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Wallasey Reflections by Les Jones 9781398114050
RRP: £15.99£10.85Wallasey expanded massively in the nineteenth century following the construction of the docks, which brought in a wealth of other industries, including shipbuilding. Wealthy Liverpool inhabitants moved to be beside the coast on the Wirral Peninsula and... -
Small Heath & Sparkbrook by Margaret Green 9780752426358
RRP: £12.99£9.87A history of Small Heath & SparkbrookBook InformationISBN 9780752426358Author Margaret D. GreenFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 310gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 165mm * 10mm -
Haunted Stockton by Robert Woodhouse 9780752457635
RRP: £12.99£9.87From heart-stopping accounts of apparitions, manifestations and related supernatural phenomena, to first-hand encounters with phantoms and spirits, this collection of stories contains both new and well-known spooky tales from around Stockton. Drawing on... -
When Women Ruled the World: Making the Renaissance in Europe by Maureen Quilligan 9781324092377
RRP: £14.99£11.78Sixteenth-century Europe was a time of destabilisation of age-old norms and the waging of religious wars-yet it also witnessed the remarkable flowering of a pacific culture cultivated by a cohort of extraordinary women rulers who sat on Europe's thrones,... -
When Women Were Priests by Karen Jo Torjesen 9780060686611
RRP: £14.99£11.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060686611Author Karen Jo TorjesenFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint HarperOnePublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 224gDimensions(mm)... -
The Dark Side of the Dales by Mark Bridgeman 9781838188245
RRP: £9.99£8.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838188245Author Mark BridgemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Mark BridgemanPublisher Mark Bridgeman -
Creating the Opium War: British Imperial Attitudes Towards China, 1792-1840 by Hao Gao 9781526163653
RRP: £30.00£26.95Creating the Opium War examines British imperial attitudes towards China during their early encounters from the Macartney embassy to the outbreak of the Opium War - a deeply consequential event which arguably reshaped relations between China and the West... -
Bygone Peebles by Alex F. Young
RRP: £11.95£11.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840339406Author Alex F. YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake Publishing -
The Anatomy of Canals Volume 2: The Mania Years by Anthony Burton 9780752423852
RRP: £30.00£22.38The story of Britain's canals reads like a history of the Industrial Revolution. It was the growth of canals in the late eighteenth century that made possible and, in fact, created the need for many of the technological advances of the time. The legacy... -
Winter In The Morning: A Young Girl's Life in the Warsaw Ghetto and Beyond by Janina Bauman
£10.64Janina Beauman was thirteen-years-old when Hitler's decree forced her family into the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw. The young, bright and lively girl suddenly found herself in a cramped flat hiding with other Jewish families. At first even curfews and the... -
Lifestyle and Medicine in the Enlightenment: The Six Non-Naturals in the Long Eighteenth Century James Kennaway 9781032400327
RRP: £39.99£35.33The biggest challenges in public health today are often related to attitudes, diet and exercise. In many ways, this marks a return to the state of medicine in the eighteenth century, when ideals of healthy living were a much more central part of the... -
The Franco-Prussian War Michael Howard 9780367705312
RRP: £130.00£112.11In 1870 the German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck ordered the Prussian Army to invade France, inciting one of the most dramatic conflicts in European history. It transformed not only the states-system of the European continent but the whole climate of... -
The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery: 1776-1848 by Robin Blackburn
£33.29In 1770 a handful of European nations ruled the Americas, drawing from them a stream of products, both everyday and exotic. Some two and a half million black slaves, imprisoned in plantation colonies, toiled to produce the sugar, coffee, cotton, ginger... -
Elegies: Bk.2 by Sextus Propertius 9780862921484
£30.33W.A. Camps' four-volume edition of Propertius' Elegies was originally published by Cambridge University Press. Books II and III were later reissued by Bristol Classical Press, now an imprint of Bloomsbury. Book II, the longest, is commonly regarded as... -
Saving a Bit of Old Wood: 19 Victoria Street & 44 Queen Square, Wolverhampton by Anthony Perry 9781858587592
£8.24Many towns and cities expanded and went through continuous redevelopment during the 19th and 20th centuries, and Wolverhampton was one of these, losing a lot of historic buildings. Fortunately, at the end of the 1970s, Wolverhampton Council stepped in to... -
The Last Centuries of Byzantium, 1261-1453 by Donald M. Nicol 9780521439916
RRP: £34.99£28.98The Byzantine Empire, fragmented and enfeebled by the Fourth Crusade in 1204, never again recovered its former extent, power and influence. Its greatest revival came when the Byzantines in exile reclaimed their capital city of Constantinople in 1261 and... -
The Making of Modern English Society from 1850 Janet Roebuck 9780710004154
RRP: £43.99£38.44In the second half of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century a variety of forces emerged which changed society in many profound and subtle ways. The Making of Modern English Society from 1850 uses the findings of recent... -
The Intimidation: History, Times And People Of Sheffield Outrages by Mick Drewry 9781787106475
£13.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787106475Author Mick DrewryFormat PaperbackPage Count 358Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers -
A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600-1840 by Howard Colvin 9780300125085
RRP: £75.00£63.41This authoritative and now classic work of reference on the history of British architecture contains biographical information on some 2,000 architects who practiced in England, Scotland, and Wales from the time of Inigo Jones (1573-1652) to that of... -
Northfield Past & Present by Veronica Smith
RRP: £12.99£9.87This book includes a fascinating selection of previously unseen photographs drawn from the collections of local residents. Northfield has a beautiful conservation area about which much has been written, but the authors, John and Jean Smith, have... -
Contagion: Perspectives from Pre-Modern Societies Lawrence I. Conrad 9780754602583
RRP: £135.00£117.28Contagion - even today the word conjures up fear of disease and plague and has the power to terrify. The nine essays gathered here examine what pre-modern societies thought about the spread of disease and how it could be controlled: to what extent were... -
Hexham Remembered: An Illustrated Glimpse into Hexham's Past Hilary Kristensen 9780953844357
RRP: £17.50£17.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780953844357Author Hilary KristensenFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Wagtail PressPublisher Wagtail Press -
The Global 1960s: Convention, contest and counterculture Tamara Chaplin 9781138709485
RRP: £37.99£33.38The Global 1960s presents compelling narratives from around the world in order to de-center the roles played by the United States and Europe in both scholarship on, and popular memories of, the sixties. Geographically and chronologically broad, this... -
Mynydd Epynt a'r Troad Allan yn 1940 by Herbert Hughes 9781800994041
£10.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800994041Author Herbert HughesFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y LolfaDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 3mm -
Tale of a Great Sham by Dana Hearne
RRP: £17.00£16.76The publication in 1986 of Anna Parnell's The Tale of a Great Sham, scrupulously edited and annotated by Dana Hearne, was a landmark event in Irish women's history. For the first time the general reader was able to read an account of the land war written... -
Chelmsford: A History by Charles Jones 9781860772467 [USED COPY]
RRP: £15.99£2.54Chelmsford, the county town of Essex, developed from a small market town to an industrial centre, playing a pioneering role in the development of radio telegraphy, electrical engineering, and ball and roller bearing production. All this, and much more in... -
Monmouthshire Curiosities by Mike Hall 9780752448992 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£4.67Along with its rich history and spectacular scenery, the county of Monmouthshire is home to a great many curious and unusual buildings, objects and landscape features that have survived the centuries. Mike Hall condenses the area's long and fascinating... -
Monmouthshire Curiosities by Mike Hall 9780752448992
RRP: £12.99£9.87Along with its rich history and spectacular scenery, the county of Monmouthshire is home to a great many curious and unusual buildings, objects and landscape features that have survived the centuries. Mike Hall condenses the area's long and fascinating... -
Thomas Hardy's Dorset by Rodney Legg 9780857040862
RRP: £14.99£13.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857040862Author Rodney LeggFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint HalsgrovePublisher Halsgrove -
Blackpool Trams and Recollections: No. 6 by Barry McLoughlin
RRP: £4.99£4.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857942804Author Barry McLoughlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media Group -
Derry Folk Tales by Madeline McCully 9781845888695
RRP: £12.99£10.60This lively and entertaining collection of folk tales from the County Derry is rich in stories both tall and true, ancient and recent, dark and funny, fantastical and powerful. Here you will find stories of mythical beasts such as the Lig-na-Paiste,... -
What is Modern Israel? by Yakov M. Rabkin 9780745335810
RRP: £24.99£16.63Few countries provoke as much passion and controversy as Israel. What is Modern Israel? convincingly demonstrates that its founding ideology - Zionism - is anything but a simple reaction to antisemitism. Dispelling the notion that every Jew is a Zionist... -
The Theory and Practice of History: Edited with an introduction by Georg G. Iggers Leopold von Ranke 9780415780339
RRP: £32.99£29.16Leopold von Ranke, who was born in 1795, is considered to be one of the founders of the modern practice of writing history. This collection of his writings, edited and introduced by Georg G. Iggers, was first published in 1973 and remains the leading... -
Padiham: Britain in Old Photographs by Jack Nadin 9780752451886
RRP: £14.99£11.55This fascinating collection of over 150 archive images provides a nostalgic insight into the changing history of Padiham over the last century. Each image is accompanied by a detailed caption, bringing the past to life and describing many aspects of life... -
Plenty-coups: Chief of the Crows (Second Edition) by Frank Bird Linderman 9780803280182
RRP: £16.99£15.30"An exciting account by one of the last great chiefs." Los Angeles TimesIn his old age, Plenty-coups (1848-1932), the last hereditary chief of the Crow Indians, told the moving story of his life to Frank B. Linderman, the well-known western writer who... -
Toronto, the Belfast of Canada: The Orange Order and the Shaping of Municipal Culture by William J. Smyth
RRP: £27.99£24.14In late nineteenth-century Toronto, municipal politics were so dominated by the Irish Protestants of the Orange Order that the city was known as the "Belfast of Canada." For almost a century, virtually every mayor of Toronto was an Orangeman and the... -
The Reign of King Stephen: 1135-1154 by David Crouch 9780582226579
RRP: £45.99£44.52At last: an authoritative, up to date account of the troubled reign of King Stephen, by a leading scholar of the Anglo-Norman world. David Crouch covers every aspect of the period - the king and the empress, the aristocracy, the Church, government and... -
Colonialism in Question: Theory, Knowledge, History by Frederick Cooper 9780520244146
RRP: £30.00£23.29In this closely integrated collection of essays on colonialism in world history, Frederick Cooper raises crucial questions about concepts relevant to a wide range of issues in the social sciences and humanities, including identity, globalization, and... -
A History of Kendal by Andrew White 9781859361504
RRP: £18.99£14.22The attractive Lakeland town of Kendal has achieved fame well beyond its modest size. Who hasn't heard of Kendal Mint Cake, K Shoes or 'The Gateway to the Lakes'? Although these are indeed all facets of Kendal and its past, they are but a small part of... -
The Wretched Women: The stories of some of the women sentenced to transportation by the Lancashire courts between 1818 and 1825 by Megan Roberts
RRP: £12.99£9.34In May 1824 twenty women under sentence of transportation languished in the gaol at Lancaster Castle. Some had been there for years and amongst them was a 76 year old. One woman called Mary Partridge was described as being a fit healthy woman who wished...