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The Final Crisis of the Stuart Monarchy - The Revolutions of 1688-91 in their British, Atlantic and European Contexts by Tim Harris 9781783270446
RRP: £24.99£23.92Written in a lively and engaging style, and designed to be accessible to a broader audience, this collection combines new research with the latest scholarship to provide a fresh and invigorating introduction to the revolutionary period that transformed... -
Empire of Booze by Henry Jeffreys 9781783525157
RRP: £10.99£7.47Winner of the Fortnum and Mason Best Debut Drink Book Award 2017From renowned booze correspondent Henry Jeffreys comes this rich and full-bodied history of Britain and the Empire, told through the improbable but true stories of how the world's favourite... -
20th Century Britain: Economic, Cultural and Social Change by Nicole Robertson
RRP: £33.99£32.9620th Century Britain provides an authoritative and accessible survey of contemporary research on economic activity, society, political development and culture. Written by leading academics, it examines recent advances in scholarship and gives a grounding... -
Steep, Strait and High - Ancient Houses of Central Lincoln by Christopher Johnson
RRP: £40.00£39.55Architectural and historical surveys of many of the most important buildings in Lincoln. This volume illuminates the development of different building styles in timber, stone and brick over a period of 750 years, in one of the oldest areas of Lincoln... -
Demobbed: Coming Home After World War Two by Alan Allport 9780300168860
RRP: £10.99£9.37The trials, troubles and triumphs of returning home after the end of World War Two. What happened when millions of British servicemen were "demobbed"-demobilized-after World War II? Most had been absent for years, and the joy of arrival was often clouded... -
The Light's On At Signpost: Memoirs of the Movies, among other matters by George MacDonald Fraser
RRP: £9.99£6.64From the author of the ever-popular Flashman novels, a collection of film-world reminiscences and trenchant thoughts on Cool Britannia, New Labour and other abominations. George MacDonald Fraser has been a newspaperman, soldier, novelist... -
A Royal Christmas by Jeremy Archer
RRP: £10.99£7.47'A rich achievement full of glorious anecdotes' Hugo Vickers A Royal Christmas is a Christmas pudding of a book, enticingly full of silver threepenny pieces. Organised thematically, it covers such topics as Christmas and conflict in the 20th... -
Bristol Murders by Nicola Sly
RRP: £14.99£11.55Contained within the pages of Bristol Murders are the stories behind some of the most heinous crimes ever committed in Bristol. They include the murder and suicide of a brother and sister in 1842; the tragic death of 10-year-old Mabel Price in 1897; the... -
Queer Beyond London by Matt Cook
RRP: £20.00£14.93Where exactly is queer England? There has been much discussion of London as a queer city, but what about the many thousands of queer lives lived elsewhere? From Manchester's bars and nightclubs, to Brighton's seafront, the attractions of Leeds to the... -
The Annotated Prison Writings of Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde
RRP: £19.95£16.12"And I? May I say nothing, my lord?" With these words, Oscar Wilde's courtroom trials came to a close. The lord in question, High Court justice Sir Alfred Wills, sent Wilde to the cells, sentenced to two years in prison with hard labor for the crime of... -
Lost Heirs of the Medieval Crown: The Kings and Queens Who Never Were by J F Andrews 9781526736512
RRP: £19.99£14.28When William the Conqueror died in 1087 he left the throne of England to William Rufus his second son. The result was an immediate war as Rufus's elder brother Robert fought to gain the crown he saw as rightfully his; this conflict marked the start of... -
Stopping Places: A Gypsy History of South London and Kent by Simon Evans 9781902806303
RRP: £14.99£13.64The story of the enforced settlement of Gypsy travelers in southeast England, whose nomadic lifestyle ended when they were moved to concrete ghettos of local-government-run caravan sites following the 1968 Caravan Sites Act, is told in this textual and... -
The NHS at 70: A Living History by Ellen Welch
RRP: £12.99£9.09At midnight on 5th July 1948, the National Health Service was born with the founding principal to be free at the point of use and based on clinical need rather than on a person's ability to pay. Seventy years since its formation, these core principals... -
Mosquito Victory by Jack Currie 9780907579335
RRP: £9.99£5.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780907579335Author Jack CurrieFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Goodall Publications LtdPublisher Crecy Publishing -
England's Queens From Boudica to Elizabeth of York by Elizabeth Norton
RRP: £10.99£7.25England has always been a place of queens. The earliest known lived nearly 2,000 years ago. Early queens, such as Boudica and Cartimandua, are historical figures, while others, such as Cordelia and Guinevere, are mythical. In both historical documents... -
Describing Women’s Clothing in Eighteenth-Century England by Dr Elizabeth Spencer 9781837650347
RRP: £80.00£76.61Uncovers sources from the parish pauper to the gentlewoman to consider relationships with clothing across the social hierarchy in the long eighteenth century. Descriptions of women's clothing increasingly circulated across textual genres and beyond in... -
The Third Plantagenet: George, Duke of Clarence, Richard III's Brother by John Ashdown-Hill 9780752499499
RRP: £16.99£13.34Less well-known than his brothers, Edward IV and Richard III, little has been written about George, Duke of Clarence, leaving us with a series of unanswered questions: What was he really like? What set him and his brother Edward IV against one another?... -
Thomas Telford by L. T. C. Rolt
RRP: £14.99£11.55Thomas Telford, the son of a shepherd, was born in Westerkirk, Scotland in 1757. At the age of 14, he was apprenticed to a stonemason. He worked for a time in Edinburgh and in 1792, he moved to London where he was involved in building additions to... -
H. H. Asquith Letters to Venetia Stanley by Michael Brock
£40.21H. H. Asquith fell in love with Venetia Stanley in the spring of 1912. Over the next three years he wrote to her whenever he could not see her: sometimes three times a day, sometimes during a debate in the house of Commons, on occasion even during a... -
The Final Archives of the FüHrerbunker: Berlin in 1945, the Chancellery and the Last Days of Hitler by Paul Villatoux 9781612009049
RRP: £29.99£20.94In November 1945, two French officers secretly entered the Fuhrerbunker, the air raid shelter near the Chancellery in Berlin. The bunker was the last home of Adolf Hitler, the background of the last months of his life, and the war, where he married Eva... -
Ark Royal: Sailing Into Glory by Mike Rossiter 9780552174541
RRP: £15.99£11.61In June 1941 the Ark Royal won one of Britain's most famous naval victories. The German destroyer, Bismarck, had been ravaging the British fleet in the Atlantic. Sailing through a ferocious storm the Ark Royal tracked the Bismarck. A dozen swordfish... -
A Pattern of Secrets by Lindsay Littleson
RRP: £6.99£4.92Paisley 1876. 12-year-old Jim has escaped from the Poor House and now he must save his little brother from the same fate. His only hope lies in a mysterious family heirloom - a Paisley patterned shawl that has five guineas sewn into its hem - the... -
A Strange Campaign: The Battle for Madagascar by Russell Phillips 9781912680276
RRP: £8.99£8.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912680276Author Russell PhillipsFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Shilka PublishingPublisher Shilka PublishingWeight(grams) 109gDimensions(mm) 203mm... -
The Most Beautiful Villages of England by James Bentley
RRP: £18.95£17.75Villages are the very embodiment of Englishness. The village inn and the local farm, great houses, humble cottages and beautiful country gardens speak of a way of life that has developed peacefully since Anglo-Saxon times. A few days spent in England's... -
The Barn: The Lives, Landscape and Lost Ways of an Old Yorkshire Farm by Sally Coulthard
RRP: £10.99£7.77A revelatory uncovering of a vanished agricultural way of life by bestselling nature writer Sally Coulthard. 'A gem of a book' Country Smallholding 'Engaging and filled with gentle humour and fascinating facts' Get History 'Shows us the beauty and... -
Largo's Untold Stories by Leonard Low 9781904246398
RRP: £9.95£7.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904246398Author Leonard LowFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Steve Savage Publishers LimitedPublisher Steve Savage Publishers Limited -
Brexit Without The Bullshit: The Facts on Food, Jobs, Schools, and the NHS by Gavin Esler 9781912454358
RRP: £8.99£5.82'Punchy, pithy and short.' - POLLY TOYNBEE, GUARDIAN COLUMNIST 'In an ideal world every citizen would read this essential book, and think hard.' - PROFESSOR AC GRAYLING, ACADEMIC The broadcaster and journalist Gavin Esler reveals the long-lasting... -
The Little Book of Surrey by Ruper Matthews 9780752456331
RRP: £9.99£7.55The Little Book of Surrey is a funny, fast-paced, fact-packed compendium of the sort of frivolous, fantastic or simply strange information which no-one will want to be without. The county's most unusual crimes and punishments, eccentric inhabitants,... -
A Sword for Christ: The Republican Era in Great Britain and Ireland by Jonathan Cobb
RRP: £30.00£19.70The fifteen-year period between 1645 and 1660 was one of the most dynamic in British history, during which the republican Commonwealth and Cromwellian Protectorate attempted to create a new type of 'Godly' state after the execution of Charles I. ... -
Tower by Nigel Jones 9780099537656
RRP: £14.99£10.95No building has been more intimately involved in the story of Britain than the Tower of London - a mighty, brooding stronghold in the very heart of the capital. Castle, prison, torture chamber, execution site, zoo, mint, treasure house, armoury,... -
King James VI and I and the Reunion of Christendom by W. B. Patterson 9780521793858
RRP: £29.99£27.80This book shows King James VI and I, king of Scotland and England, in an unaccustomed light. Long regarded as inept, pedantic, and whimsical, James is shown here as an astute and far-sighted statesman whose reign was focused on achieving a permanent... -
Invasive Aliens: The Plants and Animals From Over There That Are Over Here by Dan Eatherley 9780008262785
RRP: £9.99£6.64'The story of "invasive species" is really the story of human history, and Eatherley tells it with great verve ... Fascinating' Daily Telegraph A unique history of plant and animal invaders of the British isles spanning thousands... -
Royal Tombs of Medieval England by Mark Duffy 9780752425795
RRP: £27.50£20.68This comprehensive and detailed survey of English royal tombs from 1066-1509, including junior royals as well as kings and queens, is combined with accounts of burial practice, tomb design, craftsmen, and construction.Book InformationISBN... -
Railway Posters by Lorna Frost
RRP: £8.99£7.40Railway posters have huge appeal for the modern audience, but just what explains this continuing interest? Enduring images of iconic locomotives, bathing beauties and characters such as Sunny South Sam are testament to the creativity of the railway... -
The South Downs by Peter Brandon
RRP: £20.00£15.44The South Downs has throughout history been a focus of English popular culture. With chalkland, their river valleys and scarp-foot the Downs have been shaped for over millennia by successive generations of farmers, ranging from Europe's oldest... -
Visitors' Historic Britain: Northumberland: Romans to Victorians by Craig Armstrong 9781526702784
RRP: £12.99£9.09Northumberland to the Romans it was Ad Fines, the limit of the Empire, the end of the Roman World. It was here in 122 AD that the Emperor Hadrian decided to build a wall stretching from coast-to-coast to provide protection, to show the might of the... -
Shrewsbury in the 1950s, `60s and `70s: Britain in Old Photographs by David Trumper
RRP: £12.99£9.62The county town of Shropshire underwent great changes in the twenty-five years between 1950 and 1975, when the council's watchword was 'down with the old and up with the new'. This book contains over 180 images of Shrewsbury from that time, from the... -
Electric Arches by Eve Ewing
RRP: £9.99£7.11Blending stark realism with the surreal and fantastic, Eve L. Ewing's narrative takes us from the streets of Chicago to an unspecified future, deftly navigating the boundaries of space, time, and reality. Ewing imagines familiar figures in magical... -
The Journey to the Mayflower: God's Outlaws and the Invention of Freedom by Stephen Tomkins
RRP: £20.00£13.75'Wonderfully learned, wonderfully written, a microscopic examination of the acorn from which a truly mighty oak would spring. I learnt a huge amount.' - Tom Holland, author of Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind2020 sees the 400th anniversary of the... -
Coatbridge: Images of Scotland by Helen Moir 9780752421322
RRP: £14.99£11.55Located in the parish of Old Monkland, Coatbridge was a sleepy collection of villages until the late eighteenth century. Then, with the discovery of ironstone, the building of the Monkland Canal and the increased mining of coal, the sleepy villages grew...