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Sons of the Waves: The Common Seaman in the Heroic Age of Sail by Stephen Taylor 9780300257519
RRP: £12.99£11.46A 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... -
Nature Exposed: Photography as Eyewitness in Victorian Science by Jennifer Tucker 9781421410937
RRP: £33.00£29.52In Nature Exposed, Jennifer Tucker studies the intersecting trajectories of photography and modern science in late Victorian Britain. She examines the role of photograph as witness in scientific investigation and explores the interplay between... -
How the Just So Stories Were Made: The Brilliance and Tragedy Behind Kipling's Celebrated Tales for Little Children by John Batchelor
RRP: £19.99£10.38A fascinating, richly illustrated exploration of the poignant origins of Rudyard Kipling's world-famous children's classic"In this concise and remarkable book . . . Batchelor guides us expertly . . . drawing on multiple sources and making intriguing... -
The Hidden Horticulturists: The Untold Story of the Men who Shaped Britain's Gardens by Fiona Davison 9781786495082
RRP: £10.99£7.12'Delightful... The Hidden Horticulturists pulsates with the extraordinary energy and excitement of the time.' Daily MailChosen as one of the Sunday Telegraph's 'Top Ten Gardening Books of the Year' _____________________The untold story of the remarkable... -
A History of Modern Britain: 1714 to the Present Ellis Wasson (University of Delaware, USA) 9781118869017
RRP: £30.95£27.85Now available in a fully-revised and updated second edition, A History of Modern Britain: 1714 to the Present provides a comprehensive survey of the social, political, economic and cultural history of Great Britain from the Hanoverian succession to the... -
British Transport Police: A definitive history of the early years and subsequent development by Malcolm Clegg 9781399095471
RRP: £25.00£17.62Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Ripper: The Secret Life of Walter Sickert by Patricia Daniels Cornwell
£22.00A #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller. From New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell comes Ripper: The Secret Life of Walter Sickert, a comprehensive and intriguing expose of one of the world's most chilling cases of serial murder-and the... -
The Thames Torso Murders by M J Trow
RRP: £14.99£9.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399013451Author M J TrowPage Count 224Imprint WharncliffePublisher WharncliffeWeight(grams) 156g -
Mother: An Unconventional History by Sarah Knott
RRP: £9.99£7.11What was mothering like in the past? When acclaimed historian Sarah Knott became pregnant, she asked herself this question. But accounts of motherhood are hard to find. For centuries, historians have concerned themselves with wars, politics and... -
Sex and Sexuality in Victorian Britain by Violet Fenn 9781526756688
RRP: £25.00£14.28Peek beneath the bedsheets of nineteenth-century Britain in this affectionate, informative and fascinating look at sex and sexuality during the reign of Queen Victoria. It examines the prevailing attitudes towards male and female sexual behaviour, and... -
Distant Strangers: How Britain Became Modern by James Vernon 9780520282049
RRP: £21.00£16.63What does it mean to live in the modern world? How different is that world from those that preceded it, and when did we become modern? In Distant Strangers, James Vernon argues that the world was made modern not by revolution, industrialization, or the... -
A Brief History of How the Industrial Revolution Changed the World Thomas Crump 9781845298975
RRP: £10.99£7.40From the beginning of the eighteenth century to the high water mark of the Victorian era, the world was transformed by a technological revolution the like of which had never been seen before. Inventors, businessmen, scientists, explorers all had their... -
The Long Recessional: The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling by David Gilmour
RRP: £14.99£10.95'Superb, beautifully written, touching and occasionally very funny' Andrew RobertsDavid Gilmour's superb biography of Rudyard Kipling is the first to show how the life and work of the great writer mirrored the trajectory of the British Empire, from its... -
Bread Winner: An Intimate History of the Victorian Economy by Emma Griffin
RRP: £22.50£19.35The forgotten story of how ordinary families managed financially in the Victorian era-and struggled to survive despite increasing national prosperity"A powerful story of social realities, pressures, and the fracturing of traditional structures."-Ruth... -
Diet for a Large Planet: Industrial Britain, Food Systems, and World Ecology by Chris Otter
RRP: £43.00£36.41We 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... -
The Autobiography of Jack the Ripper by James Carnac
RRP: £14.99£10.95This memoir was recently discovered and appears to have been written in the 1920s by somone who asserts that he was Jack the Ripper.This person is James Carnac, this memoir written shortly before his death is an account of his entire life, including a... -
Casting the Runes: The Letters of M. R. James by Dr Jane Mainley-Piddock
RRP: £30.00£19.92The much-loved author Montague Rhodes James is best known today for his ghost stories. Their popularity has kept them in print since the first collection was issued in 1931, and they've earned a cult following. But for all this literary success, his... -
Queen Victoria: Her Life and Legacy by Kendall, Paul 9781399018319
RRP: £25.00£18.02For almost 64 years, Queen Victoria reigned over Great Britain during a period which saw the country become the most powerful and prestigious in the world and one which experienced enormous social, political and industrial change. Those changes were... -
The Transformation of Rural England: Farming and the Landscape 1700-1870 Tom Williamson 9780859896344
RRP: £29.99£27.78This is the first book to study in detail the making of the rural English landscape in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. For decades historians have debated the nature, timing and even the existence of the 'agricultural revolution'. This book... -
Re-discovering Britain 1750-1900 Dave Martin 9780719585463
£25.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780719585463Author Dave MartinFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Hodder MurrayPublisher Hodder EducationWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 274mm * 212mm *... -
Enlightenment and Change: Scotland 1746-1832 by Bruce Lenman
RRP: £23.99£21.85This second revised and expanded edition of the bestselling Integration and Enlightenment provides a compact survey of developments in Enlightenment Scotland, from the aftermath of the 1745 Jacobite rebellion to the Scottish Reform Act of 1832. The Act... -
Empire and Jihad: The Anglo-Arab Wars of 1870-1920 by Neil Faulkner
RRP: £25.00£20.92A panoramic, provocative account of the clash between British imperialism and Arab jihadism in Africa between 1870 and 1920 "An epic account of the British Empire's activities in Africa and the Middle East. . . . An important, indeed tremendous,... -
Acts of Union and Disunion by Linda Colley
RRP: £9.99£7.11The United Kingdom; Great Britain; the British Isles; the Home Nations: such a wealth of different names implies uncertainty and contention - and an ability to invent and adjust. In a year that sees a Scottish referendum on independence, Linda Colley... -
Queenship in Britain 1660-1837: Royal Patronage, Court Culture and Dynastic Politics by Clarissa Campbell Orr 9780719057700
RRP: £19.99£17.61Queenship in Britain 1660-1837 looks at the lives of successive Queens, Princesses of Wales and royal daughters, and considers how they used their powers of patronage and operated within the confines of royal family politics. With contributions from an... -
Dickens' Artistic Daughter Katey: Her Life, Loves and Impact by Lucinda Hawksley 9781526712301
RRP: £14.99£10.95Katey Dickens was born into a house of turbulent celebrity and grew up surrounded by fascinating, famous, and infamous people. From a very young age, she knew her vocation was to be an artist. Lucinda Hawksley charts the life of a celebrated portrait... -
Queen Victoria and the Discovery of the Riviera by Michael Nelson
£16.12Queen Victoria fell in love with the Riviera when she discovered it on her first visit to Menton in 1882 and her enchantment with this 'paradise of nature' endured for almost twenty years. Victoria's visits helped to transform the French Riviera by... -
Charles Dickens and Georgina Hogarth: A Curious and Enduring Relationship by Christine Skelton
RRP: £20.00£14.53Charles 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... -
Intimate Subjects: Touch and Tangibility in Britain's Cerebral Age by Simeon Koole 9780226834344
RRP: £28.00£27.39An insightful history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain told through a single sense: touch. When, where, and who gets to touch and be touched, and who decides? What do we learn through touch? How does touch bring us closer together or push... -
Go Listen to the Crofters by A.D. Cameron 9780861520633
RRP: £12.99£11.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780861520633Author A.D. CameronFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint AcairPublisher AcairDimensions(mm) 290mm * 220mm * 14mm -
The Mid-Victorian Generation: 1846-1886 by K. Theodore Hoppen
£60.31This, the third volume to appear in the New Oxford History of England, covers the period from the repeal of the Corn Laws to the dramatic failure of Gladstone's first Home Rule Bill. In his magisterial study of the mid-Victorian generation, Theo Hoppen... -
Building Greater Britain: Architecture, Imperialism, and the Edwardian Baroque Revival, 1885 - 1920 G. A. Bremner 9781913107314
RRP: £50.00£41.65This innovative study reappraises the Edwardian Baroque movement in British architecture, placing it in its wider cultural, political, and imperial contexts The Edwardian Baroque was the closest British architecture ever came to achieving an "imperial"... -
Short History Of The Victorian Era, A Pocket Essential by Gordon Kerr
RRP: £9.99£2.91It 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... -
All That is Wicked by Kate Winkler Dawson
RRP: £14.99£9.80'A master-class in bringing history to life, in all its creepy, twisted glory' - Karen Kilgariff, co-host of My Favorite Murder podcast'Every true crime fan will be riveted by Kate's master story-telling of this unforgettable tale' - Paul Holes, author... -
Flagship History - Britain 1783-1918 by Derrick Murphy
RRP: £26.99£14.81A revised and expanded edition of the bestselling Britain 1815-1918. Includes historical interpretations, document source questions, explanation of difficult words and concepts and a study skills section for exam preparation. Study... -
The Birth of The Chocolate City: Life in Georgian York Summer Strevens 9781445633466
RRP: £15.99£10.85One of the great names in chocolate history, Rowntree's, evolved from the humble retail beginnings of Mary Tuke, eighteenth-century mother of York's chocolate industry. This book explores how she was formative in shaping modern York as a city of... -
An English Farmhouse Geoffrey Grigson 9781908213754
RRP: £15.00£10.96Originally published in 1948, and edited by the artist John Piper, An English Farmhouse is Geoffrey Grigson's careful survey of the old English farmhouse, and its associated buildings, whether made from sarsen, thatch, timber, tile or brick. Grigson... -
The Story of Victorian Film by Bryony Dixon
RRP: £23.99£20.94In this vivid and accessible new account of the dawn of film in Britain, internationally respected film historian and curator Bryony Dixon introduces us to Britain's first cinematic pioneers - an eclectic mix of chemists, engineers, photography... -
The Cowley Fathers: A History of the English Congregation of the Society of St John the Evangelist by Serenhedd James 9781786221834
RRP: £45.00£42.23The Society of St John the Evangelist, otherwise known as the Cowley Fathers, was the first men's religious order to be founded in the Church of England since the Reformation, as a result of the spread and influence of the Oxford Movement and its... -
Essential Handbook of Victorian Etiquette by Thomas E. Hill 9780912517124
RRP: £8.50£6.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780912517124Author Thomas E. HillFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Bluewood Books,U.S.Publisher Bluewood Books,U.S.Dimensions(mm) 151mm * 179mm * 8mm -
The Account Book of Richard Latham, 1724-1767 by Lorna Weatherill 9780197260920
£82.66This account book of a small yeoman farmer in Lancashire, running from 1724 (just after his marriage) to his death in 1767, provides a record of expenditure on domestic, personal, and farming items. It is unique in offering a detailed view of household...