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1666: Plague, War and Hellfire by Rebecca Rideal
RRP: £10.99£7.401666 was a watershed year for England. The outbreak of the Great Plague, the eruption of the second Dutch War and the Great Fire of London all struck the country in rapid succession and with devastating repercussions.Shedding light on these dramatic... -
Oxford AQA History for A Level: Religious Conflict and the Church in England c1529-c1570 by Sally Waller
£34.17Please note this title is suitable for any student studying: Exam Board: AQA Level/Subject: AS and A Level History First teaching: September 2015 First exams: June 2017 Retaining well-loved features from the previous editions, Religious Conflict... -
The Corporation That Changed the World: How the East India Company Shaped the Modern Multinational Nick Robins 9780745331959
RRP: £16.99£11.54This 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... -
Soldiers and Civilians, Transport and Provisions: Early Modern Military Logistics and Supply Systems During the British Civil Wars, 1638-1653 by Glen W Price 9781804513521
RRP: £35.00£24.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804513521Author Glen W PriceFormat HardbackPage Count 260Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
A History of Britain - Volume 2: The British Wars 1603-1776 Simon Schama, CBE 9781847920133
RRP: £30.00£21.35Simon Schama explores the forces that tore Britain apart during two centuries of dynamic change - transforming outlooks, allegiances and boundaries.From the beginning of July 1637, battles raged on for 200 years - both at home and abroad, on sea and on... -
The King's Revenge: Charles II and the Greatest Manhunt in British History by Michael Walsh 9780349123769
RRP: £12.99£8.60When Charles I was executed, his son Charles II made it his role to search out retribution, producing the biggest manhunt Britain had ever seen, one that would span Europe and America and would last for thirty years.Men who had once been among the most... -
Leicester and the Court: Essays on Elizabethan Politics by Simon Adams 9780719053252
RRP: £25.00£22.19Now back in print, this comprehensive collection of essays by Simon Adams brings to life the most enigmatic of Elizabethans--Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. Adams, famous for the unique depth and breadth of his research, has gathered here his most... -
Fires of Faith: Catholic England under Mary Tudor by Eamon Duffy
RRP: £17.99£15.39The renowned author of The Stripping of the Altars takes a new and controversial look at the reign of England's "Bloody Mary" The reign of Mary Tudor has been remembered as an era of sterile repression, when a reactionary monarch launched a doomed... -
For a Parliament Freely Chosen: The Rebellion of Sir George Booth, 1659 by Andrew Abram 9781914059322
RRP: £25.00£20.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914059322Author Andrew AbramFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Battle-Scarred: Mortality, Medical Care and Military Welfare in the British Civil Wars by David Appleby 9781526144850
RRP: £25.00£21.79Battle-scarred investigates the human costs of the British Civil Wars. Through a series of varied case studies it examines the wartime experience of disease, burial, surgery and wounds, medicine, hospitals, trauma, military welfare, widowhood, desertion,... -
Campaigns of the Eastern Association: The Rise of Oliver Cromwell, 1642-1645 by Laurence Spring
RRP: £29.95£20.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915113986Author Laurence SpringFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Elizabeth: The Forgotten Years by John Guy
RRP: £12.99£9.09History has pictured Elizabeth I as Gloriana, an icon of strength and power -- and has focused on the early years of her reign. But in 1583, when Elizabeth is fifty, there is relentless plotting among her courtiers -- and still to come is the Spanish... -
The Cecils: The Dynasty and Legacy of Lord Burghley by David Lee 9781399083775
RRP: £25.00£17.62The Cecils: The Dynasty and Legacy of Lord Burghley looks at the lives of William Cecil, Lord Burghley, Elizabeth I's Chief Minister and Secretary of State and that of his son, Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury. Lord Burghley served three Tudor Monarchs... -
Shakespearean: On Life & Language in Times of Disruption by Robert McCrum
RRP: £12.99£9.09'Enchanting' - Simon Russell Beale 'Remarkable' - James Shapiro'Wonderful . . . compulsively readable' - Nicholas HytnerWhy do the collected works of an Elizabethan writer continue to speak to us as if they were written yesterday?When Robert McCrum began... -
Richard Symonds's Diary of the Marches of the Royal Army by Richard Symonds 9780521626569
RRP: £33.99£30.92This diary is the only eye-witness account of the English Civil War by a participant on the King's side who was not an officer. The diarist, Richard Symonds, was a royal Lifeguardsman for the crucial two years of 1644-5, which included the battle of... -
The Last Imperialist: Sir Alan Burns's Epic Defense of the British Empire by Bruce Gilley
RRP: £22.00£16.19The British Empire, one of the most powerful forces in history, was also one of the most humane. Yet at its twilight, few were willing to defy the anti-colonial reaction that condemned millions to despotism under the regimes that replaced it. Sir Alan... -
The Penguin History of Britain: New Worlds, Lost Worlds:The Rule of the Tudors 1485-1630 by Susan Brigden
RRP: £16.99£12.28No period in British history today retains more resonance and mystery than the sixteenth century. The leading figures of the time have become almost mythical, and the terrors and grandeurs of Tudor Britain have resonance with even the least historically... -
The Uncrowned Kings of England: The Black Legend of the Dudleys by Derek Wilson 9781845292300
£13.33In the political ferment of the Tudor century one family above all others was always at the troubled centre of court and council. During those years the Dudleys were never far from controversy. Three of them were executed for treason. They were... -
The King's Return: (Thomas Hill 3) by Andrew Swanston
RRP: £9.99£7.11The king's coronation brings hope. Until a murderer strikes.Spring 1661: After years of civil war followed by Oliver Cromwell's joyless rule as Lord Protector, England awaits the coronation of King Charles II. The mood in London is one of relief and hope... -
The King's Henchman: Henry Jermyn by Anthony Adolph 9781908096654
RRP: £9.99£9.61Charles II's succession to the throne came at a time of national turbulence: his father had been beheaded, Oliver Cromwell had usurped his right to reign. England was at sea among Europe's constantly shifting allegiances. But Henry Jermyn, a Suffolk... -
Handel: The Man & His Music by Jonathan Keates
RRP: £20.00£14.69Jonathan Keates original biography of Handel was hailed as a masterpiece on its publication in 1985. This fully revised and updated new edition - published to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the composers death - charts in detail Handel's life, from... -
Gender in Mystical and Occult Thought: Behmenism and its Development in England by Brian J. Gibbons 9780521526487
RRP: £48.99£41.07This is the first comprehensive account of the development of the ideas on gender of Jacob Boehme (1575-1624) among his English followers, tracing the changes in gender and sexuality in such esoteric traditions as alchemy, hermeticism and the Cabala. The... -
Arms and Armour of the English Civil Wars by Keith Dowen 9780948092909
RRP: £12.99£8.99The English Civil Wars tore families and friendships apart, setting father against son and brother against brother. Raging across England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, the conflict was the greatest political upheaval in the British Isles in six hundred... -
The Great Plague: A People's History by Evelyn Lord
RRP: £10.99£9.37In this intimate history of the extraordinary Black Plague pandemic that swept through the British Isles in 1665, Evelyn Lord focuses on the plague's effects on smaller towns, where every death was a singular blow affecting the entire community. Lord's... -
The Noble Revolt: The Overthrow of Charles I by John William Adamson
RRP: £16.99£12.54A magnificent new study of the political crisis that produced the overthrow of King Charles I, and came to engulf all three Stuart kingdoms - England, Scotland, and Ireland - in war during the 1640s.John Adamson's book traces the careers and fortunes of... -
Authority and Disorder in Tudor Times, 1485-1603 by Paul Thomas 9780521626644
RRP: £13.25£12.15Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Emigrants: Why the English Sailed to the New World by James Evans
RRP: £10.99£4.71'Marvellously engaging' The Times'Brisk, informative and eye-opening' Daily TelegraphIn the 1600s, vast numbers of people left England for the Americas. Crossing the Atlantic was a major undertaking, the voyage long and treacherous. Why did they... -
The Last Royal Rebel: The Life and Death of James, Duke of Monmouth by Anna Keay
RRP: £14.99£10.95'A superb biography, which paints a vivid picture of the times and of her subject' Daily Telegraph 'Fascinating, compelling, outrageous and ultimately tragic' Simon Sebag Montefiore 'It is the best royal biography I have read in years' A.N. Wilson ... -
All The King's Men: The British Redcoat in the Era of Sword and Musket by Saul David
RRP: £20.99£9.09Saul David's All The King's Men is a thrilling history of the British Redcoat from the English Civil War to Waterloo.Between 1660 and 1815 British supremacy on foreign soil was near total. Central to this success was the humble redcoat soldier who showed... -
The Great Fire of London by Samuel Pepys
RRP: £3.00£2.49'With one's face in the wind you were almost burned with a shower of Firedrops'A selection from Pepys' startlingly vivid and candid diary, including his famous account of the Great FireIntroducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th... -
Cromwell'S Major-Generals: Godly Government During the English Revolution by Christopher Durston 9780719060656
RRP: £19.99£17.61The first full-scale study of the rule of Cromwell's major-generals over England and Wales during 1655 and 1656. This is a period which had a dramatic impact upon contemporaries and has remained a powerful symbol of military rule down to the present day... -
Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Hearts by Nadine Akkerman
RRP: £22.99£16.28The dazzling new biography of one of history's most misunderstood queens Elizabeth Stuart is one the most misrepresented - and underestimated - figures of the seventeenth century. Labelled a spendthrift more interested in the theatre and her pet... -
England Under the Stuarts by G. M. Trevelyan
RRP: £19.99£17.69'While Germany boasts her Reformation and France her Revolution, England can point to her dealings with the House of Stuart.' - G.M. Trevelyan, from the IntroductionEngland Under the Stuarts is an outstanding and highly engaging account of English... -
Cavalier: The Story Of A 17th Century Playboy by Lucy Worsley
RRP: £14.99£9.80William Cavendish, courageous, cultured and passionate about women, embodies the popular image of a cavalier. Famously defeated at the Battle of Marston Moor in 1644, he went into a long and miserable continental exile before returning to England in... -
Scotland Re-formed, 1488-1587 by Jane E. A. Dawson 9780748614554
RRP: £25.99£21.46From the death of James III to the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, Jane Dawson tells story of Scotland from the perspective of its regions and of individual Scots, as well as incorporating the view from the royal court. Scotland Re-formed shows how... -
Elizabeth's London: Everyday Life in Elizabethan London Liza Picard 9780753817575
RRP: £12.99£8.60'Reading this book is like taking a ride on a marvellously exhilarating time-machine, alive with colour, surprise and sheer merriment' Jan MorrisElizabethan London reveals the practical details of everyday life so often ignored in conventional history... -
Women in Early Modern England 1550-1720 by Sara Mendelson 9780198208129
£55.69What was life like for women who lived in Tudor and Stuart England? This fascinating book provides a colourful and comprehensive account of the daily experiences of these women, using first-hand sources such as diaries, letters, and household accounts... -
The Master of Measham Hall: a must-read historical novel about survival, love, and family loyalty Anna Abney 9780715654354
RRP: £14.99£13.45Alethea Hawthorne will not allow Measham Hall to fall into the hands of lesser men... 1665. It is five years since King Charles II returned from exile, the scars of the English Civil Wars are yet to heal and now the Great Plague engulfs the land... -
Elizabeth of York: The Forgotten Tudor Queen by Amy Licence
RRP: £11.99£8.43As Tudors go, Elizabeth of York is relatively unknown. Yet she was the mother of the dynasty, with her children becoming King of England (Henry VIII) and Queens of Scotland (Margaret) and France (Mary Rose) and her direct descendants included three Tudor... -
Revolution: The Great Crisis of the British Monarchy, 1685-1720 by Tim Harris
RRP: £16.99£12.28To an extraordinary extent everyone in Britain still lives under the shadow of the 'Glorious Revolution' of 1688. It was a massive, brutal and terrifying event, which completely changed the governments of England, Scotland and Ireland and which was only...