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Walk London by Gill Knappett
RRP: £6.00£4.60Fifteen themed walks highlighting the best that London has to offer, from historic palaces and gardens to the pleasures of the famous River Thames and the landmarks around Docklands and the City. Original illustrated maps and essential information make... -
Churches of Oxfordshire by Nicola Coldstream
RRP: £15.99£10.85Oxfordshire, once part of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia, has always been a wealthy county. Its landscapes vary from the chalk and beechwood Chiltern Hills in the south to the limestone uplands of the Cotswolds in the north-west, which give very fine... -
Hodder GCSE (9-1) History for Pearson Edexcel Foundation Edition: Weimar and Nazi Germany, 1918-39 Benjamin Armstrong 9781510473386
£23.02Exam board: Pearson EdexcelLevel: GCSE (9-1)Subject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: Summer 2018Help more students to access the content for Pearson Edexcel GCSE History with this Foundation Edition, containing bespoke text and... -
Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine by Geoff Manaugh 9781509867400
RRP: £25.00£16.53'Manaugh and Twilley shed illuminating light on a phenomenon that seems utterly of the present moment.' Financial Times' Best Books of the Year'Startlingly timely, authoritatively researched, and electrifyingly written.' Steve Silberman, author of... -
Animal Kingdom: A Natural History in 100 Objects by Jack Ashby 9780750981521
RRP: £20.00£15.67From a single beginning, countless millions of stories from the animal kingdom have - and continue to - run their course. Museum objects allow us to investigate some of those stories. Animal Kingdom journeys through both the evolutionary history of... -
Beneath the Sands of Egypt: Adventures of an Unconventional Archaeologist by Donald P. Ryan 9780061732836
£12.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061732836Author Donald P. RyanFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 230g -
The Arab-Israeli Conflict Kirsten E. Schulze (London School of Economics & Political Science, London, UK) 9781138933354
RRP: £36.99£36.02In this concise yet comprehensive survey, Kirsten E. Schulze analyzes the causes, course and consequences of the Arab-Israeli conflict, exploring the particular dynamics of this conflict and the numerous attempts at its resolution. Covering pivotal... -
Behemoth: The Structure and Practice of National Socialism, 1933-1944 by Franz Neumann 9781566638197
RRP: £18.99£14.72Franz Neumann's classic account of the governmental workings of Nazi Germany, first published in 1942, is reprinted in a new paperback edition with an introduction by the distinguished historian Peter Hayes. Neumann was one of the only early Frankfurt... -
Kent Smugglers' Pubs (new edition) by Terry Townsend 9780857101280
RRP: £9.99£8.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857101280Author Terry TownsendFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint PiXZ BooksPublisher PiXZ Books -
A History of Stourbridge by Nigel Perry
RRP: £22.50£17.45Stourbridge came into existence in the early Middle Ages. It has seen much development from Roman and Saxon times and during the reigns of Elizabeth and Victoria. More changes followed in the 20th century; though an agricultural market town it is also... -
Debating New Approaches to History Professor Marek Tamm (Tallinn University, Estonia) 9781474281928
RRP: £27.99£25.24With its innovative format, Debating New Approaches to History addresses issues currently at the top of the discipline's theoretical and methodological agenda. In its chapters, leading historians of both older and younger generations from across the... -
With Scott in the Antarctic by Isobel Williams 9780752452463
RRP: £14.99£11.72Edward Wilson (1872-1912) accompanied Robert Falcon Scott on both his celebrated Antarctic voyages: the Discovery Expedition of 1901-1904 and the Terra Nova Expedition of 1910-1913. Wilson served as Junior Surgeon and Zoologist on Discovery and, on this... -
Bloody British History: Norwich by Mark Mower 9780752476582
RRP: £9.99£7.77Danish death! Vikings sack and burn the city. Medieval murder mysteries! The dead body of a young boy was one third of Norwich's residents caught the Black Death! Victorian horrors! In 1851, body parts began to appear across the city - but who had left... -
Voices of Chalford, Bisley and Bussage: Tempus Oral History Series by Tamsin Treverton Jones 9780752432045
RRP: £15.99£12.43This fascinating book brings together the personal memories of people who lived and grew up in Chalford, Chalford Hill, France Lynch, Eastcombe, Bussage, Brownshill and Bisley during the last century. Reminiscences range from childhood games, working... -
Littlehampton Revisited by Rolf Zeegers
RRP: £12.99£9.87Illustrated with over 200 captivating photographs, Littlehampton Revisited takes the reader on a nostalgic journey through the seaside resort.Featured are street scenes and coastal pictures, all depicting Littlehampton and its people through the ages.The... -
All the Countries the Americans Have Ever Invaded: Making Friends and Influencing People? by Stuart Laycock 9781445651767 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.65Since its creation, the United States seems to have pushed the accelerator in the invasion category. This book sets out to find the facts. How many countries has America been militarily involved with, and what's it been doing in all these countries? It's... -
Medieval Children by Nicholas Orme 9780300097542
£50.37What was childhood like for medieval boys and girls in England? How were children named and brought up, what hazards faced them, what games did they play, and how were they prepared for adulthood? This richly detailed book provides for the first time a... -
Lincoln Unmasked: What You're Not Supposed to Know About Dishonest Abe by Thomas J. Dilorenzo 9780307338426
RRP: £14.99£11.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307338426Author Thomas J. DilorenzoFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Three Rivers PressPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 198g -
The Scudamores of Kentchurch and Holme Lacy by Heather Hurley 9781910839386
RRP: £12.95£11.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910839386Author Heather HurleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Logaston PressPublisher Fircone Books LtdDimensions(mm) 242mm * 171mm * 17mm -
Old Warden: Tales of Tenants and Squires by Christine Hill
RRP: £16.99£11.47Old Warden: Tales of Tenants & Squires traces the fascinating history of the village of Old Warden, its inhabitants and their relationship with the Ongley and Shuttleworth landowner families from the eighteenth century to the early twentieth century... -
Around Tiverton by Ted Gosling
RRP: £12.99£9.87Featuring over two hundred photographs, many selected from private and previously unseen collections, Around Tiverton illustrates how the town has developed into the vibrant community it is today. It gives an unforgettable insight into the daily lives of... -
Peak District Pubs: A Pint-Sized Social History by Andrew McCloy
RRP: £11.99£11.29The Peak District's pub heritage is as rich and tasty as the beer that foams from the pumps, and via its inns, taverns and hotels we can trace centuries of social history in one of the most beautiful parts of Britain. This is the story of the packhorse... -
Old Eston & Normanby by Paul Chrystal 9781840338393
RRP: £10.95£9.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840338393Author Paul ChrystalFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 175mm * 240mm * 4mm -
Women in the War Zone: Hospital Service in the First World War by Anne Powell
RRP: £17.99£14.24In our collective memory, the First World War is dominated by men. The sailors, soldiers, airmen and politicians about whom histories are written were male, and the first half of the twentieth century was still a time when a woman's place was thought to... -
A Kim Jong-Il Production: Kidnap. Torture. Murder... Making Movies North Korean-Style by Paul Fischer
RRP: £15.99£12.23It opens with a double kidnapping . . .Madame Choi, South Korea's most famous actress, is lured to Hong Kong, drugged and smuggled out on a ship. When her ex-husband, Shin Sang-Ok, Korea's most acclaimed director, goes to look for her, he vanishes too... -
The Consequence by Gerald Jones 9781913704568
£9.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913704568Author Gerald JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint Gerald Pryce JonesPublisher Gerald Pryce JonesWeight(grams) 313gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Castle Combe: An Illustrated Walk Through History by Paul Snowdon 9781874192763
£4.20Let us take you around a village where time has stood still for over 500 years seen through the eyes of artist Paul Snowdon as he leads you around the village with words on the history and sketches of what you can see. Famous the world over Castle Combe... -
Old Largo and Lundin Links by Eric Eunson
RRP: £11.95£11.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840335286Author Eric EunsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingWeight(grams) 190gDimensions(mm) 174mm *... -
American Rock 'n' Roll: The UK Tours 1956-72 by Ian Wallis 9780951988862
RRP: £26.99£17.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780951988862Author Ian WallisFormat PaperbackPage Count 422Imprint Music Mentor BooksPublisher Music Mentor BooksWeight(grams) 678g -
History of Pantomimes by Maureen Hughes 9781844680771
RRP: £14.99£13.66Each Christmas entire families in the UK troop off to see, what one could almost say is 'the obligatory'. annual entertainment, known as Pantomime. It is a traditional, seasonal way of life for the British envied the world over, and one which only the... -
The Heirs Of The Prophet Muhammad: And the Roots of the Sunni-Shia Schism by Barnaby Rogerson
RRP: £12.99£8.83The Prophet Muhammad taught the word of God to the Arabs. Within a generation of his death, his followers - as vivid a cast of heroic individuals as history has known - had exploded out of Arabia to confront the two great superpowers of the... -
Air Crash Investigations: The End of the Concorde Era, the Crash of Air France Flight 4590 by George Cramoisi 9780557849505
RRP: £23.95£21.32On Tuesday 25 July 2000 Air France Flight AFR 4590, a Concorde registered F-BTSC, took off from Paris Charles de Gaulle, to undertake a charter flight to New York with nine crew members and one hundred passengers on board. During takeoff from runway 26... -
The Fated Sky: Astrology in History by Benson Bobrick 9780743268950
£13.35Astrology is the oldest of the occult sciences, and it has had an unshakeable hold on the human mind for centuries. Universities, such as Oxford and the Sorbonne, offer courses on it. In THE FATED SKY Benson Bobrick gives us a fascinating history of the... -
The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains by Thomas W. Laqueur 9780691157788
RRP: £35.00£28.95The Greek philosopher Diogenes said that when he died his body should be tossed over the city walls for beasts to scavenge. Why should he or anyone else care what became of his corpse? In The Work of the Dead, acclaimed cultural historian Thomas Laqueur... -
Completely Useless Guide to London by Martin Pullen 9781782197713
£9.84Did you know: - that, with more than 17,000 skeletons in its collection, the Museum of London has over three times the amount of dead bodies than a full-capacity audience at the Royal Albert Hall? - that 'Farting Lane' (Carting Lane, off the Strand) was... -
Tudor and Stuart Britain: 1485-1714 Roger Lockyer (Royal Holloway, UK) 9781138944190
RRP: £43.99£42.59Tudor and Stuart Britain charts the political, religious, economic and social history of Britain from the start of Henry VII's reign in 1485 to the death of Queen Anne in 1714, providing students and lecturers with a detailed chronological narrative of... -
Blood, Iron and Gold: How the Railways Transformed the World by Christian Wolmar 9781848871717 [USED COPY]
RRP: £25.00£2.29The birth of the railways and their rapid spread across the world triggered economic growth and social change on an unprecedented scale. From Panama to the Punjab, Tasmania to Turin, Blood, Iron and Gold describes the vision and determination of the... -
Blood, Iron and Gold: How the Railways Transformed the World Christian Wolmar 9781848871717
RRP: £25.00£17.90The birth of the railways and their rapid spread across the world triggered economic growth and social change on an unprecedented scale. From Panama to the Punjab, Tasmania to Turin, Blood, Iron and Gold describes the vision and determination of the... -
Tales of the Rails: John Fletcher Main Line Footplateman by John Fletcher
RRP: £25.00£16.49Apologies 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 *... -
Haunted Bath by David Brandon 9780752447599
RRP: £12.99£9.87A pub with a deceased barmaid who simply refuses to leave, a Grey Lady in the Theatre Royal; a poltergeist in the Garrick's Head pub; a man in a black hat at the Assembly Rooms. Bath is one of the few British cities which may justifiably be called...