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This book covers the crucial period of Irish history from the completion of the Tudor conquest of Ireland and the end of Gaelic resistance to the temporary achievement of political stability in the early eighteenth century. This was a period of not...

Byzantine princess Anna Komnene is known for two things: plotting to murder her brother to usurp the throne, and writing the Alexiad, an epic history of her father Alexios I Komnenos (1081-1118) that is a key historical source for the era of the First...

This collection sets out to analyze the influence of women's movements on the emergence of Europe's welfare state from the 1880s to the 1950s, and the limits of that influence. It compares the women's movements - and social policies concerning women - in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955984020Author Kev DarlingFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Big Bird Aviation PublishingPublisher Big Bird Aviation PublishingWeight(grams) 299g

The subject of this book is the discourse of persecution used by Christians in Late Antiquity (c. 300-700 CE).Through a series of detailed case studies covering the full chronological and geographical span of the period, this book investigates how the...

Bestselling local author David McGrory takes a fresh look at Coventry during the war years. With over 200 photographs and informative captions, the author explores various aspects of wartime Coventry including the Auxiliary Fire Service, the Home Guard...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781850588610Author Norman BuckleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Sigma LeisurePublisher Sigma PressDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm * 11mm

Voices of Ashton Under LyneBook InformationISBN 9780752421605Author Derek J SouthallFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 165mm * 10mm

This book offers a new appraisal of the ancestry and career of Godfrey of Bouillon (c.1060-1100), a leading participant in the First Crusade (1096-99), and the first ruler of Latin Jerusalem (1099-1100), the polity established by the crusaders after they...

This Companion volume offers fifteen original essays on the Hellenistic world and is intended to complement and supplement general histories of the period from Alexander the Great to Kleopatra VII of Egypt. Each chapter treats a different aspect of the...

The Englishwoman's Review, which published from 1866 to 1910, participated in and recorded a great change in the range of possibilities open to women. The ideal of the magazine was the idea of the emerging emancipated middle-class woman: economic...

First published in 1995. Chartism inspired a prodigious literary output, based on its own newspapers and journals. However, while some Chartist political writings have been reprinted, the aesthetic texts of the movement have largely been neglected. This...

This is a history of warfare, wars and the armed forces of Europe from the military revolution of the mid-17th century to the Napoleonic wars.; This book is intended for broad-based undergrad courses on 18th century Europe/Britain and the Ancien Regime...

'Middlebrow' has always been a dirty word, used disparagingly since its coinage in the mid-1920s for the sort of literature thought to be too easy, insular and smug. Yet it was middlebrow fiction - largely written and read by women - that absolutely...

Selected as an 'Outstanding Academic Title' in the 2008 CHOICE awards, The Victorian Studies Reader gathers together, in one volume, some of the key pieces on Victorian history, society and culture. The book draws on new trends in looking at the...

A history of NeathBook InformationISBN 9780752418179Author Robert KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 320gDimensions(mm) 240mm * 172mm * 10mm

'Almost alone among contemporary critics, Tzvetan Todorov has chosen to apply his prodigious talents to the literature of twentieth-century totalitarianism. His unique gift is his ability to elucidatethe memoirs and writings of some of the century's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840337938Author Raymond HoodFormat PaperbackImprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake Publishing

In July 1988, the Islamic Republic of Iran agreed to bring an end to the brutal eight-year war with Iraq. Over the next two months, under the orders of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini, political prisoners around the country were secretly brought before...

Newcastle's colourful and sometimes dramatic history is brought to life in this series of tales spanning several hundred years. Including some of the most fascinating accounts of true stories from the city's stirring past. From the Great Fire of 1854 to...

Consumption is well established as a key theme in the study of the eighteenth century. Spaces of Consumption brings a new dimension to this subject by looking at it spatially. Taking English towns as its scene, this inspiring study focuses on moments of...

A photographic history of Aylesbury between the 1830s and 1930s. The book includes some of the earliest photographs of Aylesbury and shows some fascinating views, many of which have never been seen before.About the AuthorKarl Vaughan is a keen local...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954845674Author Sandy BurnettFormat PaperbackPage Count 51Imprint Idle LtdPublisher Idle Ltd

In the last decades of the thirteenth century the British Isles appeared to be on the point of unified rule, dominated by the lordship, law and language of the English. However by 1400 Britain and Ireland were divided between the warring kings of England...

One dark night, Hamlet sees a ghost. It is his dead father, who claims he was murdered by Claudius, the new king. But did Hamlet really see a ghost, or did he just imagine it? And if he did see a ghost, was it telling him the truth? Hamlet plans to...

Michael Dintenfass provides a challenging account of Britain's economic performance since 1870. He combines a succinct, clearly-written survey of recent scholarly work in British economic and business history with an original interpretive alternative to...

The story of Irish linen is a story of the Irish people. Many thousands of men and women made Irish linen a global product and an international brand. It is also a story of innovation and opportunity. Irish linen has served its makers as sail cloth of...

The 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,...

This readable and informative survey, including both new research and synthesis, provides the first close comparison of race, class and internationalism in the British and American women's movements during this period. Sisterhood Questioned assesses the...

People from the Indian sub-continent have been in Britain since the end of the seventeenth century. The presence of princes and maharajahs is well documented but this book, first published in 1986, was the first account of the ordinary people in Britain...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060744816Author Sean WilentzFormat PaperbackPage Count 564Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 700g

In the 6th novel of the series set in the reign of Tutankhamen, Lord Meren recruits a clever female counterpart to help him find Queen Nefertiti's murder. Armed with the certainty that the Queen did not die of the plague, Lord Meren is on the trail of...

This authoritative and thought-provoking history takes a fresh view of what was a period of unprecedented and rapid change. Assuming no prior knowledge of the subject, Hugh Cunningham provides a clear narrative of political events, and an analysis of...

A random collection of tales of human tragedy, eccentrics, crime and punishment, hanging and rioting on 'The Green'. 'The Green' for several hundred years was effectively the killing fields of Dublin, where the city's criminals were taken to be...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780951591895Author MawuliFormat PaperbackPage Count 422Imprint Neduson Research ServicesPublisher Neduson Research Services

Most people have learned about the tragic story of the luxury liner Titanic, but how many could list the links the ship has to the small town of Bridlington in East Yorkshire? Years of Titanic research has led to the author compiling these links into one...

This collection of over 200 old photographs depicts Loftus and the surround villages of Carlin How, Easington, Skinningrove and Liverton Mines and recalls some of the places, personalities and events of Loftus and its district over the past hundred years...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780752407036Author Peter J. KennettFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint NPI Media GroupPublisher The History Press Ltd

a Naturea is a deceptively simple and ahistorical term, suggesting intrinsic, unchanging reality. Yet nature has a history too, both in terms of human attitudes and human impacts. Coates outlines the major understandings of a naturea in the western...

Author and tennis historian Steve Flink profiles and ranks the greatest tennis matches in the history of the sport. Roger Federer, Billie Jean King, Rafael Nadal, Bjorn Borg, John McEnroe, Martina Navratilova, Rod Laver, and Chris Evert are all featured...