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Lowestoft Past & Present by Ian G. Robb
RRP: $31.48$24.61Lowestoft Past & Present reflects the many changes that have taken place in the town since its Victorian heyday - focusing on the transformations wrought by two world wars, 1960s redevelopment and the building of the spine road in the 1970s. Many of the... -
A Grim Almanac of South Wales by Nicola Sly 9780752460000
RRP: $35.68$27.57This extraordinary new book is a day-to-day catalogue of 366 ghastly tales from South Wales. Full of dreadful deeds, strange disappearances and a multitude of mysteries, this almanac explores the shadier side of the area's past. The history of South... -
The Worst Medieval Monarchs by Phil Bradford 9781399083058
RRP: $52.50$37.59Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
What It Means To Be Human: Reflections from 1791 to the present Professor Joanna Bourke 9781844086450
RRP: $27.28$18.54In 1872, a woman known only as 'An Ernest Englishwoman' published an open letter entitled 'Are women animals?', in which she protested the fact that women were not treated as fully human. In reality, their status was worse than that of animals:... -
Around Sheldon by David Green 9780752433639
RRP: $31.48$24.61A history of Sheldon.Book InformationISBN 9780752433639Author Margaret D. GreenFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 165mm * 8mm -
Secret Neath by Robert King 9781445666280
RRP: $33.58$22.79The south Wales town of Neath has existed since Roman times, when a fort was built here at the crossing point of the River Neath. It was a market town until the arrival of the Industrial Revolution and new manufacturing industries of iron, steel and... -
The Concise History of the Crusades by Thomas F. Madden 9781442215757
RRP: $84.00$74.55What is the relationship between the medieval crusades and the problems of the modern Middle East? Were the crusades the Christian equivalent of Muslim jihad? In this sweeping yet crisp history, Thomas F. Madden offers a brilliant and compelling... -
Two Tankers Down: The Greatest Small-Boat Rescue In U.S. Coast Guard History by Robert Frump 9781599213378
RRP: $27.28$24.78Off the coast of Cape Cod in 1950, a February blizzard tore not one but two oil tankers in half. This is the suspenseful true story of a U.S. Coast Guard captain and his small crew who were called out to rescue the tanker crews without a cutter or... -
The Palestine-Israeli Conflict: A Beginner's Guide by Dan Cohn-Sherbok 9781780743806
$25.37An updated edition of this best-selling introduction to the conflict. With coverage of all the recent events, the new edition of this best-selling book gives a thorough and accessible account of the history behind the Palestine-Israeli conflict, its... -
Rembrandt Seen Through Jewish Eyes: The Artist's Meaning to Jews from His Time to Ours Mirjam Knotter 9789463728188
RRP: $79.70$77.55The earliest painting by Rembrandt whose owner is documented depicts the prophet Balaam, on his way to blessing Israel. The man who bought it was a Sephardi Jew in the service of Cardinal Richelieu of France. The first known buyer of an etching plate by... -
Henry V John Matusiak 9780415620260
RRP: $231.00$199.73Henry V of England, the princely hero of Shakespeare's play, who successfully defeated the French at the Battle of Agincourt and came close to becoming crowned King of France, is one of the best known and most compelling monarchs in English history. This... -
Consuming History: Historians and Heritage in Contemporary Popular Culture by Jerome de Groot 9781138905320
RRP: $88.18$77.78Consuming History examines how history works in contemporary popular culture. Analysing a wide range of cultural entities from computer games to daytime television, it investigates the ways in which society consumes history and how a reading of this... -
Old Hurlford and Crookedholm John MacKenzie 9781840335354
RRP: $18.90$17.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840335354Author John MacKenzieFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 170mm * 242mm * 4mm -
A Cultural History of the Modern Age: Volume 1, Renaissance and Reformation Egon Friedell 9781412807494
RRP: $100.78$88.64Historian, philosopher, critic, playwright, journalist, and actor, Egon Friedell was a key figure in the extraordinary flowering of Viennese culture between the two world wars. His masterpiece, A Cultural History of the Modern Age, demonstrates the... -
Waters of the Son: Baptists in Georgian Bath by Kerry J. Birch 9780956506603
$45.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956506603Author Kerry J. BirchFormat PaperbackPage Count 259Imprint Kappa Beta PublicationsPublisher Kappa Beta PublicationsWeight(grams) 386g -
'The People Are Not There': The Transformation of Badenoch 1800–1863 by David Taylor
RRP: $52.50$36.96Winner of the Saltire Society Scottish History Book of the Year Award Badenoch today is a landscape of empty glens and ruined settlements, but it was not always so. This book examines the transformative events that shaped the region's destiny: climate... -
The Elizabethans by A. N. Wilson 9780099547143 [USED COPY]
RRP: $35.68$4.81England under Elizabeth I.A time of war and plague, politics and rebellion, personal heroism and religious fanaticism. When if you were born poor you stayed poor, and the thumbscrews and the rack could be the grim prelude to the executioner's block.But... -
The Elizabethans by A. N. Wilson
RRP: $35.68$25.79England under Elizabeth I.A time of war and plague, politics and rebellion, personal heroism and religious fanaticism. When if you were born poor you stayed poor, and the thumbscrews and the rack could be the grim prelude to the executioner's block.But... -
Duress: Imperial Durabilities in Our Times by Ann Laura Stoler
RRP: $52.48$47.06How do colonial histories matter to the urgencies and conditions of our current world? How have those histories so often been rendered as leftovers, as "legacies" of a dead past rather than as active and violating forces in the world today? With... -
A Sink of Atrocity: Crime of 19th Century Dundee by Malcolm Archibald
RRP: $25.18$19.26Nineteenth-century Dundee was a tough, unforgiving place. For many of its citizens, it was the survival of the fittest, and to survive they turned to crime. But what was it really like both for the criminals and the law-abiding citizens to live in the... -
Roman Religion by Valerie M. Warrior 9780521532129
RRP: $48.28$41.08Examining sites that are familiar to many modern tourists, Valerie Warrior avoids imposing a modern perspective on the topic by using the testimony of the ancient Romans to describe traditional Roman religion. The ancient testimony recreates the social... -
Comrade Kerensky Boris Kolonitskii, II 9781509533640
RRP: $52.50$35.76As one of the heroes of the 1917 February Revolution and then Prime Minister at the head of the Provisional Government, Alexander Kerensky was passionately, even fanatically, lauded as a leader during his brief political reign. Symbolic artefacts -... -
Futures Past: On the Semantics of Historical Time by Reinhart Koselleck
RRP: $63.00$48.91Modernity in the late eighteenth century transformed all domains of European life -intellectual, industrial, and social. Not least affected was the experience of time itself: ever-accelerating change left people with briefer intervals of time in which to... -
Oral History Theory Lynn Abrams 9781138905399
RRP: $83.98$74.19Oral history is increasingly acknowledged as a key tool for anyone studying the history of the recent past, and Oral History Theory provides a comprehensive, systematic and accessible overview of this important field. Combining the study of theories... -
The Association Game: A History of British Football by Matthew Taylor 9780582505964
RRP: $77.68$75.89The story of British football's journey from public school diversion to mass media entertainment is a remarkable one. The Association Game traces British football from the establishment of the earliest clubs in the nineteenth century to its place as one... -
The Spirit of London by Paul Cohen-Portheim 9781849940283
RRP: $35.68$26.42A reissue of a truly classic title on the Batsford backlist. First published in 1935, it is a wonderful snapshot of our capital before the Second World War, and a charming insight into our attitudes to urban life back in the Thirties. Our posh guide... -
Supreme Courage: Heroic stories from 150 Years of the Victoria Cross by Peter de la Billiere 9780349118987 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28$4.81Since 1854 the Victoria Cross has been the highest award for gallantry in the British Armed Forces. It bears the simple legend 'For Valour', but behind it are thrilling and ultimately humbling tales of unimaginable bravery. SUPREME COURAGE tells the... -
Supreme Courage: Heroic stories from 150 Years of the Victoria Cross by Peter de la Billiere 9780349118987
$31.23Since 1854 the Victoria Cross has been the highest award for gallantry in the British Armed Forces. It bears the simple legend 'For Valour', but behind it are thrilling and ultimately humbling tales of unimaginable bravery. SUPREME COURAGE tells the... -
Women and Religion in England: 1500-1720 by Patricia Crawford
RRP: $88.18$77.18Patricia Crawford demonstrates how the consideration of gender is central to our understanding of religious history. Women and Religion has three broad themes: the role and experience of women in the religious upheaval in the period from the Reformation... -
Oxford by Edward Thomas 9781902669847
RRP: $42.00$37.46"No city preserves the memory and signature of so many men. The past and the dead have here as it were, a corporate life..." Edward Thomas is now best known for the poetry he wrote between 1914 and his untimely death at Arras in 1917. But during his... -
Bedminster by Anton Bantock 9780752410661
RRP: $31.48$24.61A history of Bedminster.Book InformationISBN 9780752410661Author Anton BantockFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 165mm * 10mm -
A Brief History of Germany: Indispensable for Travellers by Jeremy Black
RRP: $23.08$15.98The history of Germany is intricately woven. Threaded in time through its struggles and triumphs with religion, industrialisation, enlightenment, politics, unification, and war.In A Brief History of Germany, Jeremy Black questions how the Germany we know... -
Chester History Tour by Paul Hurley
RRP: $18.88$13.06As soon as we set foot in Chester we are taken back to the Middle Ages; time seems to have slipped backwards. Is it a dream? Or are these decorated timber-framed houses, like big doll's houses, actually for ordinary habitation. We look around and see a... -
The Cathars: Dualist Heretics in Languedoc in the High Middle Ages by Malcolm Barber 9781408252581
RRP: $88.18$85.49In the second half of the twelfth century, the Catholic Church became convinced that dualist heresy was taking root within Christian society and that it was particularly strong in southern France. The nature and extent of this heresy and the reaction of... -
Crossley Heath School by Rose Taylor 9780752438665
RRP: $27.28$20.73The story of the Crossley Heath School is ongoing and is one of significant acedemic success, which is fitting because the school is the product of the amalgamation of two rival establishments, Heath Grammar School and Crossley and Porter Grammar School,... -
Weymouth & Portland Then Meets Now by Maureen Attwooll 9781871164862
RRP: $41.98$37.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781871164862Author Maureen AttwoollFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Dorset BooksPublisher Halsgrove -
Glassworking in England from the 14th to the 20th Century David Dungworth 9781848022850
$164.24Glass plays an essential role in our lives and has done for centuries. Glass has not always been so ubiquitous and this book charts the development of the English glass industry from the medieval period to recent times. Medieval glass was a scarce,... -
Heroes of the Holocaust: Ordinary Britons who risked their lives to make a difference by Lyn Smith 9780091940683 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28$4.60Collected here for the first time are the remarkable and moving stories of the 27 British recipients of the 'Hero of the Holocaust' award. During one of the darkest times in human history they refused to stand by and do nothing; risking their lives to... -
Surbiton Bombed: Second World War Air Raids in Surbiton, Tolworth and Berrylands by Mark Davison 9780954375904
$21.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954375904Author Mark DavisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Mark DavisonPublisher Mark Davison -
America: Made in Britain by Tom Arms
RRP: $42.00$28.85A key element of the American dream is an unwavering belief in its uniqueness. Somehow, it has become an article of faith that the United States emerged from the political mists of 1776 as a fully formed and unparalleled political entity without a past...