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Rorke's Drift and Isandlwana: Great Battles by Ian F. W. Beckett
RRP: £12.99£9.09This volume recounts the battles of Isandlwana and Rorke's Drift, exploring how they were fought, how they have been remembered, and what they mean for us today. The battle of Isandlwana on 22 January 1879, the first major battle in the Anglo-Zulu... -
Baldwin by Anne Perkins 9781904950608
£8.99Stanley Baldwin's cultivated image of the plain man, Mr Suburbia', helped him cope with two of the greatest domestic political crises of the first half of twentieth century Britain, the General Strike and the Abdication.Book InformationISBN... -
Folklore of Lincolnshire by Susanna O'Neill 9780752459646
RRP: £14.99£11.55The county of Lincolnshire is a beautiful mixture of low-lying marshy fen land, modest hills and the steep valleys of the rolling Wolds; it is also home to a wealth of folklore, legend and intrigue.With one of the most interesting dialects in the... -
Peaky Blinders: The Aftermath: Britain's most notorious gangsters 1930-50 by Carl Chinn
RRP: £8.99£6.22From the Sunday Times bestselling author, Carl ChinnAs Britain emerges into the mid-twentieth century, change is afoot. Cities are beginning to shift from smog-filled industrial hubs to more efficient metropolitan centres of commerce and, despite the... -
A Love Letter to Europe: An outpouring of sadness and hope - Mary Beard, Shami Chakrabati, Sebastian Faulks, Neil Gaiman, Ruth Jones, J.K. Rowling, Sandi Toksvig and others by Frank Cottrell Boyce
RRP: £10.99£7.78How are great turning points in history experienced by individuals?As Britain pulls away from Europe great British writers come together to give voice to their innermost feelings. These writers include novelists, writers of books for children, of comic... -
Heaven's Command by Jan Morris
RRP: £12.99£8.56Jan 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... -
Historical Research Using British Newspapers by Denise Bates
RRP: £12.99£9.09Thanks to digitisation, newspapers from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century have become an indispensable and accessible source for researchers. Through their pages, historians with a passion for a person or a place or a time or a topic can... -
The Grand Tour in the Eighteenth Century: The British Abroad by Professor Jeremy Black
RRP: £14.99£11.55Travel for pleasure developed greatly in the 18th century, and here Jeremy Black examines travel on the Continent, the so-called "Grand Tour". He considers not only the standard destinations of France and Italy, but also the Low Countries, Germany,... -
The Norman Conquest: A Very Short Introduction by George Garnett
RRP: £8.99£6.45The Norman Conquest in 1066 was the last time England was successfully invaded, and was one of the most profound turning points in English history, cataclysmically transforming a disparate collection of small nations into a European state. But what... -
Catherine of Aragon: Henry's Spanish Queen by Giles Tremlett
RRP: £14.99£9.80The image of Catherine of Aragon has always suffered in comparison to the heir-providing Jane Seymour or the vivacious eroticism of Anne Boleyn. But when Henry VIII married Catherine, she was an auburn-haired beauty in her twenties with a passion she had... -
London's 100 Most Extraordinary Buildings by David Long
RRP: £12.99£9.62Delve into London's architectural curiositites and discover the unexpected gems waiting around every corner.London is full of extraordinary, enigmatic and, above all, unexpected buildings: a pirate castle in Camden, an art gallery made of shipping... -
Faster Than A Cannonball: 1995 and All That by Dylan Jones
RRP: £25.00£16.78Decades tend to crest halfway through, and 1995 was the year of the Nineties: peak Britpop (Oasis v Blur), peak YBA (Tracey Emin's tent), peak New Lad (when Nick Hornby published High Fidelity, when James Brown's Loaded detonated the publishing industry,... -
Rudiments of Runelore by Stephen Pollington
£8.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781898281498Author Stephen PollingtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Anglo-Saxon BooksPublisher Anglo-Saxon BooksWeight(grams) 150gDimensions(mm) 210mm... -
The Guide to Mysterious Arran by Geoff Holder
RRP: £14.99£11.55This is the essential guide to everything strange, marvellous and paranormal on the beautiful and rugged Isle of Arran. Why did the police in 1889 bury the boots of the victim of the Arran Murder below the high-water mark? What happened to the miracle... -
Law, Liberty and the Constitution - A Brief History of the Common Law by Harry Potter
RRP: £19.99£17.37A new approach to the telling of legal history, devoid of jargon and replete with good stories, which will be of interest to anyone wishing to know more about the common law - the spinal cord of the English body politic. Throughout English history the... -
Chartism: A New History by Dr. Malcolm Chase
RRP: £19.99£14.92Chartism, the mass movement for democratic rights, dominated British domestic politics in the late 1830s and 1840s. It mobilised over three million supporters at its height. Few modern European social movements, certainly in Britain, have captured the... -
The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft by Ronald Hutton
RRP: £16.99£12.28'a brilliant history' The Sunday Times 'makes for riveting reading' The Independent Modern pagan witchcraft is arguably the only fully-formed religion England has given the world, and has now spread across four continents. This second... -
Bear in Mind These Dead by Susan McKay
RRP: £12.99£8.56Nearly 4,000 people were killed over the thirty or so years of the Northern Irish Troubles. And the killings were as intimate as they were brutal. Neighbours murdered neighbours. Susan McKay's book explores the difficult legacy of this conflict for... -
Hartlepool 1946-1997 by Douglas R. P. Ferriday 9780752407951
RRP: £14.99£11.55This book is part of the Images of England 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 9780752407951Author Douglas... -
AEthelstan: The First King of England by Sarah Foot
RRP: £18.99£16.18"AEthelstan was perhaps the most important king of tenth-century England, but we know very little about him, and he has no modern biography. Sarah Foot triumphantly fills this gap, and adds to the richness of our understanding of the period in a way that... -
The Great Irish Famine: A History in Four Lives by Enda Delaney
RRP: £16.99£12.28The Great Irish Famine of 1845-52 was the defining event in the history of modern Ireland. At least one million people died, and double that number fled the country within a decade. The Great Irish Famine surveys the history of this great tragedy... -
West Drayton and Yiewsley by Stephen Skinner 9780752428413
RRP: £12.99£9.62A history of West Drayton & YiewsleyBook InformationISBN 9780752428413Author James SkinnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 320gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 165mm * 10mm -
Lancaster Against York: The Wars of the Roses and the Foundation of Modern Britain by University Fellow Trevor Royle 9781403966728
RRP: £39.99£25.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781403966728Author University Fellow Trevor RoyleFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave USAWeight(grams)... -
The Trees that Made Britain by Archie Miles
RRP: £14.99£9.53As the oldest living inhabitants on the planet, trees have played a major part in the way we live today, providing both the daily oxygen we breathe and the foundation of our nations heritage. Every native tree in Britain, whether its part of a grand... -
The Maul and the Pear Tree: The Ratcliffe Highway Murders 1811 by P. D. James
RRP: £12.99£8.56In 1811 John Williams was buried with a stake in his heart. Was he the notorious East End killer or his eighth victim in the bizarre and shocking Ratcliffe Highway Murders? In this vivid and gripping reconstruction P. D. James and police historian T. A... -
Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain by John Darwin 9781846140891 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£4.00A both controversial and comprehensive historical analysis of how the British Empire worked, from Wolfson Prize-winning author and historian John DarwinThe British Empire shaped the world in countless ways: repopulating continents, carving out nations,... -
Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain by John Darwin
RRP: £12.99£9.09A both controversial and comprehensive historical analysis of how the British Empire worked, from Wolfson Prize-winning author and historian John DarwinThe British Empire shaped the world in countless ways: repopulating continents, carving out nations,... -
God's Fury, England's Fire: A New History of the English Civil Wars by Michael Braddick
RRP: £18.99£13.61The sequence of civil wars that ripped England apart in the seventeenth century was one of the most devastating conflicts in its history. It destroyed families and towns, ravaged the population and led many, both supporters of Charles I and his... -
Houses of Power: The Places that Shaped the Tudor World by Simon Thurley
RRP: £12.99£9.09'Excellent . . . Fresh, learned, readable and full of life' Dan Jones, Mail on Sunday Houses of Power is the result of Simon Thurley's thirty years of research, picking through architectural digs, and examining financial accounts, original plans and... -
Pilgrim Routes of the British Isles by Emma Wells
RRP: £19.99£17.42This book leads the modern traveller along some of the key medieval walking routes of England, Scotland and Wales, taking in world-famous sites such as Canterbury and Lindisfarne, and out-of-the-way places along paths not so widely travelled. Each route... -
Cranogwen by Jane Aaron 9781837720255
RRP: £19.99£15.23Yn oes Fictoria, ystyriwyd menywod yn anaddas ac anabl ar gyfer pob arweinyddiaeth gyhoeddus a deallusol. Ond llwyddodd Cranogwen, sef Sarah Jane Rees (1839-1916) o Langrannog, i ennill parch ac enwogrwydd fel bardd, darlithydd, golygydd, pregethwraig,... -
The Devil in Disguise: Deception, Delusion, and Fanaticism in the Early English Enlightenment by Mark Knights 9780199577958
RRP: £84.00£65.93The Devil in Disguise illuminates the impact of the two British revolutions of the seventeenth century and the shifts in religious, political, scientific, literary, economic, social, and moral culture that they brought about. It does so through the... -
The Cambridge Companion to Winston Churchill by Allen Packwood
RRP: £22.99£19.96Viewed by some as the saviour of his nation, and by others as a racist imperialist, who was Winston Churchill really, and how has he become such a controversial figure? Combining the best of established scholarship with important new perspectives, this... -
The Victoria History of the County of Stafford - X: Tutbury and Needwood Forest by N.J. Tringham
RRP: £110.00£106.34Classic VCH account of the important town of Tutbury and its environs. Tutbury and Needwood forest have a rich history, fully explored here from the earliest times to the present day: the former with its great medieval castle, the heart of a major... -
English Longbowman 1330–1515 by Clive Bartlett 9781855324916
RRP: £14.99£12.58The English military ascendancy which lasted from the mid-14th to the early 15th century was founded upon defensive tactics based on the use of the longbow. This weapon, distinctive in that it was used by English forces alone, was probably the most... -
MI6: British Secret Intelligence Service Operations, 1909-1945 by Nigel West 9781526755742
RRP: £25.00£18.02Written by the renowned expert Nigel West, this book exposes the operations of Britain's overseas intelligence-gathering organisation, the famed Secret Intelligence Service, MI6, and traces its origins back to its inception in 1909. In this meticulously... -
Architect's Legal Handbook: The Law for Architects by Anthony Speaight QC
RRP: £47.99£42.81The Architect's Legal Handbook is the most widely used reference on the law for practicing architects and the established textbook on law for architectural students. Since the last edition of this book in 2010, the legal landscape in which architecture... -
London's 100 Strangest Places by David Long
RRP: £12.99£9.62The bustling metropolis of London is home to scores of unusual and unique places and spaces. In this feast of peculiarities, author David Long guides you off the beaten path and allows you under the skin of the hidden city that is modern-day London,... -
One Week in April: The Scottish Radical Rising of 1820 by Maggie Craig 9781780276328
£20.79In April 1820, a series of dramatic events exploded around Glasgow, central Scotland and Ayrshire. Demanding political reform and better living and working conditions, 60,000 weavers and other workers went on strike. Revolution was in the air. It was... -
Haunted Bath by David Brandon 9780752447599
RRP: £12.99£9.62A pub with a deceased barmaid who simply refuses to leave, a Grey Lady in the Theatre Royal; a poltergeist in the Garrick's Head pub; a man in a black hat at the Assembly Rooms. Bath is one of the few British cities which may justifiably be called...