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The Story of the Country House: A History of Places and People by Clive Aslet
RRP: £12.99£11.46The Story of the Country House is an authoritative and vivid account of the British country house, exploring how they have evolved with the changing political and economic landscape. Clive Aslet reveals the captivating stories behind individual houses,... -
God's Traitors: Terror and Faith in Elizabethan England by Jessie Childs
RRP: £12.99£9.09*Winner of the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize**Longlisted for The Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction**A Sunday Times Book of the Year**A Daily Telegraph Book of the Year* *A Times Book of the Year**An Observer Book of the Year*A woman awakes in a prison... -
Speed, Aggression, Surprise: The Untold Secret Origins of the SAS by Tom Petch 9780753559383 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00£2.65'Awesome!' - Andy McNab'You must read this book' - Colonel Tim Collins OBE'Page-turning and revelatory' - Sir Ranulph Fiennes_________________The official origin story of the SAS is a myth.This is the real story of how the world's preeminent Special... -
Speed, Aggression, Surprise: The Untold Secret Origins of the SAS Tom Petch 9780753559383
RRP: £20.00£14.29'Awesome!' - Andy McNab'You must read this book' - Colonel Tim Collins OBE'Page-turning and revelatory' - Sir Ranulph Fiennes_________________The official origin story of the SAS is a myth.This is the real story of how the world's preeminent Special... -
Farewell the Trumpets by Jan Morris
RRP: £14.99£9.80Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat traces the momentous decline and fall of the greatest of empires - from Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee to the death of Winston Churchill in 1965. With characteristic balance, this masterpiece of narrative... -
Chieftain: British Cold War Main Battle Tank by Robert Jackson 9781526741424
RRP: £14.99£10.95The British Chieftain - designed in the late 1950s as the replacement for the Centurion - was perhaps the best main battle tank in service with Nato during the 1960s and 1970s. Its 120mm rifled main gun and advanced armour made it one of the most... -
Aberdeen by Alistair Burnett 9780752418285
RRP: £12.99£9.62AberdeenBook InformationISBN 9780752418285Author Alistair BurnettFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press Ltd -
Derby Through its Streets by Maxwell Craven 9781905769544
RRP: £16.99£14.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905769544Author Maxwell CravenFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Fort Publishing LtdPublisher Fort Publishing Ltd -
Glorious Goodwood: A Biography of England's Greatest Sporting Estate James Peill 9781472128256
RRP: £14.99£9.80'Delightful' A HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR / BOOK OF THE WEEK, Daily Mail'Goodwood curator James Peill writes with a wonderfully light touch . . . The Goodwood story is extraordinary and rightly celebrated' Country LifeThe history of Goodwood, England's... -
Animal Farm: GCSE 9-1 set text student edition (Collins Classroom Classics) by George Orwell
£3.17Exam board: AQA, Edexcel, OCR; CXCLevel & Subject: GCSE 9-1 English Literature; CSEC English BFirst teaching: September 2015Next exams: 2024 This edition of Animal Farm is perfect for GCSE-level students, with the complete novel, engaging... -
Blitzkrieg: Myth, Reality and Hitler's Lightning War - France, 1940 Lloyd Clark 9781782391364
RRP: £12.99£8.56The German campaign in France during the summer of 1940 was pivotal to Hitler's ambitions and fundamentally affected the course of the Second World War. Having squabbled about fighting methods right up to the start of the campaign, the German forces... -
Knowing Their Place: Domestic service in twentieth-century Britain by Lucy Delap 9780198718246
RRP: £35.49£24.51Historians have traditionally seen domestic service as an obsolete or redundant sector from the middle of the twentieth century. Knowing Their Place challenges this by linking the early twentieth-century employment of maids and cooks to later practices... -
Nineteenth-Century Britain: A Very Short Introduction by Christopher Harvie
RRP: £8.99£6.45First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, Christopher Harvie and Colin Matthew's Very Short Introduction to Nineteenth-Century Britain is a sharp but subtle account of remarkable economic and social change and... -
The Country Houses of Shropshire Gareth Williams 9781783275397
RRP: £95.00£90.68A gazetteer of the many fine Shropshire country houses, which covers the architecture, the owners' family history, and the social and economic circumstances that affected them. Shropshire is the largest English inland county, and has a wide variety of... -
The Making Of The British Landscape: From the Ice Age to the Present by Nicholas Crane 9780753826676 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£2.29Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Making Of The British Landscape: From the Ice Age to the Present Nicholas Crane 9780753826676
RRP: £9.99£6.80How much do we really know about the place we call 'home'? In this sweeping, timely book, Nicholas Crane tells the story of Britain.Over the course of 12,000 years of continuous human occupation, the British landscape has been transformed form a European... -
Anglo-Saxon cemeteries 1979: The fourth Anglo-Saxon Symposium at Oxford by Tania Dickinson 9780860540953
£84.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780860540953Author Tania DickinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 389Imprint BAR PublishingPublisher BAR Publishing -
Victorian Gothic House Styles Trevor Yorke 9781846743047
RRP: £7.95£6.61Gothic style transformed the urban landscape from the mid 19th century. In this new book, discover how leading architects reinterpreted Medieval buildings to create a dynamic style which spread from Victorian England to the other side of the Atlantic. ... -
The Graves are Walking by John Kelly
RRP: £12.99£8.56The Irish famine that began in 1845 was one of the nineteenth century's greatest disasters. By its end, the island's population of eight million had shrunk by a third through starvation, disease and emigration. This is a brilliant, compassionate... -
Great Tales From English History: Cheddar Man to DNA by Robert Lacey 9780349117317 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.29From ancient times to the present day, the story of England has been laced with drama, intrigue, courage and passion - a rich and vibrant narrative of heroes and villains, kings and rebels, artists and highwaymen, bishops and scientists. Now, in Great... -
Great Tales From English History: Cheddar Man to DNA by Robert Lacey
RRP: £12.99£8.60From ancient times to the present day, the story of England has been laced with drama, intrigue, courage and passion - a rich and vibrant narrative of heroes and villains, kings and rebels, artists and highwaymen, bishops and scientists. Now, in Great... -
Cumbria Curiosities by Robert Woodhouse
RRP: £15.99£12.25Cumbria Curiosities brings together a series of unusual, intriguing and extraordinary buildings, structures, incidents and people from all parts of the county. Included in these pages are the Fairy Steps of Beetham Fell; Bonnie Prince Charlie's Chimney;... -
Sacred Britannia: The Gods & Rituals of Roman Britain by Miranda Aldhouse-Green 9780500297261
RRP: £14.99£9.80A timely and up-to-date account of religion in Roman Britain. Two thousand years ago, the Romans sought to absorb into their Empire what they regarded as a remote, almost mythical island on the very edge of the known world - Britain. The expeditions of... -
Bring Up the Bodies (The Wolf Hall Trilogy) by Hilary Mantel 9780008381684
RRP: £9.99£6.64Winner of the Man Booker Prize The second book in Hilary Mantel's award-winning Wolf Hall trilogy, with a stunning new cover design to celebrate the publication of the much anticipated The Mirror and the Light ... -
Ledbury: People and Parish before the Reformation: England's Past for Everyone by Sylvia Pinches
RRP: £14.99£11.55Ledbury is a small town in the lush Herefordshire countryside. How did it come to be here and who and what shaped its development? This volume explores a quiet corner of England from the earliest times until the middle of the 16th century. Hunters,... -
Lord Chesterfield's Letters by Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
RRP: £10.99£7.77`My object is to have you fit to live; which, if you are not, I do not desire that you should live at all.' So wrote Lord Chesterfield in one of the most celebrated and controversial correspondences between a father and son. Chesterfield wrote almost... -
Welsh Folk Tales by Peter Stevenson 9780750966047
RRP: £12.99£11.55This book, a selection of folk tales, true tales, tall tales, myths, gossip, legends and memories, celebrates and honours unique Welsh stories. Some are well known, others from forgotten manuscripts or out-of-print volumes, and some are contemporary oral... -
AQA GCSE History: Norman England, 1066-1100 Helena Clarke 9781471863424
£20.84Exam Board: AQALevel: GCSESubject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2016First Exam: June 2018Create a stimulating, well-paced teaching route through the 2016 GCSE History specification using this tailor-made series that draws on a legacy of... -
Hope and Glory: Britain 1900-2000 by Peter Clarke
RRP: £12.99£9.09Peter Clarke brilliantly challenges the commonly held view of Britain in the twentieth century as a nation in decline. Adopting a wide perspective, he examines the political. social and economic changes that transformed Britain. He looks at how jobs and... -
Richard III and the Battle of Bosworth by Mike Ingram 9781912866502
RRP: £29.95£21.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912866502Author Mike IngramFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
London's Secret Square Mile by David Long
RRP: £12.99£9.62The streetscape of London's historic square mile has been evolving for centuries, but the City's busy commercial heart still boasts an extensive network of narrow passages and alleyways, secret squares and half-hidden courtyards.Using his wealth of local... -
Elizabeth, The Queen Mother by Hugo Vickers
RRP: £16.99£12.28Harold Nicolson called her 'the greatest Queen since Cleopatra', while Cecil Beaton called her 'a marshmallow made on a welding machine'. Stephen Tennant said: 'She looked everything that she was not: gentle, gullible, tenderness mingled with... -
Walthamstow by Keith Romig 9780752403595
RRP: £14.99£11.55This book is part of the Images of London series, which uses old photographs and archived images to show the history of various local areas in England, through their streets, shops, pubs, and people.Book InformationISBN 9780752403595Author Keith... -
Gentry: Six Hundred Years of a Peculiarly English Class by Adam Nicolson
RRP: £12.99£8.48Adam Nicolson tells the story of England through the history of fourteen gentry families - from the 15th century to the present day. This sparkling work of history reads like a real-life Downton Abbey, as the loves, hatreds and many times of grief of his... -
Jacob's Ladder by Michael Ashcroft 9781785904875
RRP: £20.00£14.88Jacob Rees-Mogg is one of the most prominent and controversial figures in contemporary British politics. He is a man who divides opinion in his own party, in Parliament and across the country. An arch-Brexiteer with significant business interests and... -
A Short History of Drunkenness by Mark Forsyth
RRP: £10.99£7.77THE PERFECT GIFT FOR ANYONE WHO ENJOYS A TIPPLE . . . OR TWO . . . OR TEN! Almost every culture on earth has drink, and where there's drink there's drunkenness. But in every age and in every place drunkenness is a little bit different. Tracing... -
Witches and Ghosts of Pendle and the Ribble Valley by Jacqueline Davitt 9780752440637
RRP: £14.99£11.55The area round Pendle Hill (Burnley, Nelson, Colne and over to Skipton) has long been associated with witches and ghostly goings on. This is a collection of myths and tales about the infamous witches. It appeals to those with an interest in the history... -
London in Fragments: A Mudlark's Treasures Ted Sandling 9780711239296
RRP: £18.00£11.89This is the fully-illustrated edition of LONDON IN FRAGMENTS. A new paperback edition is also available, published under the title A MUDLARK'S TREASURES: London in Fragments'A beautiful book.' Daily Mail'Exhilaratingly curious.' Evening... -
A Pocket History of the Irish Famine by Tony Potter 9780717179442
RRP: £6.99£5.13The Great Famine, an Gorta Mor in Irish, was a period of mass starvation, disease and emigration in Ireland between 1845 and 1852. Often referred to as the Irish Potato Famine, particularly outside Ireland, as around forty percent of the population were... -
Blitz Then and Now: v. 3 by Winston G. Ramsey 9780900913587
RRP: £44.95£38.23The period in question began quietly with the Luftwaffe busy elsewhere, yet the increasing attacks on Germany by the Royal Air Foce provoked a response in the form of the so-called Baedeker offensive of 1942. And it is against this background of the...