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The Tudor Empire by David Wildman 9781399089227
RRP: £25.00£17.90The Tudors remain one of Britain's most fascinating royal dynasties. Their thirst for control surged due to the family's paranoid obsession about being interlopers who were never destined to be monarchs. Throughout the sixteenth century, the Tudors added... -
The Journey to the Mayflower: God's Outlaws and the Invention of Freedom by Stephen Tomkins 9781473649118
RRP: £12.99£8.83'A rattling good read' - The Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu 2020 sees the 400th anniversary of the sailing of the Mayflower - the ship that took the Pilgrim Fathers to the New World. It's a foundational event in American history, but it began as an... -
Ideology: An Introduction by Terry Eagleton
£20.88Ideology has never before been so much in evidence as a fact and so little understood as a concept as it is today. In this now classic work, originally written for both newcomers to the topic and for those already familiar with the debate, Terry Eagleton... -
The Foreign Field: The Morland Dynasty, Book 31 by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
RRP: £10.99£7.61It's 1917 and the Allies are determined to finally defeat a weakened Germany - everything is building up to the summer's Big Push. Germany strikes back with U-boat attacks to starve England out, giant aeroplanes to bomb London, and the cunning withdrawal... -
The Little Book of Antrim by Barry Flynn 9781803995045
RRP: £12.99£9.87Did You Know? Overlooking Ballymena, Slemish Mountain was believed to be the first home of St Patrick in Ireland. His footprint is said to be indented in a stone close to Skerry churchyard. The 'sport' of rat racing thrived on the shores of Lough Neagh... -
Lindop: A Family History by John Barford Lindop 9780244213725
RRP: £13.49£12.20One of the various family legends says that two German brothers came to England with William the Conqueror and set up home at Gwersyllt near Wrexham which, like most legends, contains an element of truth. When the family first appears on the pages of... -
Evita Burned Down Our Pavilion: A Cricket Odyssey through Latin America Timothy Abraham 9781472132512
RRP: £12.99£8.83'A highly entertaining read, deftly melding social history with sporting memoir and travelogue' Mail on SundayA history of Latin America through cricketCricket was the first sport played in almost every country of the Americas - earlier than football,... -
Bath: City on Show by Brown Dan 9780752456744
RRP: £12.99£9.87Bath: City on Show provides a unique and fascinating blend of historical images and contemporary photography, contrasting a World Heritage city as depicted over several hundred years with how it is seen through the lens today. Talented local... -
To Distraction: Number 5 in series Stephanie Laurens 9780749940430
RRP: £9.99£7.00Deverell, Viscount Paignton, is in desperate need of a wife. Unmoved by the matchmaking 'herd', he seeks help from his aunt, who directs him to a lady she vows is perfect for him. Dispatched to a country house party, he discovers the lady not swanning... -
Italy in the Seventeenth Century Domenico Sella 9780582035959
RRP: £49.99£48.24In his comprehensive overview of 17th century Italy, Professor Sella challenges the old view that Italy was in general decline, instead he shows it to have been a time of sharp contrasts and shifts in fortune. He starts with a balanced and critical... -
Comedy of Errors by Pegasus 9788131919491
RRP: £3.75£2.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788131919491Author PegasusFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint B Jain Publishers Pvt LtdPublisher B Jain Publishers Pvt LtdWeight(grams) 80g -
Lost Bideford & District by Julia Barnes 9781398104365
RRP: £15.99£10.85Bideford is a historic port on the River Torridge in north Devon. In the sixteenth century Bideford developed as a major trading port for the American colonies and maintained its significance into the eighteenth century. During the twentieth century the... -
Legend by David Rohl 9780099799917 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£5.34David Rohl continues his quest to reach the historical kernel lying at the heart of some of the greatest unsolved problems and mysteries of Old World history and archaeology. He reveals what really happened in seven famous myths and legends bequeathed to... -
Noble Endeavours: The life of two countries, England and Germany, in many stories by Miranda Seymour 9781849830157 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£2.65On the eve of marking the centenary of the opening of the hostilities that devastated the world and changed its history, old wounds gape rawly open. No two countries in Europe possess a stronger history of cultural and familial sympathy, trust and mutual... -
For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports by Christopher Hitchens
RRP: £12.99£8.80The global turmoil of the late 1980s and early 1990s severely tested every analyst and commentator. Few wrote with such insight as Christopher Hitchens about the large events - or with such discernment and wit about the small tell-tale signs of a... -
Haunted Stirling by David Kinnaird 9780752458441
RRP: £14.99£11.72From heart-stopping accounts of apparitions, poltergeists and related supernatural phenomena, to first-hand encounters with phantoms and spirits, this collection of stories contains both new and well-known spooky tales from around Stirling. A whole... -
The Witch Hunts: A History of the Witch Persecutions in Europe and North America Robert Thurston (Miami University, USA) 9781405840835
RRP: £36.99£36.02Tens of thousands of people were persecuted and put to death as witches between 1400 and 1700 - the great age of witch hunts. Why did the witch hunts arise, flourish and decline during this period? What purpose did the persecutions serve? Who was... -
Rolls-Royce at Derby by Malcolm Bobbit
RRP: £14.99£11.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780914978Author Malcolm BobbitFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint DB PublishingPublisher DB Publishing -
Old Gardenstown with Crovie and Pennan by Kay Beaton 9781840336092
RRP: £11.95£11.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840336092Author Kay BeatonFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 174mm * 240mm * 4mm -
A Grim Almanac of Lincolnshire by Neil Storey 9780752457680
RRP: £14.99£11.72A Grim Almanac of Lincolnshire is a day-by-day catalogue of 365 ghastly tales from around the county dating from the twelfth to the twentieth centuries. Full of dreadful deeds, macabre deaths, strange occurrences and heinous homicides, this almanac... -
Chocolate Wars: From Cadbury to Kraft: 200 years of Sweet Success and Bitter Rivalry by Deborah Cadbury 9780007325573 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.29The delicious true story of the early chocolate pioneers by the award-winning writer, and direct descendant of the famous chocolate dynasty, Deborah Cadbury In 'Chocolate Wars' bestselling historian and award-winning documentary maker Deborah... -
Chocolate Wars: From Cadbury to Kraft: 200 years of Sweet Success and Bitter Rivalry by Deborah Cadbury
RRP: £12.99£8.71The delicious true story of the early chocolate pioneers by the award-winning writer, and direct descendant of the famous chocolate dynasty, Deborah Cadbury In 'Chocolate Wars' bestselling historian and award-winning documentary maker Deborah... -
Greater Manchester Murders by Alan Hayhurst
RRP: £14.99£11.72Contained within the pages of this book are the stories behind some of the most notorious murders in the history of Greater Manchester. They include the case of cat burglar Charlie Peace, who killed 20-year-old PC Nicolas Cock in Seymour Grove, and only... -
The Nuremberg Interviews: Conversations with the Defendants and Witnesses by Leon Goldensohn
RRP: £25.00£18.30The Nuremberg Interviews reveals the chilling innermost thoughts of the former Nazi officials under indictment at the famous postwar trial. The architects of one of history's greatest atrocities speak out about their lives, their careers in the Nazi... -
On the Origins of War and the Preservation of Peace by Donald M. Kagan
RRP: £17.50£12.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385423755Author Donald KaganFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 442gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Patriot or Traitor: The Life and Death of Sir Walter Ralegh by Anna Beer 9781786076700
RRP: £10.99£7.99A BBC History Magazine Book of the Year A writer, soldier, politician, courtier, spy and explorer, Sir Walter Ralegh lived more lives than most in his own time, in any time. The fifth son of a Devonshire gentleman, he rose to become Queen Elizabeth's... -
On This Day: The History of the World in 366 Days by Bounty Bounty 9780753733387 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00£2.80A day-by-day collection of over 6000 events, trivia, quotations, news items, anniversaries and birthdays for every day of the year. Presented as headlines and articles, quotes and diary entries, this book will tell you on what day Martin Luther King Jr... -
The Essex Hundred Histories by Andrew Summers
RRP: £9.99£7.32The 'Histories' follows on from the Essex Hundred and has been inspired by the ancient land system of hundreds. It delves into one hundred events or personalities from 2,000 years of the county's history. This second edition which has been reprinted 11... -
The Slump: Britain in the Great Depression by John Stevenson 9781408230107
£36.02'One of the most relentlessly brilliant studies of twentieth-century Britain ... these young historians have found a marvellous theme and stuck to it. Theirs is the glory!' Professor Arthur Marwick, History The 1930s - remembered as the decade of dole... -
Tumshie: The Forgotten Turnip Lantern by Mark Mechan 9781849345323
RRP: £7.99£5.89Tumshie is the story of a dad and son making old fashioned Halloween lanterns and a costume together. The story is set today in Scotland, and it's inspired by how a Scottish Halloween used to be celebrated. Back when Halloween meant 'guising' (today that... -
False Prophets: British Leaders' Fateful Fascination with the Middle East from Suez to Syria by Professor Nigel Ashton
RRP: £20.00£14.91'Fascinating' Guardian, 'Book of the Day''A truly masterly book... A tour de force that will be read for a very long time.' Peter HennessySelected by the New Statesman as an essential read for 2022Britain shaped the modern Middle East through the lines... -
Kinder Scout: The people's mountain by Ed Douglas 9781911342502
RRP: £19.95£15.68'An exceptional book.' Robert Macfarlane, author of The Lost Words, Landmarks and Mountains of the Mind'We made Kinder Scout, not just metaphorically, or metaphysically, not just with our stories and our battles, but literally changed its shape, from the... -
Gardens: An Essay on the Human Condition by Robert Pogue Harrison
RRP: £15.00£12.43Humans have long turned to gardens - both real and imaginary - for sanctuary from the frenzy and tumult that surrounds them. With "Gardens", Robert Pogue Harrison graces readers with a thoughtful, wide-ranging examination of the many ways gardens evoke... -
The Lowland Clearances: Scotland's Silent Revolution 1760 - 1830 by Peter Aitchison
RRP: £9.99£7.20The Highland Clearances are a well-documented episode in Scotland's past but they were not unique. The process began in the Scottish Lowlands nearly a century before, when tens of thousands of people - significantly more than were later exiled form the... -
Against the Galileans by Julian the Galilean 9781960069054
RRP: £5.99£4.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781960069054Author Julian the GalileanFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Dalcassian Publishing CompanyPublisher Dalcassian Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)... -
Secret Northamptonshire by Peter Hill
RRP: £18.99£12.90Northamptonshire has witnessed a great many events and incidents, some of national importance, others of purely local significance. What is common to practically all of them, however, is that they have either been forgotten, discarded, or hidden away -... -
The Tobacco Lords: Scotland and the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic by Tom M. Devine 9780859767255
RRP: £20.00£14.27In the eighteenth century, Glasgow and its outports became the dominant force in the highly lucrative tobacco commerce from the Americas to Europe. This prize-winning book explains why such remarkable success came about against fierce international... -
Haunted Stevenage by Paul Adams
RRP: £9.99£7.77From unexplained sightings to the search for evidence of ghosts, this book contains a chilling range of spooky tales from Old and New Stevenage and the surrounding area. Compiled by paranormal historian Paul Adams, this collection features the restless... -
Lost Aberdeen by Diane Morgan
RRP: £14.99£10.77The initial chapters are an odyssey through the early town, from the Green to the Gallowgate, charting the disappearance of the irreplaceable medieval townscape. Moving on to more modern times she traces the evolution and gradual erosion of the Granite... -
Christmas at War - True Stories of How Britain Came Together on the Home Front: True Stories of How Britain Came Together on the Home Front by Caroline Taggart
RRP: £8.99£6.42No turkey. No fruit to make a decent pudding. No money for presents. Your children away from home to keep them safe from bombing; your husband, father and brothers off fighting goodness knows where. How in the world does one celebrate Christmas? That was...