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Britons: Forging the Nation 1707-1837 by Linda Colley 9780300152807
RRP: $37.78$33.16How 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... -
Nineteenth-Century Britain: A Very Short Introduction by Christopher Harvie
RRP: $18.88$13.55First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, Christopher Harvie and Colin Matthew's Very Short Introduction to Nineteenth-Century Britain is a sharp but subtle account of remarkable economic and social change and... -
Protest and the Politics of Space and Place, 1789-1848 by Katrina Navickas 9781526116703
RRP: $52.50$45.76This book is a wide-ranging survey of the rise of mass movements for democracy and workers' rights in northern England from 1789 to 1848. It is a provocative narrative of the closing down of public space and dispossession from place. It offers historical... -
How the West Came to Rule: The Geopolitical Origins of Capitalism Alexander Anievas 9780745336152
RRP: $62.98$41.58*Winner of International Studies Association (ISA)'s International Political Sociology Best Book Prize for 2017* *Winner of British International Studies Association (BISA)'s International Political Economy Working Group Book Prize of 2016* ... -
Dominion: A History of England Volume V by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: $35.68$24.93'Ackroyd makes history accessible to the layman' - Ian Thomson, IndependentThe penultimate volume of Peter Ackroyd's masterful History of England series, Dominion begins in 1815 as national glory following the Battle of Waterloo gives way to post-war... -
Victorians Undone: Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum by Kathryn Hughes
RRP: $31.48$20.37'Victorians Undone is the most original history book I have read in a long while' Daily Mail A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR * AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR A groundbreaking account of what it... -
Spying and the Crown: The Secret Pact Between British Intelligence and the Royals by Rory Cormac
RRP: $27.28$17.98A Daily Mail Book of the Year and a The Times and Sunday Times Best Book of 2021'Monumental.. Authoritative and highly readable.' Ben Macintyre, The Times'A fascinating history of royal espionage.' Sunday Times'Excellent... Compelling' GuardianFor the... -
Three Victories and a Defeat: The Rise and Fall of the First British Empire, 1714-1783 by Brendan Simms
RRP: $41.98$29.99This 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... -
The Book of Phobias and Manias: A History of the World in 99 Obsessions by Kate Summerscale
RRP: $35.68$25.79THE PERFECT GIFT FOR ALL BIBLIOMANES A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, SPECTATOR AND DAILY MAIL AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 WOMAN'S HOUR AND START THE WEEK Plunge into this rich, surprising and stunningly designed A-Z compendium to... -
How Britain Brought Football to the World by Stuart Laycock
RRP: $33.58$26.57'Delighted to learn from this very enjoyable new book that the first ever game of football played in Austria was won by the Vienna Cricket Club.' - Tom Holland, Historian and BroadcasterHave we matched Wembley 1966 and 2022, or lost again on penalties?... -
Heaven's Command by Jan Morris
RRP: $27.28$17.98Jan Morris tells the epic story of the rise of the British Empire, from the accession of Queen Victoria in 1837 to her Diamond Jubilee in 1897. In this celebrated masterwork she vividly evokes every aspect of the 'great adventure', ranging from ships and... -
The Man Who Created Merseyside Football: John Houlding, Founding Father of Liverpool and Everton by David Kennedy
RRP: $31.48$23.00A comprehensive look into early professional football, this biography of Everton and Liverpool's founding father John Houlding breaks new ground by addressing the important role of football club ownership in the early history of the game.Football... -
Writing Black Beauty: Anna Sewell and the Story of Animal Rights by Celia Brayfield
RRP: $42.00$31.58Black Beauty is a novel that changed our world. Intended to 'induce kindness' in a Victorian audience who relied on horses for transport, travel and power, it remains a dearly loved children's classic. Writing Black Beauty is the story of the remarkable... -
Connecting History: Higher Migration and Empire, 1830-1939 Euan M. Duncan 9781398345355
$46.05Exam 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... -
On Afghanistan's Plains: The Story of Britain's Afghan Wars by Jules Stewart
$39.63Britain's military involvement in Afghanistan is a contentious subject, yet it is often forgotten that the current conflict is in fact the fourth in a string of such wars dating back more than 170 years. Aiming to protect British India from the expanding... -
Sons of the Waves: The Common Seaman in the Heroic Age of Sail by Stephen Taylor
RRP: $47.25$37.76A brilliant telling of the history of the common seaman in the age of sail, and his role in Britain's trade, exploration, and warfare"No other book resurrects the wooden world of Jack Tar in such captivating and voluminous detail."-Roger Ekirch, Wall... -
Billington: Victorian Executioner by Alison Bruce
RRP: $27.28$20.20'An insightful and gripping account that will take you into the dark but fascinating world of a Victorian executioner.' - Stewart P. EvansBetween 1884 and 1905 James Billington and his three sons, Thomas, William and John, were responsible for 235... -
The Worlds of John Ruskin Kevin Jackson 9781843681489
RRP: $41.98$28.04Ruskin is one of the most influential and exhilarating writers in English. Art critic, architectural visionary, social reformer, climate warner and incomparable teacher; Ruskin's words not only transformed Victorian England but speak to us with... -
Pet Revolution: Animals and the Making of Modern British Life: 2023 by Jane Hamlett
RRP: $42.00$30.01A history of pets and their companions in Britain from the Victorians to today.Pet Revolution tracks the British love affair with pets over the last two centuries, showing how the kinds of pets we keep, as well as how we relate to and care for them, has... -
Strange Victoriana: Tales of the Curious, the Weird and the Uncanny from Our Victorian Ancestors by Jan Bondeson
RRP: $27.28$17.81This book makes use of a privately held archive of the old periodical Illustrated Police News to describe strange, macabre and uncanny episodes from the Victorian era. Dog-Faced Men are exhibited on stage, the doctors congregate around the bed of the... -
The Red Monarch: The Bronte sisters take on the underworld of London in this exciting and gripping sequel by Bella Ellis
RRP: $20.98$14.28'Teeming with details of the Brontes, of the times and the city, this is such a pleasurable read' - NB Magazine 'Captivating' - Crime Monthly'Filled with twists, turns and Gothic touches, and a strong feminist streak' - Bradford TelegraphThe Bronte... -
Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British India by Lawrence James 9780349110127
RRP: $35.68$25.07This is the brilliantly told story of one of the wonders of the modern world - how in less than a hundred years the British made themselves masters of India. They ruled it for another hundred, departing in 1947, leaving behind the independent states of... -
People of Abandoned Character by Clare Whitfield 9781838932756
RRP: $18.88$14.85What if you thought your husband was Jack the Ripper? London, 1888. Susannah rushes into marriage to a young and wealthy surgeon. After a passionate honeymoon, she returns home with her new husband wrapped around her little finger. But then everything... -
We Are Not Amused: Victorian Views on Pronunciation as Told in the Pages of Punch by David Crystal
RRP: $27.28$20.75Pronunciation governs our regional and social identity more powerfully than any other aspect of spoken language. No wonder, then, that it has attracted most attention from satirists. In this intriguing book, David Crystal shows how our feelings about... -
Eighteenth-Century Britain: A Very Short Introduction by Paul Langford 9780192853998
RRP: $18.88$13.55First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, Paul Langford's Very Short Introduction to Eighteenth-Century Britain spans from the aftermath of the Revolution of 1688 to Pitt the Younger's defeat at attempted... -
The Spioenkop Campaign: The Battles to Relieve Ladysmith, 17-27 January 1900 by Robert Davidson 9781804513316
RRP: $62.90$43.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804513316Author Robert DavidsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Family Business by Victoria Glendinning
$13.63From Victoria Glendinning, winner of the Duff Cooper Prize, the James Tait Black Prize and (twice) the Whitbread Prize for Biography. 'It's Succession in tailcoats and spats ... This is a vivid and... -
The Peninsular War: A New History by Charles J. Esdaile 9780140273700
RRP: $41.98$33.56For centuries Spain had been the most feared and predatory power in Europe - it had the largest empire and one of the world's great navies to defend it. Nothing could have prepared the Spanish for the devastating implosion of 1805-14. Trafalgar... -
Gladstone by Roy Jenkins
RRP: $35.68$26.19Winner of the Whitbread Biography of the Year.William Gladstone was, with Tennyson, Newman, Dickens, Carlyle, and Darwin, one of the stars of nineteenth-century British life. He spent sixty-three of his eighty-nine years in the House of Commons and was... -
The Pinecone by Jenny Uglow
RRP: $35.68$24.32The 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... -
The Highland Clearances by Eric Richards
RRP: $31.48$21.42The Highland Clearances stands out as one of the most emotive chapters in the history of Scotland. This book traces the origins of the Clearances from the eighteenth century to their culmination in the crofting legislation of the 1880s. In considering... -
The Invention of the Modern Dog: Breed and Blood in Victorian Britain by Michael Worboys 9781421426587
RRP: $73.50$65.60The story of the thoroughly Victorian origins of dog breeds.For centuries, different types of dogs were bred around the world for work, sport, or companionship. But it was not until Victorian times that breeders started to produce discrete,... -
A Gift of Poison: Betrayal. Mystery. Murder. The Bronte sisters are on the case . . . Bella Ellis 9781529363425
RRP: $35.68$24.23Haworth 1847 - Anne and Emily Bronte have had their books accepted for publication, while Charlotte's has been rejected everywhere, creating a strained atmosphere at the parsonage.At the same time, a shocking court case has recently concluded, acquitting... -
The Turning Point: A Year that Changed Dickens and the World by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
RRP: $23.08$16.32A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR The year is 1851. It's a time of radical change in Britain, when industrial miracles and artistic innovations rub shoulders with political unrest, poverty and disease. It's also a turbulent time in the life of Charles Dickens,... -
The London Town Garden, 1700-1840 by Todd Longstaffe-Gowan 9780300085389
RRP: $84.00$73.90Much has been written about London's terraced houses with their simple dignity, their economical use of space, and their sense of comfort and human scale. Yet the small gardens that lie before or behind the houses in this great city have until now been... -
British Coastal Forces: Two World Wars and After by Norman Friedman
RRP: $105.00$73.96The Royal Navy invented the fast motor torpedo boat during the First World War, and used it and other small coastal craft to great effect during the Second. This book tells the dramatic story of British coastal forces, both offensive and defensive, in... -
The Secret Royals: Spying and the Crown, from Victoria to Diana by Richard Aldrich
RRP: $52.50$36.94A Daily Mail Book of the Year and a The Times and Sunday Times Best Book of 2021'Monumental.. Authoritative and highly readable.' Ben Macintyre, The Times'A fascinating history of royal espionage.' Sunday Times'Excellent... Compelling' GuardianFor the... -
As Good as a Marriage: The Anne Lister Diaries 1836–38 by Jill Liddington
RRP: $52.50$38.47The BBC and HBO series Gentleman Jack brought Anne Lister to international attention, awakening tremendous interest in her diaries, which run to nearly five million words and are partly written in her secret code. They record in intimate detail Anne's... -
Ten Engineers Who Made Britain Great: The Men Behind the Industrial Revolution by Anthony Burton
RRP: $33.58$25.73Samuel Smiles published Lives of the Engineers in 1862. The noted biographer presented his engineers as heroic progress makers who conquered nature and overcame impossible obstacles to drive the Industrial Revolution forward, but included twisted and... -
The Athenaeum: More Than Just Another London Club by Michael Wheeler
RRP: $84.00$70.54A 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...