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Meccano by Roger Marriott 9780747810568
RRP: £8.99£7.40It has now been over a century since Frank Hornby invented a toy to amuse his sons and called it Meccano, coining a word which has entered the dictionary as a term in common usage and is now known all over the world. Hornby's vision of an educational toy... -
Canal Builders: How Britain's Canal Network Evolved by Anthony Burton
RRP: £14.99£11.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399014304Author Anthony BurtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Pen and Sword TransportPublisher Pen and Sword TransportWeight(grams) 165g -
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... -
The Pie At Night: In Search of the North at Play by Stuart Maconie
RRP: £14.99£10.95Factory, mine and mill. Industry, toil and grime. Its manufacturing roots mean we still see the North of England as a hardworking place. But, more than possibly anywhere else, the North has always known how to get dressed up, take itself out on the town... -
In Search of Angels: Travels to the Edge of the World by Alistair Moffat
£20.04Longlisted for The Highland Book Prize 2020 Fourteen centuries ago, Irish saints brought the Word of God to the Hebrides and Scotland's Atlantic shore. These 'white martyrs' sought solitude, remoteness, even harshness, in places apart from the world... -
The Medieval Household - Daily Living c.1150-c.1450 by Geoff Egan
RRP: £40.00£34.59Catalogue of excavated household items from the middle ages provides an invaluable reference tool for experts and the general reader alike. This book brings together for the first time the astonishing diversity of excavated furnishings and artefacts... -
The Rise And Fall of British Naval Mastery by Paul Kennedy
RRP: £12.99£9.09Paul Kennedy's classic naval history, now updated with a new introduction by the authorThis acclaimed book traces Britain's rise and fall as a sea power from the Tudors to the present day. Challenging the traditional view that the British are natural... -
Crowdfunding the Revolution: The First Dáil Loan and the Battle for Irish Independence by Patrick O'Sullivan Greene
RRP: £20.00£16.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916137585Author Patrick O'Sullivan GreeneFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Eastwood BooksPublisher Wordwell -
Ben Walsh History: Pearson Edexcel GCSE (9-1): Medicine in Britain, Crime and Punishment in Britain, Anglo-Saxon and Norman England and Early Elizabethan England by Ben Walsh
RRP: £26.00£22.38Exam board: Pearson EdexcelLevel: GCSE (9-1)Subject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: Summer 2018Endorsed for Pearson Edexcel qualificationsDiscover a fresh approach to Pearson Edexcel GCSE History, developed by bestselling author Ben... -
The Silvertown Explosion: London 1917 by Graham Hill 9780752430539 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99£5.48The Silvertown explosionBook InformationISBN 9780752430539Author Graham HillFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 400gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 165mm * 10mm -
The Silvertown Explosion: London 1917 by Graham Hill
RRP: £14.99£11.95The Silvertown explosionBook InformationISBN 9780752430539Author Graham HillFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 400gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 165mm * 10mm -
Victorian Miniature by Owen Chadwick 9780521422512
RRP: £19.99£17.13Nancy Mitford once observed that some of the most bitter personal clashes of all time have been 'between the Manor and the Vicarage'. Owen Chadwick's Victorian Miniature paints a detailed cameo of nineteenth-century English rural life, in the... -
Posh Boys: How English Public Schools Ruin Britain by Robert Verkaik 9781786073839
RRP: £16.99£9.27'The latest in the series of powerful books on the divisions in modern Britain, and will take its place on many bookshelves beside Reni Eddo-Lodge's Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race and Owen Jones's Chavs.' -Andrew Marr, Sunday... -
The Journey Through Wales and the Description of Wales by Gerald of Wales
RRP: £12.99£9.09Scholar, churchman, diplomat and theologian, Gerald of Wales was one of the most fascinating figures of the Middle Ages and The Journey Through Wales describes his eventful tour of the country as a missionary in 1188. In a style reminiscent of a diary,... -
Echoes of East Anglia: The Lost Wartime Airfields of Norfolk and Suffolk by Martin Bowman
RRP: £14.99£12.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781841145341Author Martin BowmanFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint HalsgrovePublisher Halsgrove -
The Historical Atlas of the British Isles by Alex Swanston
RRP: £19.99£14.28This 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,... -
Gardens and Gardening in Early Modern England and Wales by Jill Francis
RRP: £35.00£31.17The extravagant gardens of the 16th- and 17th-century British aristocracy are well-documented and celebrated, but the more modest gardens of the rural county gentry have rarely been examined. Jill Francis presents new, never-before published material as... -
Blue Streak: Britain's Medium Range Ballistic Missile by John Boyes 9781781557006
RRP: £25.00£17.62In the early 1950s the United States wished to concentrate its defence resources on the development of a 4,000 mile range intercontinental ballistic missile. As a stop-gap measure, US defence chiefs hoped to assist Britain with the development of its own... -
Old Currie, Balerno and Juniper Green by George Monies 9781840331639
RRP: £11.95£10.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840331639Author George MoniesFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 165mm * 237mm * 4mm -
Mr Bligh's Bad Language: Passion, Power and Theatre on the Bounty by Greg Dening
RRP: £26.99£22.60Captain Bligh and the mutiny on the Bounty have become proverbial in their capacity to evoke the extravagant and violent abuse of power. But William Bligh was one of the least violent disciplinarians in the British navy. It is this paradox which inspired... -
Hms Bristol by Rob Griffin
RRP: £16.99£12.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911658757Author Rob GriffinFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Mortons Media GroupPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 355g -
Scotland: Mapping the Nation by Christopher Fleet 9781780274836
RRP: £35.00£25.23Winner of the Saltire Society Research Book of the Year Whilst documents and other written material are obvious resources that help shape our view of the past, maps too can say much about a nation's history. This is the first book to take maps... -
Refilling Haig’s Armies: The Replacement of British Infantry Casualties on the Western Front, 1916-1918 by Alison Hine 9781912390700
RRP: £35.00£24.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912390700Author Alison HineFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Scottish Myths by Jake Jackson
RRP: £6.99£5.31Much of Scottish mythology was imported by settlers arriving from across the Irish Sea, and so Scottish mythology in large part shares its characters and tales with the mythology of Ireland, from the Ulster Cycle featuring Conchobar mac Nessa, king of... -
The Making of the Black Working Class in Britain by Ron Ramdin
RRP: £30.00£24.57This is the first comprehensive historical perspective on the relationship between Black workers and the changing patterns of Britain's labour needs. It places in an historical context the development of a small black presence in sixteenth-century... -
The Secret Life of the Savoy: and the D'Oyly Carte family by Olivia Williams 9781472269799 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00£2.65THE STORY OF THE SAVOY HOTEL'S FOUNDERS, THROUGH A CENTURY OF LUXURY."For The Gondoliers-themed birthday dinner, the hotel obligingly flooded the courtyard to conjure the Grand Canal of Venice. Dinner was served on a silk-lined floating gondola, real... -
The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
RRP: £12.99£9.09'The greatest enterprise of its kind in history,' was the verdict of British prime minister Stanley Baldwin in June 1928 when The Oxford English Dictionary was finally published. With its 15,490 pages and nearly two million quotations, it was indeed a... -
Brits: The War Against the IRA by Peter Taylor
RRP: £16.99£12.28The third part of the trilogy documenting modern-day Northern Ireland, by the author of Provos and Loyalists In the final part of his trilogy exploring 'The Troubles' in Northern Ireland, Peter Taylor talks to undercover agents of the British state... -
Edward VI: The Lost King of England by Chris Skidmore
RRP: £10.99£7.40The struggle for the soul of England after the death of Henry VIIIIn the death of Henry VIII, the crown passed to his nine-year-old son, Edward. However, real power went to the Protector, Edward's uncle, the Duke of Somerset. The court had been a hotbed... -
The Pie At Night: In Search of the North at Play by Stuart Maconie 9780091933821 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99£2.34Factory, mine and mill. Industry, toil and grime. Its manufacturing roots mean we still see the North of England as a hardworking place. But, more than possibly anywhere else, the North has always known how to get dressed up, take itself out on the town... -
Elizabeth Stride and Jack the Ripper: The Life and Death of the Reputed Third Victim by Dave Yost 9780786433186
RRP: £21.99£18.55As soon as the newspapers hit the streets on October 1st, 1888, Elizabeth Stride became world renowned as the third victim of Jack the Ripper. Reportedly, Stride was killed only an hour before fellow victim Catherine Eddowes, becoming a key player in the... -
The Poltergeist Prince of London: The Remarkable True Story of the Battersea Poltergeist by Clark James 9780752498034 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£7.97It began with a key. One afternoon in 1956, in the home of the Hitchings family in Battersea, south London, a small silver key appeared on Shirley Hitchings' bed. This seemingly insignificant event heralded the beginning of one of the most terrifying,... -
The Poltergeist Prince of London: The Remarkable True Story of the Battersea Poltergeist by Clark James
RRP: £12.99£9.62It began with a key. One afternoon in 1956, in the home of the Hitchings family in Battersea, south London, a small silver key appeared on Shirley Hitchings' bed. This seemingly insignificant event heralded the beginning of one of the most terrifying,... -
Lucy Hutchinson and the English Revolution: Gender, Genre, and History Writing by Claire Gheeraert-Graffeuille 9780192857538
RRP: £95.00£81.25In Lucy Hutchinson and the English Revolution, Claire Gheeraert-Graffeuille explores Lucy Hutchinson's historical writings and the Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson, which, although composed between 1664 and 1667, were first published in 1806... -
The Sisters Who Would Be Queen: The tragedy of Mary, Katherine and Lady Jane Grey by Leanda de Lisle 9780007219063 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99£2.44'Leanda de Lisle brings the story of nine days' queen, Lady Jane Grey and her forgotten sisters, the rivals of Elizabeth I, to vivid life in her fascinating biography' Philippa Gregory The dramatic... -
The Sisters Who Would Be Queen: The tragedy of Mary, Katherine and Lady Jane Grey by Leanda de Lisle
RRP: £14.99£9.70'Leanda de Lisle brings the story of nine days' queen, Lady Jane Grey and her forgotten sisters, the rivals of Elizabeth I, to vivid life in her fascinating biography' Philippa Gregory The dramatic... -
Rule, Nostalgia: A Backwards History of Britain by Hannah Rose Woods
RRP: £11.99£8.43** A FINANCIAL TIMES, NEW STATESMAN AND GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR **'A must read' - Janina Ramirez, bestselling author of Femina'An eye-opening history of Britain's enduring fixation with its own past' - Jeremy Paxman'Rule, Nostalgia announces Woods as... -
Chester: A History by Simon Ward
RRP: £17.99£13.64Chester has a long and fascinating history, dating from the arrival of the Roman army around AD 74. Their fortress was the stimulus for the growth of a prosperous town with such attributes of classical civilisation as bathhouses, central heating and an... -
Henry VIII: King and Court by Alison Weir
RRP: £14.99£10.95Henry VIII, renowned for his command of power and celebrated for his intellect, presided over one of the most magnificent-and dangerous-courts in Renaissance Europe. Never before has a detailed, personal biography of this charismatic monarch been set... -
The Myth of the Jacobite Clans: The Jacobite Army in 1745 by Professor Murray Pittock 9780748627578
RRP: £27.99£18.37The Myth of the Jacobite Clans was first published in 1995: a revolutionary book, it argued that British history had long sought to caricature Jacobitism rather than to understand it, and that the Jacobite Risings drew on extensive Lowland support and...