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The Age of Oligarchy: Pre-Industrial Britain 1722-1783 Geoffrey Holmes 9780582209558
RRP: £110.00£105.14The second volume, on early and mid-Georgian Britain, shows how the country used its expanding wealth, its new-found social cohesion at home and its international influence abroad to become not only a European but an imperial power. As with the first... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
Caroline and Charlotte by Alison Plowden
RRP: £12.99£9.62Caroline of Brunswick, wife of George Prince of Wales and Prince Regent, and her daughter, Princess Charlotte, lived out their lives surrounded by a cast of characters who might have been lifted straight from the pages of some Gothic novel. Theirs was a... -
Palaces of Pleasure: From Music Halls to the Seaside to Football, How the Victorians Invented Mass Entertainment by Lee Jackson 9780300254785
RRP: £11.99£10.15An energetic and exhilarating account of the Victorian entertainment industry, its extraordinary success and enduring impact The Victorians invented mass entertainment. As the nineteenth century's growing industrialized class acquired the funds and the... -
A Brief History of Britain 1851-2021: From World Power to ? by Jeremy Black
RRP: £12.99£4.71From the Great Exhibition's showcasing of British national achievement in 1851 to the opening ceremonies of the Olympics in Stratford in 2012 and on to Brexit, an insightful exploration of the transformation of modern BritainThis revised and updated... -
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... -
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 *... -
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... -
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... -
Choose Your Weapons: The British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd 9780753828526
RRP: £14.99£9.80Noisy popular liberal interventionism? Or a more conservative, diplomatic approach concentrating on co-operation between nations? This is the debate that lies at the heart of modern politics and Hurd traces its most interesting and influential exponents... -
Not Made by Slaves: Ethical Capitalism in the Age of Abolition by Bronwen Everill
RRP: £16.95£13.85"Impressive...[Readers] will be rewarded with greater understanding of historical developments that changed the relationship between consumers and producers in a global economy in ways that reverberate to this day."-Wall Street Journal"Everill... -
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. -
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... -
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: 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... -
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... -
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... -
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,... -
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"... -
The Lost Imperialist: Lord Dufferin, Memory and Mythmaking in an Age of Celebrity Andrew Gailey 9781444792454
RRP: £14.99£9.80Winner of the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography 2016Frederick Hamiton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, enjoyed a glittering career which few could equal. As Viceroy of India and Governor-General of Canada, he held 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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
Culloden: Scotland's Last Battle and the Forging of the British Empire by Trevor Royle
RRP: £14.99£10.95The Battle of Culloden has gone down in history as the last major battle fought on British soil: a vicious confrontation between Scottish forces supporting the Stuart claim to the throne and the English Royal Army. But this wasn't just a conflict between... -
Violent Victorians: Popular Entertainment in Nineteenth-Century London by Rosalind Crone 9780719086854
RRP: £19.99£17.82By drawing attention to the wide range of gruesome, bloody and confronting amusements patronised by ordinary Londoners this book challenges our understanding of Victorian society and culture. From the turn of the nineteenth century, graphic, yet orderly,... -
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... -
Microhistories: Demography, Society and Culture in Rural England, 1800-1930 by Barry Reay 9780521892223
RRP: £26.99£24.08Microhistories: Demography, Society and Culture in Rural England, 1800-1930 uses a local study of the Blean area of Kent in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to explore some of the more significant societal changes of the modern western world... -
Central Birmingham 1870-1920: Images of England by Keith Turner 9780752400532
RRP: £14.99£11.55Capturing the changing face of central Birmingham over a period of half a century from c. 1870 to 1920, this selection of more than 200 photographs - many of which have never been published before - portrays not just the buildings and streets, long since...