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Historians not only have knowledge of history, but by writing about it and engaging with other historians from the past and present, they make history themselves. This companion offers young historians clear guidelines for the different phases of...

London is a city of enormous beauty, a dynamic, ever-evolving cityscape built up over hundreds of years of architectural evolution. However, amidst this riot of growth and splendour some truly iconic sights may be found, landmarks which been drawing...

This is a comprehensive new operational military history of the Ottoman army during the First World War. Drawing from archives, official military histories, personal war narratives and sizable Turkish secondary literature, it tells the incredible story...

Presenting a collection of over 200 archive images, this work provides insights into the changing history of Stockport over the years. Each image is accompanied by a caption, describing many aspects of life in the town. It includes chapters on work,...

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 Lancashire city of Preston has a rich and enthralling history. This book recalls its people, places and past times. Once a booming cotton-manufacturing centre, Preston made great advances in industry and commerce as it transformed from a cotton town...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781859378441Author Richard DaviesFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Frith Book Company Ltd.Publisher Frith Book Company Ltd.

Women's Words is the first collection of writings devoted exclusively to exploring the theoretical, methodological, and practical problems that arise when women utilize oral history as a tool of feminist scholarship. In thirteen multi-disciplin ary...

This key Seminar Study was first published as Restoration England: The Reign of Charles II in 1985. Unavailable for several years, the book has now been heavily revised, and expanded, to take account of over ten years of new scholarship. In particular,...

'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...

The care of the needy and the sick is delivered by various groups including immediate family, the wider community, religious organisations and the State funded institutions. The Locus of Care provides an historical perspective on welfare detailing who...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840339031Author Barry StewartFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake Publishing

"Cartoon History of the Modern World" is a wickedly funny take on modern history. In two volumes of engaging and witty graphics, Larry Gonick covers the history, personalities, and big topics that have shaped our universe over the past five centuries...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840338553Author W. Stewart WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 176mm * 235mm * 4mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781890951658Author Niklaus LargierFormat HardbackPage Count 528Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 930gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 38mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986239380Author Marc HartzmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Curious PublicationsPublisher Curious PublicationsWeight(grams) 331g

This tightly argued and profoundly thought provoking book tackles a huge subject: the coming of the nuclear age with bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, and the ways in which it has changed our lives since. Dr Heuser sets these events in...

What is fascism and what is populism? What are their connections in history and theory, and how should we address their significant differences? What does it mean when pundits call Donald Trump a fascist, or label as populist politicians who span left...

How did medieval people make sense of their surroundings, and how did this change over the years as understanding and knowledge expanded? This new Seminar Study is designed to familiarise students of medieval history with the ways in which medieval...

The Norwegian island of Hrafnista was long remembered in medieval Iceland as the ancestral home of a family of powerful chieftains, who were said to have faced and triumphed over dangers ranging from tyrant kings, to storms and famines, to giants,...

Penarth was an agricultural community but the Industrial Revolution brought a great change. The town owes its early development to the success of the South Wales coalfields and the necessity for additional port facilities to accommodate the industry that...

Penarth was an agricultural community but the Industrial Revolution brought a great change. The town owes its early development to the success of the South Wales coalfields and the necessity for additional port facilities to accommodate the industry that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993288500Author A. K. ChestertonFormat PaperbackPage Count 55Imprint The A. K. Chesterton TrustPublisher The A. K. Chesterton Trust

The daring flights of the early balloonists that were the first steps on mankind's upward journey to the Moon and beyond have been strangely neglected, and their names have been largely forgotten. This book helps to redress that situation. James...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789871456Author Eugen Von B hm-BawerkFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Pantianos ClassicsPublisher Pantianos ClassicsWeight(grams) 127gDimensions(mm)...

Thomas Hobbes is a towering figure in the history of modern thought and political philosophy. He remains best remembered for his 1651 treatise on government, Leviathan, a work that shows at the very best the reasoning skills of a deeply original and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061900648Author Theodore H. WhiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 527Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 466g

Pamela Shields's new book, a compendium of fascinating Hertfordshire facts, is an introduction to the county aimed at residents, visitors and tourists. Home to many 'firsts', such as the English Pope, the Garden City and the New Town, Hertfordshire was...

It has been increasingly impossible to think about our changing world without coming across the term 'geopolitics'. In the wake of the invasion and occupation of Iraq by the United States, United Kingdom, and others, geopolitics has been offered as an...

The question of who wrote Shakespeare's plays has been the subject of furious debate among scholars for over 150 years. Everything known about the facts of William Shakespeare's life seems incompatible with the extraordinary genius of his writing. How...

This book is the first detailed discussion of the political history of the Scottish Church in the reign of James VI (1567-1625). It offers a refreshing new perspective on the Reformed Kirk during the crucial period in its development. It is an...

Follow in the footsteps of royalty past and present on this journey through England's capital and beyond to Kew, Hampton Court and Windsor. London has a charm that draws visitors from home and abroad who are looking to explore what England's capital city...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781617590702Author Indus Khamit KushFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint EworldPublisher EworldWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 175mm * 20mm

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...

Middlesex Murders brings together numerous murderous tales, some of which were little known outside the county, and others which made national headlines. Contained within the pages of this book are the stories behind some of the most heinous crimes ever...

Widely regarded as the most beautiful of Scotland's ruined abbeys, Dryburgh has one of the most completely surviving monastic ranges. Surprisingly, however, this is the first full-length study of Scotland's premier Premonstratensian abbey which goes back...