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Memories of Wapping 1900-1960: 'Couldn't Afford the Eeels' by Martha Leigh 9780752447094
RRP: $37.78$29.06Wapping, once a vital part of the Port of London, has undergone many changes since the Second World War. Slum clearance, the closure of the docks and redevelopment have irrevocably altered the landscape of the area. This volume, combining the memories of... -
How an Island Lost Its People: Improvement, Clearance and Resettlement on Lismore 1830–1914 by Robert Hay
RRP: $27.28$19.28In 1830, the little Hebridean island of Lismore was one of the granaries of the West Highlands, with every possible scrap of land producing bere barley or oats. The population had reached its peak of 1500, but by 1910, numbers had dwindled to 400 and... -
Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire by Eckart Frahm 9781526623812
RRP: $63.00$58.13The 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: $47.25$37.38In 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 Essential Words and Writings of Clarence Darrow by Clarence Darrow 9780812966770
RRP: $36.75$25.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812966770Author Clarence DarrowFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 244g -
Birmingham Blitz: Our Stories by Brian Wright 9781858585246
$21.34During 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... -
Tales From When I Were A Lad: More snapshots from a time that Health & Safety forgot by Andrew Davies
RRP: $20.98$14.36Take a nostalgic trip back to a time when children played on the street, the local bobby could clip your ear and anywhere beyond Bridlington was an exotic holiday. Awwww, the old days. A time when grime were fashionable, school sports a menace... -
Morocco That Was Walter B. Harris 9781906011062
RRP: $31.48$21.11Until 1912 Morocco had never suffered foreign domination, and its mountainous interior was as closed to foreigners as Tibet. Walter Harris, though, was an exception. He lived in the country for more than thirty-five years, and as The Times correspondent... -
A History of England, Henry VII to William and Mary by H O Arnold-Forster 9780359536221
RRP: $73.58$56.18Apologies 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 -
12 Books That Changed The World: How words and wisdom have shaped our lives by Melvyn Bragg 9780340839829 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28$4.81When we think of great events in the history of the world, we tend to think of war, revolution, political upheaval or natural catastrophe. But throughout history there have been moments of vital importance that have taken place not on the battlefield, or... -
12 Books That Changed The World: How words and wisdom have shaped our lives by Melvyn Bragg
RRP: $27.28$18.54When we think of great events in the history of the world, we tend to think of war, revolution, political upheaval or natural catastrophe. But throughout history there have been moments of vital importance that have taken place not on the battlefield, or... -
All The Devils Are Here by David Seabrook 9781783784332
RRP: $23.08$15.83Twenty 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... -
The Ulster Grand Prix: 100 Years by Norman Windrum
RRP: $42.00$35.89From the first race in 1922, the Ulster Grand Prix has been one of the most thrilling events in the international motorcycling calendar, attracting enormous crowds of spectators to watch the world's great riders in action. Now, a century on, the UGP... -
England, Arise: The People, the King and the Great Revolt of 1381 by Juliet Barker
RRP: $27.28$18.54The dramatic and shocking events of the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 are to be the backdrop to Juliet Barker's latest book: a snapshot of what everyday life was like for ordinary people living in the middle ages. The same highly successful techniques she... -
Animals in Space: From Research Rockets to the Space Shuttle by Colin Burgess 9780387360539
RRP: $94.48$74.11Many readers will doubtless be astonished to learn that animals were being fired aloft in U.S. and Soviet research rockets in the late 1940s. In fact most people not only believe that the Russian space dog Laika was the first canine to be launched into... -
Routledge Revivals: Medieval Ireland (2005): An Encyclopedia Sean Duffy (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) 9781138062252
RRP: $104.98$91.35Through 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... -
Their Darkest Hour: People Tested to the Extreme in WWII by Laurence Rees 9780091917593 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.08$2.63How could Nazi killers shoot Jewish women and children at close range? Why did Japanese soldiers rape and murder on such a horrendous scale? How was it possible to endure the torment of a Nazi death camp?Award-winning documentary maker and historian... -
Their Darkest Hour: People Tested to the Extreme in WWII by Laurence Rees
RRP: $23.08$16.78How could Nazi killers shoot Jewish women and children at close range? Why did Japanese soldiers rape and murder on such a horrendous scale? How was it possible to endure the torment of a Nazi death camp?Award-winning documentary maker and historian... -
Colonialism and Development: Britain and its Tropical Colonies, 1850-1960 Michael A. Havinden 9780415020435
RRP: $283.50$247.13Topical - 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 Taste Of Innocence: Number 15 in series Stephanie Laurens 9780749938635
RRP: $18.88$13.42Welcome to the Regency world of Stephanie Laurens - and to the Cynsters and their ever-expanding clan! Now, Charles Morwellan, who we first meet in A SECRET LOVE (0749937203), one of her most beloved Cynster novels, meets his match in this exciting, and... -
Mrs Budley Falls from Grace M.C. Beaton 9781780333199
RRP: $18.88$13.23Another Poor Relation has to resort to genteel thievery to make end meet - but she gets much more than she bargains for!Cut off by her own relations, pretty, dainty widow Eliza Budley must visit some other family manor to purloin expensive baubles. ... -
The King's Revenge: Charles II and the Greatest Manhunt in British History by Michael Walsh 9780349123769 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28$4.81When Charles I was executed, his son Charles II made it his role to search out retribution, producing the biggest manhunt Britain had ever seen, one that would span Europe and America and would last for thirty years.Men who had once been among the most... -
The King's Revenge: Charles II and the Greatest Manhunt in British History by Michael Walsh 9780349123769
RRP: $27.28$18.54When Charles I was executed, his son Charles II made it his role to search out retribution, producing the biggest manhunt Britain had ever seen, one that would span Europe and America and would last for thirty years.Men who had once been among the most... -
Offa's Dyke by David Hill 9780752419589
RRP: $31.48$21.86In a fascinating study, the reader is presented with a detailed description and analysis of Offa's Dyke, set against the background of the political and social context of the kingdom of Mercia, over which King Offa ruled from 757 to 796. This new... -
The Last Viking: The Life of Olav Haraldsson by Desmond Seward
RRP: $46.20$30.89Raider. Conqueror. King. Saint. This is the story of Olav Haraldsson, the greatest Viking who ever lived. A ruthless Viking warrior who named his most prized battle weapon after the Norse goddess of death, Olav Haraldsson and his mercenaries... -
The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death by John Kelly
RRP: $23.08$15.67A compelling history of the Black Death that scoured Europe in the mid 14th-century killing twenty-five million people. It was one of the worst human disasters in history. 'The bodies were sparsely covered that the dogs dragged them forth and... -
AD 381: Heretics, Pagans and the Christian State by Charles Freeman 9781845950071
RRP: $35.68$26.19In AD 381, Theodosius, emperor of the eastern Roman empire, issued a decree in which all his subjects were required to subscribe to a belief in the Trinity of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. This edict defined Christian orthodoxy and brought to an end a... -
Essential Works by V. I. Lenin 9780486253336
RRP: $40.93$26.80Apologies 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)... -
The Terror: Civil War in the French Revolution by David Andress
RRP: $27.28$18.54The French Revolution marks the foundation of the modern political world. It was in the crucible of the Revolution that the political forces of conservatism, liberalism and socialism began to find their modern form, and it was the Revolution that first... -
Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews by Mark Mazower
RRP: $35.68$24.09The 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... -
The Night Climbers of Cambridge by Whipplesnaith 9781909349551
RRP: $25.18$19.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909349551Author WhipplesnaithFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint The Oleander PressPublisher The Oleander Press -
Tarot and Divination Cards: A Visual Archive Laetitia Barbier 9781419756375
RRP: $60.88$41.18Used for self-exploration or divination, Tarot has, for more than a 500 years, been the most popular and accessible of all esoteric tools, looming large in today's mainstream culture. Why? Because the cards are inexpensive and easy to carry-a perfect... -
One Fine Day: Britain's Empire on the Brink by Matthew Parker 9781408708583
RRP: $52.50$34.40'Breathtaking... vital and important. A wonderful read' PETER FRANKOPAN'Marvellous... escapes the inane, balance-sheet view of Empire and sees its full complexity' SATHNAM SANGHERA'A new, global history of British imperialism which feels both epic and... -
Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages by Umberto Eco 9780300093049
RRP: $23.08$20.18In this authoritative, lively book, the celebrated Italian novelist and philosopher Umberto Eco presents a learned summary of medieval aesthetic ideas. Juxtaposing theology and science, poetry and mysticism, Eco explores the relationship that existed... -
Hayling Island: Britain in Old Photographs by John Rowlands 9780752486239
RRP: $29.38$23.12Although small, Hayling Island has a rich and diverse history, greatly influenced by the Saxon, Roman and Norman invasions. The latter in particular has left its influence on its people and their fortunes. This book features a collection of photographs,... -
Magna Carta: The True Story Behind the Charter David Starkey 9781473610071
RRP: $27.28$18.54'A soaring account of the months that transformed a messy feudal squabble into Magna Carta...his crisp storytelling, based around short chapters and rolling rhetoric, is extremely entertaining.' Dan Jones, Mail on Sunday'I thoroughly enjoyed this book... -
Solving Genealogy Problems: How to Break Down 'brick walls' and Build Your Family Tree by Graeme Davis
RRP: $31.48$26.73'Brick walls' occur everywhere and all the time in genealogy research, but with this book you can take your British Isles family tree back further. Solving Genealogy Problems will: - Help you find new records, including unusual ones genealogists often... -
Secrets of the Knights Templar: The Hidden History of the World's Most Powerful Order by Susie Hodge
RRP: $27.28$18.54The Knights Templar are one of the most mysterious and powerful religious orders in history. Highly trained, and adhering to a strict chivalric code, their success on the battlefield brought them both extraordinary wealth and political influence. It also... -
Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines and the Health of Nations by Simon Schama 9781471169892
RRP: $63.00$40.22'This splendid and often moving work of history... Schama has a gift for combining novelistically colourful detail, serious analysis and wryly amusing asides' Daily Telegraph 'Superb' Observer 'Extraordinary... A meticulous retelling of a terrible... -
Uncivil War: Intellectuals and Identity Politics during the Decolonization of Algeria, Second Edition by James D. Le Sueur
RRP: $50.38$45.28Uncivil War is a provocative study of the intellectuals who confronted the loss of France's most prized overseas possession: colonial Algeria. Tracing the intellectual history of one of the most violent and pivotal wars of European decolonization, James...