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The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes by Jonathan Rose
RRP: £16.99£14.61This is a landmark intellectual history of Britain's working classes from the preindustrial era to the twentieth century. Drawing on workers' memoirs, social surveys, library registers, and more, Jonathan Rose uncovers which books people read, how they... -
British Military Medals - Second Edition: A Guide for the Collector and Family Historian by Peter Duckers
RRP: £15.99£11.61This second edition of Peter Duckers best-selling British Military Medals traces the history of medals and gallantry awards from Elizabethan times to the modern day, and it features an expert account of their design and production. Campaign and gallantry... -
The Restless Kings: Henry II, His Sons and the Wars for the Plantagenet Crown by Nick Barratt
RRP: £9.99£6.70Longlisted for the HWA Non-Fiction Prize 2019'A vivid and humane study of the Plantagenets' diabolical and devious first family - a real joy to read.' Dan Jones, author of The PlantagenetsIn The Restless Kings Nick Barratt presents the tumultuous... -
The Plantagenets: The Kings That Made Britain by Derek Wilson 9781782069416 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.19England, 1154. As Henry II seizes the throne after years of turmoil, a new dynasty is poised to haul this hitherto turbulent nation out from the Dark Ages and transform it into the nation state we recognize today. Featuring some of England's greatest but... -
The Plantagenets: The Kings That Made Britain by Derek Wilson
RRP: £12.99£8.60England, 1154. As Henry II seizes the throne after years of turmoil, a new dynasty is poised to haul this hitherto turbulent nation out from the Dark Ages and transform it into the nation state we recognize today. Featuring some of England's greatest but... -
We March Against England: Operation Sea Lion, 1940-41 by Robert Forczyk
RRP: £12.99£9.09In May 1940 Nazi Germany was master of continental Europe, the only European power still standing was Great Britain - and the all-conquering German armed forces stood poised to cross the Channel. Following the destruction of the RAF fighter forces, the... -
King Arthur: The Mystery Unravelled by Chris Barber
RRP: £16.99£13.61This book is the culmination of over thirty years of work and research by the author, who is a King Arthur specialist and bestseller. The book brings new information to light by examining through a jigsaw of connections throughout Dark Age Britain,... -
Poverty in Ireland, 1837: A Hungarian's View : Szegenyseg Irlandban by Baron Jozsef Eotvos 9781908420206
RRP: £25.00£18.09In 1837, the power of Daniel O'Connell's oratory focused the attention of Europeans on Ireland. They were horrified at what they saw there. The Irish poor - a third of the population - had no food except the potatoes they grew, and not enough... -
London's Buses, 1979-1994: The Capital's Bus Network in Transition by Bartlett, Andrew 9781526755469
RRP: £30.00£19.21In 1979, fresh from its general election victory, the Conservative government began formulating plans to deregulate bus services and privatise the companies operating them in England, Scotland and Wales. London was not to be excluded, so from the outset,... -
South Wales Collieries Volume 3 by Owen David 9780752427751
RRP: £14.99£11.55This is part of a series on South Wales Collieries, which illustrates the area's industrial history during the past 200 years, in text and photographs, and gives a glimpse of both working and village life in the valleys.Book InformationISBN... -
Scenes from Prehistoric Life: One Million Years of Life in the British Isles by Francis Pryor
RRP: £25.00£18.02An invigorating journey through Britain's prehistoric landscape, and an insight into the lives of its inhabitants. 'Highly compelling' Spectator, Books of the Year 'An evocative foray into the prehistoric past' BBC Countryfile Magazine 'Vividly... -
Reading in the 1950s by Stuart Hylton 9780752493534
RRP: £12.99£9.62In Reading in the 1950s Stuart Hylton gives a fascinating account of the town and its people during a decade of rapid and memorable change. The story begins in the drab atmosphere of the early postwar years, with their austerity, sense of shrinking... -
Military Dispatches by Arthur Wellesley,Duke of Wellington
RRP: £12.99£9.09The vivid and exciting accounts written from the front line, taking the story of the British war with Napoleon from its desperate beginnings in Portugal to the final triumph at WaterlooThe Duke of Wellington was not only an incomparable battle commander... -
AQA GCSE History: Restoration England, 1660-1685 by Ed Podesta
£20.84Exam Board: AQALevel: GCSESubject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2016First Exam: June 2018AQA approvedCreate a stimulating, well-paced teaching route through the 2016 GCSE History specification using this tailor-made series that draws on a legacy of... -
London's Strangest Tales: Extraordinary but true stories from over a thousand years of London's history by Tom Quinn 9781911622024
RRP: £12.99£8.48London's Strangest Tales takes a walk on London's weirder side with an absorbing collection of curious tales from one of the world's greatest cities. This fascinating book is packed with amazing things you didn't know about Britain's capital, like the... -
Norfolk and Suffolk Churches: The Domesday Record: A Handbook for Reference and Use by David Butcher 9781909796614
£17.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909796614Author David ButcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 369Imprint Poppyland PublishingPublisher Poppyland Publishing -
Mummified: The Stories Behind Egyptian Mummies in Museums by Angela Stienne
RRP: £20.00£14.53Mummified explores the curious, unsettling and controversial cases of mummies held in French and British museums. From powdered mummies eaten as medicine to mummies unrolled in public, dissected for race studies and DNA-tested in modern laboratories,... -
Vaughan Williams by Eric Saylor
£32.97A new biography of which paints the most well-rounded and factually accurate portrait of the composer to date Ralph Vaughan Williams ranks among the most versatile, influential, and enduringly popular British musicians of his era. Throughout his... -
The Butcher, the Baker, the Candlestick-Maker: The story of Britain through its census, since 1801 by Roger Hutchinson 9780349141220 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.85At the beginning of each decade for 200 years the national census has presented a self-portrait of the British Isles.The census has surveyed Britain from the Napoleonic wars to the age of the internet, through the agricultural and industrial revolutions,... -
The Butcher, the Baker, the Candlestick-Maker: The story of Britain through its census, since 1801 by Roger Hutchinson
RRP: £12.99£7.51At the beginning of each decade for 200 years the national census has presented a self-portrait of the British Isles.The census has surveyed Britain from the Napoleonic wars to the age of the internet, through the agricultural and industrial revolutions,... -
The People's War: Britain 1939-1945 by Angus Calder 9780712652841 [USED COPY]
RRP: £27.99£2.29The Second World War was, for Britain, a 'total war'; no section of society remained untouched by military conscription, air raids, the shipping crisis and the war economy. In this comprehensive and engrossing narrative Angus Calder presents not only the... -
The People's War: Britain 1939-1945 by Angus Calder
RRP: £27.99£20.01The Second World War was, for Britain, a 'total war'; no section of society remained untouched by military conscription, air raids, the shipping crisis and the war economy. In this comprehensive and engrossing narrative Angus Calder presents not only the... -
The United Irishmen, Rebellion and the Act of Union, 1798-1803 by John Gibney 9781526751454
RRP: £12.99£9.09The 1790s is one of the most critical decades in the history of modern Ireland. The decade witnessed the birth of the modern ideology of separatist Irish republicanism, the creation of the Orange Order, and the greatest bloodletting in modern Irish... -
Around Rhondda Fawr by Suzanne E. Evans 9780752415901
RRP: £12.99£9.62This book is part of the Images of Wales series, which uses old photographs and archived images to show the history of various local areas in Wales, through their streets, shops, pubs, and people.Book InformationISBN 9780752415901Author Suzanne E... -
The Men of the North: The Britons of Southern Scotland by Tim Clarkson
RRP: £20.00£14.05The North Britons are the least-known among the inhabitants of early medieval Scotland. Like the Picts and Vikings they played an important role in the shaping of Scottish history during the first millennium AD but their part is often neglected or... -
Voices from History: East London Suffragettes by Rosemary Taylor
RRP: £9.99£7.55In 1914, the East London Federation of Suffragettes, led by Sylvia Pankhurst, split from the WSPU. Sylvia's mother and sister, Emmeline and Christabel, had encouraged her to give up her work with the poor women of East London - but Sylvia refused... -
A History of Britain - Volume 2: The British Wars 1603-1776 by Simon Schama
RRP: £30.00£21.35Simon Schama explores the forces that tore Britain apart during two centuries of dynamic change - transforming outlooks, allegiances and boundaries.From the beginning of July 1637, battles raged on for 200 years - both at home and abroad, on sea and on... -
A History of Halifax: From prehistoric times to the present day by John Hargreaves 9781859362372
RRP: £25.00£18.62This long-awaited book will be the only full history of Halifax available, and it will almost certainly never be bettered. The town has a wonderfully rich and interesting past, celebrated and enhanced by recent developments, all covered in A History of ... -
The Fin de Siècle: A Reader in Cultural History, c.1880-1900 by Sally Ledger 9780198742791
£54.51In an important contribution to the developing field of interdisciplinary studies in the Humanities, Ledger and Luckhurst make available to students and scholars a large body of non-literary texts which richly configure the variegated cultural history of... -
Royal Scrapbook by Robert Opie
RRP: £14.95£10.78All the pomp and circumstance of over 100 years of royal events come together in this colourful and evocative Royal Scrapbook, which celebrates the coronations, weddings and jubilees over five reigns, beginning with Queen Victoria's Diamond jubilee and... -
The Lives of Tudor Women by Elizabeth Norton
RRP: £10.99£7.77The turbulent Tudor age never fails to capture the imagination. But what was it actually like to be a woman during this period? This was a time when death in infancy or during childbirth was rife; when marriage was usually a legal contract, not a matter... -
Elizabeth & Margaret: The Intimate World of the Windsor Sisters by Andrew Morton
RRP: £20.00£14.05The first in-depth dual-biography of Elizabeth & Margaret, written by the bestselling royal biographer, Andrew Morton.They were the closest of sisters and the best of friends. But when, in a quixotic twist of fate, their uncle Edward VIII decided to... -
Around Hoyland by Geoffrey Howse
RRP: £12.99£9.62A history of HoylandBook InformationISBN 9780750922685Author Geoffrey HowseFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 240mm * 172mm * 10mm -
Lord of the Isle: The Extravagent Life and Times of Colin Tennant (Lord Glenconner) by Nicholas Courtney 9781903071649
RRP: £20.00£14.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903071649Author Nicholas CourtneyFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Bene Factum Publishing LtdPublisher Bene Factum Publishing Ltd -
Edie: An American Biography by Jean Stein
RRP: £12.99£9.09A brilliant and unique biography of Andy Warhol's tragic muse, the 60s icon Edie Sedgwick'Exceptionally seductive... You can't put it down' LA TimesOutrageous, vulnerable and strikingly beautiful - in the 1960s Edie Sedgwick became both an emblem of, and... -
The Wandering Army: The Campaigns that Transformed the British Way of War by Huw J. Davies
RRP: £25.00£23.94A compelling history of the British Army in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries-showing how the military gathered knowledge from campaigns across the globe "Superb analysis."-William Anthony Hay, Wall Street Journal At the outbreak of the War of... -
Tiger!: The de Havilland Tiger Moth by Stuart McKay 9780859791823
RRP: £29.95£22.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780859791823Author Stuart MckayFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing -
History+ for Edexcel A Level: Nationalism, dictatorship and democracy in twentieth-century Europe by Mark Gosling
£40.20Exam Board: EdexcelLevel: AS/A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: June 2016Endorsed for EdexcelEnable your students to develop high-level skills in their Edexcel A level History breadth and depth studies through expert... -
The European Settlement of Australia: The History and Legacy of Early Expeditions and British Settlements on the Australian Continent by Charles River Editors 9781720604204
RRP: £10.24£8.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781720604204Author Charles RiverFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
The Churchills: A Family at the Heart of History - from the Duke of Marlborough to Winston Churchill by Mary S. Lovell
RRP: £14.99£9.80There never was a Churchill from John of Marlborough down who had either morals or principles', so said Gladstone. From the First Duke of Marlborough - soldier of genius, restless empire-builder and cuckolder of Charles II - onwards, the Churchills have...