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The Sea Journal: Seafarers' Sketchbooks by Huw Lewis-Jones
RRP: £29.95£20.38The sea has been an endless source of fascination, at once both alluring and mysterious, a place of wonder and terror. The Sea Journal contains first-hand records by a great range of travellers of their encounters with strange creatures and new lands,... -
Cheshire Folk Tales by Johnny Gillett 9780752465135
RRP: £9.99£7.77Cheshire is a county that associates with the giants of English literature, such as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and The Wierdstone of Brisingamen, but how did these fabulous tales develop from a supposedly flat... -
Old Chryston and Muirhead John Hood 9781840334760
RRP: £7.99£7.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840334760Author John HoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingWeight(grams) 171gDimensions(mm) 173mm *... -
Llanelli by Brian Davies 9780752433707 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£4.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780752433707Author Brian DaviesFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press Ltd -
Sunderland Memories by Janette Hilton 9780752444918
RRP: £14.99£11.72Sunderland, a historic shipbuilding port renowned for its trade in beautiful, vividly coloured glass, has seen many changes over the last century. Collected in this book are the personal memories of Sunderland people, who provide eloquent descriptions of... -
New Rome: The Roman Empire in the East, AD 395 - 700 by Paul Stephenson
RRP: £30.00£21.69A TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Conventional histories of the last days of the Roman Empire will no longer suffice after you read this book.' Averil Cameron, author of Byzantine Matters 'Fascinating ... illuminating ... Stephenson examines... -
Medieval Schools: Roman Britain to Renaissance England by Nicholas Orme 9780300111026
RRP: £35.00£34.91A sequel to Nicholas Orme's widely praised study, Medieval Children Children have gone to school in England since Roman times. By the end of the middle ages there were hundreds of schools, supporting a highly literate society. This book traces their... -
Walks in the Slow Lanes of Essex by Angie Jones
RRP: £12.99£9.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910758496Author Angie JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Stobart Davies LtdPublisher Stobart Davies Ltd -
Our Glasgow: Memories of Life in Disappearing Britain Piers Dudgeon 9780755317141
RRP: £10.99£6.67This oral history of Glasgow spans most of the last century - a time of economic downturn and eventual renewal, in which the many communities making up the city experienced upheavals that tore some apart and brought others closer together. It tells of... -
Haunted Chester by David Brandon 9780752447810
RRP: £12.99£9.87This creepy collection of true-life tales takes the reader on a tour of the streets, alehouses, cemeteries and city walls of Chester the ancient city many claim is the most haunted in the North. Drawing on contemporary and historical sources, it contains... -
Hastings: Wartime Memories and Photographs by Nathan Dylan Goodwin
RRP: £17.99£13.84Hastings: Wartime Memories and Photographs weaves the personal stories of 75 people who endured life in Hastings during the Home Front war years with more than 140 photographs, the majority of which have never been published before. It describes the... -
Rape: A History From 1860 To The Present Professor Joanna Bourke 9781844081554
RRP: £14.99£10.05Joanna Bourke, author of the critically-acclaimed Fear, unflinchingly and controversially moves away from looking at victims to look at the rapists. She examines the nature of rape, drawing together the work of criminologists, sociologists and... -
The Cheapside Corpse: The Tenth Thomas Chaloner Adventure Susanna Gregory 9780751552812
RRP: £9.99£7.00Another excellent historical adventure from Susanna Gregory featuring 17th-century spy Thomas Chaloner------------------------London in the spring of 1665 is a city full of fear. There is plague in the stews of St Giles, the Dutch fleet is preparing to... -
Africa in Global History: A Handbook by Toyin Falola 9783111353333
RRP: £23.00£20.69This handbook places emphasis on modern/contemporary times, and offers relevant sophisticated and comprehensive overviews. It aims to emphasize the religious, economic, political, cultural and social connections between Africa and the rest of the world... -
South Africa: The rise and fall of apartheid by Nancy L. Clark
RRP: £32.99£29.16This new edition of South Africa examines the history of South Africa from 1948 to the present, covering the economic background to racial segregation, the introduction of the oppressive policy of apartheid, the eventual collapse of White supremacy, and... -
Abandoned Train Stations by David Ross
RRP: £19.99£14.86Mysterious ghost stations forgotten beneath the cities of Paris and London; desolate grand rail hubs in the Pyrenean mountains; metro stations in China that terminate in a wasteland; Abandoned Train Stations looks at some of the thousands of disused... -
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples: One Volume Abridged Edition Sir Sir Winston S. Churchill 9781350042940
RRP: £23.99£21.50'This history will endure; not only because Sir Winston has written it, but also because of its own inherent virtues - its narrative power, its fine judgment of war and politics, of soldiers and statesmen, and even more because it reflects a tradition of... -
The Perfect Summer Juliet Nicolson 9780719562433
RRP: £14.99£10.05'As page-turning as a novel' Joanna TrollopeOne summer of nearly a hundred years ago saw one of the high sunlit meadows of English history. A new king was crowned; audiences swarmed to Covent Garden to see the Ballet Russes and Nijinskys gravity-defying... -
Thomas Clarke: 16Lives Helen Litton 9781847172617
RRP: £15.99£12.37A fascinating examination of the life of Thomas Clarke, a member of the Fenians and a key leader of the Irish Republican Brotherhood in 1916. Clarke spent fifteen years in penal labour for his role in a bombing campaign in London between 1883 and... -
Vietnam War by Geoffrey Ward
RRP: £21.00£15.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984897749Author Geoffrey WardFormat PaperbackPage Count 848Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
The Braganzas: The Rise and Fall of the Ruling Dynasties of Portugal and Brazil, 1640-1910 by Professor Malyn Newitt
RRP: £25.00£18.90For 270 years, the House of Braganza provided the kings and queens of Portugal. During a period of momentous change, from 1640 to 1910, this influential family helped to establish Portuguese independence from their powerful Spanish neighbours. They ruled... -
Understanding Socialism by Richard D Wolff 9780578227344
RRP: £19.77£17.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578227344Author Richard D WolffFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Democracy at WorkPublisher Democracy at WorkWeight(grams) 227g -
20th Century Passenger Flying Boats by Leslie Dawson
RRP: £19.99£14.50From Henri Fabre's first successful take off from water and landing near Marseilles, to the introduction of a hull rather than floats by American Glenn Curtiss, to the world-wide development of huge, ocean-crossing flying boats on both sides of the... -
The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of '89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin and Prague by Timothy Garton Ash
RRP: £10.99£7.54The Magic Lantern is one of those rare books that capture history in the making, written by an author who was witness to some of the most remarkable moments that marked the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe. Timothy Garton Ash was there in Warsaw,... -
Pharaohs of the Sun: Radio 4 Book of the Week, How Egypt's Despots and Dreamers Drove the Rise and Fall of Tutankhamun's Dynasty Guy de la Bedoyere 9781408714256
RRP: £25.00£17.03For more than two centuries Egypt was ruled by the most powerful, successful, and richest dynasty of kings in its long end epic history. They included the female king Hatshepsut, the warrior kings Thutmose III and Amenhotep II, the religious radical... -
The Lost Chronicles Of The Maya Kings David Drew 9780753809891
RRP: £12.99£8.83A fascinating history of the Maya - drawing on a wealth of recent archaeological discoveries - whose civilisation in the jungles of Central America was for almost a thousand years hidden from the world.Over the last two centuries explorers have made the... -
The Modern Middle East: A Social and Cultural History Ilan Pappe 9780415829519
RRP: £45.99£40.53This hugely successful, ground-breaking book is the first introductory textbook on the Modern Middle East to foreground the urban, rural, cultural and gender histories of the region over its political and economic history. Distancing himself from more... -
Greenwich: The Place Where Days Begin and End Charles Jennings 9780349112305
RRP: £10.99£7.61There is probably not a London suburb with more intense historical connections, more diversity and more astonishing buildings and artefacts than Greenwich. There are sections on MARITIME GREENWICH - home of the Maritime museum and the CUTTY SARK; ROYAL... -
Chivalry Maurice Keen 9780300107678
RRP: £16.99£14.61Chivalry-with its pageants, heraldry, and knights in shining armor-was a social ideal that had a profound influence on the history of early modern Europe. In this eloquent and richly detailed book, a leading medieval historian discusses the complex... -
Edge of Empires: A History of Georgia by Donald Rayfield
RRP: £17.99£13.55Georgia is the most Western-looking state in today's Near or Middle East and, despite having one of the longest, most turbulent histories in the Christian or Near Eastern world, no proper history of the country has been written for decades. Eminent... -
Fallen Idols: A short history of the world in twelve statues by Alex Von Tunzelmann
RRP: £20.00£13.30Books of 2021, The Economist '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... -
War And An Irish Town by Eamonn McCann
RRP: £14.99£10.14Eamonn McCann's account of what it is like to grow up a Catholic in a Northern Irish ghetto - first published in 1974 - quickly became a classic account of the feelings generated by British rule. The author was at the centre of events in Derry which... -
King John: England's Evil King? by Ralph Turner
RRP: £12.99£9.87King John long ago acquired the epithet 'Bad,' and he is reputed to be the worst of England's kings. Before his death in 1216, his desperate exploitation of his subjects for ever more money had turned him into the mythical monster of Hollywood legend. In... -
Around Lewisham & Deptford by John Coulter
RRP: £15.99£12.43Lewisham and Deptford have been a single borough since 1965, but they have very different histories. Deptford became an important shipbuilding centre after Henry VIII established a royal dockyard there; this attracted over heavy industry. Lewisham and... -
Abbeys and Priories of Britain by Stephen Platten
RRP: £9.99£7.21A guide to over 60 of Britain's most notable abbeys and monasteries. Taking you on a journey that has inspired pilgrims and visitors for centuries, Abbeys and Priories of Britain is the perfect introduction to some of the country's oldest and most... -
Anything Goes: A Biography of the Roaring Twenties by Lucy Moore
RRP: £13.99£9.42Bracketed by the catastrophes of the Great War and the Wall Street Crash, 1920s America was a place of drama, tension and hedonism. It glittered and seduced: jazz, flappers, wild all-night parties, the birth of Hollywood, and a glamorous gangster-led... -
Coleridge: Darker Reflections by Richard Holmes
RRP: £17.99£12.95Timely reissue of the second volume of Holmes's classic biographies of one of the greatest Romantic poets. Richard Holmes's biography of Coleridge transforms our view of the poet of 'Kubla Khan' forever. Holmes's Coleridge leaps out of these... -
Cymry o Fri!: Hanes 50 o Gymry Ysbrydoledig Jon Gower 9781800991347
£7.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800991347Author Jon GowerFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y LolfaDimensions(mm) 250mm * 250mm * 8mm -
30 Years of Mobile Phones in the UK by Andy Sutton
RRP: £14.99£9.96In 1985, the seeds of a revolution were sown in the UK when people were first able to communicate using one of the most remarkable items of personal technology to have been developed - the mobile phone. The authors, both acknowledged experts in this... -
Squares of London by John Coulter
RRP: £50.00£39.65Its garden squares distinguish London most clearly from other great cities. All have their ceremonial and market squares, but none the quantity, quality, and variety of residential squares that sets London apart. The history of the London square begins...