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The Little Book of Lincolnshire by Lucy Wood 9780750963619
RRP: £9.99£7.55The Little Book of Lincolnshire is a compendium of fascinating information about this historic county, past and present. Contained within is a plethora of entertaining facts about Lincolnshire's famous and occasionally infamous men and women, its towns... -
Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in History by Sir Richard J. Evans 9780349141435
RRP: £14.99£9.80At the time of his death at the age of 95, Eric Hobsbawm (1917-2012) was the most famous historian in the world. His books were translated into more than fifty languages and he was as well known in Brazil and Italy as he was in Britain and the United... -
Battle of Britain The Breaking Storm: 10 July 1940 12 August 1940 by Dilip Sarkar 9781399056410
RRP: £25.00£19.62Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
In Pursuit of Spring by Edward Thomas
RRP: £15.00£10.96In mid to late March 1913, as the storm clouds of the Great War which was to claim his life gathered, Edward Thomas took a bicycle ride from Clapham to the Quantock Hills. The poet recorded his journey through his beloved South Country and his account... -
Speak for Britain!: A New History of the Labour Party by Martin Pugh
RRP: £13.99£9.75Written at a critical juncture in the history of the Labour Party, Speak for Britain! is a thought-provoking and highly original interpretation of the party's evolution, from its trade union origins to its status as a national governing party. It charts... -
The Magic Box: Viewing Britain through the Rectangular Window by Rob Young
RRP: £12.99£9.24A LOUDER THAN WAR BOOK OF THE YEARA riveting journey into the psyche of Britain through its golden age of television and film; a cross-genre feast of moving pictures, from classics to occult hidden gems, The Magic Box is the nation's visual self-portrait... -
The Democratic Intellect: Scotland and Her Universities in the Nineteenth Century: An Edinburgh Classic by George Elder Davie
RRP: £23.99£21.85An Edinburgh Classic edition of the cornerstone work on Scotland's intellectual identity First published in 1961, The Democratic Intellect provoked a re-evaluation of Scotland's philosophy of itself. George Davie's account of the history of the... -
King Henry VIII by Angela Royston
RRP: £6.00£4.44Henry Tudor is probably the best known king in English history, most famous for having had six wives. Henry wanted immortality, not as a notorious husband, but as a king who made England strong and powerful. Essential to that, he believed, was the... -
Standards of Living in the Later Middle Ages: Social Change in England c.1200-1520 by Christopher Dyer
RRP: £42.99£37.77Between 1200 and 1520 medieval English society went through a series of upheavals: this was an age of war, pestilence and rebellion. This book explores the realities of life of the people who lived through those stirring times. It looks in turn at... -
English Canals Explained by Stan Yorke 9781853068256
RRP: £7.95£6.61The English canal network becomes increasingly popular and widely used each year. The main aim of this book is to explain how everything works - from locks and lifts, to tunnels and towpaths. Stan Yorke, a life-long narrow boat enthusiast, explains in an... -
The Great Imperial Hangover: How Empires Have Shaped the World by Samir Puri
RRP: £10.99£7.32'An exceptional account.' Prospect'Enlightening.' SpectatorFor the first time in millennia we live without formal empires. But that doesn't mean we don't feel their presence rumbling through history. The Great Imperial Hangover examines how the world's... -
Meghan and the Unmasking of the Monarchy by Andrew Morton
RRP: £15.99£10.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538747339Author Andrew MortonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Grand Central PublishingPublisher Grand Central PublishingWeight(grams)... -
The Violence of Britishness: Racism, Borders and the Conditions of Citizenship by Nadya Ali
RRP: £16.99£11.54In post-Brexit Britain wracked by multiple crises, the entitlements of citizenship grow increasingly precarious. 'Britishness' is a way of understanding the nation shaped by white nationalism that acts as a powerful tool of racial bordering, separating... -
The Assassin in the Greenwood (Hugh Corbett Mysteries, Book 7): A medieval mystery of intrigue, murder and treachery by Paul Doherty
RRP: £9.99£6.80In the summer of 1302 the famous Robin of Locksley, popularly known as Robin Hood, has gone back to his outlaw ways in Sherwood Forest where he battles against royal authority, culminating in the barborous massacre of royal tax collectors and the... -
Street Food: Hawkers and the History of London by Charlie Taverner 9780192846945
RRP: £34.49£30.07This is the story of the women, men, boys, and girls who hawked oysters, cherries, cabbages, and pies on London's streets, feeding the capital throughout its transformation from medieval city to global metropolis. Street Food reconstructs the working... -
Between Two Worlds: How the English Became Americans by Malcolm Gaskill
RRP: £16.99£12.68Between Two Worlds is a story teeming with people on the move, making decisions, indulging or resisting their desires and dreams. In the seventeenth century a quarter of a million men, women, and children left England's shores for America. Some were... -
Left for Dead?: The Strange Death and Rebirth of Labour Britain by Lewis Goodall
RRP: £9.99£6.64A timely and provocative account of the fall of New Labour, the rise of Corbyn, and what it means for the left in Britain. 'Lewis Goodall is one of the most exciting voices in British politics right now'... -
Kitchener: Hero and Anti-Hero by C. Brad Faught
£54.87Horatio Herbert Kitchener, Earl Kitchener of Khartoum (1850-1916) is one of the most important figures in the history of the British Empire. Beginning as Royal Engineer in the 1870s he would end his career over forty years later as Secretary of State for... -
The Honours of Scotland: The Story of the Scottish Crown Jewels and the Stone of Destiny by Chris Tabraham
RRP: £9.99£6.79The Honours of Scotland tells the turbulent story of the Honours - Scotland's crown jewels - and the equally dramatic tale of the Stone of Destiny. Over the centuries, Scotland's monarchy experienced relentless conflict and shifts in power. But... -
The Guy Liddell Diaries Vol.II: 1942-1945: MI5's Director of Counter-Espionage in World War II by Nigel West
RRP: £54.99£48.12WALLFLOWERS is the codename given to one of the Security Service's most treasured possessions, the daily journal dictated from August 1939 to June 1945 by MI5's Director of Counter-Espionage, Guy Liddell, to his secretary, Margo Huggins. The document was... -
Oh, What a Lovely Century: One man's marvellous adventures in love, war and high society by Roderic Fenwick Owen 9780751583021
RRP: £20.00£6.92A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR'A completely extraordinary autobiography. One that reads like the most outlandish, beguiling fiction but that is - amazingly - all true' - William Boyd, Sunday Times bestselling author'Outrageous fun...my goodness there are... -
Islanded: Britain, Sri Lanka, and the Bounds of an Indian Ocean Colony by Sujit Sivasundaram
RRP: £42.00£40.81How did the British come to conquer South Asia in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries? Answers to this question usually start in northern India, neglecting the dramatic events that marked Britain's contemporaneous subjugation of the island... -
Vita and Harold: The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson 1919-1962 by Nigel Nicolson
RRP: £12.99£8.60The classic story of the relationship between Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson, and a unique portrait of the Bloomsbury Group.'Vita and Harold have become part of our literature' OBSERVERThe marriage of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson was... -
The Last Princess: The Devoted Life of Queen Victoria's Youngest Daughter by Matthew Dennison 9781789544701
RRP: £9.99£7.11Beatrice Mary Victoria Feodore, later Princess Henry of Battenberg, was the last-born - in 1866 - of Victoria and Albert's children, and she would outlive all of her siblings to die as recently as 1944. Her childhood coincided with her mother's extended... -
London Labour and the London Poor: A Cyclopaedia of the Condition and Earnings of Those That Will Work, Those That Cannot Work, and Those That Will No by Henry Mayhew 9781605207339
RRP: £29.99£24.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781605207339Author Henry MayhewFormat PaperbackPage Count 536Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 744gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm... -
Luxury Railway Travel: A Social and Business History by Martyn Pring 9781526713247
RRP: £35.00£14.58British luxury rail travel was not just the domain of the Pullman Company. In fact, they were far from the only providers as railway companies in Britain were extremely active from late Victorian times competing for leisure business. Various railway... -
The Rise of the New Model Army by Mark A. Kishlansky 9780521273770
RRP: £44.99£38.54This is a meticulously-researched and highly controversial study of the origins and development of parliamentary and extra-parliamentary politics during the English Civil War. Professor Kishlansky challenges the fundamental assumptions upon which all... -
Homecoming: The Scottish Years of Mary, Queen of Scots by Rosemary Goring
RRP: £22.00£15.11One of the most famous queens in history, Mary Stuart lived in her homeland for just twelve years: as a dauntless child who laughed at her friends' seasickness as they sailed to safety in France and later, on her return as a 18-year-old widow to take... -
Cuthbert and the Northumbrian Saints by Paul Frodsham 9780955540639
RRP: £14.99£12.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955540639Author Paul FrodshamFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Northern HeritagePublisher Northern Heritage ServicesDimensions(mm) 230mm * 164mm * 8mm -
The Ipswich Witch: Mary Lackland and the Suffolk Witch Hunts by David L. Jones 9780752480527
RRP: £14.99£11.55The year 1645 saw the biggest witch-hunt in English history. Faced by the extreme challenges of religious dissent, poverty, sickness and the threat of foreign invasion, Ipswich became an ideological battlefield during the English Civil Wars. Here... -
The Shaping of Modern Britain: Identity, Industry and Empire 1780 - 1914 by Eric Evans 9781408225646
£38.94In this wide-ranging history of modern Britain, Eric Evans surveys every aspect of the period in which Britain was transformed into the world's first industrial power. By the end of the nineteenth century, Britain was still ruled by wealthy landowners,... -
Banbury: A History by Brian Little 9780750983679
RRP: £14.99£11.55Banbury was laid out as a planned new town in the 12th century by Alexander, Bishop of Lincoln. It incorporated a market place and was protected by the second in a series of castles. His grant of a charter launched the town as a regional trading centre... -
Spain, Rumor, and Anti-Catholicism in Mid-Jacobean England: The Palatine Match, Cleves, and the Armada Scares of 1612-1613 and 1614 by Calvin F. Senning
RRP: £39.99£35.06Geoffrey Parker has remarked that the Spanish Armada, though a disastrous defeat, was a considerable psychological success. Deep into the seventeenth century the specter of a returning armada haunted England. Twice in the middle of James I's reign alarms... -
The Burden of Power: Countdown to Iraq - The Alastair Campbell Diaries by Alastair Campbell
RRP: £16.99£12.28The Burden of Power is the fourth volume of Alastair Campbell's diaries, and perhaps the most eagerly awaited given the ground it covers. It begins on September 11, 2001, a day which immediately wrote itself into the history books, and it ends on the day... -
Tracing Your Welsh Ancestors by Beryl Evans 9781848843592
RRP: £14.99£10.95Few previous publications have focused on Welsh family history, and none have provided a comprehensive guide to the genealogical information available and where to find it. That is why the publication of Beryl Evans's new Welsh family history handbook is... -
The Boy from Nowhere by Gregor Fisher
RRP: £9.99£6.64The warm, funny memoir of Gregor Fisher, the much loved Scottish actor best known for Rab C. Nesbitt, told as he uncovers his dramatic family history. Growing up in the Glasgow suburbs, Gregor was 14 when he asked where he was christened and... -
Who Runs Edinburgh? by David McCrone
RRP: £14.99£12.55This book tells Edinburgh's modern story and unveils its power structure. It examines its politics, its political economy and the rise of its status as Festival city. The book explores arguments about what sort of city Edinburgh should be and what it... -
Soldiers, Writers and Statesmen of the English Revolution by Ian Gentles 9780521038751
RRP: £42.99£36.19Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
London In The Nineteenth Century: 'A Human Awful Wonder of God' by Jerry White
RRP: £30.00£21.35Jerry White's London in the Nineteenth Century is the richest and most absorbing account of the city's greatest century by its leading expert.London in the nineteenth century was the greatest city mankind had ever seen. Its growth was stupendous. Its... -
Folklore of Cornwall by Clifford Shaw 9780752429298
RRP: £14.99£11.55Standing alone at the bottom tip of England and despite the enormous influx of tourists it receives each year, Cornwall boasts many unique traditions. This volume touches on the wide variety of legends, songs and stories and their relationship with the...