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Ten Men Dead by David Beresford
RRP: £14.99£9.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780586065334Author David BeresfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins PublishersWeight(grams) 230gDimensions(mm)... -
Das Kapital: A Critique of Political Economy by Karl Marx
RRP: £9.95£9.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781453716557Author Karl MarxFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Rise and Fall: A History of the World in Ten Empires by Paul Strathern
RRP: £10.99£7.40Rise and Fall opens with the Akkadian Empire, which ruled over a vast expanse of the region of ancient Mesopotamia, then turns to the immense Roman Empire, where we trace back our western and eastern roots. Next Strathern describes how a great deal of... -
The Seven: The Lives and Legacies of the Founding Fathers of the Irish Republic by Ruth Dudley Edwards
RRP: £9.99£7.11On Easter Sunday, 23 April 1916, the seven members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood's military council met to proclaim an Irish Republic with themselves as the provisional government. After a week of fighting with the British army on the streets of... -
A Little History of Economics by Niall Kishtainy 9780300234527
RRP: £10.99£9.05A lively, inviting account of the history of economics, told through events from ancient to modern times and through the ideas of great thinkers in the field"A whistle-stop introduction to the great works and thinkers of each age, this is a clear and... -
Countrymen: How Denmark's Jews Escaped the Nazis by Bo Lidegaard
RRP: £12.99£9.09The rescue of the Danish Jews from Nazi persecution in October 1943 is a unique exception to the tragic history of the Holocaust. Over fourteen harrowing days, as they were helped, hidden and protected by ordinary people who spontaneously rushed to save... -
An Illustrated History of the Police Service in Northern Ireland and its Forerunners: From Peel to PSNI by Hugh Forrester
RRP: £15.99£11.61Hugh Forrester and David R. Orr cover nearly 200 years of policing in Ireland using images drawn from the archives of the Police Museum in Belfast. Policing in Ireland has its own unique and often troubled history and has been influenced by many of the... -
Australia by R. M. Crawford 9780099772910 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.29Australia celebrated one hundred years as a nation in 2001. This book - part history, part travelogue, part memoir - tells the inspiring story of how a one-time British colony of convicts turned itself into a prosperous and confident country. Through the... -
Australia by R. M. Crawford
RRP: £12.99£9.09Australia celebrated one hundred years as a nation in 2001. This book - part history, part travelogue, part memoir - tells the inspiring story of how a one-time British colony of convicts turned itself into a prosperous and confident country. Through the... -
The Victorians: A Beginner's Guide by David Gange
RRP: £9.99£7.11The Victorian era was a time of unprecedented transformation, yet it is often understood only through the stereotypes of crowded factories, child labour and emotional repression. In this entertaining and scholarly introduction, Dr David Gange explores... -
Sayajirao Gaekwad III: The Maharaja of Baroda by Uma Balasubramaniam 9789353337926
RRP: £13.00£8.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789353337926Author Uma BalasubramaniamFormat PaperbackPage Count 536Imprint Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd.Publisher Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. -
Filth: Dirt, Digust, and Modern Life by Ryan Johnson
RRP: £21.99£19.19From floating barges of urban refuse to dung-encrusted works of art, from toxic landfills to dirty movies, filth has become a major presence and a point of volatile contention in modern life. This book explores the question of what filth has to do with... -
A Grim Almanac of Dorset by Nicola Sly 9780752458847
RRP: £14.99£11.55A Grim Almanac of Dorset is a day-by-day catalogue of 365 ghastly tales from around the county. Full of dreadful deeds, strange disappearances and a multitude of mysteries, this almanac explores the darker side of the Dorset's past. The wicked, the mad,... -
The West Yorkshire Woods - Part 2: The Aire Valley by Christopher Goddard 9781913625023
RRP: £12.99£11.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913625023Author Christopher GoddardFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Gritstone PublishingPublisher Gritstone Publishing -
The New Science of the Enchanted Universe: An Anthropology of Most of Humanity by Marshall Sahlins 9780691215938
RRP: £16.99£13.65One of the world's preeminent cultural anthropologists leaves a last work that fundamentally reconfigures how we study most other culturesFrom the perspective of Western modernity, humanity inhabits a disenchanted cosmos. Gods, spirits, and ancestors... -
Fallen Idols: Twelve Statues That Made History by Alex Von Tunzelmann
RRP: £12.99£8.60'Alex von Tunzelmann is one of the most gifted historians writing today. Brilliant and trenchant, witty and wise, Fallen Idols is a book you will adore, devour, and talk about to everyone you know. Hesitate no longer; buy this book.' Suzannah Lipscomb,... -
Mining in Cornwall Vol 1: Central District by L. J. Bullen 9780752417073
RRP: £14.99£11.55A history of mining in Cornwall Volume 1Book InformationISBN 9780752417073Author L J BullenFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm) 240mm * 172mm * 10mm -
Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire by Eckart Frahm 9781526623812
RRP: £30.00£27.68The first comprehensive account of the rise and fall of what historians consider to be the world's very first empire: Assyria 'A work of remarkable synthesis. The range of its sources is truly extraordinary . . . Frahm punctures a fair share of myths... -
Cosmic Memory: The Story of Atlantis, Lemuria and the Division of the Sexes by Rudolf Steiner 9780893452278
RRP: £22.50£17.57In the best tradition of the literature of ancient wisdom, Cosmic Memory reconstructs, from the akashic record, events that span the time between the origin of the Earth and the beginning of recorded history. This spiritual research includes a profound... -
The Gorbals in the 70s by Peter Mortimer 9781840336405
RRP: £14.95£13.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840336405Author Peter MortimerFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingWeight(grams) 417gDimensions(mm) 274mm... -
Birmingham Blitz: Our Stories by Brian Wright 9781858585246
RRP: £9.95£9.90During the Second World War Birmingham suffered 365 air raid alerts and 77 actual air raids. These raids took place between the 8th August 1940 and the 23rd April 1943. There were over 9,000 casualties of whom 2,241 were killed. This book contains the... -
A History of England, Henry VII to William and Mary by H O Arnold-Forster 9780359536221
RRP: £35.04£26.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780359536221Author H O Arnold-ForsterFormat HardbackPage Count 254Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 508gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 16mm -
The Cheapside Corpse: The Tenth Thomas Chaloner Adventure by Susanna Gregory
RRP: £9.99£6.80Another excellent historical adventure from Susanna Gregory featuring 17th-century spy Thomas Chaloner------------------------London in the spring of 1665 is a city full of fear. There is plague in the stews of St Giles, the Dutch fleet is preparing to... -
All The Devils Are Here by David Seabrook 9781783784332
RRP: £10.99£7.32Twenty years ago, in a series of mysterious, incandescent writings, David Seabrook told of the places he knew best: the declining resort towns of the Kent coast. The pieces were no advert for the local tourist board. Here, the ghosts of murderers and mad... -
Voices of Geordie Childhood: Growing Up in Tyne and Wear by Jo Bath
RRP: £12.99£9.62Voices of Geordie Childhood is a remarkable compilation of oral history extracts drawn from the extensive Beamish Museum Audio Archive, revealing what childhood was like as recalled by over one hundred Tynesiders born at the turn of the century and... -
Discipline and Punish by Meghan Kallman
RRP: £6.50£6.11Michel Foucault is famous as one of the 20th-century's most innovative thinkers - and his work on Discipline and Punish was so original and offered models so useful to other scholars that the book now ranks among the most influential academic works ever... -
The Victorian House: Domestic Life from Childbirth to Deathbed by Judith Flanders
RRP: £16.99£11.47The bestselling social history of Victorian domestic life, told through the letters, diaries, journals and novels of 19th-century men and women. The Victorian age is both recent and unimaginably distant. In the most prosperous and... -
: Medieval Ireland (2005): An Encyclopedia by Sean Duffy
RRP: £49.99£43.50Through violent incursions by the Vikings and the spread of Christianity, medieval Ireland maintained a distinctive Gaelic identity. From the sacred site of Tara to the manuscript illuminations in the Book of Kells, Anglo-Irish relations to the Connachta... -
Elizabethan Stitches: A Guide to Historic English Needlework by Jacqui Carey 9780952322580
£25.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780952322580Author Jacqui CareyFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Carey CompanyPublisher Carey CompanyWeight(grams) 650gDimensions(mm) 272mm * 210mm *... -
Colonialism and Development: Britain and its Tropical Colonies, 1850-1960 by Michael A. Havinden
RRP: £135.00£117.68Topical - sets present (and controversial) development problem in its historical perspectiveNo other book covers the topic in this much detailLoads of helpful explanatory tables, which makes it really useful reference materialAbout the AuthorMichael A... -
The Gentleman's Gambit by Evie Dunmore 9780349434018
RRP: £9.99£6.80'Dunmore is my new find in historical romance. Her A League of Extraordinary Women series is extraordinary' JULIA QUINN, No.1 New York Times bestselling authorBookish suffragist Catriona Campbell is busy: an ailing estate, academic writer's block, a... -
A Brief History of Medicine: From Hippocrates to Gene Therapy by Mr Paul Strathern 9781845291556 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.29Paul Strathern follows the development of medicine through the lives of its greatest practitioners, whose discoveries (and errors) shaped the course of medical history. Includes geniuses, such as Paracelsus, the father of medical chemistry, and Edward... -
A Brief History of Medicine: From Hippocrates to Gene Therapy by Mr Paul Strathern 9781845291556
£13.33Paul Strathern follows the development of medicine through the lives of its greatest practitioners, whose discoveries (and errors) shaped the course of medical history. Includes geniuses, such as Paracelsus, the father of medical chemistry, and Edward... -
The Ball is Round: A Global History of Football by David Goldblatt
RRP: £22.00£16.62THE DEFINITIVE, CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED BOOK ABOUT FOOTBALL 'Football conquered the world with its capacity to astonish, and this is its definitive history' The IndependentThere may be no cultural practice more global than soccer. Rites of birth and... -
Essential Works by V. I. Lenin 9780486253336
RRP: £19.49£12.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486253336Author V. I. LeninFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 475gDimensions(mm)... -
Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews by Mark Mazower
RRP: £16.99£11.47The history of a bewilderingly exotic city, rarely written about: five hundred years of clashing cultures and peoples, from the glories of Suleiman the Magnificent to its nadir under Nazi occupation. Salonica is the point where the wonders and... -
1923: The Forgotten Crisis in the Year of Hitler’s Coup by Mark Jones
RRP: £25.00£14.66A BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR'Excellent' Richard Evans'A vivid, crisp, impressively sustained narrative' Financial Times'Riveting' Irish Independent'Refreshing and readable' Irish Times 'Gripping . . . thoroughly researched and beautifully... -
The Haunting of Borley Rectory: The Story of a Ghost Story by Sean O'Connor 9781471194795
RRP: £10.99£7.00Marianne Foyster, Harry Price and the most haunted house in England - the perfect read for Halloween. 'Borley Rectory is perhaps the definition of an old haunt, still exerting an extraordinary grip on the popular imagination... Balanced, surprising and... -
The Outer Hebrides: A Historical Guide by Mary MacLeod Rivett
RRP: £12.99£8.56The Outer Hebrides lie 40 miles to the west of mainland Scotland, forming a barrier to the North Atlantic. Culturally distinct from early prehistory, the islands contain a wealth of historical and archaeological monuments, including the standing stones... -
Invisible Romans: Prostitutes, outlaws, slaves, gladiators, ordinary men and women ... the Romans that history forgot by Robert Knapp
RRP: £12.99£9.09Robert Knapp seeks out the ordinary people who formed the fabric of everyday life in ancient Rome and the outlaws and pirates who lay beyond it. They are the housewives, prostitutes, freedmen, slaves, soldiers, and gladiators who lived commonplace lives...