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The Worm in the Apple: A History of the Conservative Party and Europe from Churchill to Cameron: 2022 by Christopher Tugendhat 9781913368531
RRP: £20.00£14.06The Conservative Party have been in power for 47 of the 65 years since the end of the Second World War. During that time the division within the party over Europe has been the enduring drama of British politics - from Churchill's decision not to join the... -
Execution: A History of Capital Punishment in Britain by Simon Webb
RRP: £16.99£12.94Judicial hanging is regarded by many as being the quintessentially British execution. However, many other methods of capital punishment have been used in this country; ranging from burning, beheading and shooting to crushing and boiling to death... -
British Aircraft of the Falklands War by Lee Chapman
RRP: £15.99£11.61The Falkland Islands is a remote British territory, about 8,000 miles from the UK mainland and just over 400 miles from the coast of Argentina. The ownership of the islands had long been disputed, but it reached a boiling point in March 1982, when a... -
Liverpool's Children in the 1950s by Pamela Russell
RRP: £16.99£15.26Full of the warmth and excitement of growing up in the 1950s, awakening nostalgia for times that seemed cosy and carefree with families at last enjoying peacetime, this book is packed with the experience of school days, playtime, holidays, toys, games,... -
Operators: On the Streets with Britain's Most Secret Service by James Rennie 9781781592625
£16.57Few outside the security services have heard of 14 Company. As deadly as the SAS yet more secret, the Operators of 14 Company are Britain's most effective weapon against international terrorism. For every bomb that goes off 14 Company prevent twelve. The... -
The Fires of Lust: Sex in the Middle Ages by Katherine Harvey 9781789144895
RRP: £20.00£14.69An illuminating exploration of the surprisingly familiar sex lives of ordinary medieval people. The medieval humoral system of medicine suggested that it was possible to die from having too much-or too little-sex, while the Roman Catholic Church... -
The Historical Atlas of the British Isles by Alex Swanston
RRP: £19.99£16.50This atlas covers the history of the British Isles from earliest times to the present day.The first hunter-gatherers,who crossed into what would become our familiar islands by the land-bridge, and later followed by more familiar peoples the Celts,Angles,... -
Who Do the English Think They Are?: From the Anglo-Saxons to Brexit by Derek J. Taylor
RRP: £11.99£8.93The English are often confused about who they are. They say 'British' when they mean 'English', and 'English' when they should say 'British.' But when England, more than the rest of the UK, voted to leave the EU, polls showed national identity was a big... -
The Hot Trod: A History of the Anglo-Scottish Border by John Sadler
RRP: £22.99£15.18The 2014 Scottish independence debate and the re-ignition of the SNP's call for a second vote in the wake of Brexit - and indeed Brexit itself - begs a reappraisal of what nationality and borderer identity actually mean in the twenty-first century and... -
Grinling Gibbons and the Art of Carving by David Esterly 9781838510299
RRP: £35.00£27.82'David Esterly's handsome book on Gibbons has been republished by the V&A with sumptuous pictures' Laura Freeman, The Times, 14th August 2021 Reissued to mark 300 years since the death of Grinling Gibbons (1648-1721), this study views the work of the... -
The Socialist Patriot: George Orwell and War by Peter Stansky 9781503635494
RRP: £11.99£8.71An incisive demonstration of how Orwell's body of work was defined by the four major conflicts that punctuated his life: World War I, the Spanish Civil War, World War II, and the Cold War. Few English writers wielded a pen so sharply as George Orwell,... -
George IV (Penguin Monarchs): King in Waiting by Stella Tillyard
RRP: £12.99£9.09George IV spent most of his life waiting to become king: as a pleasure-loving and rebellious Prince of Wales during the sixty-year reign of his father, George III, and for ten years as Prince Regent, when his father went mad. 'The days are very long... -
The Light of Days: Women Fighters of the Jewish Resistance - Their Untold Story by Judy Batalion
RRP: £20.00£14.35A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Original and compelling, an untold story of rare and captivating power' Philippe Sands'A fascinating history about a little-known group who took on the Nazis . . . The individual tales of these courageous young women are... -
Directing the Tunnellers' War: The Tunnelling Memoirs of Captain H Dixon MC RE by Phillip Robinson 9781526714411
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Following in the Footsteps of Oliver Cromwell: A Historical Guide to the Civil War by James Hobson 9781526734839
RRP: £12.99£8.32Oliver Cromwell is one of the most important figures in British History. He was both soldier and politician and the only non-Royal ruler of Britain in a thousand years. His actions and ideas still have political and social consequences today, and his... -
Flying Scotsman: The World's most famous steam locomotive: 2019 by Brian Sharpe
RRP: £14.99£9.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911658023Author Brian SharpeFormat HardbackPage Count 162Imprint Mortons Media GroupPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 516gDimensions(mm) 245mm *... -
Edward I by Michael Prestwich 9780300071573
RRP: £25.00£21.32Edward I-one of the outstanding monarchs of the English Middle Ages-pioneered legal and parliamentary change in England, conquered Wales, and came close to conquering Scotland. A major player in European diplomacy and war, he acted as peacemaker during... -
Power Trip: A Decade of Policy, Plots and Spin by Damian McBride 9781785908385
RRP: £14.99£11.13From 1999 to 2009, Damian McBride worked at the heart of the Treasury and No. 10. He was a pivotal member of Gordon Brown's inner circle before a notorious scandal propelled him out of Downing Street and onto the front pages. When he released his memoir... -
Victorian Scrapbook by Robert Pole 9780954795498
RRP: £14.95£10.78The Victorian Era represents the cradle of our modern society - a time when social change and new technology heralded an industrialised economy. By the time of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897, claims were proudly made of the progress since her... -
Around Lewisham & Deptford by John Coulter
RRP: £12.99£12.25Lewisham and Deptford have been a single borough since 1965, but they have very different histories. Deptford became an important shipbuilding centre after Henry VIII established a royal dockyard there; this attracted over heavy industry. Lewisham and... -
How Books, Reading and Subscription Libraries Defined Colonial Clubland in the British Empire by Sterling Joseph Coleman
RRP: £39.99£35.06How Books, Reading and Subscription Libraries Defined Colonial Clubland in the British Empire argues that within an entangled web of imperial, colonial and book trade networks books, reading and subscription libraries contributed to a core and peripheral... -
The Perilous Catch: A History of Commercial Fishing by Mike Smylie 9780752498003
RRP: £14.99£11.55For centuries Britain's commercial fishermen have ventured out into the ravages of the surrounding seas to bring fish back both to supply a home market and for export around the world. Fishing is one of history's most dangerous jobs, and when disasters... -
William Marshal: The Greatest Knight That Ever Lived by Robin Griffith-Jones
RRP: £6.00£4.44William Marshal, born about 1147, was the son of a minor lord who held the hereditary title of 'Marshal', or head of the king's security. He became a knight loyal to five kings, the most powerful man in the kingdom, the hero of Magna Carta and a saviour... -
Northfield Past & Present by Veronica Smith
RRP: £12.99£9.62This book includes a fascinating selection of previously unseen photographs drawn from the collections of local residents. Northfield has a beautiful conservation area about which much has been written, but the authors, John and Jean Smith, have... -
Britain's Jews: Confidence, Maturity, Anxiety by Harry Freedman
RRP: £20.00£15.32'...detailed and fair.' - The Spectator 'An exhaustive, impressive achievement.' - The Tablet As a minority, Jews in Britain are confident, their institutions competent and mature. And yet within Jewish life in Britain there is a pervading sense of... -
The Creation of Anne Boleyn: In Search of the Tudors' Most Notorious Queen by Susan Bordo 9781780745251
RRP: £12.99£9.09Part biography, part cultural history, The Creation of Anne Boleyn is a fascinating reconstruction of Anne's life and an illuminating look at her afterlife in the popular imagination. Why is Anne so compelling? Why does she inspire such extreme... -
Constance Markievicz: Little Library 3 by John Burke 9780717184552
RRP: £9.99£7.11The third book in the Little Library series. When your collection is complete, you'll have a little library - and big knowledge! Discover the REVOLUTIONARY that was CONSTANCE MARKIEVICZ! Constance Markievicz grew up in Co. Sligo in the late 1800s... -
Rex v Edith Thompson: A Tale of Two Murders by Laura Thompson
RRP: £9.99£7.11'Another dark parable of society's vilification of women. Intelligent... A tantalizing investigation' Kate Colquhoun. On the night of 3 October 1922, in the quiet suburb of Ilford, Edith Thompson and her husband Percy were walking home after an... -
Visions of Isobel Gowdie: Magic, Witchcraft & Dark Shamanism in Seventeenth-Century Scotland by Emma Wilby
RRP: £42.50£39.25The confessions of Isobel Gowdie are widely recognised as the most extraordinary on record in Britain. Their descriptive power and vivid imagery have attracted considerable interest on both academic and popular levels. Among historians, the confessions... -
Sheila: The Australian ingenue who bewitched British society by Robert Wainwright
RRP: £13.99£9.75Vivacious, confident and striking, young Australian Sheila Chisholm met her first husband, Lord Loughborough, in Egypt during the First World War. Arriving in London as a young married woman, she quickly conquered English society, and would spend the... -
Glory in the Glen: A History of Evangelical Revivals in Scotland 1880-1940 by Tom Lennie
RRP: £12.99£8.83No nation on earth has a richer, more colourful, and more long-standing heritage of evangelical awakenings than Scotland - yet most people are unfamiliar with its dramatic legacy. Most historical studies stop at, or before, the Moody & Sankey Revival... -
WRNS: The Women's Royal Naval Service by Neil R. Storey
RRP: £8.99£6.45From cooks and clerks to weapons analysts and air mechanics, generations of women have served in the Wrens (Women's Royal Naval Service or WRNS). The Royal Navy was the first of the UK armed services to admit women during the First World War with the... -
Around Bury St. Edmunds in Old Photographs: Britain In Old Photographs by Robert Halliday
RRP: £14.99£11.55This is a fascinating selection of images featuring the town of Bury St Edmunds along with many of its surrounding villages. Robert Halliday has collected together over 250 old photographs, and these, coupled with his informative captions, give an... -
The Woman from Heartbreak House by Freda Lightfoot
RRP: £9.99£6.41What will life bring now The Great War is over? The Great War is over and Kate is ready to welcome back Eliot with open arms. But her husband is a changed man. Kate has become used to her independence, and Eliot's return creates tensions both at work and... -
Jewish Refugees from Germany and Austria in Britain, 1933-1970: Their Image in AJR Information by Anthony Grenville
RRP: £19.95£19.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853038528Author Anthony GrenvilleFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdWeight(grams)... -
Lord Elgin and the Marbles by William St. Clair 9780192880536
£66.50`The British say they have saved the Marbles. Well, thank you very much. Now give them back.' Melina Mercouri, actress and politician Ever since the sculptures from the Parthenon arrived in England at the beginning of the last century, they have... -
Radical Scotland: Uncovering Scotland's radical history - from the French Revolutionary era to the 1820 Rising by Kenny MacAskill 9781785905704
RRP: £20.00£14.88The Political Martyrs memorial in Edinburgh looms large on the city's skyline but its history is relatively unknown. And that is not by accident. As Edinburgh's New Town was constructed, a narrative of kilts and loyalty was created for Scotland, with its... -
The West End Front: The Wartime Secrets of London's Grand Hotels by Matthew Sweet
RRP: £12.99£8.56The Ritz, the Savoy, the Dorchester and Claridge's - during the Second World War they teemed with spies, con-artists, deposed royals and the exiled governments of Europe. And now, Matthew Sweet's West End Front is just as teeming with the incredible cast... -
Thomas White: Redesigning the Northern British Landscape by Deborah Turnbull
RRP: £39.99£36.67This volume aims to restore the reputation of Thomas White, who in his time was as well respected as his fellow landscape designers Lancelot 'Capability' Brown and Humphry Repton. By the end of his career, he had produced designs for at least 32 sites... -
Elizabeth: The No 1 Sunday Times bestseller from the writer who knew her and her family for over fifty years by Gyles Brandreth
RRP: £16.99£15.55THE NO 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA personal account of the life and character of Britain's longest-reigning monarch, from the writer who knew her family best'Compelling . . . Fascinating' DAILY MAIL'The writer who got closest to the human truth about our...