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In Pursuit of Civility: Manners and Civilization in Early Modern England by Keith Thomas
RRP: £13.99£12.25A SUNDAY TIMES, EVENING STANDARD, SPECTATOR AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR"In this gloriously rich book, Keith Thomas, one of our greatest living historians, explores how the idea of civility, from lavatory habits to table manners, evolved in early... -
The Story of Leeds by David Thornton 9780752499574
RRP: £17.99£13.64A richly illustrated history that explores every aspect of life in Leeds. This new history of Leeds covers all the main political, social and economic developments of the city: The Harrying of the North devastated the surrounding area in 1069; the Civil... -
Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution by Albert V. Dicey 9780865970038
£15.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865970038Author Albert V. DiceyFormat PaperbackPage Count 585Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 993g -
Britain Since 1707 by Hamish Fraser 9780582894150
RRP: £39.99£39.54Britain since 1707 is the first single-volume book to cover the complex and multi-layered history of Great Britain from its inception until 2007. Bringing together political, economic, social and cultural history, the book offers a reliable and balanced... -
Bloody British History: Plymouth by Laura Quigley 9780752466385
RRP: £14.99£11.55Bread riots and bodysnatchers! Pirates and privateers! Hell holes for Boney! The disgusting true story of Plymouth's Napoleonic prison ships! 'A very daughter of Hell!' In 1675, a poisonous nursemaid was hanged on Prince Rock - but was she innocent of... -
Bermondsey & Rotherhithe Remembered by Stephen Humphrey 9780752433165
RRP: £12.99£9.62There are few areas of London that have changed in recent decades as much as the dockside areas of Bermondsey and Rotherhithe. As the importance of London as a shipping port declined in the post-war years many of the city's docklands began to see changes... -
A History of Birmingham by Chris Upton
RRP: £19.99£15.42Birmingham was a village worth only one pound in the Domesday Survey, yet it rose to become the second city of the British Empire with a population that passed a million. Its growth began when Peter de Birmingham obtained a market charter in 1154 for his... -
Scheming: A Social History of Glasgow Council Housing, 1919-1956 by Sean Damer 9781474440578
RRP: £21.99£17.97Sean Damer provides a sustained critique of the Corporation of Glasgow's council housing policy and argues that it had the unintended consequence of amplifying social segregation and ghettoisation in the city.Book InformationISBN 9781474440578Author Sean... -
Patriot or Traitor: The Life and Death of Sir Walter Ralegh by Anna Beer 9781786076700
RRP: £10.99£7.77A BBC History Magazine Book of the Year A writer, soldier, politician, courtier, spy and explorer, Sir Walter Ralegh lived more lives than most in his own time, in any time. The fifth son of a Devonshire gentleman, he rose to become Queen Elizabeth's... -
Mr Barry's War: Rebuilding the Houses of Parliament after the Great Fire of 1834 by Caroline Shenton 9780198707202
RRP: £14.99£10.95When the brilliant classical architect Charles Barry won the competition to build a new, Gothic, Houses of Parliament in London he thought it was the chance of a lifetime. It swiftly turned into the most nightmarish building programme of the century... -
Britannia Airways: The World's Largest Holiday Airline by Graham M Simons 9781526758781
RRP: £30.00£20.95Founded in 1961 as Euravia by British businessman Ted Langton and aviation consultant J.E.D. Walker, at a time of considerable turmoil for the independent sector of the British air operators' industry, Britannia Airways went on to become the world's... -
The Isle of Thanet: From Prehistory to the Norman Conquest by Gerald Moody 9780752446899
RRP: £17.99£13.64The Isle of Thanet is located at the eastern tip of Kent and was once separated from the East Kent mainland by the Wantsum channel. With its unique position which made it part of a key trade route in the Romano-British period, the island has a long and... -
September 1, 1939: A Biography of a Poem by Ian Sansom
RRP: £16.99£9.37This is a book about a poet, about a poem, about a city, and about a world at a point of change. More than a work of literary criticism or literary biography, it is a record of why and how we create and respond to great poetry. This is a book... -
Captain Swing by E. J. Hobsbawm
RRP: £23.99£23.80Sir Your name is down amongst the Black hearts in the Black Book and this is to advise you and the like of you, who are Parson Justasses, to make your wills Ye have been the Blackguard Enemies of the People on all occasions, Ye have not yet... -
Showfolk: An Oral History of a Fairground Dynasty by Frank Bruce
RRP: £10.99£8.94Travelling showfolk have been entertaining Scots for centuries and a visit to 'the shows' was a highlight of the year until recent memory. The Codonas are one of the longest and most established show families, having arrived from the continent in the... -
The Family, Sex and Marriage in England 1500-1800 by Lawrence Stone
RRP: £14.99£10.95This book studies the evolution of the family from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century and how the process radically influenced child-rearing, education, contraception, sexual behaviour and marriage.About the AuthorLawrence Stone (1919-1999) was a... -
The British Sailor of the First World War by Quintin Colville
RRP: £8.99£4.64How the Royal Navy saw off the U-boat challenge in the Great War, and the daily lives of its sailors. In 1914 Great Britain's navy was the largest and most powerful the world had ever seen - but what was the everyday experience of those who served in... -
Scotland: a New History by Michael Lynch 9780712698931 [USED COPY]
RRP: £25.00£2.29From Bannockburn and Robert the Bruce to the union of the crowns and Mary, Queen of Scots; from the Reformation and John Knox, to the Enlightenment and the Highland Clearances, and right up to devolution, Scotland is the definitive history of a country... -
Scotland: a New History by Michael Lynch
RRP: £25.00£18.02From Bannockburn and Robert the Bruce to the union of the crowns and Mary, Queen of Scots; from the Reformation and John Knox, to the Enlightenment and the Highland Clearances, and right up to devolution, Scotland is the definitive history of a country... -
Lucy Hutchinson and the English Revolution: Gender, Genre, and History Writing by Claire Gheeraert-Graffeuille 9780192857538
RRP: £95.00£81.25In Lucy Hutchinson and the English Revolution, Claire Gheeraert-Graffeuille explores Lucy Hutchinson's historical writings and the Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson, which, although composed between 1664 and 1667, were first published in 1806... -
E-Boat vs MTB: The English Channel 1941-45 by Gordon Williamson
RRP: £15.99£13.33An examination of the 'small boat' war between the Germans and the British in the English Channel. During the Second World War, German E-Boats were so active in the English Channel that the narrow stretch of water became known as 'E-Boat Alley'. To... -
Saints, Sacrilege and Sedition: Religion and Conflict in the Tudor Reformations by Eamon Duffy 9781472909176 [USED COPY]
RRP: £25.00£5.24In this wide-ranging book, Professor Eamon Duffy explores the broad sweep of the English Reformation, and the ways in which that Reformation has been written about. Tracing the fraught history of religious change in Tudor England, and the retellings... -
Edwardian Devon 1900-1914: Before the Lights Went Out by David Parker
RRP: £14.99£11.55A century ago, Britain was locked in a devastating worldwide conflict that would change every aspect of society. This book explores life in Devon between 1900 and 1914, offering a revealing glimpse of a world now long-vanished before war broke out. Devon... -
Enfield: Britain in Old Photographs by Alan Dumayne 9780752452166
RRP: £14.99£12.94The London Borough of Enfield, which includes the former boroughs of Southgate and Edmonton, came into being in 1965. This selection of superb photographs gives an unforgettable impression of the recent history of these areas, and shows how they... -
Our Flag Stays Red by Phil Piratin 9781905007288
RRP: £14.00£13.78Our Flag Stays Red is a unique account of communist and anti-fascist activity in London's East End in the 1930s and 1940s. Its author was Communist MP for Stepney from 1945 to 1950, and played a leading role in the events described in the book - which... -
Island Stories: Britain and Its History in the Age of Brexit by David Reynolds 9780008282356 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£2.71'Concise, elegant and lucid ... A very useful primer on the delusions of an English mentality' Guardian What do we get wrong about Britain's history and its place in the world? In... -
Island Stories: Britain and Its History in the Age of Brexit by David Reynolds 9780008282356
RRP: £9.99£6.64'Concise, elegant and lucid ... A very useful primer on the delusions of an English mentality' Guardian What do we get wrong about Britain's history and its place in the world? In... -
The Mint: Lawrence After Arabia by T E Lawrence
RRP: £12.99£9.79Lawrence's own account of his experience after the Arab Revolt - when he joined the RAF under a new name. In 1922, his dreams of an independent Arabia shattered, T.E. Lawrence enlisted in the RAF under the assumed name John Hume Ross. Though... -
Smugglers and Smuggling by Trevor May 9780747812074
RRP: £8.99£7.40Smuggling was rife in Britain between the seventeenth and mid-nineteenth centuries, and since then smugglers have come often to be romanticised as cheeky rogues - as highwaymen of the coasts and Robin Hood figures. The reality could be very different... -
An Encyclopaedia of Myself by Jonathan Meades
RRP: £9.99£6.64LONGLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2014 'A symphonic poem about postwar England and Englishness ... A masterpiece' Financial Times The 1950s were not grey. In Jonathan Meades's detailed, petit-point memoir they are luridly... -
Haunted Maidstone by Neil Arnold 9780752459226
RRP: £12.99£9.62For the first time, the historic town of Maidstone gives up its darkest and eeriest secrets. Including previously unpublished accounts of ghostly activity and re-examining classic cases, this is a treasure trove of original material and atmospheric... -
A Soldier's Story: Neville 'Timber' Wood's War, from Dunkirk to D-Day by Mike Wood 9781472144591
RRP: £20.00£5.31'This captivating account . . . is the story of an ordinary soldier, but an extraordinary man. I commend this book most warmly.'Richard Dannatt, General The Lord Dannatt GCB CBE MC DL, Chief of the General Staff 2006-9'The amazing account of a young man,... -
We British: The Poetry of a People by Andrew Marr 9780008130893
RRP: £9.99£7.52More than just an anthology, WE BRITISH is a history of Britain told through its poetry. Written by Britain's most celebrated political commentator for World Poetry Day. This is the story of Britain told from inside. Hundreds of... -
It's My Life! 1960s Newcastle by Anna Flowers 9781857951387
£10.38The 1960s. It was the decade that began in black and white and ended in colour. In Newcastle, as elsewhere, it was a time when everything was possible and everything was changing. From the Club A'Go Go to the new highrise flats people were on the move... -
British Imperialism: 1688-2015 by P. J. Cain 9781138817739
RRP: £54.99£53.48A milestone in the understanding of British history and imperialism, this ground-breaking book radically reinterprets the course of modern economic development and the causes of overseas expansion during the past three centuries. Employing their concept... -
Churches and Churchyards of England and Wales by Richard Hayman
RRP: £12.99£9.79The parish church is a symbol of continuity, a cornerstone of the urban and rural landscape, and a treasure trove often as rich in cultural history as any museum. This compact and accessible guide explores all of these aspects of the parish church,... -
Torpedoes, Tea, and Medals: The Gallant Life of Commander D G H 'Jake' Wright DSC** Rnvr by Chris O'Flaherty
RRP: £17.99£12.95Derek Wright learnt about small boats from his father, who tragically died when Derek was just 14 years old. Sent away from his family to finish his education, he left school at 16 to join the global tea trade. Soon after he finished his training with... -
A Polite and Commercial People: England 1727-1783 by Paul Langford 9780192852533
£57.29Drawing on up-to-date research, this volume in The New Oxford History of England is the most authoritative and comprehensive general history of England between the accession of George II and the loss of the American colonies. Delving beneath the... -
Bloody British History: Southampton by Penny Legg 9780752471105
RRP: £9.99£7.55The people of Southampton have had a lot to put up with over the centuries. If the Danes of French weren't attacking it, pirates from further along were. Treasonous plots were hatched behind its ancient walls and mutiny hit its shipping. This book looks... -
The Little Book of Norwich by Neil Storey
RRP: £14.99£11.55Norwich is a city that has seen it all. Its citizens have been murdered with poisoned dumplings, royalty and rogues have walked the same cobbled streets, and rioters have mustered outside its city gates. Quirky details and local anecdotes abound as this...