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British Gunboats of Victoria's Empire by Angus Konstam
RRP: $23.38$16.44A beautifully illustrated history of the iconic ocean-going gunboats of British 'gunboat diplomacy', the hundreds of little warships that for 50 years demonstrated the power of the Royal Navy worldwide, and which maintained and enforced the rule of the... -
London's Railway Stations by Oliver Green
RRP: $17.53$13.16An illustrated historical tour of London's 13 great railway termini, on a clockwise circuit from Paddington to Victoria. London's railway termini are among the most recognisable and familiar landmarks in the city. Famed for their bustling platforms... -
Bricks of Victorian London: A social and economic history by Peter Hounsell
RRP: $37.03$32.41Many of London's Victorian buildings are built of coarse-textured yellow bricks. These are 'London stocks', produced in very large quantities all through the nineteenth century and notable for their ability to withstand the airborne pollutants of the... -
Victorious Century: The United Kingdom, 1800-1906 by Mr David Cannadine
RRP: $33.13$23.95SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2018 'This is stupendous. The British nineteenth century, in all its complexity, all its horror, all its energy, all its hopes is laid bare. This is the definitive history, and will remain so for generations' A.N... -
The Victorians: Twelve Titans who Forged Britain by Jacob Rees-Mogg
RRP: $25.33$17.73They built a nation. Now it's our turn.Many associate the Victorian era with austere social attitudes and filthy factories. But in this bold and provocative book, Jacob Rees-Mogg -- leading Tory MP and prominent Brexit advocate -- takes up the story of... -
Diet for a Large Planet: Industrial Britain, Food Systems, and World Ecology by Chris Otter
RRP: $83.85$71.00We are facing a world food crisis of unparalleled proportions. Our reliance on unsustainable dietary choices and agricultural systems is causing problems both for human health and the health of our planet. Solutions from lab-grown food to vegan diets to... -
Fifty Things You Need To Know About British History by Hugh Williams
RRP: $29.23$18.92What are the 50 key events you need to understand to grasp British history? If you could choose the 50 things that define British history, events of significance not only in themselves, but in their importance to wider themes running through... -
Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age by Stephen R. Platt
RRP: $29.23$19.89SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZEA Financial Times Book of the YearA Sunday Times Book of the Year ________________________________________'Entertaining and well-paced... Platt's compelling book is a sobering read that should focus the minds... -
Brunel: The Man Who Built the World by Dan Cruickshank
RRP: $19.48$13.26A celebration of the life and engineering achievements of Isambard Kingdom Brunel by two of the world's foremost authorities.In his lifetime, Isambard Kingdom Brunel towered over his profession. Today, he remains the most famous engineer in history, the... -
Koh-I-Noor: The History of the World's Most Infamous Diamond by William Dalrymple
RRP: $29.23$20.65'Riveting. This highly readable and entertaining book ... finally sets the record straight on the history of the Koh-i-Noor' Tarquin Hall, Sunday Times 'Dynamic, original and supremely readable' Maya Jasanoff, Guardian The first comprehensive and... -
Rivets, Trivets and Galvanised Buckets: Life in the village hardware shop by Tom Fort
RRP: $42.90$29.17'A hymn to hardware, charming, lyrical' - The Sunday Times, BOOK OF THE WEEK'A paean to DIY' - The Times'Strung together very agreeably, with dry wit and, dare I say it, considerable polish' - Country LifeIn 2018 Tom Fort's daughter-in-law took over a... -
Statesman of Europe: A Life of Sir Edward Grey by T. G. Otte 9780141991474
RRP: $39.00$27.87'The lamps are going out all over Europe. We shall not see them lit again in our life-time.' The words of Sir Edward Grey, looking out from the windows of the Foreign Office at the end of August 1914, are amongst the most famous in European history, and... -
Tourists: How the British Went Abroad to Find Themselves by Lucy Lethbridge 9781408856291
RRP: $21.43$14.27*FOYLES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH* 'I really can't recommend this enough - especially if you are going on holiday' Tom Holland 'Delightful ... Lucy Lethbridge has written a glorious romp of a book' Kathryn Hughes, The Mail on Sunday 'It is the... -
Charles Dickens and Georgina Hogarth: A Curious and Enduring Relationship by Christine Skelton
RRP: $39.00$28.33Charles Dickens called his sister-in-law Georgina Hogarth his 'best and truest friend'. Georgina saw Dickens as much more than a friend. They lived together for twenty-eight years, during which time their relationship constantly changed. The sister of... -
A Gift of Poison: Betrayal. Mystery. Murder. The Brontë sisters are on the case . . . by Bella Ellis 9781529363470
RRP: $19.48$13.26BETRAYAL. MYSTERY. MURDER. THE BRONTE SISTERS ARE ON THE CASE.'The Brontes are so skilfully and cleverly depicted that it's no stretch at all to imagine the sisters as amateur sleuths' SARRA MANNING, REDHaworth 1847 - Anne and Emily Bronte have had their... -
Prince Albert: The Man Who Saved the Monarchy by A. N. Wilson
RRP: $21.43$13.88Chosen as a Book of the Year in The Times and the Daily Mail'Highly entertaining' Sunday Times'Enthralling' Daily TelegraphFor more than six decades, Queen Victoria ruled a great Empire at the height of its power. Beside her for more than twenty of those... -
Connecting History: Higher Britain, 1851-1951 by Euan M. Duncan
$42.76Exam board: SQALevel: HigherSubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2018First exam: Summer 2019Fresh stories, fresh scholarship and a fresh structure. Connecting History informs and empowers tomorrow's citizens, today.Bringing together lesser-told... -
Sevenoaks 1790-1914: Risk and choice in West Kent by Iain Taylor 9781912260614
RRP: $29.23$25.99This book offers a fresh perspective on British history in the long nineteenth century through the lens of a study of Sevenoaks and the surrounding area of West Kent. It considers, in particular, how the risks faced by the people of this region, and the... -
Dirty Bertie: An English King Made in France by Stephen Clarke
RRP: $31.18$22.64The entertaining biography of Edward VII and his playboy lifestyle, by Stephen Clarke, author of 1000 Years of Annoying the French and A Year in the Merde.Despite fierce opposition from his mother, Queen Victoria, Edward VII was always passionately in... -
The Pinecone by Jenny Uglow
RRP: $33.13$22.58The Pinecone is set in the village of Wreay, near Carlisle, where a masterpiece in Victorian architecture stands - the strangest and most magical church in England. This vivid, original book tells the story of its builder, Sarah Losh, strong-willed and... -
Disraeli: or, The Two Lives by Rt. Hon Lord Douglas Hurd
RRP: $21.43$14.43Benjamin Disraeli was the most gifted parliamentarian of the nineteenth century and a superb orator, writer and wit - but how much do we really know about the man behind the words?'As Douglas Hurd and Edward Young point out in their splendidly written,... -
Rorke's Drift By Those Who Were There: Volume I by Ian Knight
RRP: $48.75$34.36The great host came steadily on, spreading out spreading out - spreading out till they seemed like a giant pair of nut-crackers opening round the little nut of Rorke's Drift. - Surgeon Major James Henry Reynolds V.C., Army Medical Department On 22... -
Mrs Robinson's Disgrace by Kate Summerscale
RRP: $25.33$17.73When the married Isabella Robinson was introduced to the dashing Edward Lane at a party in 1850, she was utterly enchanted. He was 'fascinating', she told her diary, before chastising herself for being so susceptible to a man's charms. But a wish had... -
Three Victories and a Defeat: The Rise and Fall of the First British Empire, 1714-1783 by Brendan Simms
RRP: $38.98$27.85This highly original, extremely enjoyable book tells the story of Britain's extraordinary scramble to world power in the 18th century and how, through hubris and incompetence, it lost almost everything it had gained. Whilst Britain was an important... -
Britons: Forging the Nation 1707-1837 by Linda Colley 9780300152807
RRP: $35.08$30.79How was Great Britain made? And what does it mean to be British? This brilliant and seminal book examines how a more cohesive British nation was invented after 1707 and how this new national identity was nurtured through war, religion, trade, and empire... -
Short History Of The Victorian Era, A Pocket Essential by Gordon Kerr
RRP: $19.48$4.41It began with the horse-drawn carriage and ended with the aeroplane... An era, beginning in the 1830s and ending with the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, that saw the British Empire - the largest ever seen - dominate the world. British ingenuity in the... -
Time's Monster: History, Conscience and Britain's Empire by Priya Satia
RRP: $21.43$15.15CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NEW STATESMAN AND BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE'In this searing book, Priya Satia demonstrates, yet again, that she is one of our most brilliant and original historians' Sunil Amrith, author of Unruly WatersFor generations, the... -
Slave Empire: How Slavery Built Modern Britain by Padraic X. Scanlan 9781472142337
RRP: $25.33$16.77'Engrossing and powerful . . . rich and thought-provoking'Fara Dabhoiwala, Guardian'Path-breaking . . . a major rewriting of history'Mihir Bose, Irish Times'Slave Empire is lucid, elegant and forensic. It deals with appalling horrors in cool and... -
A Brief History of Life in Victorian Britain by Michael Paterson
RRP: $21.43$14.43The Victorian era has dominated the popular imagination like no other period, but these myths and stories also give a very distorted view of the 19th century. The early Victorians were much stranger that we usually imagine, and their world would have... -
The Lion and the Unicorn: Gladstone vs Disraeli by Richard Aldous 9781844133123
RRP: $37.03$26.54'Engaging and highly entertaining' Sunday Times The dramatic confrontation between the two 'mighty opposites' of the Victorian age, brilliantly recreated by a talented young historian. Gladstone and Disraeli were the fiercest political rivals of the... -
A Handful of Heroes, Rorke's Drift: Facts, Myths and Legends by Stossel, Katie 9781399014892
RRP: $29.23$21.35Thanks to newly discovered letters and documents, A Handful of Heroes updates the history of the Defence of Rorkes Drift, which will forever be one of the most celebrated British feats of arms. Remarkably after such prolonged historical scrutiny, the... -
A History of Britain - Volume 3: The Fate of Empire 1776-2000 by Simon Schama
RRP: $58.50$41.63The final stage of Simon Schama's epic voyage around Britain spans centuries, crosses the breadth of the empire and covers a vast expanse of topics - from the birth of feminism to the fate of freedom.The Fate of the Empire asks crucial questions about... -
The Kings and Queens of England: Lives and Reigns from the House of Wessex to the House of Windsor by Peter Snow
RRP: $39.00$22.72Historians and broadcasters Peter Snow and Ann MacMillan tell the real stories of the most powerful men and women in British history.Kings & Queens explores the lives, loves, triumphs and disasters of a monarchy that is the envy of the world. Snow and... -
The Athenaeum: More Than Just Another London Club by Michael Wheeler
RRP: $78.00$65.50A compelling history of the famous London club and its members' impact on Britain's scientific, creative, and official life When it was founded in 1824, the Athenaeum broke the mold. Unlike in other preeminent clubs, its members were chosen on the basis... -
High Minds: The Victorians and the Birth of Modern Britain by Simon Heffer 9781643139173
RRP: $77.90$58.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643139173Author Simon HefferFormat HardbackPage Count 896Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 1134gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm *... -
Forgotten Victorian Generals: Studies in the Exercise of Command and Control in the British Army 1837-1901 by Christopher Brice 9781910777206
RRP: $48.75$40.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910777206Author Christopher BriceFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Fisher's Face by Jan Morris
RRP: $25.33$16.69Admiral of the Fleet Lord 'Jacky' Fisher (1841-1920) was one of the greatest naval reformers in history. He was also a colossal figure to contemporaries, both loved and loathed, a man of exceptional charm, presence and charisma. Since the late 1940s, Jan... -
A Victorian Lady's Guide to Life by Elspeth Marr
RRP: $15.58$13.63In this delightful and engagingly eccentric treasury of life lessons, redoubtable Victorian Elspeth Marr (1871-1947) reflects on the fundamental topics of life as well as the nuts and bolts of everyday living. Part journal, part commonplace book, among... -
RHS Garden Bridgewater: The Making of a Garden by The Royal Horticultural Society
RRP: $62.40$39.88Following the popular BBC series, this book is the comprehensive guide to one of Europe's largest and most ambitious gardening projects, the magnificent RHS Bridgewater. RHS Garden Bridgewater has a rich history, deeply entrenched personal connections... -
Reshaping Rural England: A Social History 1850-1925 by Alun Howkins
RRP: $74.08$65.09First Published in 1991. Reshaping Rural England covers the crucial period of English rural history from the high point of Britain's agricultural power in the 1850s and 1860s through to the grim years of the inter-war period. Uncovering many of the myths...