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Which People's War?: National Identity and Citizenship in Wartime Britain 1939-1945 by Sonya O. Rose 9780199273171
$96.20Which People's War? examines how national belonging, or British national identity, was envisaged in the public culture of the World War II home front. Using materials from newspapers, magazines, films, novels, diaries, letters, and all sorts of public... -
Personifying Prehistory: Relational Ontologies in Bronze Age Britain and Ireland by Joanna Bruck
$31.64The Bronze Age is frequently framed in social evolutionary terms. Viewed as the period which saw the emergence of social differentiation, the development of long-distance trade, and the intensification of agricultural production, it is seen as the... -
The New History of Orkney by William P.L. Thompson
RRP: $32.25$23.63For much of its history, Orkney had its own language, culture and institutions. The prehistoric inhabitants created monuments which are unmatched anywhere in Europe, and the medieval period saw the magnificent earldom that expressed itself through the... -
Manchester: Something Rich and Strange by Paul Dobraszczyk
RRP: $16.76$12.44What is Manchester? Moving far from the glitzy shopping districts and architectural showpieces, away from cool city-centre living and modish cultural centres, this book shows us the unheralded, under-appreciated and overlooked parts of Greater Manchester... -
Timeline History of London: People Places Pageantry by Gill Davies 9781849310635
$9.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849310635Author Gill DaviesFormat HardbackPage Count 150Imprint Worth Press LtdPublisher Worth Press Ltd -
The Queen's Diamonds by Hugh Roberts
RRP: $161.25$105.96This book is the first authorised account of the history of the finest diamond jewellery in the world. It tells the story of the magnificent royal inheritance of diamonds from the time of Queen Adelaide in the 1830s to the present day. Illustrated with a... -
Sugar and Slate by Charlotte Williams 9780241999530
RRP: $12.89$9.17'In its exploration of geographical, racial and cultural dislocation, Sugar and Slate is in the finest tradition of work to have emerged from the black diaspora in recent times' Gary Younge, GuardianA powerful, radiant memoir from writer Charlotte... -
Cecily Neville: Mother of Richard III by John Ashdown-Hill 9781526706324
RRP: $32.25$22.73Wife to Richard, Duke of York, mother to Edward IV and Richard III, and aunt to the famous 'Kingmaker', Richard, Earl of Warwick, Cecily Neville was a key player on the political stage of fifteenth-century Britain England. Mythologically rumoured to... -
Brighton's Secret Agents: The Brighton & Hove Contribution to Britain's WW2 Special Operation's Ex by Paul McCue 9781910500750
RRP: $19.34$14.13Winston Churchill authorised the creation of a new wartime secret service, the Special Operations Executive(SOE), with the order "And now set Europe ablaze". On behalf of the Secret WW2 Network, an educational charity dedicated to revealing... -
Britain's Empire: Resistance, Repression and Revolt by Richard Gott
$19.48As the call for a new understanding of our national history gets louder, this book turns the received imperial story of Britain on its head. Britain's Empire recounts the long overlooked narrative of the resisters, revolutionaries and revolters who stood... -
Hockley: Britain in Old Photographs by David Harvey 9780752447216
RRP: $16.76$12.41This fascinating collection of photographs, including many rare and old images (some from as early as 1865) explores Hockley over the past century and a half, and details the social, architectural and functional changes in the area. With sections on... -
Elizabeth I: The Making of a Queen by Laura Brennan 9781526714572
RRP: $25.79$18.42Elizabeth I is arguably one of the greatest monarchs and women of English history. Against an uncertain political and religious backdrop of post-reformation Europe she ruled at the conception of social modernisation, living in the shadow of the infamy of... -
Victorian Pumping Stations by Trevor Yorke
RRP: $11.60$8.32Victorian pumping stations are colourful cathedrals of utility. Their imposing and striking exteriors enclose highly decorative cast-iron frames, built to encage powerful steam engines. They are glorious buildings which display the Victorians'... -
From Gas Street to the Ganges: Exploring Birmingham's Historical Links with the Commonwealth by Simon Wilcox
RRP: $21.92$16.69If ever there was a regional UK city with the credentials to host the 2022 Commonwealth Games, Birmingham was always it. One in ten people in the city was born in an overseas Commonwealth country, and many more have family in member nations such as... -
King of the North Wind: The Life of Henry II in Five Acts by Claudia Gold
RRP: $16.76$10.94Henry II conquered the largest empire of any English medieval king. Yet it is the people around him we remember: his wife Eleanor, whom he seduced from the French king; his son Richard the Lionheart; Thomas Becket, murdered in his cathedral... -
Women in Early Modern England 1550-1720 by Sara Mendelson 9780198208129
$71.84What was life like for women who lived in Tudor and Stuart England? This fascinating book provides a colourful and comprehensive account of the daily experiences of these women, using first-hand sources such as diaries, letters, and household accounts... -
Connecting History: National 4 & 5 The Era of the Great War, 1900–1928 by Alec Jessop
$26.88Exam board: SQALevel: National 4 & 5Subject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2017First assessment: Summer 2018Fresh stories, fresh scholarship and a fresh structure. Connecting History informs and empowers tomorrow's citizens, today.Bringing together... -
Billericay Voices by Sylvia Kent 9780752424705
RRP: $16.76$12.93This book is part of the oral history series, which combines the reminiscences of local people with old photographs and archived images to show the history of various local areas in Great Britain, through their streets, shops, pubs, and people.Book... -
The Queen and the Mistress: The Women of Edward III by Gemma Hollman
RRP: $25.80$19.40'Hollman combines scrupulous research with spellbinding storytelling; The Queen and the Mistress will keep you turning the pages.' - Sylvia Barbara Soberton, author of Ladies-In-Waiting: The Women Who Served Anne Boleyn'A must-read for anyone interested... -
Charles: The Heart of a King by Catherine Mayer
RRP: $14.18$10.02The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller'Breathtaking' The Times'[The book that] made headlines around the world.' IndependentThe former Prince of Wales has lived his whole life in the public eye, yet he remains an enigma. He was born to be king, but he aims... -
Haunted Kirkcaldy by Gregor Stewart
RRP: $12.89$9.74Compiled by paranormal investigator Gregor Stewart, this new book contains a chilling range of spooky tales from around Kirkcaldy. From haunted public houses, which have left both customers and staff terrified, to the ruins of the ancient Ravenscraig... -
A Long Tradition: The 9th (Airborne) Field Company, Royal Engineers by John Sliz 9780987740441
RRP: $15.96$12.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780987740441Author John SlizFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Travelogue 219Publisher Travelogue 219Weight(grams) 104gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 4mm -
Kings of Georgian Britain by Catherine Curzon 9781473871229
RRP: $25.79$18.42For over a century of turmoil, upheaval and scandal, Great Britain was a Georgian land. From the day the German-speaking George I stepped off the boat from Hanover, to the night that George IV, bloated and diseased, breathed his last at Windsor, the four... -
Hard Choices: Britain and the New Geometry of Global Power by Peter Ricketts
RRP: $19.34$12.64SHORTLISTED FOR THE PARLIAMENTARY BOOK AWARDS'Thought-provoking and well worth reading' Times Literary SupplementAfter decades of peace and prosperity, the international order put in place after World War II is rapidly coming to an end. Disastrous... -
Stubbington and Titchfield by Ron Brown 9780752410050
RRP: $16.76$12.41This unique collection of over 220 old photographs brings together the two villages of Stubbington and Titchfield, in a fascinating pictorial study. The history of the two villages is very contrasting: today Titchfield looks much the same as it did one... -
Richard III (Penguin Monarchs): A Failed King? by Rosemary Horrox 9780141978932
RRP: $19.34$14.13No English king has so divided opinion, both during his reign and in the centuries since, more than Richard III.He was loathed in his own time for the never-confirmed murder of his young nephews, the Princes in the Tower, and died fighting his own... -
Northern Ireland: The Fragile Peace by Feargal Cochrane
RRP: $15.47$13.61A foremost scholar in the field looks at Northern Ireland's "Troubles" from the late 1960s to the present day, and questions the impact of the Good Friday Agreement of 1998.Book InformationISBN 9780300205527Author Feargal CochraneFormat... -
Haunted Mansfield by Ian Morgan
RRP: $19.34$14.90From reports of haunted estates, hotels, public houses, chapels and churchyards, to heart-stopping accounts of apparitions, poltergeists and related supernatural phenomena, this collection of stories contains both well-known and hitherto unpublished... -
British Naval Weapons of World War Two: The John Lambert Collection, Volume II: Escort and Minesweeper Weapons by Norman Friedman
RRP: $51.60$39.72John Lambert was a renowned naval draughtsman, whose plans were highly valued for their accuracy and detail by modelmakers and enthusiasts. By the time of his death in 2016 he had produced over 850 sheets of drawings, many of which have never been... -
Magnificent Women and their Revolutionary Machines by Henrietta Heald 9781783526604
RRP: $25.80$18.12'Women have won their political independence. Now is the time for them to achieve their economic freedom too.'This was the great rallying cry of the pioneers who, in 1919, created the Women's Engineering Society. Spearheaded by Katharine and Rachel... -
Britain's Wartime Evacuees: The People, Places and Stories of the Evacuations Told Through the Accounts of Those Who Were There by Gillian Mawson 9781526781512
RRP: $19.34$14.13With the declaration of war in September 1939, the Government Evacuation Scheme was implemented, in which almost one and a half million civilians, mostly children, were evacuated from the British cities thought most likely to be the targets of aerial... -
The Path to Power by Margaret Thatcher
RRP: $25.79$18.42The extraordinary account of Margaret Thatcher's life up to her dramatic election as the first woman Prime Minister of England in 1979. Margaret Thatcher was the towering figure of late-twentieth-century British politics. This is the story of... -
The Royal Art of Poison: Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicines and Murder Most Foul by Eleanor Herman
RRP: $12.89$8.27The story of poison is the story of power... For centuries, royal families have feared the gut-roiling, vomit-inducing agony of a little something added to their food or wine by an enemy. To avoid poison, they depended on tasters, unicorn horns and... -
George VI and Elizabeth: The Marriage That Shaped the Monarchy by Sally Bedell Smith 9780241638217
RRP: $38.70$28.32A revelatory account of how King George VI and Queen Elizabeth's loving marriage saved the monarchy during World War II, and how they raised their daughter to become Queen Elizabeth II, based on exclusive access to the Royal ArchivesFrom the bestselling... -
Ghosts of Wales: Accounts from the Victorian Archives by Mark Rees 9780750984188
RRP: $20.63$15.80In the Victorian era, sensational ghost stories were headline news. Spine-chilling reports of two-headed phantoms, murdered knights and spectral locomotives filled the pages of the press. Spirits communicated with the living at dark seances, forced... -
The People's Peace: Britain Since 1945 by Kenneth O. Morgan 9780198841074
RRP: $25.79$18.42The People's Peace: Britain since 1945 is the first comprehensive study by a professional historian of British history from 1945 to the present day. It examines the transformation of post-war Britain from the planning enthusiasm of 1945 to the rise of... -
Sheffield United Match of My Life: Twelve Stars Relive Their Greatest Games by Nick Johnson
RRP: $12.89$7.06A dozen Sheffield United legends come together to tell the stories behind their favourite ever games for the club - enabling Blades fans of all ages to relive these magic moments through the eyes and emotions of the men who were there, playing their... -
Bicester and Chesterton by Bicester Local History Society
RRP: $16.76$12.41This fascinating book of over 200 old photographs provides a glimpse of life in the market town of Bicester and the nearby village of Chesterton over the last 100 years. The quieter pace of village life in the last years of the nineteenth century is also... -
The A-Z of Curious Lincolnshire: Strange Stories of Mysteries, Crimes and Eccentrics by Stephen Wade 9780752460277
RRP: $19.34$14.90Curious Tales from Lincolnshire is filled with hilarious and surprising examples of folklore, eccentrics, historical and literary events, and popular culture from days gone by, all taken from Lincolnshire's tumultuous history. Here the reader will meet... -
Succession to the Crown: From Charles II to Charles III by The Gazette 9780117094314
$34.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780117094314Author The GazetteFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint TSOPublisher TSO