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In and Around Chichester by Cathy Hakes
RRP: €5.95€4.52A beautifully illustrated guide to the city and surrounding area Chichester is nestled beside the clear blue sea of Wittering's beaches and Chichester Harbour, a designated area of outstanding Natural Beauty and one of the few remaining relatively wild... -
Heretics and Believers: A History of the English Reformation by Peter Marshall
RRP: €21.41€18.79WINNER OF THE 2018 WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE Centuries on, what the Reformation was and what it accomplished remain deeply contentious. Peter Marshall's sweeping new history-the first major overview for general readers in a generation-argues that... -
Nae Place Mair Braw: A Social History of Perth's Craigie and Cherrybank by Donald N M Paton
RRP: €17.84€14.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781919628691Author Donald N M PatonFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Rymour BooksPublisher Rymour Books -
A Little History Of The English Country Church by Roy Strong
RRP: €15.46€10.82Beautifully illustrated narrative history of the English country church In his engaging account, Sir Roy Strong celebrates the life of the English parish churchFrom the arrival of the missionaries from Ireland and Rome, to the beautiful architecture and... -
The Little Book of the Cotswolds by Gillian Broomhall 9780750993166
RRP: €11.89€8.98The Little Book of the Cotswolds is a veritable smorgasbord of Cotswold miscellany, packed with fascinating titbits and all manner of factual frippery - from Cotswold lions to puppy dog pies. The region's strangest traditions, its most eccentric... -
1950s Childhood by Janet Shepherd
RRP: €9.51€7.44Children of the 1950s have much to look back on with fondness: Muffin the Mule, Andy Pandy, and Dennis the Menace became part of the family for many, while for others the freedom of the riverbank or railway platform was a haven away from the watchful... -
The Amateur and the Professional: Antiquarians, Historians and Archaeologists in Victorian England 1838-1886 by Professor Philippa Levine 9780521530507
RRP: €47.59€39.58This book highlights the growing divide in nineteenth-century intellectual circles between amateur and professional interest, and explores the institutional means whereby professional ascendancy was achieved in the broad field of studies of the past. It... -
Elizabeth and Philip: The Story of Young Love, Marriage and Monarchy by Tessa Dunlop
RRP: €23.80€17.01'A riveting take on an extraordinary relationship' - Richard Eden, Daily Mail'A fresh and original approach' - Hugo Vickers, Royal BiographerShe was 'sugar pink' innocence; he was a handsome war hero. Both had royal blood coursing through their veins... -
Barges & Bread: Canals & Grain to Bread & Baking by Di Murrell 9781909248519
RRP: €19.04€15.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909248519Author Di MurrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Prospect BooksPublisher Prospect BooksWeight(grams) 400gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 135mm *... -
At the Yeoman's House by Ronald Blythe 9781904634881
RRP: €17.85€13.04What happens in an old farmhouse when the farmers have left? Perhaps only a poet-historian-storyteller can say. These traditional work centres were established centuries ago, sometimes in the village street, often far away in their own fields. But the... -
Yeats Now: Echoing into Life by Joseph M. Hassett 9781843517788
RRP: €15.47€13.11W. B. Yeats believed that a poet's life should be an experiment in living. His poems fashion into memorable words the sometimes puzzling emotions that hover over important life events. Yeats's remarkable work can clarify our own thinking about similar... -
Heaven's Command by Jan Morris
RRP: €15.46€10.19Jan Morris tells the epic story of the rise of the British Empire, from the accession of Queen Victoria in 1837 to her Diamond Jubilee in 1897. In this celebrated masterwork she vividly evokes every aspect of the 'great adventure', ranging from ships and... -
The Real World of Victorian Steampunk: Steam Planes and Radiophones by Webb, Simon 9781526732859
RRP: €15.46€10.82In the last few decades, steampunk has blossomed from being a rather obscure and little-known subgenre of science fiction into a striking and distinctive style of fashion, art, design and even music. It is in the written word however that steampunk has... -
Soldiers as Workers: Class, employment, conflict and the nineteenth-century military by Nick Mansfield
€35.13The book outlines how class is single most important factor in understanding the British army in the period of industrialisation. It challenges the 'ruffians officered by gentlemen' theory of most military histories and demonstrates how service in the... -
Primrose Hill: A History by Martin Sheppard 9781859362228
RRP: €29.75€21.44Primrose Hill exercises a hold upon the imagination of everyone who climbs it. The site of William Blake's vision of the sun, and the subject of one of W.H. Auden's earliest poems, it is a green sanctuary offering superb and ever-changing views over... -
Frances Anne: the Life and Times of Frances Anne, Marchioness of Londonderry, and Her Husband, Charles, Third Marquess of Londonderry by Edith Helen Vane-Tempest Londonderry 9781014880819
RRP: €29.69€24.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781014880819Author Edith Helen Vane-Tempest LondonderryFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Hassell Street PressPublisher Hassell Street PressWeight(grams)... -
Skegness Past & Present: Britain in Old Photographs by Ken Wilkinson
RRP: €19.03€14.58This fascinating new book takes a nostalgic look at Skegness and reveals some of the changes and developments that have taken place in the town during the last century. Ken Wilkinson has gathered together ninety pairs of images to compare and contrast... -
The Letters of Private Wheeler: An eyewitness in action at the Battle of Waterloo by B.H. Liddell Hart
RRP: €13.08€8.81'In a later age he would have become a successful war correspondent ... We have no more human account of the Peninsular War from a participant in all its battles. Vivid images - of people, landscapes, events - flows from his pen ... One of military... -
The Welsh Kings: Warriors, Warlords and Princes by Kari Maund 9780752429731
RRP: €15.46€11.45When Edward I's troops forced the destruction of Dafydd ap Gruffudd in 1283 they brought to an end the line of truly independent native rulers in Wales that had endured throughout recorded history. In the early middle ages Wales was composed of a variety... -
People Like Us: Margaret Thatcher and Me by Caroline Slocock 9781785904608
RRP: €11.89€8.65As a young civil servant, Caroline Slocock became the first ever female private secretary to any British Prime Minister, and was at Margaret Thatcher's side for the final eighteen months of her premiership. A left-wing feminist, Slocock was no natural... -
Browned Off and Bloody-Minded: The British Soldier Goes to War 1939-1945 by Alan Allport
RRP: €17.84€15.51A social history of the ordinary British soldier during World War II"Reflects impressively wide reading, and commands respect for its shrewd judgments and lack of sentimentality."-Max Hastings, New York Review of Books"The stories of these brave but... -
A Century of Aylesbury: Britain in Old Photographs by Karl Vaughan 9780752458106
RRP: €15.46€11.45This fascinating selection of photographs illustrates the extraordinary transformation that has taken place in Aylesbury over the past century. The book offers an insight into the daily lives and living conditions of local people and gives the reader a... -
The Third Plantagenet: George, Duke of Clarence, Richard III's Brother by John Ashdown-Hill
RRP: €11.89€8.98Less 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?... -
The Channel: The Remarkable Men and Women Who Made It the Most Fascinating Waterway in the World by Charlie Connelly 9781474607926
RRP: €11.89€4.89'A wonderfully quirky history' SUNDAY TIMES'The perfect read while you wait for your summer holiday to begin' MAIL ON SUNDAY'Quippy anecdotes are woven with historical reference and geographical context to give full colour' IRISH TIMESA bulwark against... -
Reid: The Origins of the Clan Reid and Their Place in History by Murray Ogilvie 9781852172893
RRP: €4.75€3.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781852172893Author Murray OgilvieFormat PaperbackImprint Lang Syne Publishers LtdPublisher Lang Syne Publishers Ltd -
London Underground Serial Killer: The Life of Kieran Kelly by Geoff Platt 9781473872257
RRP: €15.46€11.66The full story of the life and times of Kieran Patrick Kelly, the London Underground Serial Killer, who wandered up and down the Northern Line of the London Underground between 1960 and 1983, pushing innocent people that he had never met under trains,... -
My Old Man: A Personal History of Music Hall by John Major 9780007450145
RRP: €17.84€11.54Shortlisted for the Theatre Book Prize; former prime minister John Major takes a remarkable journey into his own unconventional family past to tell the story of the British music hall. John Major shares memories of his performer father Tom and... -
Brixham Revisited by Ted Gosling 9780752436203
RRP: €15.46€11.45A glimpse into the history of BrixhamBook InformationISBN 9780752436203Author Ted GoslingFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 165mm * 10mm -
Edward I and the Governance of England, 1272-1307 by Caroline Burt 9780521889995
RRP: €109.47€88.69This important exploration of the reign of Edward I - one of England's most lionised, feared and successful monarchs - presents his kingship in a radical new light. Through detailed case studies of Shropshire, Warwickshire and Kent, Caroline Burt... -
Seeing Further: The Story of Science and the Royal Society by Bill Bryson
RRP: €17.84€11.54Edited and introduced by Bill Bryson, with contributions from Richard Dawkins, Margaret Atwood, Richard Holmes, Martin Rees, Richard Fortey, Steve Jones, James Gleick and Neal Stephenson amongst others, this beautiful, lavishly illustrated... -
Hadrian's Wall: Archaeology and history at the limit of Rome's empire by Nick Hodgson
RRP: €29.75€24.63Built around AD122, Hadrian's Wall was guarded by the Roman army for over three centuries and has left an indelible mark on the landscape of northern Britain. It was a wonder of the ancient world and is a World Heritage Site. Written by a leading... -
Viking Migration and Settlement in East Anglia: The Place-Name Evidence by David Boulton 9781914427251
RRP: €47.54€43.60This book shows how analysis of Scandinavian-influenced place-names in their landscape contexts can provide crucial new evidence of differing processes of Viking migration and settlement in East Anglia between the late ninth and eleventh centuries.The... -
Roman Britain: A Very Short Introduction by Peter Salway
RRP: €10.70€7.68For four centuries Britain was an integral part of the Roman Empire, a political system stretching from Turkey to Portugal and from the Red Sea to the Tyne and beyond. Its involvement with Rome started long before the Conquest launched by the Emperor... -
Elizabeth: Renaissance Prince by Lisa Hilton
RRP: €11.89€8.09A definitive portrait of one of the most compelling monarchs England has ever had: Elizabeth I.'We are a prince from a line of princes.'Lisa Hilton's majestic biography of Elizabeth I, 'The Virgin Queen', uses new research to present a fresh... -
MI5: British Security Service Operations, 1909-1945: The True Story of the Most Secret counter-espionage Organisation in the World by Nigel West
RRP: €29.75€21.44MI5 is arguably the most secret and misunderstood of all the British government departments. Its enigmatic title - much more than its proper name, the Security Service - stands in the public mind for the dark world of the secret services in general. In... -
Tudor Rebellions by Diarmaid MacCulloch
RRP: €28.55€27.39Tudor Rebellions, now in its seventh edition, gives a chronological account of the major rebellions against the Tudor monarchy in England from the reign of King Henry VII until the death of Queen Elizabeth I in 1603.The book throws light on some of the... -
AQA GCSE (9-1) History Workbook: Elizabethan England, c1568-1603 by Alex Stonehouse
€8.65Exam board: AQALevel: GCSESubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: Summer 2018 Practise and perfect the knowledge and skills that students need to achieve their best grade in the AQA GCSE (9-1) History exams.Packed full of consolidation... -
The Story of Wales by Jon Gower 9781849903738 [USED COPY]
RRP: €17.84€2.73The Story of Wales is a vibrant portrait of 30,000 years of power, identity and politics. Revisiting major turning points in Welsh history, from its earliest settlements to the present day, Jon Gower re-examines the myths and misconceptions about this... -
The Story of Wales by Jon Gower 9781849903738
RRP: €17.84€13.03The Story of Wales is a vibrant portrait of 30,000 years of power, identity and politics. Revisiting major turning points in Welsh history, from its earliest settlements to the present day, Jon Gower re-examines the myths and misconceptions about this... -
English Garden Eccentrics - Three Hundred Years of Extraordinary Groves, Burrowings, Mountains and Menageries by Todd Longstaffe-gowa
RRP: €35.70€30.76A highly original study of eccentric English garden-makers and their extraordinary gardens In English Garden Eccentrics, renowned landscape architect and historian Todd Longstaffe-Gowan reveals a series of obscure and eccentric English garden-makers...