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The Great British Bobby: A history of British policing from 1829 to the present by Clive Emsley
RRP: £12.99£8.60The Victorians called him 'Bobby' after Sir Robert Peel, the Home Secretary who created the Metropolitan Police in 1829. The generations that followed came to regard the force in which he served as 'the best police in the world'. If twenty-first century... -
Lost Lines of Wales: Llandovery to Craven Arms by Jamie Green 9781914079115
RRP: £8.99£6.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914079115Author Jamie GreenFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Graffeg LimitedPublisher Graffeg LimitedDimensions(mm) 150mm * 200mm * 5mm -
London: A Travel Guide Through Time by Matthew Green
RRP: £12.99£9.09Step back in time and discover the sights, sounds and smells of London through the ages in this enthralling journey into the capital's rich, teeming and occasionally hazardous past.Let time traveller Dr Matthew Green be your guide to six extraordinary... -
The Great British Woodstock: The Incredible Story of the Weeley Festival 1971 by Ray Clark 9780750969895
RRP: £20.00£15.44It started as a donkey derby, a small local charity event, but when plans for the 1971 Isle of Wight Festival fell through, Clacton Round Table decided to hold a pop concert of their own - a small gig for 5,000 locals. Little did they know that it would... -
Winter King: The Dawn of Tudor England by Thomas Penn
RRP: £14.99£10.95Winner of THE HW FISHER BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZESPECTATOR, SUNDAY TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, TLS, FINANCIAL TIMES, GUARDIAN, DAILY MAIL and SUNDAY TELEGRAPH BOOKS OF THE YEAR'Imagine Wolf Hall rewritten by John le Carre ... gripping ... a rare... -
Essex Ghost Stories by Robert Hallmann 9780752448480
RRP: £14.99£11.55Set in the historic county of Essex, this gripping compilation includes stories of restless Vikings that still haunt their former sparring grounds; the distraught countryman of Canvey Island forever searching for his horse and cart; the mysterious... -
Engineers of Victory: The Problem Solvers who Turned the Tide in the Second World War by Paul Kennedy
RRP: £12.99£9.09From Paul Kennedy, author of The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, one of the most acclaimed history books of recent decades, Engineers of Victory is a new account of how the tide was turned against the Nazis by the Allies in the Second World War. In... -
The Poisonous Solicitor: The True Story of a 1920s Murder Mystery by Stephen Bates 9781785789601
RRP: £11.99£7.72SHORTLISTED FOR THE ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION'METICULOUSLY RESEARCHED ... A GLORIOUSLY ENGAGING ROMP' JANICE HALLETT, THE SUNDAY TIMES'IMMERSIVE AND COMPELLING' DAVID KYNASTON'A PAGE-TURNER' ROBERT LACEYA brilliant narrative investigation into the... -
The Wellington Bomber Story by Martin W. Bowman 9780752461939
RRP: £8.99£7.40The Vickers Wellington was a British twin-engine, long range medium bomber, universally known as the 'Wimpy'. The only bomber in construction throughout the Second World War, the Wellington played a pivotal role in training and combat from its conception... -
The Cromwell Street Murders: The Detective's Story by John Bennett
RRP: £16.99£12.94This book tells for the first time the story from a police perspective. For ten years, the officer in charge of the investigation, Detective Superintendent John Bennett QPM, has refused to tell his story. Now, together with BBC journalist Graham Gardner,... -
Michael Gove: A Man in a Hurry by Owen Bennett 9781785904400
RRP: £20.00£14.48Michael Gove is one of the most recognisable faces in British politics - and one of the most divisive. Whether it's taking on the education `blob', acting as a frontman for the Brexit campaign or orchestrating one of the bloodiest political... -
City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late Victorian London by Judith R. Walkowitz 9780226871462
RRP: £27.00£26.87From 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... -
Brittle with Relics: A History of Wales, 1962-97 ('Oral history at its revelatory best' DAVID KYNASTON) by Mr Richard King 9780571295654
RRP: £12.99£8.56Brittle with Relics is a landmark history of the people of Wales during a period of great national change.'Richly humane, viscerally political, generously multi-voiced, Brittle with Relics is oral history at its revelatory best.'DAVID... -
The A-Z of Curious Bristol by Maurice Fells
RRP: £14.99£11.55Bristol's history is packed with peculiar customs and curious characters. This book explains why the vicar in one church goes on an annual trek to peer down a manhole; why captains of industry sing an eighteen-verse song in memory of Queen Elizabeth I;... -
The Final Curtsey: The Autobiography of Margaret Rhodes, First Cousin of the Queen and Niece of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother by Margaret Rhodes 9780954127565
RRP: £17.99£15.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954127565Author Margaret RhodesFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Umbria PressPublisher Umbria Press -
Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First by Frank Trentmann
RRP: £18.99£14.01In this monumental study, acclaimed historian Frank Trentmann unfolds the extraordinary history that has shaped our material world, from late Ming China, Renaissance Italy and the British Empire to the present. Astonishingly wide-ranging and richly... -
Strange Victoriana: Tales of the Curious, the Weird and the Uncanny from Our Victorian Ancestors by Jan Bondeson
RRP: £12.99£8.48This book makes use of a privately held archive of the old periodical Illustrated Police News to describe strange, macabre and uncanny episodes from the Victorian era. Dog-Faced Men are exhibited on stage, the doctors congregate around the bed of the... -
The Red Monarch: The Bronte sisters take on the underworld of London in this exciting and gripping sequel by Bella Ellis
RRP: £9.99£6.80'Teeming with details of the Brontes, of the times and the city, this is such a pleasurable read' - NB Magazine 'Captivating' - Crime Monthly'Filled with twists, turns and Gothic touches, and a strong feminist streak' - Bradford TelegraphThe Bronte... -
Catherine of Aragon: Henry's Spanish Queen by Giles Tremlett
RRP: £14.99£9.80The image of Catherine of Aragon has always suffered in comparison to the heir-providing Jane Seymour or the vivacious eroticism of Anne Boleyn. But when Henry VIII married Catherine, she was an auburn-haired beauty in her twenties with a passion she had... -
Yes to Europe!: The 1975 Referendum and Seventies Britain by Robert Saunders 9781108442244
RRP: £16.99£15.11On 5 June 1975, voters went to the polls in Britain's first national referendum to decide whether the UK should remain in the European Community. As in 2016, the campaign shattered old political allegiances and triggered a far-reaching debate on... -
Canterbury: 2000 Years of History by H. M Lyle 9780752419480
RRP: £22.50£16.79A history of CanterburyBook InformationISBN 9780752419480Author Marjorie LyleFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 460gDimensions(mm) 248mm * 171mm * 10mm -
Anti-Calvinists: The Rise of English Arminianism c.1590-1640 by Nicholas Tyacke 9780198201847
£115.50This is a study of the rise of English Arminianism and the growing religious division in the Church of England during the decades before the Civil War of the 1640s. The widely accepted view has been that the rise of puritanism was a major cause of the... -
Typhoon to Typhoon by Chris Gibson
RRP: £29.95£21.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902109596Author Chris GibsonFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Hikoki PublicationsPublisher Hikoki Publications -
The London Town Garden, 1700-1840 by Todd Longstaffe-Gowan 9780300085389
RRP: £40.00£35.19Much has been written about London's terraced houses with their simple dignity, their economical use of space, and their sense of comfort and human scale. Yet the small gardens that lie before or behind the houses in this great city have until now been... -
The Crown: The Official History Behind the Hit NETFLIX Series: Political Scandal, Personal Struggle and the Years that Defined Elizabeth II, 1956-1977 by Robert Lacey
RRP: £9.99£6.85In this eye-opening companion to Netflix's acclaimed series The Crown, renowned biographer and the show's historical consultant, Robert Lacey takes us through the real history that inspired the drama. Covering two tumultuous decades in the reign of Queen... -
The Seventeenth Century by Jenny Wormald 9780198731610
£40.09The Union of the Crowns of England and Scotland in 1603 dramatically changed the nature and level of interaction between the constituent parts of the British Isles, and over the course of the century that followed the seismic shocks of constitutional... -
Defending Britain: Twentieth-Century Military Structures in the Landscape by Mike Osborne
RRP: £25.00£18.94Following work recently brought into sharper focus by the Defence of Britain Project, this is the first extensive overview of the military structures of the twentieth century, combining both documentary and fieldwork research. The book presents details... -
A Brief History of the English Civil Wars by John Miller
RRP: £10.99£4.11Miller provides a clear and comprehensible narrative, a coherent and accurate synthesis, intended as a guide for students and the general reader to an extremely complex period in British history. His aim is to help readers avoid getting lost in a maze of... -
Canterbury: History You Can See by H. M Lyle 9780752445380
RRP: £16.99£12.94This detailed history of Canterbury is told through its buildings from its Roman origins to the present day and includes sections on St Martin's church, St Augustine's abbey, the Cathedral, the Pilgrim inns, Royal Castle buildings, Georgian timber-framed... -
Summer: Vintage Minis by Laurie Lee
RRP: £5.99£4.46How do you remember the summers of your childhood? For Laurie Lee they were... -
William Wallace by Andrew Fisher
£11.63William 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... -
1977 Punk London: The Roxy, The Vortex, Kings Road and Beyond by Derek Ridgers
RRP: £14.95£12.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908211446Author Derek RidgersFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Carpet Bombing CulturePublisher Carpet Bombing CultureWeight(grams) 690gDimensions(mm)... -
Clacton-on-Sea by Norman Jacobs 9780752418575
RRP: £12.99£9.62Clacton-on-Sea's motto Lux, Salubritas, Felicitas (Light, Health and Happiness), sums up the main reason for the town's existence. Born in 1871, the brainchild of Victorian entrepreneur Peter Bruff, it was created from nothing to become one of the... -
The Man on a Donkey by H. F. M. Prescott
RRP: £16.99£12.28'The most immersive book I've ever read... Truly brings Tudor England to life' Frank Cottrell Boyce, The Times 'One of the finest historical novels ever written' TLS A forgotten literary masterpiece, The Man on a Donkey is less about the great... -
Looking to Sea: Britain Through the Eyes of its Artists by Lily Le Brun
RRP: £25.00£14.66*One of The Times Best Art Books of the Year*'Looking to Sea is a remarkable and compelling book... I loved it.' Edmund de Waal'In her first, transporting book, Lily Le Brun sweeps the beaches of the past century of British art, collecting treasures... -
Mistresses: Sex and Scandal at the Court of Charles II by Linda Porter
RRP: £12.99£9.26According to the great diarist, John Evelyn, Charles II was 'addicted to women', and throughout his long reign a great many succumbed to his charms. Clever, urbane and handsome, Charles presided over a hedonistic court, in which licence and... -
The Later Tudors: England 1547-1603 by Penry Williams 9780198228202
£58.06The Later Tudors tells the story of England between the accession of Edward VI and the death of Elizabeth I. The second half of the sixteenth century was a period of intense conflict between the nations of Europe, and between competing Catholic and... -
Sex and Sexuality in Georgian Britain by Mike Rendell 9781526755629
RRP: £14.99£10.84Peek beneath the bedsheets of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain in this affectionate, informative and fascinating look at sex and sexuality during the reigns of Georges I-IV. It examines the prevailing attitudes towards male and female... -
Great Tales From English History: Cheddar Man to DNA by Robert Lacey
RRP: £12.99£8.60From ancient times to the present day, the story of England has been laced with drama, intrigue, courage and passion - a rich and vibrant narrative of heroes and villains, kings and rebels, artists and highwaymen, bishops and scientists. Now, in Great... -
The Royal Army Medical Corps in the Great War by Timothy McCracken 9781473892323
RRP: £14.99£12.35The Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) supported the British Army throughout the First World War treating sick and wounded military personnel. The RAMC also had a range of sanitation responsibilities. The military nursing services and voluntary medical...