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Shylock's Venice: The Remarkable History of Venice's Jews and the Ghetto by Harry Freedman 9781399407274
RRP: £20.00£12.93The thrilling story of the Jews in Venice - and the truth behind one of Shakespeare's most famous characters. Millions of visitors flood to Venice every year. Yet many are unaware of its history - one of dramatic expansion but also of rapid decline... -
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation by Silvia Federici
RRP: £10.99£7.12'A groundbreaking work . . . Federici has become a crucial figure for . . . a new generation of feminists' Rachel Kushner, author of The Mars RoomA cult classic since its publication in the early years of this century, Caliban and the Witch is Silvia... -
Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I: The Mother and Daughter Who Changed History by Tracy Borman 9781399705110
RRP: £12.99£8.60'(A)sensational book by one of our greatest and best-loved historians... Astoundingly good.' - Alison Weir 'Masterful, captivating, page-turning, this is solid gold history at its best.' - Nicola Tallis'(A) thought-provoking, impeccably researched, and... -
Much Ado About Numbers by Rob Eastaway 9781805460275
RRP: £16.99£11.58"A spectacular journey... Highly recommended!" Dr Simon Smith, The Shakespeare Institute "A fascinating and hugely entertaining guide to Shakespearean mathematics." Prof Sarah Hart, author of Once Upon A Prime"A playful and engaging book ... bound to... -
Young Queens: The gripping, intertwined story of Catherine de' Medici, Elisabeth de Valois and Mary, Queen of Scots by Leah Redmond Chang 9781526613431
RRP: £12.99£8.78LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION WATERSTONES' BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: HISTORY The boldly original, dramatic intertwined story of Catherine de' Medici, Elisabeth de Valois and Mary, Queen of Scots - three queens exercising power in a... -
Children of the House of Cleves: Anna and Her Siblings by Heather R. Darsie
RRP: £22.99£15.18Children of the House of Cleves describes and analyses the lives of Sybylla, Anna, Wilhelm and Amalia, the children of Johann III, Duke of Cleves. Though their parents were staunch Catholics, Wilhelm of Julich-Cleves-Berg was a Lutheran - when it suited... -
Introducing Machiavelli: A Graphic Guide by Patrick Curry
£2.09 - £2.79Illustrated guide to the crucial Italian philosopher and author of The Prince. 'Machiavellian' is a popular byword for treachery and opportunism. Machiavelli's classic book on statecraft, The Prince, published over 400 years ago, remains controversial to... -
Ritual of Fire: From The Crime Writers' Association Historical Dagger Winning Author by D. V. Bishop 9781529096507
RRP: £9.99£6.87Ceremonial murder has returned to Florence. Only two men can end the destruction. Featuring Officer Cesare Aldo, Ritual of Fire is an atmospheric historical thriller by D. V. Bishop, set in Renaissance Italy.'Fast becoming a serious rival to C. J. Sansom... -
Oxford AQA History for A Level: The Tudors: England 1485-1603 Revision Guide by Margaret Haynes
£11.51This The Tudors: England 1485-1603 Revision Guide is part of the bestselling Oxford AQA History for A Level series. Written to match the new AQA specification, this series helps you deepen your historical knowledge and develop vital analytical and... -
Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I: The Mother and Daughter Who Changed History by Tracy Borman
RRP: £25.00£14.66'(A)sensational book by one of our greatest and best-loved historians... Astoundingly good.' - Alison Weir 'Masterful, captivating, page-turning, this is solid gold history at its best.' - Nicola Tallis'(A) thought-provoking, impeccably researched, and... -
Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa by Anthony Grafton 9781846143632
RRP: £30.00£21.35A revelatory new account of the magus - the learned magician - and his place in the world of Renaissance EuropeAt the heart of the extraordinary ferment of the High Renaissance stood a distinctive, strange and beguiling figure: the magus. An unstable mix... -
Providence Lost: The Rise and Fall of Cromwell's Protectorate by Paul Lay
RRP: £12.99£9.09'A compelling and wry narrative of one of the most intellectually thrilling eras of British history' Guardian. ***************** SHORTLISTED FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2020 England, 1651. Oliver Cromwell has defeated his royalist opponents... -
A Short History of Europe: From Pericles to Putin by Simon Jenkins
RRP: £12.99£9.09Discover the history of Europe - from the Dark Ages to present day - by the author of the bestselling A Short History of EnglandEurope is an astonishingly successful place. But it would take volumes to tell its story, right? Wrong. From warring peoples... -
How to be a Tudor: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Everyday Life by Ruth Goodman
RRP: £12.99£9.09TRAVEL BACK IN TIME WITH THE BBC'S RUTH GOODMANWe know all about the dramas that played out in the Tudor court - most notably those of Henry VIII - but what was life really like for a commoner like you or me?To answer this question, the renowned "method... -
Young and Damned and Fair: The Life and Tragedy of Catherine Howard at the Court of Henry VIII by Gareth Russell
RRP: £16.99£11.47SHORTLISTED FOR THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2017 Born into nobility and married into the royal family, Catherine Howard was attended every waking hour - secrets were impossible to keep. In this thrilling reappraisal of Henry... -
Princes of the Renaissance by Mary Hollingsworth 9781803281261
RRP: £14.99£10.95A beautifully illustrated history of the Renaissance told through the lives of its most important and influential patrons. 'Exceptionally sumptuous... This vivid history brings to life the vices and virtues of the feuding ruling families of Italy.'... -
1606: Shakespeare and the Year of Lear by James Shapiro
RRP: £12.99£8.561606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear traces Shakespeare's life and times from the autumn of 1605, when he took an old and anonymous Elizabethan play, The Chronicle History of King Leir, and transformed it into his most searing tragedy, King... -
The Great White Bard: Shakespeare, Race and the Future by Farah Karim-Cooper
RRP: £22.00£14.45SHAKESPEARE: increasingly irrelevant or lone literary genius of the Western canon? 'Powerful and illuminating' James Shapiro, author of 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare, winner of the Baillie Gifford 'Winner of Winners' 2023 ... -
The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici by Christopher Hibbert
RRP: £12.99£9.09At its height Renaissance Florence was a centre of enormous wealth, power and influence. A republican city-state funded by trade and banking, its often bloody political scene was dominated by rich mercantile families, the most famous of which were the... -
The Steel Bonnets by George MacDonald Fraser
RRP: £18.99£12.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorThe author of the famous 'Flashman Papers' and the 'Private McAuslan' stories, George MacDonald Fraser has worked on newspapers in Britain and Canada. In addition... -
The Swerve: How the Renaissance Began by Stephen Greenblatt
RRP: £14.99£10.95WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2012Almost six hundred years ago, a short, genial man took a very old manuscript off a library shelf. With excitement, he saw what he had discovered and ordered it copied. The book was a miraculously surviving... -
Inside the Tudor Court: Henry VIII and his Six Wives through the eyes of the Spanish Ambassador by Lauren Mackay
RRP: £13.99£9.09The reports and despatches of Eustace Chapuys, Spanish Ambassador to Henry VIII's court from 1529 to 1545, have been instrumental in shaping our modern interpretations of Henry VIII and his wives. As a result of his personal relationships with several of... -
Everyday Life in Medieval London: From the Anglo-Saxons to the Tudors by Toni Mount
RRP: £10.99£7.25Our capital city has always been a thriving and colourful place, full of diverse and determined individuals developing trade and finance, exchanging gossip and doing business. Abandoned by the Romans, rebuilt by the Saxons, occupied by the Vikings and... -
Antwerp: The Glory Years by Michael Pye
RRP: £12.99£9.09This rich history of Antwerp was a Times Book of the Year and Radio 4 Book of the WeekEven before Amsterdam there was a dazzling North Sea port at the hub of the known world: the city of Antwerp.Antwerp was sensational like nineteenth-century Paris or... -
The Nine Lives of John Ogilby: Britain's Master Map Maker and His Secrets by Alan Ereira
RRP: £12.99£8.63Four hundred years ago, every barrister had to dance because dancing put them in harmony with the universe. John Ogilby's first job, in 1612, was to teach them. By the 1670s, he was Charles II's Royal Cosmographer, creating beautiful measured drawings... -
Margaret Pole: The Countess in the Tower by Susan Higginbotham
RRP: £12.99£8.48Of the many executions ordered by Henry VIII, surely the most horrifying was that of sixty-seven-year-old Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, hacked to pieces on the scaffold by a blundering headsman. From the start, Margaret's life had been marred... -
Renaissance Armies in Italy 1450–1550 by Gabriele Esposito
RRP: £12.99£9.09The Italian Renaissance marked a period of political and military turmoil. Many regional wars were fought between the states ruled by Milan, Venice, Genoa, Florence, the Papacy, Siena and Naples. For more than 50 years starting in 1494, major foreign... -
Oxford AQA History for A Level: The Tudors: England 1485-1603 by Sally Waller 9780198354604
£36.68This title is suitable for any student studying: Exam Board: AQA Level: A Level Subject: History First teaching: September 2015 First exams: June 2017 The Tudors has been approved by AQA and matched to the 2015 specifications. With a... -
Tudor England by John Guy 9780192852137 [USED COPY]
RRP: £28.99£3.81Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Tudor England by John Guy
RRP: £28.99£27.59From Henry VII's capture of the crown at Bosworth in 1485 to the death of Elizabeth I in 1603, Tudor England witnessed far-reaching changes in politics and religion under Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary and Elizabeth herself. John Guy's compelling new... -
A World Lit Only by Fire by W MANCHESTER 9780316545310
RRP: £28.00£19.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316545310Author W MANCHESTERFormat HardbackImprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 643g -
Black Tudors: The Untold Story by Miranda Kaufmann
RRP: £10.99£7.00Shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2018 A Book of the Year for the Evening Standard and the Observer A black porter publicly whips a white Englishman in the hall of a Gloucestershire manor house. A Moroccan woman is baptised in a London... -
Siena: The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval City by Jane Stevenson 9781801101158
RRP: £14.99£9.53An authoritative, richly illustrated history, and affectionate celebration, of Siena, one of the best-loved and most-visited cities in Italy. Occupying a hilltop site in the midst of a vast, undulating landscape, Siena is as much a magnet for... -
The Florentines: From Dante to Galileo by Paul Strathern
RRP: £12.99£8.56Between the birth of Dante in 1265 and the death of Galileo in 1642 something happened which completely revolutionized Western civilization. Painting, sculpture and architecture would all visibly change in a striking fashion. Likewise, the thought and... -
The Voynich Manuscript by Raymond Clemens
RRP: £40.00£35.19The first authorized copy of this mysterious, much-speculated-upon, one-of-a-kind, centuries-old puzzle"For the first time, a complete reproduction [of] The Voynich Manuscript, has been published, featuring essays exploring what is known about the book... -
Shakespeare: The World as a Stage by Bill Bryson
RRP: £9.99£6.52Bill Bryson's biography of William Shakespeare unravels the superstitions, academic discoveries and myths surrounding the life of our greatest poet and playwright. Ever since he took the theatre of Elizabethan London... -
Mary Queen of Scots: And the Murder of Lord Darnley by Alison Weir
RRP: £14.99£10.95On the night of 10 February 1567 an explosion devastated the Edinburgh residence of Henry Stewart, Lord Darnley, second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots. Found naked amongst the destruction, the bodies of Darnley and his valet bore marks of strangulation... -
The Library: A Fragile History by Arthur der Weduwen
RRP: £25.00£18.02LONGLISTED FOR THE HISTORICAL WRITERS' ASSOCIATION NON-FICTION CROWN A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A sweeping, absorbing history, deeply researched, of that extraordinary and enduring phenomenon: the library' Richard Ovenden, author of Burning... -
Henrietta Maria: Conspirator, Warrior, Phoenix Queen by Leanda de Lisle
RRP: £25.00£18.02***A Best Book of 2022, The Times******Book of the Year, Spectator***A myth-busting biography of Henrietta Maria, wife of Charles I, which retells the dramatic story of the civil war from her perspectiveHenrietta Maria, Charles I's queen, is the most... -
The Witches of Fife: Witch-Hunting in a Scottish Shire, 1560-1710 by Stuart MacDonald
RRP: £20.00£14.05Along the coast of Fife, in villages like Culross and Pittenweem, history records that some women were executed as witches. Nevertheless, the reality of what happened the night that Janet Cornfoot was lynched at Pittenweem is hard to grasp as one sits by...