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Dover Castle: England's First Line of Defence by Roy S. Humphreys
RRP: £14.99£11.72The towering fortress of Dover Castle has stood as the gateway to England for many centuries, an imposing and, to an enemy at least, threatening sight. But on the high white cliffs and overlooking the Channel, from where it was intended to protect the... -
Walking Oxford by Vicky Wilson 9781902910673
RRP: £11.99£8.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902910673Author Vicky WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Metro Publications, N1Publisher Metro Publications, N1Weight(grams) 105g -
Thames: Sacred River by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: £25.00£18.02Just as Peter Ackroyd's bestselling London is the biography of the city, Thames: Sacred River is the biography of the river, from sea to source. Exploring its history from prehistoric times to the present day, the reader is drawn into an extraordinary... -
Invisible Romans: Prostitutes, outlaws, slaves, gladiators, ordinary men and women ... the Romans that history forgot by Robert Knapp 9781846684029 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£3.97Robert 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... -
Invisible Romans: Prostitutes, outlaws, slaves, gladiators, ordinary men and women ... the Romans that history forgot by Robert Knapp
RRP: £12.99£9.34Robert 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... -
Waterloo: June 18, 1815: The Battle for Modern Europe by Andrew Roberts 9780060762155
RRP: £13.99£9.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060762155Author Andrew RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 143Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 159g -
The History Of Money by Jack Weatherford
RRP: £12.99£8.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780609801727Author Jack WeatherfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Crown PublicationsPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 261gDimensions(mm)... -
The Sistine Chapel: History of a Masterpiece by Antonio Forcellino
RRP: £25.00£17.03The Sistine Chapel is one of the world's most magnificent buildings, and the frescos that decorate its ceiling and walls are a testimony to the creative genius of the Renaissance. Two generations of artists worked at the heart of Christianity, over the... -
Breaker Morant: The epic story of the Boer War and Harry 'Breaker' Morant: drover, horseman, bush poet, murderer or hero? Peter FitzSimons 9781472131430
RRP: £20.00£13.95The epic story of the Boer War and Harry 'Breaker' Morant: drover, horseman, bush poet - murderer or hero?Most people have heard of the Boer War and of Harry 'Breaker' Morant, a figure who rivals Ned Kelly as an archetypal Australian folk hero. But... -
London: The Concise Biography by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: £20.00£14.69An abridged edition of Peter Ackroyd's magisterial biography of the city of London.Prize-winning historian, novelist and broadcaster, Peter Ackroyd takes us on a journey - historical, geographical and imaginative - through the city of London. Moving back... -
Ghostly Northumberland by Rob Kirkup
RRP: £14.99£11.72From reports of haunted castles, hotels, battlefields, chapels and churchyards, to heart-stopping accounts of apparitions, poltergeists and related supernatural phenomena, Ghostly Northumberland investigates twenty of the most haunted locations in... -
Colonial Globalization and its Effects on South Asia: Eastern Bengal, Sylhet, and Assam, 1874–1971 by Ashfaque Hossain 9781032325637
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book investigates the concept of colonial globalization to show how knowledge, information, technology, capital and labour have the potential to move freely across the world. It studies the experience of globalization "from below", rather than from... -
Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found by Frances Larson 9781783780563
RRP: £12.99£8.80Our history is littered with heads. Over the centuries, they have decorated our churches, festooned our city walls and filled our museums; they have been props for artists and specimens for laboratory scientists, trophies for soldiers and items of barter... -
Scottish Medieval Churches: Architecture & Furnishings by Richard Fawcett 9780752425276
RRP: £25.00£19.22A major difficulty for those who wish to understand and enjoy Scottish medieval churches is the ecclesiological groundwork was not carried out in the nineteenth century in the way that was done for England and other parts of Europe. In an effort to... -
The Modern Historiography Reader: Western Sources by Dr Adam Budd
RRP: £47.99£42.81In The Modern Historiography Reader, Adam Budd guides readers through European and North American developments in history-writing since the eighteenth century. Starting with Enlightenment history and moving through subjects such as moral history,... -
England Under the Tudors G.R. Elton (Formerly University of Cambridge, UK) 9781138602748
RRP: £19.99£18.36'Anyone who writes about the Tudor century puts his head into a number of untamed lions' mouths.' G.R. Elton, PrefaceGeoffrey Elton (1921-1994) was one of the great historians of the Tudor period. England Under the Tudors is his major work and an... -
The Death of Christian Britain: Understanding Secularisation, 1800-2000 by Callum G. Brown
RRP: £37.99£33.38The Death of Christian Britain examines how the nation's dominant religious culture has been destroyed. Callum Brown challenges the generally held view that secularization was a long and gradual process dating from the industrial revolution. Instead, he... -
Planetary Cycles Mundane Astrology by Andre Barbault 9780950265896
£12.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780950265896Author Andre BarbaultFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Astrological AssociationPublisher Astrological AssociationWeight(grams) 240g -
Standing in Line: A Memoir: 30 Years of Obsessive Queuing at Wimbledon by Benjamin Chatfield
RRP: £14.99£12.12Standing in Line is a humorous memoir, based on a variety of experiences in The Queue, one of sport's most fascinating traditions. Told through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy becoming a 39-year-old man, it is a love letter both to Wimbledon and to the... -
Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World by Victoria Finlay
RRP: £12.99£9.34'Subtle, compendious and rich' - James McConnachie, The Sunday Times 'Dazzling ... Finlay's adventures, vividly recounted, make enthralling reading ... This book is equally an inspiration and an education' - Bel Mooney, Daily Mail 'A gorgeous... -
London Curiosities: The Capital's Odd & Obscure, Weird and Wonderful Places by John Wade 9781473879119
£14.00London is full of curiosities. Who knew that beneath the Albert Memorial lies an undercroft resembling a church crypt? Or that there are catacombs under Camden? Who would expect to find a lighthouse in East London, sphinxes in South London, dummy houses... -
Old Southgate and Palmers Green Bernard Byrom 9781840334241
RRP: £13.95£12.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840334241Author Bernard ByromFormat PaperbackPage Count 95Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingWeight(grams) 381gDimensions(mm) 275mm... -
Forza Italia: The Fall and Rise of Italian Football by Paddy Agnew
RRP: £16.99£12.28When journalist Paddy Agnew and his girlfriend Dympna touched down in Rome in 1985 in search of adventure, sunshine and the soul of Italian football (well, Paddy was looking for that), they were travelling into the uncharted terrain of a country they did... -
Seven Wonders of the Industrial World by Deborah Cadbury 9780007163052 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.65From the best-selling author of THE DINOSAUR HUNTERS and THE LOST KING OF FRANCE comes the story of how our modern world was forged - in rivets, grease and steam; in blood, sweat and human imagination. The nineteenth century saw the creation... -
Droylsden and Audenshaw by Jill Cronin 9780752410685
RRP: £12.99£9.87Once part of Lancashire, Droylsden and Audenshaw are now part of Tameside Metropolitan Borough of Manchester. The varied histories of both towns see the transition from farming to an industrial community. Droylsden is still home to the James Robertson's... -
British Prime Ministers by Robert J. Parker
RRP: £9.99£6.84There is a distinct lack of readily available information about the British prime ministers, especially as a group. There are thick biographies of the big names Pitt, Gladstone, Churchill - but who were the others? There are plenty of short booklets and... -
Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web by Daniel Cohen
RRP: £27.99£24.52Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web provides for the first time a plainspoken and thorough introduction to the web for historians-teachers and... -
A Boot Up North Cornwall's Sites of Magic and Mystery by Terry Faull 9781906887933
RRP: £4.99£3.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906887933Author Terry FaullFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint PiXZ BooksPublisher PiXZ Books -
Black People in the British Empire Peter Fryer 9780745343693
RRP: £14.99£10.05'Fantastic ... the most important book on Black British history' - Akala Black People in the British Empire is a challenge to the official version of British history. It tells the story of Britain's exploitation and oppression of its subject peoples... -
The Great Hedge of India by Roy Moxham
RRP: £9.99£7.00This is the quest for a lost wonder of the world, in the author's words his 'ridiculous obsession', arose from the chance discovery of some dusty memoirs that told of a mighty hedge spanning the Indian subcontinent in the nineteenth century. The hedge... -
The Far Land: 200 Years of Murder, Mania and Mutiny in the South Pacific by Brandon Presser 9781785788949
RRP: £10.99£7.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785788949Author Brandon PresserFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Icon BooksPublisher Icon Books -
Fulham by Patrick Loobey 9780752432311
RRP: £14.99£11.72This collection of over 200 photographs depicts how Fulham has developed from an area renowned for its rich and fertile soil, producing fruit and vegetables for the London markets, into the densely populated and vibrant centre it is known as today. Once... -
The Little Book of the London Underground by David Long 9780752452258 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£2.32Did You Know? In 1884 the Circle Line opened and was described in The Times as 'a form of mild torture which no person would undergo if he could conveniently help it.' According to one psychologist, Tube commuters can experience greater levels of stress... -
The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho: Based on a true story, the utterly gripping and heartbreaking historical novel from the star of Vigil by Paterson Joseph
RRP: £16.99£10.22PICKED FOR THE TIMES BIGGEST BOOKS FOR AUTUMN 2022'An absolutely thrilling, throat-catching wonder of a historical novel. Told with dazzling energy and brilliant panache. Hugely recommended.' STEPHEN FRY'Phenomenal! Highly recommended' MALORIE BLACKMAN,... -
Fallen Idols: History is not erased when statues are pulled down. It is made. Alex von Tunzelmann 9781472281913
RRP: £12.99£8.83'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,... -
Displaying Women: Spectacles of Leisure in Edith Wharton's New York by Maureen E. Montgomery
RRP: £39.99£35.06Displaying Women explores the role of women in the representation of leisure in turn-of-the-century New York. To see and be seen--on Fifth Avenue and Broadway, in Central Park, and in the fashionable uptown hotels and restaurants--was one of the... -
Huddersfield Pubs by David Green 9780752441658
RRP: £14.99£11.72This book is an illustrated, historical tour of the pubs and beer houses of Huddersfield and its environs by ne of the town's best known experts on the subject, Dave Green, retired landlord at the Slubber's Arms. The author has spent many years... -
The First City on Mars: An Urban Planner’s Guide to Settling the Red Planet by Justin B. Hollander
RRP: £27.99£25.65Hundreds of novels, films, and TV shows have speculated about what it would be like for us Earthlings to build cities on Mars. To make it a reality, however, these dreamers are in sore need of additional conceptual tools in their belt-particularly, a... -
Brave Hearted: The Dramatic Story of Women of the American West by Katie Hickman
RRP: £12.99£8.83The epic story of the transformation of the American west, as seen through the eyes of the women who were there'This book is a triumph' AMANDA FOREMAN'Absolutely compelling' CHRISTINA LAMB'A blazing view of the American story' BETTANY HUGHES'Gripping,... -
Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials by Marion Gibson 9781398508507
RRP: £20.00£13.06'These stories of witchcraft, true and vividly told, demonstrate the potent reality of belief in evil and how in any era or place fear can be weaponised and marginal people, mostly women, labelled as wicked and dangerous. Together they comprise not just...