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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780911670Author Joan PotterFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint DB PublishingPublisher DB Publishing

The historic market town of Wetherby, a former staging post on the Great North Road between London and Edinburgh, lies on the banks of the River Wharfe in the centre of a triangle formed by the cities of Leeds and York and the town of Harrowgate...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857043597Author Jack SweetFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint HalsgrovePublisher Halsgrove

Rosemary Sweet examines society and culture in English towns in an age of transition. Her authoritative study includes smaller communities as well as the larger industrialising towns and she describes the realities of urban life in an era of change -...

In the Middle Ages, surgery was performed by barbers, owing to their skill with sharp instruments. In the mid-19th century, a "grand exhibition" of the effects of laughing gas inadvertently led to the discovery of anaesthesia. Three decades later, Louis...

Europe's most westerly capital city was established by invaders and was for most of its history the locus of colonial administration, the engine room of foreign power and a major site of indigenous resistance. From The Act of Union through...

These essays chart major contributions to recent historiography. Carefully selected for their accessibility and accompanied by headnotes and study questions, the essays offer a clear and engaging introduction for the non-specialist. The introduction...

Examines the impact of World War Two across Huntingdonshire. This book charts activities and attitudes at the outbreak of war. It describes the county's experience of bombing, looks at airfields and path finders, RAF Bomber Command, USAAF at Molesworth...

Originally published in 1957, the original blurb reads: 'From these studies of the secret diplomacy surrounding the entry of Turkey and Italy into the First World War, emerges a picture of the complex machinery behind the obvious wheels of international...

People of European descent form the bulk of the population in most of the temperate zones of the world - North America, Australia and New Zealand. The military successes of European imperialism are easy to explain; in many cases they were a matter of...

Richhill is a village in Co Armagh, Northern Ireland. This book tells the story of the village from earliest times and describes the impact of major events in Irish history. The Plantation, Famine, Partition and the Great War are seen through the eyes of...

Sea-power made the British Empire what it was: without sea-power there would have been no empire, or at least no empire in the form it actually took. In this masterful analysis of the role of the sea in the history of the British Empire, Jeremy Black...

Why History is an introduction to the issue of history and ethics. Designed to provoke discussion, the book asks whether a good knowledge and understanding of the past is a good thing to have and if so, why. In the context of postmodern times, Why...

Why History is an introduction to the issue of history and ethics. Designed to provoke discussion, the book asks whether a good knowledge and understanding of the past is a good thing to have and if so, why. In the context of postmodern times, Why...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781970066166Author Robert B WhittleseyFormat PaperbackPage Count 364Imprint Toplink Publishing, LLCPublisher Toplink Publishing, LLCWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781469199436Author Gary BrannockFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint XlibrisPublisher XlibrisWeight(grams) 168gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 6mm

The Royal Navy and the Slavers, first published in 1969, examines not only the Royal Navy's 60-year campaign to eradicate slavery, but also the British Government's diplomatic pressure on other countries to discontinue the slave trade. It analyses...

First published in 1926 and respected ever since for its measured view of the most famous battle in the American West, The Story of the Little Big Horn asks questions that are still being debated. What were the causes of the debacle that wiped out...

The Baltic in the early modern period has been called a 'Nordic Mediterranean'. In the studies collected here, Professor North is concerned to examine the ways in which this Baltic region became integrated into the international division of labour and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946145321Author Isaac WattsFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint CuriosmithPublisher CuriosmithWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 9mm

These beautifully told folk tales, brought vividly to life by Marcel O'Leary's graphic illustrations, have been collected by the author over his years of working as a greenkeeper, gardener, teacher and storyteller in Hampshire. Many are published here...

In the history of the numinous there are few things more common than the belief in ghosts. From the earliest writings such as the Epic of Gilgamesh to today's ghost-hunting reality TV shows, ghosts have chilled the air of nearly every era and every...

Beginning in the late 18th century, the author conveys the original character of the waterways of England and traces their development. The new engineering techniques of the time are also considered. Coupled with the photography of Derek Pratt, this is a...

This edition of Houston Stewart Chamberlain's Politische Ideale (1915) reveals the historical significance of Chamberlain in German conservative political philosophy. Contrasting the vital nationalistic state with the sterile commercialism of liberal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781291986419Author Graham WatkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 381Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.com

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781291986419Author Graham WatkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 381Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.com

Published on the quatercentenary of the Mayflower's journey, this book offers a unique perspective by placing the story in a British context and providing a fresh analysis of why the journey took place. It explores the economic as well as the religious...

When the Second World War broke out in September 1939, it came as no surprise to the children of Germany: the Nazis had been preparing them for a war ever since they had come to power in 1933. To British children it was an altogether different matter...

This is the first comprehensive study of the contribution that texts from Britain and Ireland made to the development of canon law in early medieval Europe. The book concentrates on a group of insular texts of church law-chief among them the Irish...

Sir Robert Peel provides an accessible and concise introduction to the life and career of one of the most political leaders of the nineteenth century. Perhaps best known for seeing through the Repeal of the Corn Laws, Peel had an enormous impact on...

The flowering of Gothic architecture depended to a striking extent on the use of drawing as a tool of design. By drawing precise "blueprints" with simple tools such as the compass and straightedge, Gothic draftsmen were able to develop a linearized...

Philip Sherwood's new book compares old and new scenes of an area that is now dominated by Heathrow Airport. The village of Heathrow has disappeared, but there are still vestiges of a village atmosphere to be found elsewhere - even through this corner of...

This new edition of The Age of Manufactures provides an exciting alternative overview of the eighteenth-century British economy. Recent macro-economic history has discounted many of the achievements of the Industrial Revolution. Maxine Berg argues that...

This new edition of The Age of Manufactures provides an exciting alternative overview of the eighteenth-century British economy. Recent macro-economic history has discounted many of the achievements of the Industrial Revolution. Maxine Berg argues that...

This book is part of the Images of England series, which uses old photographs and archived images to show the history of various local areas in England, through their streets, shops, pubs, and peopleBook InformationISBN 9780752415697Author Mary...

Tens of thousands of US soldiers and untold millions of Koreans died in this war the first major arena of the East-West conflict. This concise international history of the war offers a new approach to its understanding, tracing its origins and dynamics...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914208997Author Alexander JacobFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Arktos Media Ltd.Publisher Arktos Media Ltd.Weight(grams) 145gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Poignant in its honesty and grim in its details, Escape from Sobibor offers stunning proof of resistance--in this case successful--by victims of the Holocaust. The smallest of the extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany during World War II, Sobibor...

A compilation of facts, figures, maps, family trees, summaries of the major crusades and their historiography, the Routledge Companion to the Crusades spans a broad chronological range from the eleventh to the eighteenth century, and gives a...

Using an historic and contemporary analysis, Cultural Planning examines how and why the cultures have been planned and the extent to which cultural amenities have been considered in town planning. From its ancient roots in the cities of classical...