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The Country Formerly Known as Great Britain by Ian Jack
RRP: £15.99£11.61In this selection from over twenty years of reporting and writing, Ian Jack sets out to deal with contemporary Britain - from national disasters to football matches to obesity - but is always drawn back in time, vexed by the question of what came first... -
Henry VIII's Children: Legitimate and Illegitimate Sons and Daughters of the Tudor King by Caroline Angus 9781399095860
RRP: £25.00£17.62Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Blazing a Trail: Irish Women Who Changed the World by Sarah Webb
RRP: £14.99£11.66A book for everyone who dreams of changing the world. From fearless aviator, Lady Mary Heath, the first woman in the world to parachute from an aeroplane, to Margaret Bulkley, the 18th-century surgeon who lived as a man, meet 28 remarkable Irish women... -
Fifty Years On: The Troubles and the Struggle for Change in Northern Ireland by Malachi O'Doherty 9781786496669
RRP: £12.99£8.56In 1969, an eruption of armed violence traumatized Northern Ireland and transformed a period of street protest over civil rights into decades of paramilitary warfare by republicans and loyalists. In this evocative memoir, Malachi O'Doherty not only... -
Haunted Stirling by David Kinnaird 9780752458441
RRP: £14.99£11.55From heart-stopping accounts of apparitions, poltergeists and related supernatural phenomena, to first-hand encounters with phantoms and spirits, this collection of stories contains both new and well-known spooky tales from around Stirling. A whole... -
Edmund Campion: Jesuit and Martyr by Evelyn Waugh
RRP: £9.99£7.11In 1581 Edmund Campion, a Jesuit priest working underground in Protestant England, was found guilty of treason and hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn. Years later he would be beatified. Evelyn Waugh's compelling and elegant narrative is a homage to... -
England's Mistress: The Infamous Life of Emma Hamilton by Kate Williams
RRP: £12.99£9.09A dramatic, sparkling tale of sex, glamour, intrigue, romance and heartbreak, England's Mistress traces the rise and rise of the gorgeous Emma Hamilton.Born into poverty, she clawed her way up through London's underworlds of sex for sale to become... -
Lion Rampant: The Memoirs of an Infantry Officer from D-Day to the Rhineland by Robert Woollcombe
RRP: £7.99£6.15Lion Rampant is Robert Woollcombe's graphic account of his experiences as a front-line infantry officer with the King's Own Scottish Borderers during the desperate battle for Normandy and the Allied advance into Germany. Vividly evoking the confusion,... -
No. 10 - The Geography of Power at Dowing Street by Jack Brown
RRP: £18.99£13.40Fronted by one of the world's most iconic doors, 10 Downing Street is the home and office of the British Prime Minister and the heart of British politics. This is the story of the intimately entwined relationships between the house and its post-war... -
An American Uprising in Second World War England: Mutiny in the Duchy by Kate Werran 9781526759542
RRP: £25.00£18.02This is the incredible story of a Second World War shoot-out between black and white American soldiers in a quiet Cornish town that ended up putting the special relationship' itself on trial. The subsequent court martial into what tabloids labelled a ... -
The Lowland Clearances: Scotland's Silent Revolution 1760 - 1830 by Peter Aitchison
RRP: £9.99£6.99The Highland Clearances are a well-documented episode in Scotland's past but they were not unique. The process began in the Scottish Lowlands nearly a century before, when tens of thousands of people - significantly more than were later exiled form the... -
Fighting with the Long Range Desert Group: Merlyn Craw MM's War 1940 1945 by O'Carroll, Brendan 9781399084277
RRP: £25.00£18.02Formed in 1940 the Long Range Desert Group was the first Allied Special Forces unit established to operate behind German and Italian lines in North Africa. Its officers and men were volunteers recruited from British and Commonwealth units. Merlyn Craw... -
Richard III: The Self-Made King by Michael Hicks
RRP: £12.99£11.46An "excellent new biography" (Keith Thomas, New York Review of Books) of the wily and formidable prince who unexpectedly became monarch-the most infamous king in British history"An intricately detailed account of Richard's every recorded move on his... -
Becoming Dr Jones: A Wild Life by Dr Dr Rhys Jones 9781472299598
RRP: £22.00£14.56'Inspirational' - Professor Alice Roberts'Engrossing' - Professor Ben GarrodRhys Jones was brought up on a council estate in South Wales where expectations for what life held in store for you were slim. As he recalls, he was born fighting and never... -
The Northern Question: A History of a Divided Country by Thomas Hazeldine
RRP: £20.00£14.05Britain has scarcely begun to come to terms with its recent upheavals, from the crisis over Brexit to the collapse of Labour's 'red wall'. What can explain such momentous shifts?In this essential work, Tom Hazeldine excavates the history of a divided... -
What's Tha Up To?: Memories of a Yorkshire Bobby by Martyn Johnson 9780751547771
RRP: £10.99£7.40'A wonderful slice-of-life autobiography' Daily Express'I've turned boys into men and policemen into coppers,' said the Sergeant. 'Policemen have got brains, but coppers, they've got brains and common sense.'No two days were ever the same for... -
All My Mother's Secrets: A Powerful True Story of Love, Loss and a Family Torn Apart by Beezy Marsh
RRP: £7.99£5.94THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'Beautifully-penned story on the harshness of life and how hope survives' - Sun'Absorbing . . . Marsh writes with a novelistic flair' - Daily Mail From the grimy streets of Acton and Notting Hill to the bright lights of the... -
Twelve Days that Made Modern Britain by Andrew Hindmoor
RRP: £26.49£14.29This is the story of modern Britain, focusing on twelve formative days in the history of the United Kingdom over the last five decades. By describing what happened on those days and the subsequent consequences, Andrew Hindmoor paints a suggestive - and... -
Verulamium: The Roman City of St Albans by Rosalind Niblett 9780752419152
RRP: £22.50£16.79In its heyday Verulamium was the third largest city in Roman Britain, was no less than seven temples within the city walls. Why it was that Verlamion, the iron age settlement of the Catuvellauni, became so prosperous and what this prosperity meant for... -
Before Mrs Beeton: Elizabeth Raffald, England's Most Influential Housekeeper by Neil Buttery
RRP: £20.00£14.29The great Elizabeth Raffald used to be a household name, and her list of accomplishments would make even the highest of achievers feel suddenly impotent. After becoming housekeeper at Arley Hall in Cheshire at age twenty-five, she married and moved to... -
1688: The First Modern Revolution by Steve Pincus
£18.13Based on new archival information, this book upends two hundred years of scholarship on England's Glorious Revolution to claim that it-not the French Revolution-was the first truly modern revolution For two hundred years historians have viewed England's... -
Anatomy of a Nation: British Identity in 50 Documents by Dominic Selwood
RRP: £30.00£20.40From an obscure, misty archipelago on the fringes of the Roman world to history's largest empire and originator of the world's mongrel, magpie language - this is Britain's past. But, today, Britain is experiencing an acute trauma of identity, pulled... -
Giving (Back): How to Do Good, Better by Derek A. Bardowell
RRP: £20.00£12.05Do you wish you could do more to change the world but don't know how? Do you ever look around at the many charities asking for donations and feel overwhelmed? This inspiring and uplifting book explores the effectiveness of charity and calls for more... -
Scottish History For Dummies by William Knox 9781118676158
RRP: £18.99£13.15Explore the fascinating history of Scotland in an easy-to-read guide Want to discover how a small country on the edge of Northern Europe packs an almighty historical punch? Scottish History For Dummies is your guide to the story of Scotland and its place... -
Luxury and Pleasure in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Maxine Berg 9780199272082
RRP: £115.00£71.46Luxury and Pleasure in Eighteenth-Century Britain explores the invention, making, and buying of new, semi-luxury, and fashionable consumer goods during the eighteenth century. It follows these goods, from china tea ware to all sorts of metal ornaments... -
Liverpool's Children in the Second World War by Pamela Russell 9780752451589
RRP: £14.99£11.55This is the untold story of Liverpool's children in the Second World War. Whilst everyone is familiar with the tales of evacuees who were rushed out of the cities once the bombs started falling, many of us are unaware that many stayed behind, either by... -
Ship of Fools: How Stupidity and Corruption Sank the Celtic Tiger by Fintan O'Toole 9780571260751
RRP: £12.99£8.56For twenty years, Ireland's economic miracle was supposed to be the envy of the world. Low taxes, light regulation and an 'anything goes' attitude seemed to have created boundless prosperity. And then, as in Iceland, the glittering palaces vanished in... -
The Culinary Recipes of Medieval England by Constance B. Hieatt 9781909248304
RRP: £35.00£28.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909248304Author Constance B. HieattFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Prospect BooksPublisher Prospect Books -
William of Orange and the Fight for the Crown of England: The Glorious Revolution by Brian Best
RRP: £19.99£14.28In 1688, a vast fleet of 463 ships, twice the size of the Spanish Armada, put to sea from Holland. On board was William of Orange with 40,000 soldiers - their objective, England. The Protestant William had been encouraged by a group of Church of England... -
Land Rover: Military Versions of the British 4x4 by Ben Skipper
RRP: £16.99£12.28After the Second World War many American military vehicles become surplus stock and soon found their way into the hands of farmers and land owners across Great Britain. The subsequent heavy use and the real possibility of difficulties obtaining spares... -
Damn' Rebel Bitches: The Women of the '45 by Maggie Craig 9781910948293
RRP: £10.99£7.77'A racily written, well-researched and heart-warming account' Scots MagazineToo many historians have ignored the role of women in the '45. This book aims to redress the balance. Damn' Rebel Bitches takes a totally fresh approach to the history of the... -
The Queen by Matthew Dennison
RRP: £25.00£21.79Matthew Dennison's elegant and magisterial biography of Her late Majesty, updated following the death of Elizabeth II and the accession of King Charles III. 'A worthy and balanced overview of the Queen's life. Dennison is especially good on her... -
The Diamond Queen: The Last Great Monarch? by Andrew Marr
RRP: £10.99£7.51Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller, fully revised and updated with a new chapter.'Absorbing . . . particularly acute on the political aspects of constitutional monarchy, but he also writes perceptively about individual members of the Royal Family.' Daily... -
Crafted in Britain: The Survival of Britain's Traditional Industries by Anthony Burton
RRP: £25.00£20.48Crafted in Britain is a celebration of Britain's traditional crafts and industries that have survived into the modern world, not as museums but on their merits. In an age of increasing automation and standardisation, it is a joy to find such places,... -
The Vikings in Britain and Ireland by Jayne Carroll
RRP: £10.99£7.40For nearly three hundred years, the Vikings set out on voyages from Scandinavia reaching every corner of the northern world. As raiders, traders, explorers and colonizers, they had a profound impact on those cultures with which they came into contact... -
The King's Only Champion: James Graham, First Marquess of Montrose by Dominic Pearce
RRP: £22.99£15.18James Graham was a Scottish nobleman, poet and soldier who joined the Covenanters but sided with Charles I as the English Civil War progressed. Through a string of brilliant military victories, Montrose won the civil war in Scotland until it was plain... -
Thomas MacDonagh: 16Lives by Shane Kenna
RRP: £15.99£12.37Born in Cloughjordan in Co. Tipperary, MacDonagh was a poet and playwright, an educator and political activist. Appointed to the IRB Military Council he became a member of the Provisional Government of the Irish Republic and was a signatory of the 1916... -
Rebellion: Britain's First Stuart Kings, 1567-1642 by Tim Harris 9780199209002
RRP: £34.49£25.56A gripping new account of one of the most important and exciting periods of British and Irish history: the reign of the first two Stuart kings, from 1567 to the outbreak of civil war in 1642 - and why ultimately all three of their kingdoms were to rise... -
R. J. Mitchell: To the Spitfire by John Shelton
RRP: £40.00£29.80R. J. Mitchell at Supermarine is the definitive account of the life of Britain's best-known aeronautical engineer. Shelton calls upon unpublished letters, extensive press accounts, and updated material from his previous publications, concentrating... -
Finding Home: A Windrush Story by Alford Dalrymple Gardner
RRP: £18.99£13.61On 24 May 1948, the Empire Windrush sailed from Kingston, Jamaica, to harbour at Tilbury Docks. It carried 1,027 passengers and some stowaways, and more than two thirds of them were West Indies nationals. On 22 June 1948 they disembarked onto the docks,...