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Thomson: The Origins of the Thomsons and Their Place in History by Iain Gray 9781852171193
RRP: €4.75€3.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781852171193Author Iain GrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Lang Syne Publishers LtdPublisher Lang Syne Publishers Ltd -
Legendary Beasts of Britain by Julia Cresswell
RRP: €8.32€6.99From mythical legends - dragons, unicorns, mermaids, sea serpents, griffins, yales and wyverns - to contemporary tall-tales such as big cats on the moors and the Loch Ness Monster, the British imagination has ever been stalked by fantastic beasts. These... -
The Scottish Nation: A Modern History by T. M. Devine
RRP: €22.60€16.67HERALD BOOKS OF THE YEAR and NEW STATESMAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014 Part of a trilogy on Scottish history, T.M. Devine's The Scottish Nation: A Modern History traces the epic story of a nation from the Union with England to today's debates on the... -
Gertrude Jekyll by Twigs Way
RRP: €9.51€7.90Almost eighty years after her death, Gertrude Jekyll (1843-1932) is still one of the most influential of all English garden designers. Best known for the superb use of colour schemes in her hallmark flower borders, she combined an early training in art... -
My East End: Memories of Life in Cockney London by Gilda O'Neill
RRP: €19.03€13.82Gilda O'Neill's The East End traces the East End of London - cockneys, criminals, street markets, pub singalongs, dog racing, jellied eels. London's East End it is a place at once appealing and unruly, comforting and incomprehensible. Gilda O'Neill, an... -
Bloody London by David Fathers
RRP: €11.89€8.87An entertaining, revealing and beautifully illustrated walking guide to London's horrific history, Bloody London features walks that take in everything from Jack the Ripper's haunts, to the site of John Christie's house of horrors, to the plague outbreak... -
Hillsborough - The Truth by Phil Scraton
RRP: €13.08€9.25This is the definitive, unique account of the disaster in which 96 men, women and children were killed, hundreds injured and thousands traumatised. It details the appalling treatment endured by the bereaved and survivors in the immediate aftermath, the... -
The Year 1000: An Englishman's Year by Robert Lacey
RRP: €13.08€8.81THE YEAR 1000 is a vivid evocation of how English people lived a thousand years ago - no spinach, sugar or Caesarean operations in which the mother had any chance of survival, but a world that knew brain surgeons, property developers and, yes, even the... -
The Penguin History of the United States of America by Hugh Brogan
RRP: €20.22€14.61This new edition of Brogan's superb one-volume history - from early British colonisation to the Reagan years - captures an array of dynamic personalities and events. In a broad sweep of America's triumphant progress. Brogan explores the period leading... -
Oxford AQA History for A Level: The Making of Modern Britain 1951-2007 by Sally Waller
€40.19Please note this title is suitable for any student studying: Exam Board: AQA Level/Subject: AS and A Level History First teaching: 2015 First exams: June 2017 Retaining all the well-loved features from the previous editions, The Making of Modern... -
Welsh Food Stories by Carwyn Graves
RRP: €17.84€13.03Welsh Food Stories explores more than two thousand years of history to discover the rich but forgotten heritage of Welsh foods - from oysters to cider, salted butter to salt-marsh lamb. Despite centuries of industry, ancient traditions have survived in... -
Cumbria's Prehistoric Monuments by Adam Morgan Ibbotson
RRP: €21.42€15.87Whether it is Hadrian's Wall, Kendal Castle or the beautiful fells of the Lake District - for thousands of years people have found a certain elegance and utility in stone. Nestled amongst these common relics are a multitude of massive stone monuments,... -
The English Year by Steve Roud
RRP: €20.22€14.61This enthralling book will take you, month-by-month, day-by-day, through all the festivities of English life. From national celebrations such as New Year's Eve to regional customs such as the Padstow Hobby Horse procession, cheese rolling in... -
On This Day in History by Dan Snow
RRP: €13.08€8.81On which day was history's shortest war waged and won (in roughly 40 minutes)? How was Napoleon bested by a group of rabbits in 1807? Why did a dispute about beer in an Oxford pub lead to over 100 deaths and 470 years of penance? Why in 1752 did Britain... -
The A-Z of Curious Suffolk: Strange Stories of Mysteries, Crimes and Eccentrics by Sarah E. Doig
RRP: €17.84€13.42This book romps through the rolling countryside and along the shingled coastline of Suffolk, unearthing the curious along the way. Sandwiched between ecclesiastical penances handed down to adulterers and fornicators, and the odd porcelain incendiary... -
London: A History in Maps by Peter Barber 9780712358798
RRP: €53.55€35.66Over the past 2000 years London has developed from a small town, fitting snugly within its walls, into one of the world's largest and most dynamic cities. This book illustrates and helps to explain the transformation. Side-by-side with the great,... -
To Prove I'm Not Forgot by Sylvia M. Barnard
RRP: €17.84€13.42With the growth of English cities during the Industrial Revolution came a booming population too vast for churchyards. Beckett Street Cemetery in Leeds was to become the first municipal cemetery in the country. This study relates how the cemetery was... -
The Fishing Fleet: Husband-Hunting in the Raj by Anne De Courcy
RRP: €11.89€8.09The adventurous young women who sailed to India during the Raj in search of husbands.From the late 19th century, when the Raj was at its height, many of Britain's best and brightest young men went out to India to work as administrators, soldiers and... -
Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Volume One: Not For Turning by Charles Moore
RRP: €22.60€16.67Not For Turning is the first volume of Charles Moore's authorized biography of Margaret Thatcher, the longest serving Prime Minister of the twentieth century and one of the most influential political figures of the postwar era. Charles Moore's biography... -
A-Z Secret Oxford Walks by A-Z maps
RRP: €8.32€5.71Discover hidden gems around Oxford with 20 walking routes. Featuring 20 walks in and around the city, including lesser-known circuits and details on popular walks. Accompanied by guided walking instructions and written by a local expert, A-Z... -
Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation by Kris Manjapra 9780141990491
RRP: €13.08€9.25A revelatory historical indictment of the long afterlife of slavery in the Atlantic worldTo fully understand why the shadow of slavery haunts us today, we must confront the flawed way that it ended. We celebrate abolition - in Haiti after the revolution,... -
On Chapel Sands: My mother and other missing persons by Laura Cumming
RRP: €11.89€8.46**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER****SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD**Uncovering the mystery of her mother's disappearance as a child: Laura Cumming, prize-winning author and art critic, takes a closer look at her family story.'A modern... -
Queen Victoria's Matchmaking by Deborah Cadbury
RRP: €17.84€13.03A captivating exploration of the role in which Queen Victoria exerted most international power and influence: her role as matchmaking grandmother. In the late nineteenth century, Queen Victoria had over thirty surviving grandchildren. To maintain... -
Red Sky at Night: The Book of Lost Country Wisdom by Jane Struthers
RRP: €16.65€11.60The indispensable guide to everything we knew and loved before modern life got in the way. This gorgeous and beautifully illustrated countryside miscellany is the perfect purchase for anyone wanting to go back to their roots and rediscover a lost world..... -
Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire: A Confidential Report by Iain Sinclair 9780141012742
RRP: €15.46€10.82Hackney, that Rose-Red Empire is Iain Sinclair's foray into one of London's most fascinating boroughs'As detailed and as complex as a historical map, taking the reader hither and thither with no care as to which might be the most direct... -
Hadrian's Wall by Adrian Goldsworthy
RRP: €13.08€9.25A beautifully produced account of the history and importance of Hadrian's Wall, by a bestselling author and expert on Ancient Rome. Located at the far-flung and wild edge of the Roman Empire, Hadrian's Wall was constructed by Emperor Hadrian in the... -
The Lighthouse: The Mystery of the Eilean Mor Lighthouse Keepers by Keith McCloskey
RRP: €15.46€11.15On 26 December 1900, the vessel Hesperus arrived at Eilean Mor in the remote Outer Hebrides with a relief lighthouseman and fresh provisions. The lighthouse had been in operation for a year, but it had been noted that no light had been seen from Eilean... -
The Watchers: A Secret History of the Reign of Elizabeth I by Stephen Alford
RRP: €13.08€9.25The acclaimed and enthralling story of the dark side of Elizabethan rule, from Stephen AlfordElizabeth I's reign is known as a golden age, yet to much of Europe she was a 'Jezebel' and heretic who had to be destroyed. The Watchers is a thrilling... -
A Grim Almanac of Kent by W. H. Johnson
RRP: €17.84€13.42In A Grim Almanac of Kent, W.H. Johnson has discovered a sinister, macabre or horrifying occurrence for every day of the year, and presents his readers with 365 graphic, spine-tingling and dramatic events. The wicked, the mad, the foolish and the... -
Shadowlands: A Journey Through Lost Britain by Matthew Green
RRP: €13.08€8.71THE TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZEDrowned. Buried by sand. Decimated by plague. Plunged off a cliff.This is the forgotten history of Britain's lost cities, ghost towns and vanished villages: our shadowlands.'A beautiful book,... -
The Ravenmaster: My Life with the Ravens at the Tower of London by Christopher Skaife 9780008307936
RRP: €13.08€8.63'Packed with insight and anecdote, his story brings the Tower ravens to vivid life, each bird with a personality of its own. I've been fortunate enough to tour the Tower and meet the ravens a few times in years past; after reading this... -
Turning Points: Crisis and Change in Modern Britain, from 1945 to Truss by Steve Richards Media Limited 9781035015351
RRP: €26.18€17.50The Times Best Politics and Current Affairs Books of the YearAn entertaining and revealing history of modern British politics from Steve Richards, broadcaster, journalist, and author of The Prime Ministers We Never Had.'Through wonderful vignettes,... -
The Black Death by Sean Martin
RRP: €10.70€7.45The Black Death is the name most commonly given to the pandemic of bubonic plague that ravaged the medieval world in the late 1340s. From Central Asia the plague swept through Europe, leaving millions of dead in its wake. Between a quarter and a third of... -
The Times End of the Line: A history of British railway closures from 1948 by Julian Holland
RRP: €35.70€20.25Covering the period from 1948 to 1996, The Times End of the Line chronologically traces the history of more than 400 long forgotten railway lines, region by region, from their opening to closure and a few cases to reopening. For such a small... -
The History of England's Cathedrals by Nicholas Orme 9780300275483
RRP: €23.80€20.21The first history of all the English cathedrals, from Birmingham and Bury St Edmunds to Worcester and York Minster England's sixty-two Anglican and Catholic cathedrals are some of our most iconic buildings, attracting millions of worshippers and... -
The Silent Deep: The Royal Navy Submarine Service Since 1945 by Peter Hennessy
RRP: €23.79€17.47'The Ministry of Defence does not comment upon submarine operations' is the standard response of officialdom to enquiries about the most secretive and mysterious of Britain's armed forces, the Royal Navy Submarine Service. Written with unprecedented... -
Northern Protestants: An Unsettled People by Susan McKay
RRP: €29.69€17.26First published in 2000, 'Northern Protestants - An Unsettled People' was an instant success and is widely recognised as a ground-breaking book. Based on over sixty in-depth interviews with a wide range of northern Protestants, Susan McKay presents an... -
Atlas of Irish History by Sean Duffy 9780717153992
RRP: €22.60€16.20'Out on the Western edge of Europe, a first glance at the map makes Ireland seem a small and isolated place. However, many peoples have by turns established themselves on this remote island, creating an historical dynamic whose dispersed voices are now... -
Wentworth Woodhouse: The House, the Estate and the Family by Melvyn Jones
RRP: €17.84€13.03It was the home of a knight, a baron, a viscount, two marquises and nine earls. The family had estates not only in South Yorkshire, but also in North Yorkshire, the Midlands and Ireland, at their greatest extent covering nearly 120,000 acres. One head of... -
Hastings: Wartime Memories and Photographs by Nathan Dylan Goodwin
RRP: €21.41€15.86Hastings: Wartime Memories and Photographs weaves the personal stories of 75 people who endured life in Hastings during the Home Front war years with more than 140 photographs, the majority of which have never been published before. It describes the...