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The Anglo-Saxon World: An Anthology by Kevin Crossley-Holland
RRP: $10.31$7.47Beowulf, The Battle of Maldon, The Dream of the Rood, The Wanderer, and The Seafarer are among the greatest surviving Anglo-Saxon poems. They, and many other treasures, are included in The Anglo-Saxon World: chronicles, laws and letters, charters and... -
The Story of the Malakand Field Force by Sir Winston S. Churchill 9780486474748
RRP: $18.69$11.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486474748Author Sir Winston S. ChurchillFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Snowdonia Folk Tales by Eric Maddern
RRP: $16.76$12.09The old kingdom of Gwynedd - the mountains of Eryri (Snowdonia), Ynys (Anglesey) and the Llyn Peninsula - may be the most mythic landscape in Britain. The ancient Druids and from it sprang the tales of Blessed Bran who protected the land, wizards who... -
At the King's Table: Royal Dining Through the Ages by Susanne Groom
RRP: $32.19$25.52Here are the feasts that really are fit for a king - or queen. This delightful book explores the history of royal dining from the bustling kitchens of the Middle Ages to the informal dinner parties of today. Susanne Groom, a former curator at Historic... -
Great Composers, The Illustrated History of: A guide to the lives, key works and influences of over 100 renowned composers by Wendy Thompson 9780754835561
RRP: $19.35$15.43This authoritative volume provides a beautifully illustrated guide to the most influential composers of classical music. Starting from medieval times, the book gives detailed biographies covering the life and times of each composer, listing their most... -
There She Goes: Liverpool, A City on Its Own. The Long Decade: 1979-1993 by Simon Hughes
RRP: $12.89$9.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916278448Author Simon HughesFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint De Coubertin BooksPublisher De Coubertin Books -
The Lost King: The Search for Richard III by Philippa Langley
RRP: $16.76$11.09Previously published as The King's Grave.NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING SALLY HAWKINS AND STEVE COOGAN.The official inside story of the discovery of history's most controversial monarch.On 22 August 1485, Richard III was killed at Bosworth Field,... -
Courtiers: The Secret History of the Georgian Court by Lucy Worsley
RRP: $16.76$11.04In the eighteenth century, the palace's most elegant assembly room was in fact a bloody battlefield. This was a world of skulduggery, politicking, wigs and beauty-spots, where fans whistled open like flick-knives...Ambitious and talented people flocked... -
British Army Uniforms of the American Revolution 1751 - 1783 by Carl J. Franklin 9781473886667
RRP: $25.79$24.02Based on contemporary records and paintings, this book identifies each cavalry and infantry regiment and illustrates changes in uniforms, their facing colours and the nature and shape of lace worn by officers, NCOs and private soldiers from 1751 to 1783... -
Where's Boris? by Various
$0.68 - $7.64Search for Boris Johnson in this eye-boggling illustrated adventure!Greetings citizens! Can you spot Boris?In an array of crowded scenes, from zip wires and bikes to Beijing and the Bullingdon Club, search for Boris amongst the masses. Anyone for... -
Fall Out: A Year of Political Mayhem by Tim Shipman
RRP: $16.76$10.94The unmissable inside story of the most dramatic general election campaign in modern history and Theresa May's battle for a Brexit deal, the greatest challenge for a prime minister since the Second World War. ... -
The Decline of Magic: Britain in the Enlightenment by Michael Hunter
RRP: $16.76$14.78A new history that overturns the received wisdom that science displaced magic in Enlightenment Britain-named a Best Book of 2020 by the Financial Times In early modern Britain, belief in prophecies, omens, ghosts, apparitions and fairies was commonplace... -
The British in India: Three Centuries of Ambition and Experience by David Gilmour
RRP: $21.92$15.84A SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, SPECTATOR, NEW STATESMAN, TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR'A richly panoramic exploration of the British experience of India ... hugely researched and elegantly written, sensitive to the ironies of the past and brimming with colourful... -
Palmerston: A Biography by David Brown
RRP: $25.79$22.41A grand and fascinating figure in Victorian politics, the charismatic Lord Palmerston (1784-1865) served as foreign secretary for fifteen years and prime minister for nine, engaged in struggles with everyone from the Duke of Wellington to Lord John... -
The Song of Simon de Montfort: England's First Revolutionary by Sophie Therese Ambler
$5.66 - $10.73'Alive with human detail and acute political judgement, this book marks the arrival of a formidably gifted historian.' - Dan Jones, author of The Plantagenets and The TemplarsIt was around half-past eight in the morning, with summer rainclouds weighing... -
The Kings & Queens of England by Nicholas Best 9780297834878
RRP: $11.60$7.03A beautifully illustrated companion to the Royal family throughout historySpanning ten dynasties of England's monarchs, The Kings and Queens of England presents portraits and potted biographies of England's monarchs. Spanning from the Normans through to... -
No Such Thing as Society: A History of Britain in the 1980s by Andy McSmith
RRP: $14.18$9.55The 1980s was the revolutionary decade of the twentieth century. To look back in 1990 at the Britain of ten years earlier was to look into another country. The changes were not superficial, like the revolution in fashion and music that enlivened the... -
In the Land of Giants by Max Adams
RRP: $16.76$11.73The bestselling historian tells the story of the landscapes, peoples and culture of early medieval Britain in eight walks, an epic sea voyage and a north-south ride by motorbike. The five centuries between the end of Roman Britain (410) and the death... -
White King: Charles I, Traitor, Murderer, Martyr by Leanda de Lisle
RRP: $16.76$11.73The subject of a BBC TV series on Charles I The prize-winning biography of Charles I * Winner of the HWA Crown for Best Work of Historical Non-Fiction 2018 ** Times Book of the Year ** Shortlisted for the Catholic Herald Biography Award 2019 *Less than... -
The Stonemason: A History of Building Britain by Andrew Ziminski
$5.12 - $6.82A stonemason's story of the building of Britain: part archaeological history, part deeply personal insight into an ancient craft. In his thirty-year career, stonemason Andrew Ziminski has worked on many of our greatest monuments. From Neolithic... -
Northumberland: Strange But True by Robert Woodhouse
RRP: $20.63$15.43Northumberland - Strange but True brings together a series of unusual, curious and altogether extraordinary buildings, incidents and people from all parts of the county. Included in these pages are the amazing achievements of Sir Charles Algernon... -
From Pictland to Alba, 789-1070 by Alex Woolf
RRP: $33.53$27.68In the 780s northern Britain was dominated by two great kingdoms; Pictavia, centred in north-eastern Scotland and Northumbria which straddled the modern Anglo-Scottish border. Within a hundred years both of these kingdoms had been thrown into chaos by... -
The Fears of Henry IV: The Life of England's Self-Made King by Ian Mortimer
RRP: $21.92$15.84From the saviour of the realm to the subject of multiple attempted assassinations in the space of six years. King Henry IV's reign was characterised by his fear and paranoia, but above all a continued quest for survival. The son of John the Gaunt, Henry... -
The Greatest Traitor: The Life of Sir Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March by Ian Mortimer
RRP: $16.76$11.73The first biography of the rebel baron who deposed and murdered Edward II.One night in August 1323 a captive rebel baron, Sir Roger Mortimer, drugged his guards and escaped from the Tower of London. With the king's men-at-arms in pursuit he fled to the... -
A History of Manchester by Stuart Hylton
RRP: $38.70$28.35Manchester has a story that is no ordinary local history. Its life has been inextricably entwined with the rise and fall of the nation's fortunes and, tono small extent, those of the British Empire. Manchester was the shock city of the early 19th... -
The Gorgeous Georgians by Terry Deary
$3.64 - $5.92Learn all about the Gorgeous Georgians with all the nasty bits left in. You probably thought that Georgians just spent their time prancing about in powdered wigs and pantaloons. Find out the horrible truth, like their sneaky schemes for hiding personal... -
My Revision Notes: OCR AS/A-level History: Britain 1930-1997 by Mike Wells
$8.37 - $12.41Exam Board: OCRLevel: A-LevelSubject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: Summer 2016Target success in OCR AS/A-level History with this proven formula for effective, structured revision; key content coverage is combined with exam preparation... -
Rivets, Trivets and Galvanised Buckets: Life in the village hardware shop by Tom Fort
RRP: $28.38$19.30'A hymn to hardware, charming, lyrical' - The Sunday Times, BOOK OF THE WEEK'A paean to DIY' - The Times'Strung together very agreeably, with dry wit and, dare I say it, considerable polish' - Country LifeIn 2018 Tom Fort's daughter-in-law took over a... -
The Victorians: A Very Short Introduction by Professor Martin Hewitt 9780198736813
RRP: $11.60$8.32Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring The Victorian period may have come to an end over 120 years ago, but the Victorians continue to be a vital presence in the modern world. Contemporary Britain is still in large part Victorian in... -
Elizabeth I's Last Favourite: Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex by Sarah-Beth Watkins
RRP: $16.76$14.78Despite widespread interest in Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, little has been written about him in decades past. In Elizabeth I's Last Favourite, Sarah-Beth Watkins brings the story of his life, and death, back into the public eye. In the later... -
The Lancashire Witches: Histories and Stories by Robert Poole
$11.42 - $15.22This book is the first major study of England's biggest and best-known witch trial which took place in 1612, when ten witches were arraigned and hung in the village of Pendle in Lancashire. The book has equal appeal across the disciplines of both History... -
Listen to the Land Speak: A Journey into the wisdom of what lies beneath us by Manchan Magan
RRP: $28.37$20.14Our ancestors developed a uniquely nature-focused society, centred on esteemed poets, seers, monks, healers and wise women who were deeply connected to the land. They used this connection to the cycles of the natural world - from which we are... -
Brighton Folk: People Watching, for Sport by Oleg Pulemjotov
RRP: $23.22$17.72Brighton's residents have a reputation for their vivid eccentricity. This book does not set out to prove whether this is true or not, but is a documentation of what stands out to the photographer, however exciting or mundane it may seem. A lot of the... -
Crude Britannia: How Big Oil Shaped a Country's Past and Future by James Marriott
RRP: $16.76$11.61'Dripping with delicious detail' - Aditya Chakrabortty Taking the reader on a journey through North East Scotland, Merseyside, South Wales, the Thames Estuary and London, this is the story of Britain's oil-soaked past, present and future. Travelling... -
UK Airfields of the Cold War by Philip Birtles
RRP: $29.03$21.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857803464Author Philip BirtlesFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Midland PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing -
Wexford: Ireland in Old Photographs by Nicky Rossiter 9781845882167
RRP: $21.92$16.31The historic town of Wexford has a rich and vibrant history, which is uniquely encapsulated in this selection of archive images taken from the John Scanlon Collection, curated by Dominic Kiernan and preserved by Paddy Donovan. A native of Wexford, the... -
Roman Roads in Britain by Hugh Marlais Davies 9780747806905
$8.71The vast networks of roads throughout the Roman Empire were vital to the expansion of Roman culture, power and influence across the world and one of their principal uses was the transportation of the Legions to strategic bases in the most direct way... -
London: A Social History by Roy Porter
$4.88 - $14.13'Roy Porter, a historian of formidable range, turns to urban history in this marvellously lucid, informative and passionate book... Porter's facts are always at the service of the narrative, which has a finely maintained momentum, balancing statistics... -
First in Last out: The Post-War Organisation, Employment and Training of Royal Marines Commandos by Paul Winter
RRP: $25.80$16.59The official document Amphibious Warfare Handbook No. 10a: The Organisation, Employment and Training of Commandos is a unique piece of post-war Royal Marines Commando doctrine, never before published, or quoted at length.Prepared in 1951 at the height of... -
Remaking English Society - Social Relations and Social Change in Early Modern England by Steve Hindle
RRP: $32.25$31.40Written by leading authorities, the volume can be considered a standard work on seventeenth-century English social history. A tribute to the work of Keith Wrightson, Remaking English Society re-examines the relationship between enduring structures and...