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Victoria's Wars: The Rise of Empire by Saul David 9780141005553
RRP: €17.84€13.03In Victoria's Wars: The Rise of Empire Saul David explores the early part of Queen Victoria's reign,when the British Empire was well on the way to becoming the greatest empire the world had ever seen. This is the story of how it happened and the people... -
Victoria's Wars: The Rise of Empire by Saul David 9780141005553 [USED COPY]
RRP: €17.84€2.73In Victoria's Wars: The Rise of Empire Saul David explores the early part of Queen Victoria's reign,when the British Empire was well on the way to becoming the greatest empire the world had ever seen. This is the story of how it happened and the people... -
The Witchcraft Sourcebook: Second Edition by Brian P. Levack 9781138774971
RRP: €61.87€54.25The Witchcraft Sourcebook, now in its second edition, is a fascinating collection of documents that illustrates the development of ideas about witchcraft from ancient times to the eighteenth century. Many of the sources come from the period between 1400... -
Maps of London and Beyond by Adam Dant
RRP: €35.70€26.12A spectacular, large-format collection of Adam Dant's fine art maps giving a unique view of our history and life today. Artist and cartographer Adam Dant surveys London's past, present and future from his studio in the East End. Beautiful, witty and... -
Sussex, Kent and Surrey 1939 by Richard Wyndham
RRP: €11.89€8.33A remarkable and eccentric insight into the south east of England in the pre-war period. Richard Wyndham's 'last look round' was a tour taken immediately before the Second World War in 1939 and was originally published in the following year as... -
Queen Victoria's Children by John van der Kiste 9780752454726
RRP: €11.89€8.98Queen Victoria and Albert, Prince Consort had nine children who despite their very different characters, remained a close-knit family. Inevitably, as they married into European royal families their loyalties were divided and their lives dominated by... -
About Britain: A Journey of Seventy Years and 1,345 Miles by Dr Tim Cole
RRP: €13.08€9.97A captivating glimpse of Britain then and now, seen from behind the steering wheel. In 1951, the Festival of Britain commissioned a series of short guides they dubbed 'handbooks for the explorer'. Their aim was to encourage readers to venture out... -
London, 1984: Conflict and Change in the Radical City by Stephen Brooke 9780198862888
RRP: €41.65€35.82In London in 1984 two very different cities came into conflict, one rooted in radical politics and the other shaped by Margaret Thatcher and the Conservative government. This was a city poised between two eras and identities, remoulded in conflicting... -
A History of Roman Britain by Peter Salway 9780192801388
RRP: €23.79€17.42'One could not ask for a more meticulous or scholarly assessment of what Britain meant to the Romans, or Rome to Britons, than Peter Salway's Monumental Study' Frederick Raphael, Sunday Times From the invasions of Julius Caesar to the unexpected end... -
National Service: A Generation in Uniform 1945-1963 by Richard Vinen 9780141399805 [USED COPY]
RRP: €20.22€3.15Winner of the Templer Medal and the Wolfson History PrizeSunday Times Top 10 BestsellerRichard Vinen's National Service is a serious - if often very entertaining - attempt to get to grips with the reality of that extraordinary institution, which now... -
National Service: A Generation in Uniform 1945-1963 by Richard Vinen
RRP: €20.22€14.61Winner of the Templer Medal and the Wolfson History PrizeSunday Times Top 10 BestsellerRichard Vinen's National Service is a serious - if often very entertaining - attempt to get to grips with the reality of that extraordinary institution, which now... -
A Century of Burnley: Events, People and Places Over the 20th Century by Chris Makepeace
RRP: €19.03€14.58A Century of Barnsley offers an insight into the daily lives and living conditions of local people and gives the reader glimpses and details of familiar places during a century of unprecedented change. Many aspects of Barnsley's recent history are... -
Set Adrift Upon the World: The Sutherland Clearances by James Hunter 9781839830303
RRP: €17.84€12.82Winner of Saltire Scottish History Book of the Year They would be better dead, they said, than set adrift upon the world. But set adrift they were - thousands of them, their communities destroyed, their homes demolished and burned. Such were the... -
Inventory: A Family Portrait of Derry’s Troubled Past by Darran Anderson
RRP: €11.89€8.46'Astonishing... A marvellous poetic reminder that every place is a universe of magical possibility to the perceptive mind' Damian Le Bas, author of The Stopping Places A smuggler and a deserter, Darran Anderson's grandfathers skirted the Second World... -
One Hot Summer: Dickens, Darwin, Disraeli, and the Great Stink of 1858 by Rosemary Ashton
RRP: €15.46€13.64A unique, colorful view of Victorian London when residents both famous and now-forgotten endured "the Great Stink" across one hot summer While 1858 in London may have been noteworthy for its broiling summer months and the related stench of the... -
Black Victorians: Hidden in History by Keshia N. Abraham 9780715654880
RRP: €15.46€10.27Beyond the patrician vision of Victorian Britain traditionally advanced in our textbooks, there always existed another, more diverse Britain, populated by people of colour marking achievements both ordinary and extraordinary. In this deeply researched... -
The Truth About St. Kilda: An Islander's Memoir by Donald Gillies
RRP: €11.89€8.32The Truth about St Kilda is a unique record of the isolated way of life on St Kilda in the early part of the twentieth century, based on seven handwritten notebooks written by the Rev. Donald Gillies, containing reminiscences of his childhood on the... -
Arthur's Britain by Leslie Alcock 9780141390697
€23.15We are all familiar with the legendary tales of King Arthur: the sword in the stone, the Holy Grail, the great deeds and high enchantments. But what evidence is there for a real historical figure beneath the myth and romance? This book assembles a wealth... -
Blackpool: Britain in Old Photographs by Catherine Rothwell
RRP: €17.84€13.74There can be no better example of Victorian enterprise than the amazing success story of Blackpool whose pioneering spirit embodied all the unflagging, indomitable confidence of that age - "He who dares wins". This was the watchword, and bold publicity... -
Hampshire: through writers' eyes by Alastair Langlands
RRP: €15.46€10.23Those who know the downs and chalk streams of Hampshire are quietly fortunate but rarely boastful. So it is fascinating to rediscover this home county, on the eastern edge of Wessex, as a place of extraordinary richness. Those rounded chalk hills have... -
The Case of the Married Woman: Caroline Norton: A 19th Century Heroine Who Wanted Justice for Women by Lady Antonia Fraser
RRP: €13.08€8.81'Before biography was fashionable, Antonia Fraser made the past popular' Guardian'As a pure storyteller, Antonia Fraser has few equals' Sunday TimesCAROLINE NORTON, a nineteenth-century heroine who wanted justice for women.Poet, pamphleteer and artist's... -
Dublin Then and Now (R) by Lisa Marie Griffith
RRP: €20.22€14.84Dublin Then and Now matches archival images with contemporary views to reveal the past and present of this fascinating city.Dublin's rich architectural heritage ranges from medieval castles and cathedrals to a wealth of elegant Georgian townhouses... -
The Picts: A History by Tim Clarkson
RRP: €13.08€8.71The Picts were an ancient nation who ruled most of northern and eastern Scotland during the Dark Ages. Despite their historical importance, they remain shrouded in myth and misconception. Absorbed by the kingdom of the Scots in the ninth century, they... -
The Reformation of the Landscape: Religion, Identity, and Memory in Early Modern Britain and Ireland by Alexandra Walsham 9780199654383
RRP: €61.88€44.83The Reformation of the Landscape is a richly detailed and original study of the relationship between the landscape of Britain and Ireland and the tumultuous religious changes of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It explores how the profound... -
The Turning Tide: A Biography of the Irish Sea by Jon Gower
RRP: €23.80€15.87An immersive history of a pivotal stretch of water 'Fascinating, spellbinding, erudite and great fun.' Roddy Doyle 'Remarkable. Lively ... Gower writes beautifully... -
Mary Ann Cotton: The West Auckland Borgia by Martin Connolly 9781473876200
RRP: €17.84€13.03A female thief, with four husbands, a lover and, reportedly, over twelve children, is arrested and tried for the murder of her step-son in 1872, turning the small village of West Auckland in County Durham upside down. Other bodies are exhumed and when... -
Where's Boris? by Various
RRP: €9.51€7.04Search for Boris Johnson in this eye-boggling illustrated adventure!Greetings citizens! Can you spot Boris?In an array of crowded scenes, from zip wires and bikes to Beijing and the Bullingdon Club, search for Boris amongst the masses. Anyone for... -
The English Public School - An Irreverent and Personal History: An Irreverent and Personal History by Martin Stephen
RRP: €20.22€13.99Until his retirement in 2011, Dr Martin Stephen was High Master of St Paul's School, and before that of Manchester Grammar School, two of the most academically successful independent schools in the world, bar none. As such, he is uniquely placed to write... -
Elizabeth: The Forgotten Years by John Guy
RRP: €15.46€10.82History has pictured Elizabeth I as Gloriana, an icon of strength and power -- and has focused on the early years of her reign. But in 1583, when Elizabeth is fifty, there is relentless plotting among her courtiers -- and still to come is the Spanish... -
Material Cultures of Childhood in Second World War Britain by Gabriel Moshenska 9781013292811
RRP: €39.21€34.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013292811Author Gabriel MoshenskaFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g -
Flag Fen: Life and Death of a Prehistoric Landscape by Francis Pryor 9780752429007
RRP: €29.75€22.06The Fens of eastern England form a very distinct environment which has produced particular patterns of prehistoric occupation. Dr Francis Pryor, the Director of the Flag Fen Archaeological Trust, gives his own personal account of his discovery and... -
The Fight for Scottish Democracy: Rebellion and Reform in 1820 by Murray Armstrong
RRP: €20.22€13.73Three Scottish weavers, James Wilson, Andrew Hardie and John Baird, were hanged and beheaded for high treason in the summer of 1820. Nineteen more men were transported to the penal colony of Botany Bay. Their crime? To have taken up arms against a... -
Queer London: Perils and Pleasures in the Sexual Metropolis, 1918-1957 by Matt Houlbrook
RRP: €32.13€31.98In August 1934, young Cyril L. wrote to his friend Billy about all the exciting men he had met, the swinging nightclubs he had visited, and the vibrant new life he had forged for himself in the big city. He wrote, "I have only been queer since I came to... -
A History of Wales 1485-1660 by Thomas Hugh 9780708324875
RRP: €5.94€4.81The events of the period 1485 - 1660 were decisive in the development of modern Wales and, in Hugh Thomas' first in the four-volume "Welsh History Text Books" series, students are presented with a scholarly, balanced and informative discussion. From the... -
Oxford by Jan Morris 9780192801364
RRP: €20.22€14.98'Few cities,' Jan Morris observes, 'have been much more loved, loathed, and celebrated.' This book has become a classic account of the character, history, mores, buildings, climate, and people of one of Britain's most fascinating cities. 'A book of... -
Who's Buried Where in London by Peter Matthews
RRP: €20.22€16.14London's many cemeteries, churches and graveyards are the last resting places of a multitude of important people from many different walks of life. Politicians, writers and military heroes rub shoulders with engineers, courtesans, artists and musicians,... -
Tir a'Mhurain: The Outer Hebrides of Scotland by Paul Strand
RRP: €29.75€20.93Tir a'Mhurain is a collection of photographs that reflects the impressions gathered by Paul Strand and his wife Hazel during their 3-month visit to the Hebrides in 1945. Juxtaposing people and landscape, Strand's beautifully sequenced photographs depict... -
Nightwalking: A Nocturnal History of London by Matthew Beaumont
RRP: €14.27€13.63"Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night," wrote the poet Rupert Brooke. Before the age of electricity, the nighttime city was a very different place to the one we know today - home to the lost, the vagrant and the noctambulant. Matthew... -
British Sheep Breeds by Susannah Robin Parkin
RRP: €10.70€8.28Sheep have been farmed in Britain for hundreds of years and more than thirty million sheep now inhabit these islands. The many breeds developed over this time have been carefully matched to their surroundings - from the hardy, seaweed-eating North... -
The Weaker Vessel by Lady Antonia Fraser 9781842126356 [USED COPY]
RRP: €20.22€2.73Antonia Fraser's bestselling account of the lives of women in seventeenth-century England.Just how weak were the women of the Civil War era? What could they expect beyond marriage and childbirth in an age where infant and maternal mortality was frequent...