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The reign of King Edward IV occupies a pivotal place in late medieval English history, marking the transition from a medieval to a renaissance monarchy. The personality of the young monarch was undoubtedly a factor in this transition, yet there has been...

Throughout the 18th and 19th centuries the highlight of the social calendar in many Essex towns and villages was the local horse race meeting. Of these Chelmsford Races, held on Galleywood Common, were by far the most successful. They were so popular...

How did the Tudors enjoy themselves? For the men and women of Tudor England there was, just as there is today, more to life than work. Four hundred years before the invention of television and radio, they did not lead boring or mundane lives. Indeed, in...

'The cruelty and magnificence of Restoration London provides endless fascination . . . there's much to delight in this volume' The Times'Don Jordan's history captures the shifts [Charles II] engineered in trade and culture' NatureDuring the reign of...

Rustington, a village on the Sussex plain between the South Downs and the sea, has a long history, which has been dramatically transformed over the past century. This book recounts its story, from its earliest inhabitants, and in a wealth of historic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780359397976Author Nathan James StaniforthFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 152g

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398453685Author Mick DrewryFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Barry Powell, acclaimed translator of the Iliad (OUP, 2013) and the Odyssey (OUP, 2014) now delivers a graceful, lucid, free-verse translation of the most important books and passages of the Aeneid in a pleasant modern idiom. On-page notes explain...

Vietnam has experienced huge political and economic development since the war. In Anatomy of a Peace, Gabriel Kolko looks at the main economic phases the Communist Party has embarked upon since 1986 and outlines the transition to nascent capitalism. He...

Taking as his point of departure the authors, the audience, and the texts of Victorian writings on sex in general and of Victorian pornography in particular, Steven Marcus offers a startling and revolutionary perspective on the underside of Victorian...

'Barbarians' is the name the Romans gave to those who lived beyond the frontiers of the Roman Empire - the peoples they considered 'uncivilised'. Most of the written sources concerning the barbarians come from the Romans too, and as such, need to be...

This edition of Propertius Book III follows the general style and arrangement of Camps' editions of Books I and IV. Camps presents, without concealing difficulties and uncertainties, a fairly conservative but readable and coherent text, together with...

Explores the important aspects of popular cultures during the period 1550 to 1750. Barry Reay investigates the dominant beliefs and attitudes across all levels of society as well as looking at different age, gender and religious groups. Book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781897244166Author Laura Knight-JadczykFormat PaperbackPage Count 807Imprint Red Pill PressPublisher Red Pill Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956452658Author Luis De La PalmaFormat HardbackPage Count 402Imprint Graffiti MediaPublisher Graffiti MediaWeight(grams) 744g

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...

Quarry Bank Past & Present is the second book produced by The History Press devoted to the recent history of this Black Country township. Two hundred and fifty pictures bring you a glimpse of the many diverse facets of life in Quarry Bank. It may be a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907154010Author Tim JenkinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Polystar PressPublisher Polystar Press

Few works of scholarship have so comprehensively recast an existing debate as Chinua Achebe's essay on Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. Achebe - a highly distinguished Nigerian novelist and university teacher - looked with fresh eyes at a novel that...

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 was originally published in 1998. For most of the nineteenth and the early part of the twentieth century, the brass band was a major feature of musical life in Britain. This book surveys the hundred years from 1836 in which bands flourished,...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244178048Author Laurence NealFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 148g

The Japanese invasion of Malaya in December 1941 is one of the more heavily studied military campaigns in World War II. It has led to much controversy over how the British, Australian and Indian troops, well prepared and numerically superior to their...

In 1662, Amy Denny and Rose Cullender were accused of witchcraft, and, in one of the most important of such cases in England, stood trial and were hanged in Bury St Edmunds. A Trial of Witches is a complete account of this sensational trial and an...

The Navy of the 21st Century, 2001– 2022 presents an all- inclusive listing of the ships that have served in the US Navy since the start of the new century. The newest and sixth volume of the US Navy Warship Series provides insight into the technological...

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...

This book is a guide to over 140 remarkable and curious sights to be found in the Greater Manchester area spanning centuries of history from Roman times right up to the present day. Among the peculiarities featured are a church clock that strikes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908258281Author Sharon M. VareyFormat PaperbackPage Count 287Imprint University of Chester PressPublisher University of Chester Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780902660298Author Patrick John TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Federation of Old Cornwall SocietiesPublisher Federation of Old Cornwall Societies

First published in 1986. The first edition of this work was in 1971. In the intervening years a number of books and articles have appeared which deal directly, or indirectly, with the subject of poverty in the early modern period, and the bibliography,...

First published in Britain in 1985, In the Ruins of the Reich is a classic account of Nazi Germany after her fall to the Allies in May 1945. Douglas Botting concentrates on the defining events that took place in the period between the collapse of the...

Popular Politics in Nineteenth Century England provides an accessible introduction to the culture of English popular politics between 1815 and 1900, the period from Luddism to the New Liberalism. This is an area that has attracted great historical...

This volume brings together distinguished historians of Ireland, each of whom tackles a key question, issue or event in Irish history since the eighteenth century and:* examines its historiography* assesses the context of new interpretations* considers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780901367303Author Rodney WhitworthFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Scouse PressPublisher Scouse Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981809397Author Harriette Taylor TreadwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Living Books PressPublisher Living Books PressWeight(grams) 230g

Before skyscrapers forever transformed the landscape of the modern metropolis, the conveyance that made them possible had to be created. Invented in New York in the 1850s, the elevator became an urban fact of life on both sides of the Atlantic by the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780910666Author Ben BeazleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint DB PublishingPublisher DB Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956755094Author Dane LoveFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Carn Publishing ltdPublisher Carn Publishing ltd