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The Plantagenets: The Kings That Made Britain by Derek Wilson
RRP: £12.99£8.60England, 1154. As Henry II seizes the throne after years of turmoil, a new dynasty is poised to haul this hitherto turbulent nation out from the Dark Ages and transform it into the nation state we recognize today. Featuring some of England's greatest but... -
By the Waters of Liverpool by Helen Forrester
RRP: £9.99£6.64The third volume in the classic story of Helen Forrester's childhood and adolescence in poverty-stricken Liverpool during the 1930s. Helen Forrester continues the moving story of her early poverty-stricken life with an account of her teenage... -
The Unofficial Poldark Cookbook: 85 Recipes from Eighteenth-Century Cornwall, from Shepherd's Pie to Cornish Pasties by Tricia Cohen 9781510737273
RRP: £16.99£11.48The ultimate gift for Poldark fans!85 authentic recipes for your manor or boarding house...The mouthwatering Poldark cookery book you've dreamed about!Divided into boarding house or manor, and complete with homey and festive dishes for breakfast, lunch,... -
King Arthur: The Mystery Unravelled by Chris Barber
RRP: £16.99£13.61This book is the culmination of over thirty years of work and research by the author, who is a King Arthur specialist and bestseller. The book brings new information to light by examining through a jigsaw of connections throughout Dark Age Britain,... -
London's Buses, 1979-1994: The Capital's Bus Network in Transition by Bartlett, Andrew 9781526755469
RRP: £30.00£19.21In 1979, fresh from its general election victory, the Conservative government began formulating plans to deregulate bus services and privatise the companies operating them in England, Scotland and Wales. London was not to be excluded, so from the outset,... -
South Wales Collieries Volume 3 by Owen David 9780752427751
RRP: £14.99£11.55This is part of a series on South Wales Collieries, which illustrates the area's industrial history during the past 200 years, in text and photographs, and gives a glimpse of both working and village life in the valleys.Book InformationISBN... -
Family Business by Victoria Glendinning
£6.49From Victoria Glendinning, winner of the Duff Cooper Prize, the James Tait Black Prize and (twice) the Whitbread Prize for Biography. 'It's Succession in tailcoats and spats ... This is a vivid and... -
Three Days In June: The Incredible Minute-by-Minute Oral History of 3 Para's Deadly Falklands Battle by James O'Connell 9781913183592
RRP: £25.00£18.02***'If you only read one book about the Falklands make sure it's this one.' - Soldier magazine'An extraordinarily detailed account of the bloodiest battle of the Falklands war.' - Major General Jonathan Shaw CB CBEWhen 3 Para began their assault under... -
Scenes from Prehistoric Life: One Million Years of Life in the British Isles by Francis Pryor
RRP: £25.00£18.02An invigorating journey through Britain's prehistoric landscape, and an insight into the lives of its inhabitants. 'Highly compelling' Spectator, Books of the Year 'An evocative foray into the prehistoric past' BBC Countryfile Magazine 'Vividly... -
The Island of Extraordinary Captives: A True Story of an Artist, a Spy and a Wartime Scandal by Simon Parkin
RRP: £20.00£13.75'Extraordinary yet previously untold true story . . . meticulously researched . . . it's also taut, compelling, and impossible to put down' Daily Express The police came for Peter Fleischmann in the early hours. It reminded the teenager of the Gestapo's... -
Reading in the 1950s by Stuart Hylton 9780752493534
RRP: £12.99£9.62In Reading in the 1950s Stuart Hylton gives a fascinating account of the town and its people during a decade of rapid and memorable change. The story begins in the drab atmosphere of the early postwar years, with their austerity, sense of shrinking... -
Military Dispatches by Arthur Wellesley,Duke of Wellington
RRP: £12.99£9.09The vivid and exciting accounts written from the front line, taking the story of the British war with Napoleon from its desperate beginnings in Portugal to the final triumph at WaterlooThe Duke of Wellington was not only an incomparable battle commander... -
AQA GCSE History: Restoration England, 1660-1685 by Ed Podesta
£20.84Exam Board: AQALevel: GCSESubject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2016First Exam: June 2018AQA approvedCreate a stimulating, well-paced teaching route through the 2016 GCSE History specification using this tailor-made series that draws on a legacy of... -
London's Strangest Tales: Extraordinary but true stories from over a thousand years of London's history by Tom Quinn 9781911622024
RRP: £12.99£8.48London's Strangest Tales takes a walk on London's weirder side with an absorbing collection of curious tales from one of the world's greatest cities. This fascinating book is packed with amazing things you didn't know about Britain's capital, like the... -
Mummified: The Stories Behind Egyptian Mummies in Museums by Angela Stienne
RRP: £20.00£14.53Mummified explores the curious, unsettling and controversial cases of mummies held in French and British museums. From powdered mummies eaten as medicine to mummies unrolled in public, dissected for race studies and DNA-tested in modern laboratories,... -
Vaughan Williams by Eric Saylor
RRP: £32.49£28.41A new biography of which paints the most well-rounded and factually accurate portrait of the composer to date Ralph Vaughan Williams ranks among the most versatile, influential, and enduringly popular British musicians of his era. Throughout his... -
Mobilising Hate: The Story of Hitler's Final Solution by Martin Davidson
RRP: £22.00£14.96'Finally, eight decades on, there comes a convincing reason as to how an entire nation was able to swallow and then endorse the warped ideology of Hitler and the Nazis. Not only a brilliantly argued book, Mobilising Hate is also a grimly compelling and... -
The Butcher, the Baker, the Candlestick-Maker: The story of Britain through its census, since 1801 by Roger Hutchinson
RRP: £12.99£7.51At the beginning of each decade for 200 years the national census has presented a self-portrait of the British Isles.The census has surveyed Britain from the Napoleonic wars to the age of the internet, through the agricultural and industrial revolutions,... -
Jet Man: Frank Whittle's Battle to Revolutionise Flight by Duncan Campbell-Smith
RRP: £30.00£21.35The story of Frank Whittle - RAF pilot, mathematician of genius, inventor of the jet engine and British hero. 'Wonderful' David Edgerton, TLS 'A fascinating account' Aeroplane Monthly 'Casts new light on the intense, heroic character of Frank... -
The People's War: Britain 1939-1945 by Angus Calder
RRP: £27.99£20.01The Second World War was, for Britain, a 'total war'; no section of society remained untouched by military conscription, air raids, the shipping crisis and the war economy. In this comprehensive and engrossing narrative Angus Calder presents not only the... -
Killer of Kings by Matthew Harffy
RRP: £8.99£6.45AD 636. Anglo-Saxon Britain. Beobrand has land, men and riches. He should be content. And yet he cannot find peace until his enemies are food for the ravens. But before Beobrand can embark on his bloodfeud, King Oswald orders him southward, to escort... -
Orcadia: Land, Sea and Stone in Neolithic Orkney by Mark Edmonds 9781788543453
RRP: £12.99£9.09The Orcadian archipelago is a museum of archaeological wonders. The Orcadian Neolithic is home to some of the best-preserved Neolithic sites in Europe: here we can find evidence of a dynamic society with connections binding Orkney to Ireland, to... -
Gladstone by Roy Jenkins
RRP: £16.99£12.47Winner of the Whitbread Biography of the Year.William Gladstone was, with Tennyson, Newman, Dickens, Carlyle, and Darwin, one of the stars of nineteenth-century British life. He spent sixty-three of his eighty-nine years in the House of Commons and was... -
The United Irishmen, Rebellion and the Act of Union, 1798-1803 by John Gibney 9781526751454
RRP: £12.99£9.09The 1790s is one of the most critical decades in the history of modern Ireland. The decade witnessed the birth of the modern ideology of separatist Irish republicanism, the creation of the Orange Order, and the greatest bloodletting in modern Irish... -
Legion of the Lancasters by Martin W Bowman
RRP: £25.00£17.62Sothe had already decided to use his nose armament against the 4-mot [four engined bomber]. He looked out and focused on a black shape of the Britisher. Small, bluish exhaust flames made it easier to keep the target in sight. Four engines, twin tail were... -
Around Rhondda Fawr by Suzanne E. Evans 9780752415901
RRP: £12.99£9.62This book is part of the Images of Wales series, which uses old photographs and archived images to show the history of various local areas in Wales, through their streets, shops, pubs, and people.Book InformationISBN 9780752415901Author Suzanne E... -
Voices from History: East London Suffragettes by Rosemary Taylor
RRP: £9.99£7.55In 1914, the East London Federation of Suffragettes, led by Sylvia Pankhurst, split from the WSPU. Sylvia's mother and sister, Emmeline and Christabel, had encouraged her to give up her work with the poor women of East London - but Sylvia refused... -
Lewis Man by Peter May 9781529416817
RRP: £10.99£7.40THE 12 MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE ENZO FILES AND THE CHINA THRILLERSAWARD WINNING AUTHOR OF THE CWA DAGGER IN THE LIBRARY 2021'One of the best regarded crime series of recent years.' Independent'No one can create a more eloquently written... -
A History of Britain - Volume 2: The British Wars 1603-1776 by Simon Schama
RRP: £30.00£21.35Simon Schama explores the forces that tore Britain apart during two centuries of dynamic change - transforming outlooks, allegiances and boundaries.From the beginning of July 1637, battles raged on for 200 years - both at home and abroad, on sea and on... -
The Fin de Siècle: A Reader in Cultural History, c.1880-1900 by Sally Ledger 9780198742791
£54.51In an important contribution to the developing field of interdisciplinary studies in the Humanities, Ledger and Luckhurst make available to students and scholars a large body of non-literary texts which richly configure the variegated cultural history of... -
Royal Scrapbook by Robert Opie
RRP: £14.95£10.78All the pomp and circumstance of over 100 years of royal events come together in this colourful and evocative Royal Scrapbook, which celebrates the coronations, weddings and jubilees over five reigns, beginning with Queen Victoria's Diamond jubilee and... -
Rival Queens: The Betrayal of Mary, Queen of Scots by Kate Williams
RRP: £10.99£7.77___________________________________'Scintillating, provocative... An elegant synthesis of royal biography and political thriller.' Daily TelegraphA Times History Book of the Year: a story which inspired the Hollywood film MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS.Mary, Queen... -
The Lives of Tudor Women by Elizabeth Norton
RRP: £10.99£7.77The turbulent Tudor age never fails to capture the imagination. But what was it actually like to be a woman during this period? This was a time when death in infancy or during childbirth was rife; when marriage was usually a legal contract, not a matter... -
Elizabeth & Margaret: The Intimate World of the Windsor Sisters by Andrew Morton
RRP: £20.00£14.05The first in-depth dual-biography of Elizabeth & Margaret, written by the bestselling royal biographer, Andrew Morton.They were the closest of sisters and the best of friends. But when, in a quixotic twist of fate, their uncle Edward VIII decided to... -
Around Hoyland by Geoffrey Howse
RRP: £12.99£9.62A history of HoylandBook InformationISBN 9780750922685Author Geoffrey HowseFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 240mm * 172mm * 10mm -
Played in Glasgow: Charting the Heritage of a City at Play by Ged O'Brien 9780954744557
RRP: £14.99£11.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954744557Author Ged O'BrienFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Malavan MediaPublisher Malavan Media -
Culloden Tales: Stories from Scotland's Most Famous Battlefield by Hugh G. Allison
RRP: £10.99£7.77Culloden was the last battle on British soil. It marked the end of clan culture and was the harbinger of the Highland Clearances. It ensured the inevitability of the American Revolution and increased the outpouring of Scots across the globe. It is the... -
Lord of the Isle: The Extravagent Life and Times of Colin Tennant (Lord Glenconner) by Nicholas Courtney 9781903071649
RRP: £20.00£14.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903071649Author Nicholas CourtneyFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Bene Factum Publishing LtdPublisher Bene Factum Publishing Ltd -
Edie: An American Biography by Jean Stein
RRP: £12.99£9.09A brilliant and unique biography of Andy Warhol's tragic muse, the 60s icon Edie Sedgwick'Exceptionally seductive... You can't put it down' LA TimesOutrageous, vulnerable and strikingly beautiful - in the 1960s Edie Sedgwick became both an emblem of, and... -
King's Road: The Rise and Fall of the Hippest Street in the World by Max Decharne 9781913172602
RRP: £25.00£18.62The King's Road in Chelsea was at the epicentre of not one, but two worldwide cultural shifts. In the mid-sixties, it became a focal point and shop window for the new 'swinging' London, encompassing music, theatre, the visual arts, fashion and much more...