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The Living Wells of Wales: New photographs and old tales of our sacred springs, holy wells and spas by Phil Cope 9781781724965
RRP: €23.80€18.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781724965Author Phil CopeFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales Press -
The Ship Asunder: A Maritime History of Britain in Eleven Vessels by Tom Nancollas
RRP: €13.08€9.25A Sunday Times Book of the Year 'Three and a half millennia of British Maritime history, from the Middle Bronze Age to the early 20th century ... This book is written with passion and sympathy. It will live with me for a very long time' Francis Pryor,... -
Shelley: The Pursuit by Richard Holmes
RRP: €23.79€16.34A fantastic reissue of Richard Holmes' epic biography of this most enigmatic and intriguing of the Romantic poets. This is simply one of the greatest biographical achievements of recent years. Shelley, the most neglected of all the great... -
Ten Men Dead by David Beresford
RRP: €17.84€11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780586065334Author David BeresfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins PublishersWeight(grams) 230gDimensions(mm)... -
The English Civil War: A Military History by Peter Gaunt
RRP: €26.17€22.94Sir, God hath taken away your eldest son by a cannon shot. It brake his leg. We were necessitated to have it cut off, whereof he died.' In one of the most famous and moving letters of the Civil War, Oliver Cromwell told his brother-in-law that on 2 July... -
Home Waters: Discovering the submerged science of Britain’s coast by David Bowers
RRP: €13.08€9.70A fascinating and original look at how the sea has defined Britain - and decided the course of its history - for thousands of years. Being an island nation is a core part of the British identity. An estimated two thirds of the world's population have... -
Lancaster And York: The Wars of the Roses by Alison Weir
RRP: €17.84€11.34A lucid, gripping account of the human side of one of the bloodiest chapters of British history. The war between the houses of Lancaster and York for the throne of England was characterised by treachery, deceit and - at St Albans, Blore Hill and Towton,... -
The Secret Serial Killer: The True Story of Kieran Kelly by Mulhern, Robert 9781526722768
RRP: €23.79€16.99Journalist Robert Mulhern has spent three years investigating claims Kieran Kelly, a two-time convicted killer, has in fact murdered many more people - 31 to be exact. Kelly's claims first emerged in 1983 after he killed his cellmate in London's Clapham... -
A-Z Cambridge Hidden Walks: Discover 20 routes in and around the city by Ruth Meyer
RRP: €8.32€5.71Discover hidden gems around Cambridge with 20 walking routes. Featuring 20 walks in and around the city, including lesser-known circuits and details on popular walks. Accompanied by guided walking instructions and written by a local expert,... -
Scotland's Merlin: A Medieval Legend and its Dark Age Origins by Tim Clarkson
RRP: €17.84€12.82Who was Merlin? Is the famous wizard of Arthurian legend based on a real person? In this book, Merlin's origins are traced back to the story of Lailoken, a mysterious 'wild man' who is said to have lived in the Scottish Lowlands in the sixth century AD... -
Homecoming: Voices of the Windrush Generation by Colin Grant
RRP: €13.08€9.25'A remarkable oral history of black postwar British life... Homecoming is an extraordinary and compelling book' Daily TelegraphHomecoming draws on over a hundred first-hand interviews, archival recordings and memoirs by the women and men who came to... -
The Decline And Fall Of The British Empire by Dr. Piers Brendon
RRP: €20.22€15.09No empire has been larger or more diverse than the British Empire. At its apogee in the 1930s, 42 million Britons governed 500 million foreign subjects. Britannia ruled the waves and a quarter of the earth's surface was painted red on the map. Yet no... -
Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World by Niall Ferguson
RRP: €15.46€10.82Niall Ferguson's acclaimed bestseller on the highs and lows of Britain's empireOnce vast swathes of the globe were coloured imperial red and Britannia ruled not just the waves, but the prairies of America, the plains of Asia, the jungles of Africa and... -
Serial Killers: The World's Most Evil by Nigel Blundell 9781526781741
RRP: €17.84€13.03On an internationally acknowledged Scale of Evil, these are the worlds worst serial killers. The qualifications for entry to this list of the vilest criminals of all time are a propensity for sadism, torture and murder without a shred of remorse. Using... -
A History of Norfolk in 100 Places by David Robertson
RRP: €21.41€15.86Norfolk has a wealth of important archaeological sites, historic buildings and landscapes. This guide is the first to use them to tell the county's rich history.Starting with real footprints of people who lived here nearly 1 million years ago, A History... -
The Mummy's Curse: The true history of a dark fantasy by Roger Luckhurst 9780199698714
€25.35In the winter of 1922-23 archaeologist Howard Carter and his wealthy patron George Herbert, the Fifth Earl of Carnarvon, sensationally opened the tomb of Tutenkhamen. Six weeks later Herbert, the sponsor of the expedition, died in Egypt. The popular... -
Wing Leader by Johnnie Johnson 9780907579243
RRP: €11.89€8.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780907579243Author Air Vice Marshall 'Jonnie' JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Goodall Publications LtdPublisher Crecy Publishing -
WJEC Eduqas GCSE History: Changes in Health and Medicine in Britain, c.500 to the present day by R. Paul Evans
€28.70Exam Board: EduqasLevel: GCSESubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: Summer 2018Endorsed by EduqasBring out the best in every student, enabling them to develop in-depth subject knowledge and historical skills with the market-leading... -
Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self by Claire Tomalin
RRP: €15.46€10.82From the acclaimed author of Charles Dickens: A Life comes a celebrated biography that casts new light on the remarkable diaries of Samuel Pepys.Samuel Pepys achieved fame as a naval administrator, a friend and colleague of the powerful and learned, a... -
The Wall: Rome's Greatest Frontier by Alistair Moffat
RRP: €15.46€10.19Hadrian's Wall is the largest, most spectacular and one of the most enigmatic historical monument in Britain. Nothing else approaches its vast scale: a land wall running 73 miles from east to west and a sea wall stretching at least 26 miles down the... -
The Reading Quiz Book by Adam Sowan 9781901677768
RRP: €10.70€7.54Local historian Adam Sowan has explored the town of Reading has to offer, and presents here a challenging set of questions to stimulate the reader's curiosity and develop a deeper acquaintance with this much-maligned town.Book InformationISBN... -
The Little History of Cornwall by Paul Wreyford 9780750984430
RRP: €17.84€13.42There is nothing 'little' about the history of Cornwall! However, this small volume condenses that fascinating, rich history into a collection of stories and facts that will make you marvel at the events the county has witnessed. Discover Henry VIII's... -
The First Kingdom: Britain in the age of Arthur by Max Adams
RRP: €13.08€8.94The bestselling author of The King in the North turns his attention to the obscure era of British history known as 'the age of Arthur'. 'Not just a valuable book, but a distinctive one as well' Tom Holland, Sunday Times 'An accessible and... -
The Godwins: The Rise and Fall of a Noble Dynasty by Frank Barlow
RRP: €160.65€139.56The family of Earl Godwin of Wessex stands among the most famous in English history, whose most famous son was King Harold.Frank Barlow charts the family through to Harold - the last Anglo-Saxon king - and finally the crowning of William the Conqueror... -
Conspiracy on Cato Street: A Tale of Liberty and Revolution in Regency London by Vic Gatrell
RRP: €29.75€21.80Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize, and a Daily Telegraph and BBC History Magazine Book of the Year. On the night of 23 February 1820, twenty-five impoverished craftsmen assembled in an obscure stable in Cato Street, London, with a plan to massacre... -
Snakes and Ladders: The great British social mobility myth by Professor Selina Todd
RRP: €13.08€9.25'Intensely readable... A stimulating and necessary redress' David Kynaston, SpectatorPoliticians say social mobility is real... this book proves otherwise.From servants' children who became clerks in Victorian Britain, to managers made redundant by the... -
The Salt Roads: How Fish Made a Culture by John Goodlad
RRP: €21.41€14.52This is the extraordinary story of how salt fish from Shetland became one of the staple foods of Europe, powered an economic boom and inspired artists, writers and musicians. It ranges from the wild waters of the North Atlantic, the ice-filled fjords... -
Victorians Undone: Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum by Kathryn Hughes
RRP: €17.84€11.54'Victorians Undone is the most original history book I have read in a long while' Daily Mail A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR * AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR A groundbreaking account of what it... -
England's Forgotten Past: The Unsung Heroes and Heroines, Valiant Kings, Great Battles and Other Generally Overlooked Episodes in Our Nation's Glorious History by Richard Tames
RRP: €11.89€8.09Richard Tames, the well-known popularizer of English history, offers an entertaining exploration of the bits of English history that have been sidelined, lost or somehow overlooked. Written in an engaging, easy-to-read and often humorous style, Tames... -
Ingenious Trade: Women and Work in Seventeenth-Century London by Laura Gowing
€41.90Ingenious Trade recovers the intricate stories of the young women who came to London in the late seventeenth century to earn their own living, most often with the needle, and the mistresses who set up shops and supervised their apprenticeships. Tracking... -
Aston Villa on This Day: History, Facts & Figures from Every Day of the Year by Brian Beard
RRP: €11.89€4.26Aston Villa On This Day revisits all the most magical and memorable moments from the club's distinguished past, mixing in a maelstrom of quirky anecdotes and legendary characters to produce an irresistibly dippable diary of Villa history - with an entry... -
London's Statues and Monuments by Peter Matthews
RRP: €22.02€16.29The streets and public spaces of London are rich with statues and monuments commemorating the city's great figures and events - from Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square and Sir Christopher Wren's Great Fire Monument to the charming Peter Pan statue in... -
Welsh History: Strange but True by Geoff Brookes
RRP: €11.89€8.72Sir John Pryce of Newtown Hall died in 1761. He kept the embalmed bodies of his first two wives on either side of his bed - until his third wife insisted that they were removed. In 1856 Ronald Rhys from the Vale of Neath disappeared for a week after... -
Merseyside at War 1939-45 by Mike Royden 9781473873339
RRP: €17.84€13.51Merseyside played a unique role during the Second World War, which directly led to the area being a major enemy target in an attempt to put the port completely out of action. Consequently, Merseyside became the most heavily bombed area outside of the... -
A Grim Almanac of Sussex by W. H. Johnson 9780752465098
RRP: €21.41€15.86W.H. Johnson digs deep into Sussex's past, presenting the reader with centuries of criminality and vice, of wretched living conditions and blind fate which so often leads to appalling consequences. A Grim Almanac of Sussex chronicles the darker side of... -
The Little Book of Cornwall by John van der Kiste 9780752480954
RRP: €17.84€11.34A compendium of fascinating information about Cornwall past and present, this book contains a plethora of entertaining facts about the county's famous and occasionally infamous men and women, its towns and countryside, history, natural history, literary,... -
Family Britain, 1951-1957 by David Kynaston
RRP: €20.22€15.09As in Austerity Britain, an astonishing array of vivid, intimate and unselfconscious voices drive this narrative. The keen-eyed Nella Last shops assiduously at Barrow Market as austerity and rationing gradually give way to relative abundance; housewife... -
The Brother Gardeners: Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obsession by Andrea Wulf
RRP: €13.08€9.25One January morning in 1734, cloth merchant Peter Collinson hurried down to the docks at London's Custom House to collect cargo just arrived from John Bartram in the American colonies. But it was not bales of cotton that awaited him, but plants and seeds... -
Black Britain: A Photographic History by Paul Gilroy 9780863565403
RRP: €23.79€20.73Black people have inhabited the British Isles for centuries. Eminent professor Paul Gilroy, renowned for his work exploring the social and cultural dimensions of British blackness and black Britishness, has assembled a living visual history of their... -
Royal Navy Versus the Slave Traders: Enforcing Abolition at Sea 1808-1898 by Bernard Edwards
RRP: €17.84€13.03On 16 March 1807, the British Parliament passed The Abolition of the Slave Trade Act. In the following year the Royal Navy's African Squadron was formed, its mission to stop and search ships at sea suspected of carrying slaves from Africa to the Americas...