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The Little Book of Bristol by Maurice Fells
RRP: £14.99£11.72A rich, and indeed sometimes bizarre, thread of history weaves its way through the Bristol story. Find out all manner of things, from why a 'Bristol Diamond' would never be found in a jewellery shop to why local by-laws restrict carpet beating to certain... -
Technics and Civilization by Lewis Mumford
RRP: £25.00£24.34"Technics and Civilization" first presented its compelling history of the machine and critical study of its effects on civilization in 1934 - before television, the personal computer, and the Internet even appeared on our periphery. Drawing upon art,... -
Titanic: A Survivor's Story by Archibald Gracie
RRP: £9.99£7.77Here is a survivor's vivid account of the greatest maritime disaster in history. The information contained in Gracie's account is available from no other source. He provides details of those final moments, including names of passengers pulled from the... -
A Pocket Essential Short History of The Gnostics Sean Martin 9781842433393
RRP: £12.99£9.34Gnosticism - derived from the Greek word gnosis, to know - is the name given to various religious schools that proliferated in the first centuries after Christ and, at one time, it almost became the dominant form of Christianity. Yet some Gnostic beliefs... -
Commando Country by Stuart Allan
RRP: £12.99£11.17The Scottish highlands played a pivotal role in the secret development of special service training during the Second World War. The remote and rough terrain came into its own as a training and testing ground for new types of fighting. "Commando Country"... -
Stoke Newington by Gavin Smith
RRP: £15.99£12.43Stoke Newington in the early nineteenth century was notable as an 'old world' suburb possessing great charm. Many of its interesting old houses, inns and chapels were recorded in the sketches and paintings of Thomas Hosmer Shepherd and his son. At the... -
The Guv'nor Revealed: The Untold Story of Lenny McLean by Lee Wortley 9781786064493
RRP: £8.99£6.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781786064493Author Lee WortleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint John Blake Publishing LtdPublisher John Blake Publishing Ltd -
The Sumerians: Lost Civilizations by Paul Collins 9781789144154
RRP: £18.00£13.16The Sumerians are widely believed to have created the world's earliest civilization on the fertile floodplains of southern Iraq from about 3500 to 2000 BC. They have been credited with the invention of nothing less than cities, writing and the wheel, and... -
Oxford: An Architectural Guide by Geoffrey Tyack 9780198174233
RRP: £19.99£14.68Few cities have a greater concentration of significant architecture than Oxford. Within a city of only 130,000 inhabitants there are important buildings, many of them of great beauty, from every period from the eleventh century down to the present... -
The Venus Throw by Steven Saylor
RRP: £9.99£7.00On a cold January evening in 50BC, two strangers enter Rome - one an Egyptian ambassador and the other a eunuch priest. Both are seeking Gordianus the Finder, who has a reputation for solving murders. But the ambassador, a philosopher named Dio, asks... -
Epigrams: With parallel Latin text by Martial
RRP: £10.99£7.99'If you're one of those terribly serious readers, now is a good time to leave.' The poet we call Martial, Marcus Valerius Martialis, lived by his wits in first-century Rome. Pounding the mean streets of the Empire's capital, he takes apart the... -
Arcadia: England and the Dream of Perfection by Adam Nicolson 9780007240531 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.13A fascinating depiction from award-winning author, Adam Nicolson, of a family and a country on the hinge of modernisation. Was our country once a better place? Has modernisation destroyed as much as it has improved? And can we see in an... -
The A-Z of Curious Sussex: Strange Stories of Mysteries, Crimes and Eccentrics by Wendy Hughes
RRP: £14.99£11.72In this engaging book, Wendy Hughes takes you on a grand tour of the curious and bizarre, the strange and the unusual from Sussex's past. Read about the Alfriston Star - the hostelry for medieval package tours with its unusual ship's figurehead, the... -
American Patriots: The Story of Blacks in the Military from the Revolution to Desert Storm by Gail Lumet Buckley 9780375760099
RRP: £23.00£15.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375760099Author Gail Lumet BuckleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 488g -
A Sea of Words by Dean King
£15.60A new edition of the classic companion to Patrick O'Brian's sea loving novels, updated to include the final novel in the series. This comprehensive lexicon provides definitions of nautical terms, historical entries describing the people and political... -
Life Among the Pirates: The Romance and the Reality by David Cordingly
RRP: £10.99£7.61What were pirates really like? How much, if any, of the piratical stereotype - of a dashingly handsome man with an eye-patch, peg-leg and a parrot on his shoulder - is based on the documented fact.In this revealing and highly original study David... -
A Century of Welsh Murders and Executions by John J. Eddleston
RRP: £14.99£11.72A Century of Welsh Murders and Executions brings together thirty-six murderous tales that shocked not only Wales but also made national headlines. This fascinating new book by crime historian John J. Eddleston covers every twentieth century murder... -
A Century of Bristol: Events, People and Places Over the 20th Century by David J. Eveleigh
RRP: £14.99£11.72This fascinating selection of photographs illustrates the extraordinary transformation that has taken place in Bristol during the 20th century. The book offers an insight into the daily lives and living conditions of local people and gives the reader... -
Dublin: Mapping the City by Joseph Brady 9781780277516
RRP: £30.00£21.30Hodges Figgis Book of the Year 2023 Maps are essential tools in finding our way around, but they also tell stories and are great depositories of information. Until the twentieth century and the arrival of aerial images, a map was the best way of... -
Introduction to the Philosophy of History: with selections from The Philosophy of Right by G. W. F. Hegel 9780872200562
RRP: £14.99£12.78. . . eminently readable . . . admirably picks up the spirit of what Hegel is saying. . . . more readable and accurate than Hartmann's, and it trans lates a more readable text than does Nisbet's. It includes (as Hartmann's does not) an excerpt, which... -
The Churchills: A Family at the Heart of History - from the Duke of Marlborough to Winston Churchill by Mary S. Lovell 9780349119786 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99£2.29There never was a Churchill from John of Marlborough down who had either morals or principles', so said Gladstone. From the First Duke of Marlborough - soldier of genius, restless empire-builder and cuckolder of Charles II - onwards, the Churchills have... -
The Churchills: A Family at the Heart of History - from the Duke of Marlborough to Winston Churchill by Mary S. Lovell
RRP: £14.99£10.05There never was a Churchill from John of Marlborough down who had either morals or principles', so said Gladstone. From the First Duke of Marlborough - soldier of genius, restless empire-builder and cuckolder of Charles II - onwards, the Churchills have... -
Harold: The Last Anglo-Saxon King by Ian W. Walker
RRP: £12.99£11.01King Harold Godwineson is one of history's shadowy figures, known mainly for his defeat and death at the Battle of Hastings. His true status and achievements have been overshadowed by the events of October 1066 and by the bias imposed by the Norman... -
The Three Lives of Alix St Pierre: a breathtaking historical romance set in war-torn Paris Natasha Lester 9780751582284
RRP: £9.99£7.00Discover a breath-taking story of love, danger, courage and betrayal, from the internationally bestselling author of The Paris Secret A HIDDEN IDENTITY. A DANGEROUS LIE. A SECRET WAITING TO BE TOLD . . . 1943. War is raging, and after developing a... -
Escape from Earth: A Secret History of the Space Rocket by Fraser MacDonald
RRP: £9.99£7.32ESCAPE FROM EARTH is the untold story of the engineers, dreamers and rebels who started the American space programme. In particular, it is the story of Frank Malina, founder of what became Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the scientist who cracked... -
Ghosts of Empire: Britain's Legacies in the Modern World Kwasi Kwarteng 9781408829004
RRP: £16.99£12.47The ghosts of the British Empire continue to haunt today's international scene and many of the problems faced by the Empire have still not been resolved. In Iraq, Kashmir, Burma, Sudan, Nigeria and Hong Kong, new difficulties, resulting from British... -
Just Like Heaven by Julia Quinn
RRP: £9.99£5.65From New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn comes the first, dazzling instalment of the Smythe-Smith Quartet that will appeal to fans of historical and women's fiction alike. If you loved The Bridgertons, you'll adore the Smythe-Smiths! About the... -
William and Mary: Heroes of the Glorious Revolution by John van der Kiste
RRP: £15.99£12.43Mary (1662-94), daughter of James, Duke of York, heir to the English throne, then 15, is said to have wept for a day and a half when she was told she was to marry her cousin, William (1650-1702), son of William II of Orange (1626-50), Stadtholder of the... -
England's Anglo-Saxon Heritage: A County-by-County Exploration by Geoff Marshall
RRP: £19.99£14.68The Anglo-Saxons held sway in this country from the Romans departing until the Norman Conquest; a period of over 600 years: in other words the same length of time from the late medieval England of the War of the Roses until the present day. This... -
Land of the Ilich: Journey's into Islay's Past by Stephen Mithen
RRP: £40.00£28.90As an archaeologist, Steven Mithen has worked on the Hebridean island of Islay over a period of many years. In this book he introduces the sites and monuments and tells the story of the island's people from the earliest stone age hunter-gatherers to... -
The Synthesizer: A Comprehensive Guide to Understanding, Programming, Playing, and Recording the Ultimate Electronic Music Instrument by Mark Vail 9780195394894
RRP: £47.99£32.79Electronic music instruments werent called synthesizers until the 1950s, but their lineage began in 1919 with Russian inventor Lev Sergeyevich Termen's development of the Etherphone, now known as the Theremin. From that point, synthesizers have undergone... -
Lincolnshire Heritage Walks by Danny Walsh 9780752482774
RRP: £12.99£9.87This beautifully illustrated walking guide explores the history and heritage that make the Lincolnshire landscape so unique. Covering everything on the routes from folklore, culture and wildlife to archaeology, geology and architecture, it tells of the... -
Victoria's Children of the Dark: The Women and Children who Built Her Underground by Alan Gallop 9780752456980
RRP: £9.99£7.77Victoria's Children of the Dark tells the story of Queen Victoria's invisible subjects - women and children who laboured beneath her 'green and pleasant land' harvesting the coal to fuel the furnaces of the industrial revolution. Following the real... -
Haunted Peak District by Jill Armitage 9780752451220
RRP: £14.99£11.55The Peak District of Derbyshire is said to experience more bizarre happenings and unexplainable encounters than any other part of England. This chilling collection of true-life tales details many terrifying accounts of spectres and apparitions which have... -
Coronation: A History of the British Monarchy by Roy Strong
RRP: £25.00£16.83The definitive history of coronations and the Royal Family, from acclaimed writer Roy Strong. 'What is the finest sight in the world? A Coronation.What do people talk most about? A Coronation.What is delightful to have passed? A... -
Deadliest Sea: The Untold Story Behind the Greatest Rescue in Coast Guard History by Kalee Thompson 9780061766305
RRP: £14.99£11.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061766305Author Kalee ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 204mm *... -
Black and White Stripes: The Greatest Collection of Newcastle United Matchworn Shirts by Gavin Haigh
RRP: £16.00£13.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739770518Author Gavin HaighFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Conker Editions LtdPublisher Conker Editions Ltd -
Secret Whitby by Ian Thompson
RRP: £15.99£10.85Whitby is a beautiful fishing town on the North Yorkshire coast, best known for its fish and chip restaurants and its connections with the world's most famous vampire - Dracula. But, did you know that Whitby has more secrets locked away among the narrow... -
The Rise of the Labour Party 1893-1931 by Gordon Phillips
RRP: £35.99£31.69This pamphlet examines the principal developments of party organization, electoral growth and policy-making in the period. It gives particular attention to the constituent elements that made up the party and the nature of its support and explores the... -
The Crichel Boys: Scenes from England's Last Literary Salon Simon Fenwick 9781472132475
RRP: £25.00£17.03In 1945, Eddy Sackville-West, Desmond Shawe-Taylor and Eardley Knollys - writers for the New Statesman and a National Trust administrator - purchased Long Crichel House, an old rectory with no electricity and an inadequate water supply. In this...