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The Rise and Fall of Thomas Cromwell: Henry VIII's Most Faithful Servant by John Schofield 9780752458663
RRP: £15.99£12.25Thomas Cromwell was a man of humble origins and outstanding intellect who rose up to become Henry VIII's chief minister and right-hand man during the English Reformation. He wielded enormous power while he retained the king's favour, but the failure of... -
William Shakespeare: His Life and Work by Anthony Holden
RRP: £12.99£3.51Who was William Shakespeare? How did the 'rude groom' from Stratford grow up to be the greatest poet the world has known? Not for a generation, since the late Anthony Burgess's SHAKESPEARE (1970), has there been anything approaching a popular, mainstream... -
Factories of Death: Japanese Biological Warfare, 1932-45 and the American Cover-Up by Sheldon H. Harris 9780415932141
RRP: £37.99£33.78Factories of Death details the activities of the Japanese army scientists that conducted numerous horrifying experiments upon live human beings. It investigates who from the upper echelons of the Japanese military and political establishments knew of the... -
Late Marx and the Russian Road: Marx and the Peripheries of Capitalism by Teodor Shanin 9780853456476
RRP: £18.99£15.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853456476Author Tedor ShaninFormat PaperbackPage Count 297Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S. -
Bilston, Bradley & Ladymoor: A Seventh Selection: Britain in Old Photographs by Ron Davies 9780752466095
RRP: £12.99£9.62This is Ron Davies's seventh book about the Black Country townships of Bilston, Bradley & Ladymoor. The area has a rich industrial heritage, which forged a strong sense of community among its residents, many of whom worked in the factories, foundries and... -
Understanding Early Modern Primary Sources by Laura Sangha 9781138823648
RRP: £39.99£35.06Understanding Early Modern Primary Sources is an introduction to the rich treasury of source material available to students of early modern history. During this period, political development, economic and social change, rising literacy levels, and the... -
Divine Images: The Life and Work of William Blake by Jason Whittaker
RRP: £30.00£29.09Although relatively obscure during his lifetime, William Blake has become one of the most popular English artists and writers, through poems such as "The Tyger" and "Jerusalem," and images including The Ancient of Days. Less well-known is Blake's radical... -
Bredon Hill: Archaeology, History, Folklore & Villages by Brian Hoggard
RRP: £7.99£5.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906663186Author Brian HoggardFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Logaston PressPublisher Fircone Books LtdDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm * 8mm -
Moral Economy Of The State: Conservation, Community Development, & State-Making in Zimbabwe by William A. Munro 9780896802025
RRP: £32.00£28.61The Moral Economy of the State examines state formation in Zimbabwe from the colonial period through the first decade of independence. Drawing on the works of Gramsci, E. P. Thompson, and James Scott, William Munro develops a theory of "moral economy"... -
The A-Z of Curious Nottinghamshire by Frank Earp
RRP: £14.99£11.55Weird, spooky, gruesome, humorous, and strange but true stories come alive in The A-Z of Curious Nottinghamshire. 'Curious' is perhaps not the first word you would use to label Nottinghamshire. But 'curiouser and curiouser' it becomes when you dig below... -
A Strange Business: Making Art and Money in Nineteenth-Century Britain by James Hamilton
RRP: £14.99£9.80Britain in the nineteenth century saw a series of technological and social changes which continue to influence and direct us today. Its reactants were human genius, money and influence, its crucibles the streets and institutions, its catalyst time, its... -
Kingswood and Two Mile Hill by Hugh Willmott 9780752433110
RRP: £12.99£9.62A history of Kingswood.Book InformationISBN 9780752433110Author Jill WilmottFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 165mm * 8mm -
Tyburn Tales: The Criminal Chronology of York Castle by William Knipe 9780752455372
RRP: £12.99£9.62'Carefully compiled' in 1867 'from prison documents, ancient papers, and other authentic sources,' this extremely rare book contains the full details of the crimes, trials and executions of every murderer, highwayman, rogue and rebel ever to swing from... -
The Wild East: Gunfights, Massacres and Race Riots Far From America's Frontier by Ian Hernon 9781445689272
RRP: £20.00£14.69The scene was set for a classic Western showdown. On a dusty main street, a sheriff backed by townspeople faced down a gang of heavily armed hired gunslingers. Tension rose, hard words were exchanged, and someone drew first. A few minutes later 10 men... -
London Local Trains in the 1950s and 1960s by Kevin McCormack 9781473827219
RRP: £25.00£15.42The picture below of a Castle class locomotive, since preserved, illustrates Kevin McCormack's first love: the Great Western Railway and the Western Region of British Railways. Living almost all his childhood on the Western in Ealing, it was perhaps... -
Medieval York by Gareth Dean 9780752441160
RRP: £22.50£16.79York is one of the most visited cities in England - above all for its medieval heritage: the Minster, the city walls and the streets where many elements of the medieval city are still visible. Drawing on a mass of unpublished excavations over the last 35... -
England, Our England by Alan Titchmarsh
RRP: £10.99£7.40An anthology and miscellany of everything an Englishman should know: - From Austen to Wordsworth - Jerusalem to the Scout's Honour - Kings and Queens of England to Land of Hope and Glory- Savile Row tailors to Jermyn St Shirt Makers - Tying a Windsor... -
Greek Monasticism in Southern Italy: The Life of Neilos in Context by Barbara Crostini
RRP: £39.99£35.06This volume was conceived with the double aim of providing a background and a further context for the new Dumbarton Oaks English translation of the Life of St Neilos from Rossano, founder of the monastery of Grottaferrata near Rome in 1004. Reflecting... -
North to the Orient by Anne Morrow Lindbergh 9780156671408
RRP: £16.99£12.00In 1931 Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh set off on a flight to the Orient by the Great Circle Route. The classic North to the Orient is the beautifully written account of the trip. AUTHOR: Anne Morrow Lindbergh, born Anne Spencer Morrow (June 22, 1906... -
Pages from the Past: Medieval Writing Skills and Manuscript Books by M.B. Parkes
RRP: £49.99£43.90In the present collection of articles by Malcolm Parkes two overarching concerns emerge: the palaeography of manuscript books in relation to what Parkes has previously called the 'grammar of legibility'; and the importance of considering the... -
The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Augustus by Karl Galinsky
RRP: £29.99£26.34The age of Augustus, commonly dated to 30 BC - AD 14, was a pivotal period in world history. A time of tremendous change in Rome, Italy, and throughout the Mediterranean world, many developments were underway when Augustus took charge and a recurring... -
Adam of Bremen’s Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum: Origins, Reception and Significance by Grzegorz Bartusik 9781032121055
RRP: £39.99£35.06Adam of Bremen's Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum is one of the most important accounts documenting the history, geography and ethnology of Northern and Central-Eastern Europe in the period between the ninth and eleventh centuries. Its author, a... -
Modernism by Robin Walz 9781408264492
£35.74Robin Walz's updated Modernism, now part of the Seminar Studies series, has been updated to include significant primary source material and features to make it more accessible for students returning to, or studying the topic for the first time.The... -
Generals South, Generals North: The Commanders of the Civil War Reconsidered by Alan Axelrod 9780762788491
RRP: £17.99£14.04Generals South, Generals North highlights twenty-four commanders-twelve each from the Confederacy and the Union. Best-selling author and military historian Alan Axelrod presents a biography of each, narrates the major engagements in which each fought... -
Secret Bude by Dawn G. Robinson
RRP: £15.99£9.53The third book about Bude by Dawn Robinson is a little different to the first two. Certainly, it contains historical and contemporary images; however, its focus is very much on the facts, fiction, people and places you may know little about in this... -
Spain and the Early Stuarts, 1585-1655 by Albert J. Loomie
£35.06These studies focus on Spain's relations with England from the last stages of the Elizabethan war to the opening years of the Cromwellian regime. Particular attention is given to the issue of religion and to the character and conduct of peacetime... -
'The Common Purposes of Life': Science and Society at the Royal Institution of Great Britain by Frank A.J.L. James
RRP: £32.99£29.56For more than two hundred years the Royal Institution has been at the centre of scientific research and has also provided a cultural location for science in Britain. Within its walls some of the major scientific figures of the last two centuries - such... -
Black Country Canals by Paul Collins
RRP: £16.99£12.94The Black Country has more miles of canal than Venice. During the industrial revolution this transport system developed to serve the steel, coal, lime and glass industries that grew up so extensively. Now much of the area's heavy industry has... -
The Collapse of Globalism by John Ralston Saul
RRP: £10.99£7.32Globalization is dead. Nation states are resurgent, international trade has enriched the few rather than the promised many, and democratic values are on the retreat. The shining-eyed optimism of more open, more equal societies has given way to... -
Tales of the Rails: John Fletcher Main Line Footplateman by John Fletcher
RRP: £25.00£18.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857945072Author John FletcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 902gDimensions(mm) 238mm *... -
Singular Pasts: The "I" in Historiography by Enzo Traverso 9780231203982
RRP: £92.00£71.81Today, history is increasingly written in the first person. A growing number of historical works include an autobiographical dimension, as if writing about the past required exploring the inner life of the author. Neither traditional history nor... -
The Yorkshire Wolds: A journey of Discovery by Colin Speakman
RRP: £15.00£12.56Revised 2nd edition. The Yorkshire Wolds are one of Yorkshire and England's most magical but least known landscapes - dry grassy valleys through undulating chalk hills, unspoiled villages, a dramatic coastline, delightful market towns such as Beverley... -
Health and Society in Twentieth Century Britain by H. Jones 9780582004597
£52.88Few things tell us more of a nation's general well-being than the development of the life-expectancy of its citizens; the rising standards of health that they come to demand; and how evenly that improvement is shared throughout society. Helen Jones... -
The Image of Aristocracy: In Britain, 1000-1300 by David Crouch
RRP: £135.00£117.68David Crouch provides a broad definition of aristorcracy by examining the ways aristocrats behaved and lived between 1000 and 1300. He analyses life-style, class and luxurious living in those years. A distinctive feature of the book is that it takes a... -
Old Dufftown, Glenrinnes and the Cabrach by Douglas G. Lockhart
RRP: £10.95£9.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840337563Author Douglas G. LockhartFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake Publishing -
Ancient Monuments and Modern Identities: A Critical History of Archaeology in 19th and 20th Century Greece by Sofia Voutsaki
RRP: £39.99£35.06Ancient Monuments and Modern Identities sets out to examine the role of archaeology in the creation of ethnic, national and social identities in 19th and 20th century Greece. The essays included in this volume examine the development of interpretative... -
Peebles 1906: Peeblesshire Sheet 13.06 by Barbara Morris 9780850548563
RRP: £3.50£3.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780850548563Author Barbara MorrisImprint Alan Godfrey MapsPublisher Alan Godfrey Maps -
Rotherham at War and Peace by Margaret Drinkall 9780752462950
RRP: £15.99£12.25In July 1922 the Rotherham Advertiser requested that the people of Rotherham remember the impact which the First World War had on the town and the changes which had been made. They recommended that: 'it be placed on record how the town was transformed... -
Guarded by Dragons: Encounters with Rare Books and Rare People by Rick Gekoski
RRP: £9.99£6.80The Times Best Literary Non-fiction Books 2021 - 'a super yarn' 'Rick Gekoski's encyclopaedic knowledge of rare books is matched only by the enthusiasm and brio with which he writes about them' Ian Rankin Rick Gekoski has been traversing the rocky... -
Newcastle Ragged School by Wendy Prahms 9780752440880
RRP: £12.99£9.62Describing daily triumphs and disasters at the Ragged School in 1847.Book InformationISBN 9780752440880Author Wendy PrahmsFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 230gDimensions(mm) 235mm *...