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Mansfield Past and Present: The Changing Face of the Town and its People by The Old Mansfield Society
RRP: €19.03€14.58Mansfield has seen many changes over the year. Influenced by its industrial past of coal mining and textiles, it still thrives as a market town. Drawing from The Old Mansfield Society's vast archive, this book presents historical images of Mansfield... -
The Northern Earldoms: Orkney and Caithness from AD 870 to 1470 by Barbara E. Crawford
RRP: €23.80€17.20The medieval earldoms of Orkney and Caithness were positioned between two worlds, the Norwegian and the Scottish. They were a maritime lordship divided, or united, by the turbulent waters of the Pentland Firth. This unlikely combination of island and... -
Fading London: The City's Vanishing Ghost Signs by Helen Cox 9780750992596
RRP: €23.80€17.90Take a photographic journey into London's often overlooked advertising history and see how the capital's businesses of old made use of hand-painted signs to inform, advertise and appeal to consumers. This intriguing book profiles hand-painted advertising... -
Her Majesty's Spymaster: Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Walsingham, and the Birth of Modern Espionage by Stephen Budiansky 9780452287471
RRP: €28.56€19.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452287471Author Stephen BudianskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 232gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Code-Breaker: The untold story of Richard Hayes, the Dublin librarian who helped turn the tide of WWII by Marc McMenamin 9780717181612
RRP: €21.41€15.41The incredible true story of the librarian, the Nazi spy and Ireland's secret role in turning the tide of World War II When unassuming librarian Richard Hayes, a gifted polymath and cryptographer, was drafted by Irish intelligence services to track... -
Our Times by A.N. Wilson 9780099492467 [USED COPY]
RRP: €15.46€10.34When Queen Elizabeth II was crowned in 1953, many proclaimed the start of a new Elizabethan Age. Few had any inkling, however, of the stupendous changes that would take place over the next 50 years, in Britain and around the world.In Our Times, A.N... -
Wales at War: The Experience of the Second World War in Wales by Stuart Broomfield
RRP: €20.22€15.40When World War II began in September 1939 Wales was considered to be one of the safest parts of the United Kingdom. However, with the Fall of France in June 1940 it came within the range of German bombers based there. Death and destruction followed. The... -
Growing Remembrance by David Childs 9781848845510
RRP: €17.84€13.03The story of the inspiration for, establishment and evolution of the National Memorial Arboretum is a fascinating one. Sited at Alrewas, Staffordshire, the Arboretum has become the Nation's all year round focus for remembering and paying tribute to all... -
Sean MacDiarmada: 16Lives by Brian Feeney 9781847172631
RRP: €19.03€14.72Sean MacDiarmada moved in the shadows, ultra-cautious about what he committed to paper, aware that his letters could be intercepted by the police. Because of this, history has not allocated MacDiarmada the prominent role he deserves in the organisation... -
Forgotten Voices of the Blitz and the Battle For Britain: A New History in the Words of the Men and Women on Both Sides by Joshua Levine
RRP: €20.22€14.61Drawing material from the Imperial War Museum's extensive aural archive, Joshua Levine brings together voices from both sides of the Blitz and the Battle of Britain to give us a unique, complete and compelling picture of this turbulent time.In June 1940,... -
Stonehenge: A New Interpretation of Prehistoric Man and the Cosmos by John North 9781416576464
€38.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416576464Author John NorthFormat PaperbackPage Count 688Imprint The Free PressPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 995gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
Life in Brighton by Clifford Musgrave 9780752460475
RRP: €22.60€17.52Brilliantly researched and written, this is the definitive history of the city of Brighton. Divided into five sections - Fishermen and Farmers, Princes and Palaces, Late Georgian, Victorian Marvels and Mysteries, Battle Scene and Transformation - it... -
Elizabeth Revealed: 500 Facts About The Queen and Her World by Lucinda Hawksley
RRP: €23.80€17.75Elizabeth Revealed is a lively and affectionate celebration of The Queen's long and eventful life. This gorgeously illustrated book blends personal and public, frivolous and factual in a tribute to an extraordinary woman and the sweeping social changes... -
Elizabeth II (Penguin Monarchs): The Steadfast by Douglas Hurd
RRP: €9.51€6.89The acclaimed Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers - now in paperbackElizabeth II is the longest-serving monarch who ever sat on the English or British throne. Yet her personality and influence remain elusive. This... -
Bloody British History: Cambridge by David Barrowclough
RRP: €17.84€13.74Death to students: The weird origin of the University! A plague on both your parishes: Black Death in Cambridge's streets! Off with his head: The bizarre true story of Oliver Cromwell's travelling skull! Gas! Gas! The secret research team behind WWI's... -
The Lost Pre-Raphaelite: The Secret Life & Loves of Robert Bateman by Nigel Daly 9781908524386
RRP: €29.75€19.97When the author bought a falling down fortified house on the Staffordshire moorlands, he had no reason to anticipate the astonishing tale that would unfold as it was restored. An increasingly mysterious, set of relationships emerged amongst its former... -
The Little Book of Stonehenge by Meredith MacArdle
RRP: €5.94€5.13Published in association with English Heritage, this fact-filled gift book is the perfect tribute to this iconic historical landmark, the best-known prehistoric monument in the world.With a history spanning 4,500 years, the mystery that surrounds... -
Nottingham: Life in the Postwar Years by Douglas Whitworth
RRP: €17.84€13.74This fascinating new volume by well-known local author and photographer Douglas Whitworth takes a nostalgic look back at his home town of Nottingham, focusing on the thirty years after the end of the Second World War. This was a time of change for the... -
The Pristine Culture of Capitalism by Ellen Meiksins Wood
€25.07Capitalism was born in England, yet the dominant Western conceptions of modernity have come from elsewhere, notably from France, the historical model of "bourgeois" society. In this lively and wide-ranging book, Ellen Meiksins Wood argues that... -
I May Be Some Time: The Story Behind the Antarctic Tragedy of Captain Scott by Francis Spufford
RRP: €15.46€9.90'A truly majestic work of scholarship, thought and literary imagination.' Jan Morris, The Times 'Shot through with crystalline brilliance.' Washington Post 'Fascinating.' Sunday Times When Captain Scott died in 1912 on his way back from the South Pole,... -
Great Britain: Identities, Institutions and the Idea of Britishness since 1500 by Keith Robbins 9780582031197 [USED COPY]
RRP: €65.44€6.84This is a timely exploration of national identity in Great Britain over nine hundred years of history. Our attitudes to the nation state are changing - national assemblies in Scotland and Wales and growing pressures for regional assemblies. In his... -
Great Britain: Identities, Institutions and the Idea of Britishness since 1500 by Keith Robbins 9780582031197
RRP: €65.44€62.93This is a timely exploration of national identity in Great Britain over nine hundred years of history. Our attitudes to the nation state are changing - national assemblies in Scotland and Wales and growing pressures for regional assemblies. In his... -
Mesmerized: Powers of Mind in Victorian Britain by Alison Winter 9780226902234
RRP: €28.56€27.88Thousands of men and women all across Britain in the Victorian age were being mesmerized, twisted into bizarre postures and speaking out in unknown languages, and the Victorians were literally entranced with this phenomenon. The text focuses on... -
Royal Leamington Spa Revisited: Images of England by Jeff Watkin 9780752443348
RRP: €17.84€13.74Featuring over 200 photographs and supporting captions that show what life was really like years ago, this book presents the history of the beautiful spa town that grew from a tiny village. It further explores the town's history with particular emphasis... -
Peckham and Nunhead by John D. Beasley
RRP: €17.84€13.74This fascinating collection of over 200 old photographs of Peckham and Nunhead demonstrates some of the extensive changes that have taken place in this corner of south-east London over the last hundred years. From the busy Old Kent Road to Peckham Rye... -
A British Tradition?: The History and Significance of Fair Play by Jonathan Duke-Evans 9780192859990
RRP: €49.97€35.39For hundreds of years English people have claimed that fair play is at the core of their national identity. Jonathan Duke-Evans looks at the history of fair play in Britain from earliest times to the present, asking whether it is in fact a British, or... -
Epping: Images of England by Sue Davies 9780752415000
RRP: €15.46€11.45The town of Epping is at least a thousand years old. There has been a market here for much of that time and the town achieved further status as a focus for the stagecoaches to Cambridge and beyond. This fascinating collection of over 200 old photographs... -
Heinemann Advanced History: Medieval England 1042-1228 by Toby Purser
RRP: €34.62€27.43Medieval England 1042-1228 is the ideal book for students studying the reasons behind the Norman invasion and the rights of claimants to the English Throne. Medieval England 1042-1228 is the ideal book for students studying the reasons behind the Norman... -
Gandhi and Churchill: The Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age by Arthur Herman
RRP: €17.84€13.03Mohandas Gandhi and Winston Churchill: India's moral leader and Great Britain's greatest Prime Minister. Born five years and seven thousand miles apart, they became embodiments of the nations they led. Both became living icons, idolized and admired... -
Call Me Dave: The Unauthorised Biography of David Cameron by Isabel Oakeshott 9781785900228
RRP: €13.08€9.91After a decade as Conservative Party leader and six years as Prime Minister, he remains an enigma to those outside his exclusive inner circle.Now, in the wake of his dramatic resignation following the sensational EU referendum campaign, this new edition... -
Walney Island Girl by Katie Percy
RRP: €15.46€11.45Walney Island, lying just off the Furness Peninsula, is just 11 miles long and covers 5 square miles. Mentioned in the Domesday Book, the island was only sparsely populated until the Jubilee Bridge was built in 1908; before this there was a ferry. Now... -
A History of Everyday Life in Scotland, 1600 to 1800 by Elizabeth A Foyster 9780748619658
RRP: €36.89€34.14This book explores the ordinary daily routines, behaviours, experiences and beliefs of the Scottish people during a period of immense political, social and economic change. It underlines the importance of the church in post-Reformation Scottish society,... -
The Quakers, 1656-1723: The Evolution of an Alternative Community by Rosemary Moore 9780271081205
RRP: €46.35€41.69This landmark volume is the first in a century to examine the "Second Period" of Quakerism, a time when the Religious Society of Friends experienced upheavals in theology, authority and institutional structures, and political trajectories as a result of... -
Court Lady and Country Wife: Royal Privilege and Civil War - Two Noble Sisters in Seventeenth-Century England by Lita Rose Betcherman
RRP: €23.79€16.36The Percy sisters were born during the reign of Elizabeth I, daughters of the Earl of Northumberland, one of the most powerful men in the land and a conspirator in the gun powder plot. They came to prominence at the Court of Charles I. Lucy, the Countess... -
The History of Britain and Ireland: Prehistory to Today by Prof. Kenneth L. Campbell 9781350260740
RRP: €33.31€29.08The History of Britain and Ireland: Prehistory to Today is a balanced and integrated political, social, cultural, and religious history of the British Isles. Kenneth Campbell explores the constantly evolving dialogue and relationship between the past and... -
Patrick Pearse: 16Lives by Ruan O'Donnell
€23.29On 24 April 1916, as President of the Provisional Government, Patrick Pearse appeared under the GPO Grand Portico on Dublin's O'Connell Street and read aloud the Proclamation of the Irish Republic. Nine days later, he was the first of the rebel leaders... -
Growing Up in Wartime Somerset: A Portrait in Watercolour by Syd Durston 9780752461724 [USED COPY]
RRP: €17.84€2.69This nostalgic, humorous and richly illustrated volume celebrates the Somerset of years gone by. Syd Durston was seven when the Second World War broke out. As well as causing panic in Britain's cities, the war transformed life in the countryside in all... -
Growing Up in Wartime Somerset: A Portrait in Watercolour by Syd Durston 9780752461724
RRP: €17.84€13.74This nostalgic, humorous and richly illustrated volume celebrates the Somerset of years gone by. Syd Durston was seven when the Second World War broke out. As well as causing panic in Britain's cities, the war transformed life in the countryside in all... -
The Whisky River: Distilleries of Speyside by Robin Laing 9781906817954
RRP: €15.46€11.02Which river has half the distilleries in Scotland found along its length and in its surrounding glens? Why were monks at the forefront of developing whisky? Which Speyside distillery has an annual migration of toads? How did Glenrothes distillery... -
Arms and Armour of the Elizabethan Court by Thom Richardson 9780948092732
RRP: €11.89€8.40The Elizabethan court was a vibrant and colourful place, where the inherited traditions and technological skill that had characterised the Middle Ages came face to face with the decorative techniques of the Renaissance. The book includes fascinating...