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Invasive Aliens: The Plants and Animals From Over There That Are Over Here by Dan Eatherley
RRP: £16.99£9.54'The story of "invasive species" is really the story of human history, and Eatherley tells it with great verve ... Fascinating' Daily Telegraph A unique history of plant and animal invaders of the British isles spanning thousands... -
Muswell Hill Revisited by Kenneth Gay
RRP: £12.99£9.62A collection of images from the last 100 years showing change through the years.About the AuthorKen Gay is te president of the Hornsey Historical Society and the author of several books on the region, including Muswell Hill - History and Guide.Book... -
WJEC GCSE History Changes in Health and Medicine c.1340 to the present day and Changes in Crime and Punishment, c.1500 to the present day by R. Paul Evans
£27.41Exam Board: WJECLevel: GCSESubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2017First exams: Summer 2019Endorsed by WJECHelp every student to develop the in-depth knowledge and historical skills they need to achieve their best with the market-leading series for... -
Double Lives: A History of Working Motherhood by Helen McCarthy
RRP: £12.99£10.09SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2021 Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2021 Longlisted for the HWA Non-Fiction Crown 2021 'Fabulous' - The Times 'A milestone in women's history' - Observer 'Groundbreaking ... a fascinating... -
The Royal Arsenal, Woolwich: Britain in Old Photographs by Roy Masters
RRP: £12.99£9.62Little is generally known of the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, and the immortal place it holds among all the Royal Ordnance Factories. For nearly four hundred years it was a 'secret walled city', self-sufficient and closely guarded. As it grew, and developed... -
Drag: A British History by Jacob Bloomfield 9780520393325
RRP: £25.00£19.59"A must-read for anyone interested in the history of drag performance."- Publishers WeeklyA rich and provocative history of drag's importance in modern British culture. Drag: A British History is a groundbreaking study of the sustained popularity and... -
The Arsenic Century: How Victorian Britain was Poisoned at Home, Work, and Play by James C. Whorton
RRP: £15.99£11.61Arsenic is rightly infamous as the poison of choice for Victorian murderers. Yet the great majority of fatalities from arsenic in the nineteenth century came not from intentional poisoning, but from accident. Kept in many homes for the purpose of... -
Ada's Algorithm: How Lord Byron's Daughter Launched the Digital Age Through the Poetry of Numbers by James Essinger
RRP: £10.99£8.94Through the infamous divorce of her parents, Ada Lovelace became the most talked-about child in Georgian Britain. This riveting biography tells the extraordinary yet little known story of her life and times-when mathematics was as fashionable as knitting... -
Renaissance Monarchy: The Reigns of Henry VIII, Francis I and Charles V by Glenn Richardson 9780340731437
£38.14What determined success or failure in Renaissance monarchy? Why was warfare endemic in Europe in the early sixteenth century and how did the great cultural and artistic changes of the period flourish amid this conflict? How did rival kings relate to each... -
Alamein by Stephen Bungay 9781854109293
RRP: £14.99£9.80El Alamein was the World War II land battle Britain had to win. By the summer of 1942 Rommel's German forces were threatening to sweep through the Western Desert and drive on to the Suez Canal, and Britain was in urgent need of military victory. Then, in... -
Coal Mining in Britain by Richard Hayman
RRP: £8.99£6.96An illustrated history of Britain's coal mines and the lives of the miners who worked in them. Coal heated the homes, fuelled the furnaces and powered the engines of the Industrial Revolution. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries the coalfields -... -
Around Stockton & Norton by Paul Menzies 9780752457314
RRP: £12.99£9.62This superb selection of 200 photographs provides a nostalgic insight into the changing face of the neighbouring communities of Stockton and Norton on Tees over the last century. Each image is accompanied by a detailed caption, bringing the past to life... -
Birmingham: The Workshop of the World by Carl Chinn 9781781382479 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.45£6.35Birmingham is a city with an extraordinarily diverse achievement in fields as varied as science, industry, politics, education, medicine, printing and the arts. Labels such as the 'first industrial city', 'city of a thousand trades', 'the best-governed... -
Birmingham: The Workshop of the World by Carl Chinn 9781781382479
RRP: £16.45£16.19Birmingham is a city with an extraordinarily diverse achievement in fields as varied as science, industry, politics, education, medicine, printing and the arts. Labels such as the 'first industrial city', 'city of a thousand trades', 'the best-governed... -
The Great Plague: A People's History by Evelyn Lord
RRP: £10.99£9.37In this intimate history of the extraordinary Black Plague pandemic that swept through the British Isles in 1665, Evelyn Lord focuses on the plague's effects on smaller towns, where every death was a singular blow affecting the entire community. Lord's... -
Till the Cows Come Home: The Story of Our Eternal Dependence by Philip Walling
RRP: £9.99£4.11'A vital, thorough and accessible history that everyone who cares about the past or the future should read.' Rosamund Young, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Secret Life of Cows______________________________________The story of the relationship... -
Martial Law and English Laws, c.1500-c.1700 by John M. Collins 9781107092877
RRP: £90.00£81.43John M. Collins presents the first comprehensive history of martial law in the early modern period. He argues that rather than being a state of exception from law, martial law was understood and practiced as one of the King's laws. Further, it was a... -
The Little Book of Lincolnshire by Lucy Wood 9780750963619
RRP: £9.99£7.55The Little Book of Lincolnshire is a compendium of fascinating information about this historic county, past and present. Contained within is a plethora of entertaining facts about Lincolnshire's famous and occasionally infamous men and women, its towns... -
Heroes of Postman's Park: Heroic Self-Sacrifice in Victorian London by Dr. John Price
RRP: £16.99£12.94The Watts Memorial to Heroic Self-Sacrifice in Postman's Park, London, is a Victorian monument containing fifty-four ceramic plaques commemorating sixty-two individuals, each of whom lost their own life while attempting to save another. Every plaque... -
Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in History by Sir Richard J. Evans 9780349141435
RRP: £14.99£9.80At the time of his death at the age of 95, Eric Hobsbawm (1917-2012) was the most famous historian in the world. His books were translated into more than fifty languages and he was as well known in Brazil and Italy as he was in Britain and the United... -
In Pursuit of Spring by Edward Thomas
RRP: £15.00£10.96In mid to late March 1913, as the storm clouds of the Great War which was to claim his life gathered, Edward Thomas took a bicycle ride from Clapham to the Quantock Hills. The poet recorded his journey through his beloved South Country and his account... -
Gruesome Guides: Stratford-upon-Avon by Terry Deary 9781407110783 [USED COPY]
£17.10Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
King Henry VIII by Angela Royston
RRP: £6.00£4.44Henry Tudor is probably the best known king in English history, most famous for having had six wives. Henry wanted immortality, not as a notorious husband, but as a king who made England strong and powerful. Essential to that, he believed, was the... -
Standards of Living in the Later Middle Ages: Social Change in England c.1200-1520 by Christopher Dyer
RRP: £42.99£37.77Between 1200 and 1520 medieval English society went through a series of upheavals: this was an age of war, pestilence and rebellion. This book explores the realities of life of the people who lived through those stirring times. It looks in turn at... -
English Canals Explained by Stan Yorke 9781853068256
RRP: £7.95£6.61The English canal network becomes increasingly popular and widely used each year. The main aim of this book is to explain how everything works - from locks and lifts, to tunnels and towpaths. Stan Yorke, a life-long narrow boat enthusiast, explains in an... -
Street Food: Hawkers and the History of London by Charlie Taverner 9780192846945
RRP: £34.49£30.07This is the story of the women, men, boys, and girls who hawked oysters, cherries, cabbages, and pies on London's streets, feeding the capital throughout its transformation from medieval city to global metropolis. Street Food reconstructs the working... -
Between Two Worlds: How the English Became Americans by Malcolm Gaskill
RRP: £16.99£12.68Between Two Worlds is a story teeming with people on the move, making decisions, indulging or resisting their desires and dreams. In the seventeenth century a quarter of a million men, women, and children left England's shores for America. Some were... -
Kitchener: Hero and Anti-Hero by C. Brad Faught
£54.87Horatio Herbert Kitchener, Earl Kitchener of Khartoum (1850-1916) is one of the most important figures in the history of the British Empire. Beginning as Royal Engineer in the 1870s he would end his career over forty years later as Secretary of State for... -
The Guy Liddell Diaries Vol.II: 1942-1945: MI5's Director of Counter-Espionage in World War II by Nigel West
RRP: £54.99£48.12WALLFLOWERS is the codename given to one of the Security Service's most treasured possessions, the daily journal dictated from August 1939 to June 1945 by MI5's Director of Counter-Espionage, Guy Liddell, to his secretary, Margo Huggins. The document was... -
Islanded: Britain, Sri Lanka, and the Bounds of an Indian Ocean Colony by Sujit Sivasundaram
RRP: £42.00£40.81How did the British come to conquer South Asia in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries? Answers to this question usually start in northern India, neglecting the dramatic events that marked Britain's contemporaneous subjugation of the island... -
London Labour and the London Poor: A Cyclopaedia of the Condition and Earnings of Those That Will Work, Those That Cannot Work, and Those That Will No by Henry Mayhew 9781605207339
RRP: £29.99£24.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781605207339Author Henry MayhewFormat PaperbackPage Count 536Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 744gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm... -
Luxury Railway Travel: A Social and Business History by Martyn Pring 9781526713247
RRP: £35.00£14.58British luxury rail travel was not just the domain of the Pullman Company. In fact, they were far from the only providers as railway companies in Britain were extremely active from late Victorian times competing for leisure business. Various railway... -
The Rise of the New Model Army by Mark A. Kishlansky 9780521273770
RRP: £44.99£38.54This is a meticulously-researched and highly controversial study of the origins and development of parliamentary and extra-parliamentary politics during the English Civil War. Professor Kishlansky challenges the fundamental assumptions upon which all... -
Homecoming: The Scottish Years of Mary, Queen of Scots by Rosemary Goring
RRP: £22.00£15.11One of the most famous queens in history, Mary Stuart lived in her homeland for just twelve years: as a dauntless child who laughed at her friends' seasickness as they sailed to safety in France and later, on her return as a 18-year-old widow to take... -
Cuthbert and the Northumbrian Saints by Paul Frodsham 9780955540639
RRP: £14.99£12.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955540639Author Paul FrodshamFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Northern HeritagePublisher Northern Heritage ServicesDimensions(mm) 230mm * 164mm * 8mm -
The Ipswich Witch: Mary Lackland and the Suffolk Witch Hunts by David L. Jones 9780752480527
RRP: £14.99£11.55The year 1645 saw the biggest witch-hunt in English history. Faced by the extreme challenges of religious dissent, poverty, sickness and the threat of foreign invasion, Ipswich became an ideological battlefield during the English Civil Wars. Here... -
The Shaping of Modern Britain: Identity, Industry and Empire 1780 - 1914 by Eric Evans 9781408225646
£38.94In this wide-ranging history of modern Britain, Eric Evans surveys every aspect of the period in which Britain was transformed into the world's first industrial power. By the end of the nineteenth century, Britain was still ruled by wealthy landowners,... -
Banbury: A History by Brian Little 9780750983679
RRP: £14.99£11.55Banbury was laid out as a planned new town in the 12th century by Alexander, Bishop of Lincoln. It incorporated a market place and was protected by the second in a series of castles. His grant of a charter launched the town as a regional trading centre... -
The World at War: The Landmark Oral History from the Previously Unpublished Archives by Richard Holmes 9780091917531 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.99£2.65The World at War is the definitive television work on the Second World War. It set out to tell the story of the war through the testimony of key participants - from civilians to ordinary soldiers, from statesmen to generals. First broadcast in 1973, the... -
Spain, Rumor, and Anti-Catholicism in Mid-Jacobean England: The Palatine Match, Cleves, and the Armada Scares of 1612-1613 and 1614 by Calvin F. Senning
RRP: £39.99£35.06Geoffrey Parker has remarked that the Spanish Armada, though a disastrous defeat, was a considerable psychological success. Deep into the seventeenth century the specter of a returning armada haunted England. Twice in the middle of James I's reign alarms...