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Britannia Surveyed: New light on early Roman Britain through the work of military surveyors by Robert Entwistle 9781910238172
RRP: €23.21€11.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910238172Author Robert EntwistleFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint The Armatura PressPublisher The Armatura PressDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 8mm -
How We'd Talk if the English Had Won in 1066: New Edition 2020 by David Cowley 9781800316294
€19.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800316294Author David CowleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint New Generation PublishingPublisher New Generation PublishingWeight(grams) 625g -
The Aeronauts by James Glaisher 9781911545477
RRP: €11.89€8.09The Aeronauts is the true story behind the forthcoming Major Motion Picture, telling the daring life and death escapades of pioneering Victorian balloonist James Glaisher. In 1862, Glaisher set out to do the impossible: ascend higher into the skies than... -
The Dartford-Thurrock River Crossing: A Photographic History by Dr. Paul Smith 9780752448282
RRP: €17.84€13.74People have been crossing the Thames from Dartford to Thurrock at much the same point since the 1820s. Since its earliest beginnings as a ferry-crossing location, the site has developed into one of Europe's busiest crossings and complex traffic... -
In Spies We Trust: The Story of Western Intelligence by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones 9780198701903
RRP: €17.84€13.72In Spies We Trust reveals the full story of the Anglo-American intelligence relationship - ranging from the deceits of World War I to the mendacities of 9/11 - for the first time. Why did we ever start trusting spies? It all started a hundred years... -
The Forging of the Modern State: Early Industrial Britain, 1783-c.1870 by Eric J. Evans
RRP: €52.35€51.48In what has established itself as a classic study of Britain from the late eighteenth century to the mid-Victorian period, Eric J. Evans explains how the country became the world's first industrial nation. His book also explains how, and why, Britain was... -
What a Thing to Say to the Queen!: Charming anecdotes from the House of Windsor by Thomas Blaikie
RRP: €11.89€7.66This specially updated edition, released to mark the passing of the late and much-missed monarch, is a collection of warm, amusing recollections from the royal household celebrating the lighter side of palace life. 'What do you do?' a guest inquired of... -
Around Brigg The Second Selection: Images of England by John Holland 9780752426419
RRP: €15.46€11.45Around Brigg IIBook InformationISBN 9780752426419Author John HollandFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdDimensions(mm) 235mm * 165mm * 4mm -
The Maisky Diaries: The Wartime Revelations of Stalin's Ambassador in London by Ivan Maisky
RRP: €17.84€15.98Highlights of the extraordinary wartime diaries of Ivan Maisky, Soviet ambassador to London The terror and purges of Stalin's Russia in the 1930s discouraged Soviet officials from leaving documentary records let alone keeping personal diaries. A... -
Our Liverpool: Memories of Life in Disappearing Britain by Piers Dudgeon 9780755317165
RRP: €13.08€7.70OUR LIVERPOOL is an oral history about the real Liverpool - about the city before its slick transformation to European City of Culture and about the spirit that remains at its heart. Here, at last, is Liverpool's grievous and glorious past. And here,... -
Our Liverpool: Memories of Life in Disappearing Britain by Piers Dudgeon 9780755317165 [USED COPY]
RRP: €13.08€3.15Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Managing the Economy, Managing the People: Narratives of Economic Life in Britain from Beveridge to Brexit by Jim Tomlinson 9780198786092
€111.59This study offers a distinctive new account of British economic life since the Second World War, focussing upon the ways in which successive governments, in seeking to manage the economy, have sought simultaneously to 'manage the people': to try and... -
The First English Empire: Power and Identities in the British Isles 1093-1343 by R. R. Davies 9780198208495
RRP: €102.34€71.82The future of the United Kingdom is an increasingly vexed question. This book traces the roots of the issue to the middle ages, when English power and control came to extend to the whole of the British Isles. By 1300 it looked as if Edward I was in... -
Merchant Adventurers: The Voyage of Discovery that Transformed Tudor England by James Evans
RRP: €17.84€11.66A Tudor voyage of exploration - an extraordinary story of daring, discovery, tragedy and pioneering achievement.In the spring of 1553 three ships sailed north-east from London into uncharted waters. The scale of their ambition was breathtaking. Drawing... -
No Matter How Many Skies Have Fallen: Back to the land in wartime England by Ken Worpole 9781908213860
RRP: €17.85€13.04On 'Lady Day', March 1943 a group of Christian pacifists took possession of a vacant farm in Frating, a hamlet on the Essex Tendring Peninsula. There they established a working community, inspired by their association with The Adelphi journal, where D.H... -
Women of Power in Anglo-Saxon England by Annie Whitehead
RRP: €17.84€13.03Many Anglo-Saxon kings are familiar. AEthelred the Unready is one, yet less is written of his wife, who was consort of two kings and championed one of her sons over the others, or his mother who was an anointed queen and powerful regent, but was also... -
Power and Protest in England, 1525-1640 by Alison D. Wall 9780340610220
€46.54Drawing on new research from local archives as well as reinterpretations of published literature, Power and the People describes how England remained governable between 1525 and 1640, despite the wars, famine, epidemics, and dynastic and religious crises... -
Hobart's 79th Armoured Division at War: Invention, Innovation and Inspiration by Richard Doherty 9781526731524
RRP: €17.84€13.03Hobart's reputation as an armoured warfare specialist began in the pre-war era. In 1923 he transferred from the Royal Engineers to the Royal Tank Corps and quickly established himself as one of the foremost thinkers on armoured warfare. By 1938 he was... -
Liverpool: A Landscape History by Martin Greaney 9780752488332
RRP: €17.84€13.74The landscape has had a huge impact on the history of Liverpool and Merseyside. The ice age glaciers carved out the Rivers Mersey and Dee; the Sefton coast provided a perfect place for the earliest humans to hunt and gather food; and the Pool and the... -
At the End of the Line: Colonial Policing and the Imperial Endgame 1945-80 by Dr Georgina Sinclair 9780719071393
RRP: €23.79€20.96Colonial policing and the imperial endgame is the first comprehensive study of the colonial police and their complex role within Britain's long and turbulent process of decolonisation, a time characterised by political upheaval and colonial conflict. The... -
Bloody British History: Salisbury by David Vaughan
RRP: €11.89€8.98Saxons of Old Sarum buried alive! The plague pits of Salisbury! Cathedral organist intent on murder! The book bound in human skin! Locked in a cage with criminal lunatics! A monocled killer! Salisbury has one of the most gruesome histories on record... -
A Brief History of the British Monarchy: From the Iron Age to King Charles III by Jeremy Black 9781472147912
RRP: €13.08€8.81The British monarchy is at a turning point. Concise and engaging, this book charts the very beginnings of British reign through to the longest serving monarch, Queen Elizabeth II - and looks forward to the reign of King Charles III.Much more than a... -
1997: The Future that Never Happened by Richard Power Sayeed 9781786991997
RRP: €15.46€11.65'Beautifully written, brilliantly insightful' Owen Jones Tony Blair and Noel Gallagher shaking hands at No. 10. Saatchi's YBAs setting the international art world aflame. Geri Halliwell in a Union Jack dress. A time of vibrancy and optimism: when the... -
Imperial Citizenship: Empire and the Question of Belonging by Daniel Gorman 9780719082146
RRP: €23.79€20.96This is the first book-length study of the ideological foundations of British imperialism in the twentieth century. Drawing on the thinking of imperial activists, publicists, ideologues, and travelers such as Lionel Curtis, John Buchan, Arnold White,... -
Tornado Gr1: An Operational History by Michael John W. Napier
RRP: €29.75€21.44Replacing the Vulcan, Buccaneer and Jaguar in the front line of the Cold War, the remarkable swing-winged Tornado GR1 provided Britain s strike capability in the last years of the Cold War in the 1980s, equipping some 10 RAF squadrons. During the Gulf... -
Elizabeth's Irish Wars by Cyril Falls 9780094772205
€15.86Originally published in 1996 and now available in paperback, a historical account of Anglo-Irish history between 1560 and 1602.Book InformationISBN 9780094772205Author Cyril FallsFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Little, BrownPublisher Little, Brown... -
Around Fareham Past & Present: Britain In Old Photographs by Timothy Alletson Saunders
RRP: €17.84€10.09The Borough of Fareham extends from the River Hamble in the west to Portsmouth Harbour in the east, and is a patchwork of ancient communities, each a rich blend of the old and the new. In Around Fareham Past & Present Tim Alletson Saunders explores... -
Crosby, Seaforth and Waterloo by Tom Heath 9780752421544
RRP: €15.46€11.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780752421544Author Tom HeathFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press Ltd -
Meteor Boys: True Tales from UK Operators of Britain's First Jet Fighter - From 1944 to Date by Steve Bond
RRP: €15.46€10.82Grub Street is proud to present Meteor Boys, the latest title in its ever-popular Boys series. As Britain's first jet fighter, the Gloster Meteor has had a remarkably varied and lengthy life. But whilst many books have focused on its development and... -
Great Western Saint Class Locomotives by Laurence Waters
RRP: €29.75€22.16Churchward's 2 cylinder Saint Class 4-6-0s were arguably one of the most important locomotive developments of the twentieth century. The seventy-seven members of the class were so successful that most of the other railway companies in this country used... -
Butetown and Cardiff Docks by Brian Lee 9780752415826 [USED COPY]
RRP: €17.84€5.13This fascinating collection of 200 photographs tells the story of Cardiff's disappearing docklands, known throughout the world as 'Tiger Bay'. It illustrates the history of the docks and the associated residential area of Butetown with its eclectic mix... -
Butetown and Cardiff Docks by Brian Lee 9780752415826
RRP: €17.84€13.74This fascinating collection of 200 photographs tells the story of Cardiff's disappearing docklands, known throughout the world as 'Tiger Bay'. It illustrates the history of the docks and the associated residential area of Butetown with its eclectic mix... -
The History of the 36th (Ulster) Division by Cyril Falls 9780094783102
€15.86A first-hand account of the early days of World War I '..it obeys the formalities of regimental history, while at the same time using powerfully condensed word pictures to convey the paradoxical horror of it all.' (The Irish Times)Book InformationISBN... -
Rebellion: Britain's First Stuart Kings, 1567-1642 by Tim Harris 9780198743118 [USED COPY]
RRP: €26.76€9.02A gripping new account of one of the most important and exciting periods of British and Irish history: the reign of the first two Stuart kings, from 1567 to the outbreak of civil war in 1642 - and why ultimately all three of their kingdoms were to rise... -
Rebellion: Britain's First Stuart Kings, 1567-1642 by Tim Harris
RRP: €26.76€20.43A gripping new account of one of the most important and exciting periods of British and Irish history: the reign of the first two Stuart kings, from 1567 to the outbreak of civil war in 1642 - and why ultimately all three of their kingdoms were to rise... -
England in the Thirteenth Century by Alan Harding 9780521316125
RRP: €46.40€40.89This is a comprehensive account of politics, government and society in thirteenth-century England. Three episodes stand out: the revolt of the barons against King John in 1215, the protest against the misgovernment of Henry III which began in 1258, and... -
The Little Book of Birmingham by Norman Bartlam
RRP: €17.84€13.74The Little Book of Birmingham is a funny, fast-paced, fact-packed compendium of the sort of frivolous, fantastic or simply strange information which no-one will want to be without. Here we find out about the city's most unusual crimes and punishments,... -
Bloody British History: Bristol by Valerie Pitt
RRP: €11.89€8.98Corpses in the street! The Black Death decimates Bristol. A stomach full of arsenic! Poisoned puddings and merry murderers. Take that you brute! Suffragettes attack Winston Churchill. Bombs drop on Bristol! Blackouts and the blitz. Bristol has one of the... -
Being Protestant in Reformation Britain by Professor Alec Ryrie 9780199565726
RRP: €124.95€75.81The Reformation was about ideas and power, but it was also about real human lives. Alec Ryrie provides the first comprehensive account of what it actually meant to live a Protestant life in England and Scotland between c. 1530-1640, drawing on a rich... -
Women In England 1500-1760 by Anne Laurence
RRP: €15.46€10.23Drawing on a wide range of recent research, WOMEN IN ENGLAND is an intimate social history of women who experienced life between the Reformation and the Industrial Revolution.Anne Laurence writes about marriage, sex, childbirth, work within and outside...