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The Country House at War: Life below stairs and above stairs during the war by Simon Greaves
RRP: €23.80€17.06A fascinating illustrated history of the First World War told through the great houses of the National Trust. The First World War touched every family in the country and this book tells a story of national collective action and intense private experience... -
Sheffield Workhouse by Margaret Drinkall 9780752459639
RRP: €15.46€14.58The records of the Sheffield Workhouse were destroyed in the bombing of Sheffield during the Second World War. However, using archive material, newspaper reports and the remaining Guardians' minutes from 1890, this book reveals the story of this feared... -
1545: Who Sank the Mary Rose? by Peter Marsden 9781526749352
RRP: €35.70€26.12The raising of the _Mary Rose_ in 1982 was a remarkable feat of archaeology and her subsequent preservation and display at Portsmouth a triumph of technical skill and imagination. She is more than a relic, however. She has a story to tell, and her... -
Poverty in Ireland 1837: Szegenyseg Irlandban - A Hungarian's View by Baron Jozsef Eotvos 9781908420213
RRP: €17.79€13.21In 1837, the power of Daniel O'Connell's oratory focused the attention of Europeans on Ireland. They were horrified at what they saw there. The Irish poor - a third of the population - had no food except the potatoes they grew, and not enough clothing to... -
Cartimandua: Queen of the Brigantes by Nicki Howarth
RRP: €17.84€13.74This is the first major study of Cartimandua, queen of the Brigantes tribe in Northern Britain in the first century AD. Little is known about the tribal ruler, who fought off rebellion and civil war and managed to keep her lands when many other British... -
Mr Churchill's Profession by Peter Clarke 9781408831236 [USED COPY]
RRP: €20.22€2.73A fascinating new look at a neglected side of Winston Churchill - his life as a professional author - revealing how his most important literary work shaped his role as a world leader, and the history of the Second World War 'Clarke gives us the... -
The Age of Improvement, 1783-1867 by Asa Briggs
RRP: €59.49€58.12The Age of Improvement has long established itself as a classic of modern historical writing. Widely read and quoted it has had a unique influence on teaching and research. This second edition draws on the great volume of new research - produced by Lord... -
Kings, Barons and Justices: The Making and Enforcement of Legislation in Thirteenth-Century England by Paul Brand 9780521025850
RRP: €45.21€41.45This book is a study of two important and related pieces of thirteenth-century English legislation - the Provisions of Westminster of 1259 and the Statute of Marlborough of 1267 - and is the first on any of the statutes of this period of major... -
The Public Culture of the Victorian Middle Class: Ritual and Authority in the English Industrial City 1840-1914 by Simon Gunn
RRP: €23.79€20.96The public culture of the Victorian middle class looks at the creation of a distinctive 'high' culture in the industrial cities of Birmingham, Leeds and Manchester in the mid-nineteenth century and its incipient decline from the 1880s.The history of... -
The Girl from Lamaha Street: A Guyanese girl at a 1950s English boarding school and her search for belonging by Sharon Maas
RRP: €10.70€7.38'An incredibly moving, truly inspiring story of the power of determination. An absolutely stunning read.' Katharine Birbalsingh'Fascinating and poignant... an astoundingly honest and intimate memoir.' Angela PetchPerhaps it's true that absence makes the... -
Faeries, Elves and Goblins: The Old Stories and fairy tales by Rosalind Kerven
RRP: €17.84€12.6725 tales of faeries, elves and goblins, beautifully illustrated throughout Faeries, elves, goblins, leprechauns, brownies, spriggans and many other supernatural beings leap vividly off the page in this collection of 25 haunting stories and... -
Great War Britain Leeds: Remembering 1914-18 by Lucy Moore
RRP: €15.46€11.45The First World War claimed over 995,000 British lives, and its legacy continues to be remembered today.Great War Britain Leeds offers an intimate portrayal of the city and its people living in the shadow of the 'war to end all wars'. It describes the... -
The Hated Cage: An American Tragedy in Britain's Most Terrifying Prison by Nicholas Guyatt
RRP: €29.75€21.44'Beguiling.' The Times 'Compelling.' Wall Street Journal 'A vivid portrait.' Daily Mail Buried in the history of our most famous jail, a unique story of captivity, violence and race. It's 1812 - Britain and America are at war. British... -
Canterbury Before the Normans by Professor David Birmingham 9781910837016
RRP: €10.70€7.68When David Birmingham, a professor of history, retired from the University of Kent, he thought it would be fun to train as a Canterbury city guide. He soon became fascinated by the city's past and, after a lifetime of studying Africa - from the Iron Age... -
Viking London by Thomas Williams
RRP: €17.84€11.54Viking Britain author Thomas Williams returns with a brief history of the interaction between the Vikings and the British to tell the story of the occupation of London. The Vikings remoulded the world, changed the... -
1950s Modern: British Style and Design by Susannah Walker
RRP: €10.70€8.81After the privations of the Second World War the British embraced modern design like never before. From spindly-legged furniture to fabrics based on atomic design, and quirkily patterned pottery to abstract graphics, they wanted everything around them to... -
Hanes Cymru (A History of Wales in Welsh) by John Davies 9780140284768 [USED COPY]
RRP: €20.22€17.34Yn ymestyn o'r Oesoedd Ia hyd y dwthwn hwn, mae'r gyfrol feistrolgar hon yn olrhain hanes gwleidyddol, cymdeithasol a diwylliannol y rhan honno o'r byd y daethpwyd i'w hadnabod fel Cymru. Dyma'r llyfr sy'n egluro pam, 'er gwaethaf pawb a phopeth, 'rydym... -
Hanes Cymru (A History of Wales in Welsh) by John Davies
RRP: €20.22€14.61Yn ymestyn o'r Oesoedd Ia hyd y dwthwn hwn, mae'r gyfrol feistrolgar hon yn olrhain hanes gwleidyddol, cymdeithasol a diwylliannol y rhan honno o'r byd y daethpwyd i'w hadnabod fel Cymru. Dyma'r llyfr sy'n egluro pam, 'er gwaethaf pawb a phopeth, 'rydym... -
An Elegant Madness: High Society in Regency England by Venetia Murray 9780140282962
RRP: €28.56€19.62The Regency period was one of the most turbulent ages in British history, one that spanned the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, that witnessed unprecedented industrial progress, artistic accomplishment, and violent social unrest... -
St Peter-on-the-Wall: Landscape and Heritage on the Essex Coast by Johanna Dale 9781800084360
RRP: €41.65€36.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800084360Author Johanna DaleFormat PaperbackImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 770g -
The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators between Qing China and the British Empire by The Perils of Interpreting Henrietta Harrison
RRP: €41.65€33.01A fascinating history of China's relations with the West-told through the lives of two eighteenth-century translatorsThe 1793 British embassy to China, which led to Lord George Macartney's fraught encounter with the Qianlong emperor, has often been... -
Trials of the Diaspora: A History of Anti-Semitism in England by Anthony Julius
RRP: €41.04€31.12Trials of the Diaspora presents the long and troubling history of anti-Semitism in England, from the middle ages to the twenty-first century. Anthony Julius identifies four distinct versions of English anti-Semitism, which he then investigates in... -
An Alternative History of Britain: The English Civil War by Timothy Venning 9781473827820
RRP: €23.79€8.23With hindsight, the victory of Parliamentarian forces over the Royalists in the English Civil War may seem inevitable but this outcome was not a foregone conclusion. Timothy Venning explores many of the turning points and discusses how they might so... -
Lady Fanshawe's Receipt Book: An Englishwoman's Life During the Civil War by Lucy Moore
RRP: €11.89€3.81'Fascinating... A vivid account' - Philippa Gregory, The TimesIn the mid-seventeenth century, England was divided by Civil War, but inside the home domestic life continued as it always had done. Lady Ann Fanshawe's 'receipt book' was a treasured and... -
Wolverhampton: Britain in Old Photographs by Heidi McIntosh 9780752463568
RRP: €16.65€12.91This fascinating collection of over 200 archive images traces some of the changes and developments that have taken place in Wolverhampton during the last century, as many old agricultural communities were swallowed up by the development of modern... -
Fish and Chips and the British Working Class, 1870-1940 by John K. Walton 9780718521202
€95.25Unlike other institutions of central importance to working-class life, the fish-and-chip trade has not yet been rescued from what the author of this book regards as "the massive condescension of posterity". In attempting to begin this process,... -
The Cheltenham Book of Days by Michael Hasted 9780752465449
RRP: €11.89€8.98Taking you through the year day by day, The Cheltenham Book of Days contains quirky, eccentric, amusing and important events and facts from different periods of history, many of which had a major impact on the religious and political history of Britain... -
Northamptonshire at War 1939 - 1945 by Kevin Turton 9781473876675
RRP: €15.46€5.18When the Second World War was declared in September 1939, Northamptonshire was better prepared for the years that followed than it had been twenty-five years earlier. Lessons had been learned from the First World War, and people were far more aware of... -
Last Years of the London Titan by Matthew Wharmby 9781526749710
RRP: €29.75€14.97Already depleted by withdrawals in the London Buses Ltd era, the Leyland Titan fleet of T class was divided upon privatisation between three new companies; London Central, Stagecoach East London and Stagecoach Selkent. Together with a host of smaller... -
The Few: July-October 1940 by Alex Kershaw
RRP: €10.70€7.68In the summer of 1940 a handful of volunteer pilots defied their country to fight when we needed them most. This is the story of their Battle of Britain.In the early days of World War Two when Britain stood alone against the terror of Hitler's... -
Town Planning in Britain Since 1900: The Rise and Fall of the Planning Ideal by Gordon E. Cherry 9780631199946
RRP: €45.16€40.70This book examines town and country planning policy in twentieth-century Britain as an important aspect of state activity. Tracing the origins of planning ideals and practice, Gordon Cherry charts the adoption by state, both at the central and local... -
Old Airdrie by Campbell McCutcheon 9781840334685
RRP: €14.22€12.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840334685Author Campbell McCutcheonFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingWeight(grams) 171gDimensions(mm)... -
Cambridgeshire at War 1939-45 by Glynis Cooper 9781473875838
RRP: €15.46€10.61Few could believe that within twenty years of the war to end all wars being won the world was once again at war. Veterans of the Great War feared going through the same thing again and, even worse, many knew that this time their children would also be... -
North Shields by Eric Hollerton 9780752407302
RRP: €15.46€11.45This collection of over 200 photographs draws on the archives of North Tyneside Libraries which have been built up through the donations of local people. The majority of the old scenes are from within living memory, but before the redevelopments of the... -
Alfred the Great: War, Kingship and Culture in Anglo-Saxon England by Richard Abels 9780582040472
RRP: €57.11€54.72This biography of Alfred the Great, king of the West Saxons (871-899), combines a sensitive reading of the primary sources with a careful evaluation of the most recent scholarly research on the history and archaeology of ninth-century England. Alfred... -
Where There’s Muck, There’s Bras: True Stories of the Amazing Women of the North by Kate Fox
RRP: €11.89€7.90From rebels to writers, athletes to astronauts, join Kate Fox takes on an entertaining and eye-opening journey through the lives of these extraordinary women whose lives and achievements have too long been hidden. ... -
The Story of Shrewsbury by Mary De Saulles
RRP: €19.03€16.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906663681Author Mary De SaullesFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Logaston PressPublisher Fircone Books Ltd -
I am Minded to Rise: The Clothing, Weapons and Accoutrements of the Jacobites from 1689 to 1719 by Jenn Scott 9781912866632
RRP: €23.74€16.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912866632Author Jenn ScottFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Outside In by Peter Hain 9781849544108 [USED COPY]
RRP: €15.46€4.09Peter Hain has lived an extraordinary life. Formerly an 'outsider' he became an 'insider', one of the last Labour government's most effective ministers. He held an array of glittering posts in the British political establishment, from key roles in the... -
Outside In by Peter Hain 9781849544108
RRP: €15.46€11.02Peter Hain has lived an extraordinary life. Formerly an 'outsider' he became an 'insider', one of the last Labour government's most effective ministers. He held an array of glittering posts in the British political establishment, from key roles in the...