampunk has blossomed from being a rather obscure and little-known subgenre of science fiction into a striking and distinctive style of fashion, art, design and even music. It is in the written word however that steampunk has... -
Black Handsworth: Race in 1980s Britain by Kieran Connell 9780520300682
RRP: £30.00£23.29In 1980s Britain, while the country failed to reckon with the legacies of its empire, a black, transnational sensibility was emerging in its urban areas. In Handsworth, an inner-city neighborhood of Birmingham, black residents looked across the Atlantic... -
Soldiers as Workers: Class, employment, conflict and the nineteenth-century military by Nick Mansfield
£29.52The book outlines how class is single most important factor in understanding the British army in the period of industrialisation. It challenges the 'ruffians officered by gentlemen' theory of most military histories and demonstrates how service in the... -
Primrose Hill: A History by Martin Sheppard 9781859362228
RRP: £25.00£18.02Primrose Hill exercises a hold upon the imagination of everyone who climbs it. The site of William Blake's vision of the sun, and the subject of one of W.H. Auden's earliest poems, it is a green sanctuary offering superb and ever-changing views over... -
The Man Who Created Merseyside Football: John Houlding, Founding Father of Liverpool and Everton by David Kennedy
RRP: £14.99£10.95A comprehensive look into early professional football, this biography of Everton and Liverpool's founding father John Houlding breaks new ground by addressing the important role of football club ownership in the early history of the game.Football... -
Skegness Past & Present: Britain in Old Photographs by Ken Wilkinson
RRP: £15.99£12.25This fascinating new book takes a nostalgic look at Skegness and reveals some of the changes and developments that have taken place in the town during the last century. Ken Wilkinson has gathered together ninety pairs of images to compare and contrast... -
John Hampden and the Battle of Chalgrove: The Political and Military Life of Hampden and His Legacy by Derek Lester
RRP: £29.95£20.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804511961Author Derek LesterFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Fascist Groove Thing: A History of Thatcher's Britain in 21 Mixtapes by Hugh Hodges
RRP: £21.99£14.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629638843Author Hugh HodgesFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press -
The Letters of Private Wheeler: An eyewitness in action at the Battle of Waterloo by B.H. Liddell Hart
RRP: £10.99£7.40'In a later age he would have become a successful war correspondent ... We have no more human account of the Peninsular War from a participant in all its battles. Vivid images - of people, landscapes, events - flows from his pen ... One of military... -
The Welsh Kings: Warriors, Warlords and Princes by Kari Maund 9780752429731
RRP: £12.99£9.62When Edward I's troops forced the destruction of Dafydd ap Gruffudd in 1283 they brought to an end the line of truly independent native rulers in Wales that had endured throughout recorded history. In the early middle ages Wales was composed of a variety... -
People Like Us: Margaret Thatcher and Me by Caroline Slocock 9781785904608
RRP: £9.99£7.27As a young civil servant, Caroline Slocock became the first ever female private secretary to any British Prime Minister, and was at Margaret Thatcher's side for the final eighteen months of her premiership. A left-wing feminist, Slocock was no natural... -
The Adventures of Maud West, Lady Detective: Secrets and Lies in the Golden Age of Crime by Susannah Stapleton
RRP: £9.99£7.27'If you are susceptible to Miss Marple and Harriet Vane you must read The Adventures of Maud West. You will never know the difference between fact and fiction again.' - Jill Paton Walsh, author of the Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane mysteries.Maud West ran her... -
Browned Off and Bloody-Minded: The British Soldier Goes to War 1939-1945 by Alan Allport
RRP: £14.99£13.03A social history of the ordinary British soldier during World War II"Reflects impressively wide reading, and commands respect for its shrewd judgments and lack of sentimentality."-Max Hastings, New York Review of Books"The stories of these brave but... -
Essex Dogs by Dan Jones
RRP: £16.99£13.33The BBC History 2022 Book of the Year and Richard & Judy Book Club Pick from Sunday Times bestselling author Dan Jones. July 1346. The Hundred Years' War has begun, and King Edward and his lords are on the march through France. But this war belongs... -
A Century of Aylesbury: Britain in Old Photographs by Karl Vaughan 9780752458106
RRP: £12.99£9.62This fascinating selection of photographs illustrates the extraordinary transformation that has taken place in Aylesbury over the past century. The book offers an insight into the daily lives and living conditions of local people and gives the reader a... -
The Third Plantagenet: George, Duke of Clarence, Richard III's Brother by John Ashdown-Hill
RRP: £9.99£7.55Less well-known than his brothers, Edward IV and Richard III, little has been written about George, Duke of Clarence, leaving us with a series of unanswered questions: What was he really like? What set him and his brother Edward IV against one another?... -
Sex and Sexuality in Tudor England by McGrath, Carol 9781526769183
RRP: £20.00£14.29Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Channel: The Remarkable Men and Women Who Made It the Most Fascinating Waterway in the World by Charlie Connelly 9781474607926
RRP: £9.99£4.11'A wonderfully quirky history' SUNDAY TIMES'The perfect read while you wait for your summer holiday to begin' MAIL ON SUNDAY'Quippy anecdotes are woven with historical reference and geographical context to give full colour' IRISH TIMESA bulwark against... -
Reid: The Origins of the Clan Reid and Their Place in History by Murray Ogilvie 9781852172893
RRP: £3.99£3.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781852172893Author Murray OgilvieFormat PaperbackImprint Lang Syne Publishers LtdPublisher Lang Syne Publishers Ltd -
The Stepney Doorstep Society: The remarkable true story of the women who ruled the East End through war and peace by Kate Thompson
RRP: £9.99£7.11The unsung and remarkable stories of the women who held London's East End together during not one, but two world wars.'Inspiring tales of courage in the face of hardship' Mail on Sunday'Inspiring . . . Takes you back to a time of community and helping... -
London Underground Serial Killer: The Life of Kieran Kelly by Geoff Platt 9781473872257
RRP: £12.99£9.80The full story of the life and times of Kieran Patrick Kelly, the London Underground Serial Killer, who wandered up and down the Northern Line of the London Underground between 1960 and 1983, pushing innocent people that he had never met under trains,... -
My Old Man: A Personal History of Music Hall by John Major 9780007450145
RRP: £14.99£9.70Shortlisted for the Theatre Book Prize; former prime minister John Major takes a remarkable journey into his own unconventional family past to tell the story of the British music hall. John Major shares memories of his performer father Tom and... -
Brixham Revisited by Ted Gosling 9780752436203
RRP: £12.99£9.62A glimpse into the history of BrixhamBook InformationISBN 9780752436203Author Ted GoslingFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 165mm * 10mm -
Edward I and the Governance of England, 1272-1307 by Caroline Burt 9780521889995
RRP: £91.99£74.53This important exploration of the reign of Edward I - one of England's most lionised, feared and successful monarchs - presents his kingship in a radical new light. Through detailed case studies of Shropshire, Warwickshire and Kent, Caroline Burt... -
For the Safety of All: A Story of Scotland's Lighthouses by Donald S Murray
RRP: £14.99£10.33'There have always been lighthouses in my life. There has been a closeness and steadiness to our relationship, as if they have kept pace and in close contact with me.' Lighthouses punctuate Scotland's coastline - a stoic presence on the edge of the... -
Seeing Further: The Story of Science and the Royal Society by Bill Bryson
RRP: £14.99£9.70Edited and introduced by Bill Bryson, with contributions from Richard Dawkins, Margaret Atwood, Richard Holmes, Martin Rees, Richard Fortey, Steve Jones, James Gleick and Neal Stephenson amongst others, this beautiful, lavishly illustrated...