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Renewal and Reformation: Wales c.1415-1642 by Glanmor Williams 9780192852779
£38.78This is the first comprehensive history of the two decisive centuries which followed the defeat of Owain Glyndwr in 1415. The fifteenth century was a time of resilience and recovery from the Rebellion, and one which saw the emergence of ruling gentry... -
Anne Boleyn: A new life of England's tragic queen by Joanna Denny 9780749950514
£14.87Adulteress? Sorceress? Immoral Temptress? No English Queen has been so persistently vilified as Anne Boleyn. Even after her execution in May 1536 - on trumped-up charges of adultery - the portrait that has come down to us is the one drawn by her enemies... -
One King!: A Wargamer's Companion to Argyll's & Monmouth's Rebellion of 1685 by Stephen M Carter
RRP: £39.95£29.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915070258Author Stephen M CarterFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Carnal Knowledge: Regulating Sex in England, 1470-1600 by Martin Ingram 9781316631737
RRP: £26.99£23.20How was the law used to control sex in Tudor England? What were the differences between secular and religious practice? This major study reveals that - contrary to what historians have often supposed - in pre-Reformation England both ecclesiastical and... -
Lady Ranelagh: The Incomparable Life of Robert Boyle's Sister by Michelle DiMeo
RRP: £40.00£33.59For centuries, historians have speculated about the life of Katherine Jones, Lady Ranelagh. Dominant depictions show her either as a maternal figure to her younger brother Robert Boyle, one of the most significant scientists of his day, or as a patroness... -
Anglicans and Puritans?: Presbyterianism and English Conformist Thought from Whitgift to Hooker by Peter Lake
RRP: £28.99£25.09Originally published in 1988, this was the first full and scholarly account of the formal Elizabethan and Jacobean debates between Presbyterians and conformists concerning the government of the church. This book shed new light on the crucial... -
The Secret Commonwealth: Of Elves, Fauns, And Fairies by Marina Warner
RRP: £13.99£8.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681373560Author Marina WarnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books,... -
Londinopolis: Essays in the Cultural and Social History of Early Modern London c. 1500- C.1750 by Paul Griffiths 9780719051524
RRP: £19.99£17.61Events such as the fire of London and the Plague, and locations like the Globe, are part of our 'national heritage' however until recently the history of London between 1500 and 1750 has been little studied. As a city London underwent exceptional changes... -
Dr Thomas Plume, 1630-1704: His life and legacies in Essex, Kent and Cambridge by Tony Doe
RRP: £18.99£16.98Dr Thomas Plume, born in Maldon in Essex in 1630, is remembered today for the many bequests he left which established important scientific, religious and cultural charities. Still operational today are the Plumian Professorship of Astronomy at Cambridge... -
A Business of State: Commerce, Politics, and the Birth of the East India Company by Rupali Mishra
RRP: £33.95£27.41At the height of its power around 1800, the English East India Company controlled half of the world's trade and deployed a vast network of political influencers at home and abroad. Yet the story of the Company's beginnings in the early seventeenth... -
Englishmen at Sea: Labor and the Nation at the Dawn of Empire, 1570-1630 by Eleanor Hubbard
RRP: £25.00£21.32A deeply researched, analytically rich, and vivid account of England's early maritime empire Drawing on a wealth of understudied sources, historian Eleanor Hubbard explores the labor conflicts behind the rise of the English maritime empire. Freewheeling... -
Mary Ward: First Sister of Feminism by Sydney Thorne
RRP: £19.99£14.68Almost exactly 400 years ago, an English woman completed an astonishing walk to Rome. An English Catholic, Mary Ward had already defied the authorities in England. In 1621 she walked across Europe to ask the Pope to allow her to set up schools for girls... -
Tudor Government: Structures of Authority in the Sixteenth Century by David Loades 9780631191575
RRP: £39.95£35.89This book examines the structures of power and jurisdiction that operated in Tudor England. It explains what the institutions of central government were designed to do, and how they related to each other.About the AuthorDavid Loades is Emeritus Professor... -
Other Tudors by Philippa Jones
RRP: £9.99£9.89Forget everything you thought you knew about Henry the Eighth. While Henry VIII has frequently been portrayed as a womanizer, author Philippa Jones reveals a new side to his character. Although he was never faithful, Jones sees him as a serial... -
British Catholic Merchants in the Commercial Age - 1670-1714 by Giada Pizzoni
RRP: £80.00£76.61A rich picture of commercial life among the British Catholic merchants operating in the Atlantic and Mediterranean at the end of the Stuart era. British Catholic merchants in the long eighteenth century occupied an ambiguous social space. On the one... -
Protestantism, Revolution and Scottish Political Thought: The European Context, 1637-1651 by Karie Schultz 9781474493116
RRP: £85.00£69.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474493116Author Karie SchultzFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press -
Hugo Grotius and the Century of Revolution, 1613-1718: Transnational Reception in English Political Thought by Marco Barducci 9780198754589
£93.37Hugo Grotius and the Century of Revolution, 1613-1718 is a reconstruction of the way Hugo Grotius (1583-1645) was read and used by English political and religious writers in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Engaging with the reception of... -
Information, Institutions, and Local Government in England, 1550-1700: Turning Inside by Paul Griffiths 9780192896261
RRP: £108.00£98.03The years between 1550 and 1700 saw significant changes in the nature and scope of local government: sophisticated information and intelligence systems were developed; magistrates came to rely more heavily on surveillance to inform 'good government'; and... -
Forging Nations: Currency, Power, and Nationality in Britain and Ireland since 1603 by David Blaazer
RRP: £83.00£75.34In Forging Nations, Blaazer studies the relationships between money, power, and nationality in England, Scotland, and Ireland from the first attempts to unify their currencies following the Union of the Crowns in 1603 to the aftermath of the Global... -
Tudor Parliaments,The Crown,Lords and Commons,1485-1603 by Michael A. R. Graves 9780582491908
RRP: £54.99£52.48This excellent short survey looks at the workings of parliament under the first four Tudor monarchs. After an introductory first section which looks at parliament's medieval origins, the author then considers all aspects of early parliamentary history -... -
The Irish Parliament, 1613-89: The Evolution of a Colonial Institution by Coleman A. Dennehy 9781526164728
RRP: £20.00£17.84The Irish parliament was both the scene of frequent political battles and an important administrative and legal element of the state machinery of early modern Ireland. This institutional study looks at how parliament dispatched its business on a... -
The Knotsman by Math Jones 9781909208735
RRP: £9.99£6.99The Knotsman does not exist, you will not find him in history books or collections of 'bygone' skills. But Math Jones has created him, and his fellows, in a time very like the English Civil War. There he is, going from house to house, village to village,... -
The Supernatural in Early Modern Scotland by Julian Goodare 9781526167149
RRP: £25.00£22.03This book is about other worlds and the supernatural beings, from angels to fairies, that inhabited them. It is about divination, prophecy, visions and trances. And it is about the cultural, religious, political and social uses to which people in... -
Contesting the English Polity, 1660-1688: Religion, Politics, and Ideas Mark Goldie 9781783277360
RRP: £95.00£90.68What did people in Restoration England think the correct relationship between church state should be? And how did this thinking evolve? Based on the author's published essays, revised and updated with a new overarching introduction, this book... -
London Presbyterians and the British Revolutions, 1638–64 by Elliot Vernon 9781526174611
RRP: £25.00£22.03This is the first book-length exploration of presbyterians and presbyterianism in London during the crisis period of the mid-seventeenth century. It charts the emergence of a movement of clergy and laity that aimed at 'reforming the Reformation' by... -
NKJV, Personal Size Reference Bible, Sovereign Collection, Leathersoft, Brown, Red Letter, Thumb Indexed, Comfort Print: Holy Bible, New King James Version by Thomas Nelson
RRP: £45.00£38.41This elegant Bible edition honors the beauty and richness of the New King James Version in a convenient portable size with essential study tools and traditional red-letter text for the Words of Christ.The New King James Version in the Sovereign... -
The Eight King Henrys of England by Philip J Potter 9781399009355
RRP: £25.00£17.62Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
A Year in the Life of Stuart Britain by Andrea Zuvich 9781445647425
£22.54The Stuart monarchs reigned during a time when Britain was balanced on the brink of change. It was an era torn between absolute monarchy and revolution: kings ruled with iron fists only to be toppled by opponents who laid claim, not to a crown, but to a... -
The Social Topography of a Rural Community: Scenes of Labouring Life in Seventeenth Century England by Steve Hindle
RRP: £100.00£90.50The Social Topography of a Rural Community is a micro-history of an exceptionally well-documented seventeenth-century English village: Chilvers Coton in north-eastern Warwickshire. Drawing on a rich archive of sources, including an occupational census,... -
Image Wars: Promoting Kings & Commonwealths in England 1603-1660 by Kevin Sharpe 9780300240290
£53.67Spin doctors, photo opportunities and 'managing the news' may appear to have emerged only recently on the political scene, but in fact image and its manipulation have always been vital to the authority of rulers. This book, the second in Kevin Sharpe's... -
Royalism, Religion and Revolution: Wales, 1640-1688 Dr Sarah Ward Clavier 9781783276400
RRP: £80.00£76.61Analyses the role of long-term continuities in the political and religious culture of Wales from the eve of the Civil War in 1640 to the Glorious Revolution of 1688 In Royalism, Religion and Revolution: Wales, 1640-1688, Sarah Ward Clavier provides a... -
The Lord’S Battle: Preaching, Print and Royalism During the English Revolution by William White 9781526164704
RRP: £85.00£74.51This book explores the preaching and printing of sermons by royalists during the English Revolution. While scholars have long recognised the central role played by preachers in driving forward the parliamentarian war-effort, the use of the pulpit by the... -
The Corporation That Changed the World: How the East India Company Shaped the Modern Multinational Nick Robins 9780745331966
RRP: £85.00£65.36This is the history of the East India Company and its enduring legacy as a corporation, dealing in exploitation and violence. The English East India Company was the mother of the modern multinational. Its trading empire encircled the globe, importing... -
Female Servants in Early Modern England by Charmian Mansell 9780197267585
RRP: £108.00£107.59What was it like to be a woman in service in early modern England? Drawing on evidence of over 1000 female servants recorded in church court testimony between c.1530 and 1650, Female Servants in Early Modern England uncovers these women's everyday lives... -
Early-Stuart Mariners and Shipping: The Maritime Surveys of Devon and Cornwall 1619-35 Todd Gray 9780901853332
RRP: £25.00£23.94This volume contains all the surviving early-Stuart surveys of Mariners and Shipping for Devon and Cornwall, including a hitherto unknown one of south Devon discovered in the Pepys Library at Magdalene College Cambridge. From parish to parish, all along... -
A People’s Reformation: Building the English Church in the Elizabethan Parish by Lucy Moffat Kaufman
RRP: £31.00£27.36The Elizabethan settlement, and the Church of England that emerged from it, made way for a theological reformation, an institutional reformation, and a high political reformation. It was a reformation that changed history, birthed an Anglican communion,... -
Society and Culture in Early Modern England by David Cressy
RRP: £43.99£38.84The common theme of this selection of articles by David Cressy, published over the last twenty-five years, is the linkage of elite and popular culture and the participation of ordinary people in the central events of their age. The collection also traces... -
Inventing the English Massacre: Amboyna in History and Memory by Alison Games
RRP: £34.99£26.70My Lai, Wounded Knee, Sandy Hook: the place names evoke grief and horror, each the site of a massacre. Massacres-the mass slaughter of people-might seem as old as time, but the word itself is not. It worked its way into the English language in the late... -
The Stuarts in 100 Facts by Andrea Zuvich
£8.07The Stuart era encompasses the whole of the seventeenth century and beyond, with seven monarchs and a civil war that changed Britain forever. It was one of the most turbulent periods in our history, remembered for fire, plague and high treason alongside... -
Scandalous Liaisons: Charles II and his Court by R. E. Pritchard
RRP: £9.99£6.64Scandalous Liaisons tells the story of the most hedonistic, loose-living court in English history, from Charles II's youthful years and mistresses in France, to his tempestuous relationship with the hot-tempered, sexually and financially voracious...