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Stoke Newington: The Story of a Dissenting Village by Rab MacWilliam 9780750990912
RRP: £15.00£11.55Stoke Newington has long been one of London's most intriguing and radical areas. Famous residents included Daniel Defoe, Mary Wollstonecraft and Edgar Allan Poe, and it was home to a variety of religious dissenting groups, such as Puritans,... -
A New History of the Picts by Stuart McHardy
RRP: £8.99£6.60When the Romans came north to what is now modern Scotland they encountered the fierce and proud warrior society known as the Picts, who despite their lack of discipline and arms, managed to prevent the undefeated Roman Army from conquering the northern... -
Mining in Cornwall Vol 2: The County Explorer by L. J. Bullen 9780752417080
RRP: £12.99£9.62A companion to Volume One: The Central District this book widens it's focus to study important workings accross the Duchy of Cornwall, from the oldest tine mines of the St Just area to the major workings at Tregurtha Downs, Great Wheal Vor and Wheal... -
Palaces of Revolution: Life, Death and Art at the Stuart Court by Simon Thurley
RRP: £10.99£7.25The story of the Stuart dynasty is a breathless soap opera played out in just a hundred years in an array of buildings that span Europe from Scotland, via Denmark, Holland and Spain to England. Life in the court of the House of Stuart has been... -
Early Anglo-Saxon Cemeteries: Kinship, Community and Identity by Duncan Sayer 9781526135568
RRP: £30.00£27.08This book is available as an open access ebook under a CC-BY licence.Early Anglo-Saxon cemeteries are known for their grave goods, but this abundance obscures their interest as the creations of pluralistic, multi-generational communities. This book... -
Women at War 1939-1945: The Home Front by Carol Harris
RRP: £12.99£9.62Long before the outbreak of the Second World War, official calculations showed Britain would be short of the manpower needed to fight the enemy and keep up production of weapons, food and other essentials. It was hoped that women volunteers would full... -
The Story of Leicester by Siobhan Begley 9781860776953
RRP: £25.00£13.50The Story of Leicester traces the evolution of this remarkable city. When the Romans arrived they developed an existing settlement into Ratae, an administrative capital. During the Tudor, Stuart and Georgian periods the town lost status, but remained an... -
Silchester Revealed: The Iron Age and Roman Town of Calleva by Michael Fulford
RRP: £16.99£16.12With its apparently complete town plan, revealed by the Society of Antiquaries of London's great excavation project, 1890-1909, Silchester is one of the best known towns in Roman Britain and the Roman world more widely. Since the 1970s excavations by... -
The Life of Anthony Wood in His Own Words by Nicolas K. Kiessling
RRP: £35.00£29.97Anthony Wood's account of his life is one of the few written by university persons in the seventeenth century. It is full of information about famous people, including Christopher Wren, John Locke, the physician John Lower, the Catholic Ralph Sheldon,... -
Are Ye Dancin'?: The Story of Scotland's Dance Halls - And How Yer Dad Met Yer Ma! by Martin Kielty 9781849340458
RRP: £9.99£7.11Are Ye Dancin'? - The first-ever inside story of how Scotland's ballrooms and dance halls remained a central part of Scottish culture throughout the 20th Century. Told by the people who made it happen, the agents, managers and promoters. Eddie Tobin is... -
Forging the Kingdom: Power in English Society, 973-1189 by Judith A. Green
RRP: £23.99£20.37Between the imperial coronation of Edgar in 973 and the death of Henry II in 1189, English society was transformed. This lively and wide-ranging study explores social and political change in England across this period, and examines the reasons for such... -
Who's In, Who's Out: The Journals of Kenneth Rose: Volume One 1944-1979 by Kenneth Rose 9781474601542
RRP: £30.00£20.40'The most detailed, amusing and accurate account ever of the post-war world of the English Establishment' William Shawcross, Daily Telegraph'Extremely entertaining' Jane Ridley, Literary ReviewKenneth Rose was one of the most astute observers of the... -
Empire of the Clouds: When Britain's Aircraft Ruled the World by James Hamilton-Paterson
RRP: £9.99£3.51In 1945 Britain was the world's leading designer and builder of aircraft - a world-class achievement that was not mere rhetoric. And what aircraft they were. The sleek Comet, the first jet airliner. The awesome delta-winged Vulcan, an intercontinental... -
Literary Trails: Haworth and the Bront s by Walford, David F 9781526720856
RRP: £14.99£10.95This light-hearted but deeply researched book offers interest and guidance to walkers, social historians and lovers of the Bronte family; their lives and works. Set in and around the town of Haworth it gives a dual introduction to walkers and lovers of... -
The Black and Tans: British Police and Auxiliaries in the Irish War of Independence, 1920-1921 by D. M. Leeson 9780199658824
RRP: £41.99£26.43This is the story of the Black and Tans and Auxiliaries, the most notorious police forces in the history of the British Isles. During the Irish War of Independence (1920-1), the British government recruited thousands of ex-soldiers to serve as constables... -
To War With the Walkers: 'Once read, never forgotten' -The Times by Annabel Venning 9781473679320
RRP: £10.99£7.40**DAILY MAIL BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2019****SUNDAY TELEGRAPH CHRISTMAS BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2019**'So blissfully good that I'd give it to a reader of any age . . . deeply touching, unforgettable family memoir'ALLISON PEARSON, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH'Uplifting and... -
Charles: The Misunderstood Prince. 'The royal biography everyone's talking about' The Daily Mail by Sally Bedell Smith
RRP: £12.99£9.09Heir. Prince. King. Discover the real Charles - our King - in the definitive biography from the bestselling author of Elizabeth the Queen 'Brilliant, startling. The royal biography everyone's talking about' Daily Mail_________His destiny was to become... -
Colchester: A History by Andrew Phillips 9780750986915
RRP: £15.99£12.25Colchester boasts 2,000 years of history. Few towns in Britain can equal that. Yet this new book, by a local author, is the first full and concise history of Colchester to be published for over half a century, during which time our knowledge of the... -
Fighting on the Home Front: The Legacy of Women in World War One by Kate Adie 9781444759693
RRP: £12.99£8.60'History at its most celebratory' Daily Telegraph'Adie uses her journalistic eye for personal stories and natural compassion to create a book definitely worthy of her heroines' Big Issue'Fascinating, very readable . . . provides a complete wartime... -
Fortress of Fury by Matthew Harffy
RRP: £9.99£7.75Beobrand is besieged in the action-packed instalment in the Bernicia Chronicles set in AD 647 Anglo-Saxon Britain. War hangs heavy in the hot summer air as Penda of Mercia and his allies march into the north. Caught unawares, the Bernician forces are... -
Tanks on the Streets?: The Battle of George Square, Glasgow, 1919 by Gordon Barclay 9781526782656
RRP: £25.00£17.62At 12.08pm on Friday 31 January 1919, Margaret Buchanan drives her tram into George Square in Glasgow's city centre. She slows down to avoid the youths and men holding their arms up to stop her; some even jump onto the front of her tram. Swirling around... -
Towers of Defiance - Castles and Fortifications of the Welsh Princes by Paul R. Davis
RRP: £19.99£18.61An extremely comprehensive, fully illustrated guide to the history and evolution of the castle under Wales' native rulers (c.1066-1283). Spectacular aerial photography, plans and reconstruction drawings examine the various architectural designs and... -
The Italian Boy: Murder and Grave-Robbery in 1830s London by Sarah Wise
RRP: £12.99£9.09Towards the end of 1831, the authorities unearthed a series of crimes at Number 3, Nova Scotia Gardens in East London that appeared to echo the notorious Burke and Hare killings in Edinburgh three years earlier. After a long investigation, three... -
The Metropolitan-Vickers Type 2 Co-Bo Diesel-Electric Locomotives: From Design to Destruction by Anthony P Sayer 9781526742810
RRP: £40.00£29.99This book provides an in-depth history of the Metropolitan-Vickers diesel-electric Type 2 locomotives, more frequently known collectively as the Co-Bo's due to their unusual wheel arrangement. Twenty locomotives were constructed during the late-1950s for... -
A Life of Industry: The Photography of John R Hume by Daniel Gray
RRP: £20.00£14.64John R Hume is Scotland's foremost expert on industrial heritage. John's greatest passion was - and is - industry. Over the course of the 1960s, 70s and 80s, he took over 25,000 photographs of late-industrial and post-industrial Scotland. His collection... -
Aspects of British Political History 1815-1914 by Stephen J. Lee 9780415090070
RRP: £36.99£32.53Aspects of British History, 1815-1914 addresses the major issues of this much-studied period in a clear and digestible form.* Introduces a fresh feel to long-studied topics* Consolidates a grest deal of recent research* Carefully organised to reflect the... -
British Amphibious Assault Ships: From Suez to the Falklands and the present day by Edward Hampshire
RRP: £12.99£9.09Amphibious assault ships have been at the centre of nearly all of Britain's expeditionary campaigns since World War II, from the Suez crisis of 1956 to operations as far afield as Borneo (1963-66), the Falklands (1982), Sierra Leone (2000) and Iraq... -
A History of Halesowen by Julian Hunt
RRP: £17.99£13.64Halesowen is an old place, planned and laid out by the monks of the Premonstratensian Abbey of Hales. Much has been written about its medieval past and William Shenstone's landscape gardens at the Leasowes, but this history of the town is the first to... -
Funeral for a Queen: Twelve Days in London by John Fraser
RRP: £12.99£8.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781989555903Author John FraserFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint The Sutherland House Inc.Publisher The Sutherland House Inc. -
Property and Politics 1870-1914: Landownership, Law, Ideology and Urban Development in England by Avner Offer 9780521129985
RRP: £30.99£28.68Landed and urban property exercised a powerful influence on social policy, urban development and national party politics in Victorian and Edwardian England. This book presents an innovative study of the economic, legal and social foundations of the... -
The Hidden Horticulturists: The Untold Story of the Men who Shaped Britain's Gardens by Fiona Davison
RRP: £25.00£16.99'Delightful... The Hidden Horticulturists pulsates with the extraordinary energy and excitement of the time.' Daily MailChosen as one of the Sunday Telegraph's 'Top Ten Gardening Books of the Year' _____________________The untold story of the remarkable... -
Iron, Steam & Money: The Making of the Industrial Revolution by Roger Osborne
RRP: £18.99£13.61In late eighteenth-century Britain a handful of men brought about the greatest transformation in human history. Inventors, industrialists and entrepreneurs ushered in the age of powered machinery and the factory, and thereby changed the whole of human... -
Shakespeare's London on 5 Groats a Day by Richard Tames
RRP: £8.99£5.87This entertaining and fact-packed guide provides all the information you'll need to travel back in time to Elizabethan London - a booming city of courtiers, cutthroats, merchants, beggars, lawyers, dramatists, apprentices and adventurers. Find out the... -
British Celtic Coins: Art or Imitation? by Tim Wright 9781912667987
RRP: £30.00£27.78The book aims to introduce pre-Roman British coins to a new audience, by making the subject more accessible, providing a collector lens, and demonstrating the beauty of these coins through images.About the AuthorTim Wright is a collector of ancient coins... -
The Rise of the Labour Party 1880-1945 by Paul Adelman 9780582292109
£35.74This popular study covers two major topics: the formation of the Labour Party and its emergence as the main rival to the conservatives. This transformation of the British political scene has been accounted for in a variety of ways. Dr Adelman examines... -
Queen Elizabeth II and Her Church: Royal Service at Westminster Abbey by The Very Revd Dr John Hall
RRP: £14.99£11.75The Queen, when she was 21, declared that her whole life whether it was long or short would be devoted to service. At the coronation, she was set apart for service after the example of Jesus Christ. In Her Majesty's diamond jubilee year, the Dean of... -
Where Stands A Winged Sentry by Margaret Kennedy 9781912766383
RRP: £12.99£8.63'Most people knew in their hearts that the lid had been taken off hell, and that what had been done in Guernica would one day be done in London, Paris and Berlin.' Margaret Kennedy's prophetic words, written about the pre-war mood in Europe, give the... -
Haunted Swansea and Beyond by South Wales Paranormal Research
RRP: £14.99£11.55South Wales Paranormal Research firmly believes that Wales contains more ghouls and goblins than anywhere else in the country, and this book will take the reader on a paranormal journey through some of the lesser-known stories from Swansea and beyond... -
Access to History: Great Britain and the Irish Question 1774-1923 Fourth Edition by Paul Adelman
£25.21Exam Board: AQA, Edexcel, OCR & WJECLevel: A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: June 2016Give your students the best chance of success with this tried and tested series, combining in-depth analysis, engaging narrative and... -
Imagine A Country: Ideas for a Better Future by Val McDermid
RRP: £12.00£7.95The first step on the road to change is to imagine possibility.Imagine A Country offers visions of a new future from an astonishing array of Scottish voices, from comedians to economists, writers to musicians. Edited, curated and introduced by...