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The History of Skipton by Ian Lockwood 9781787109599
RRP: £18.99£14.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787109599Author Ian LockwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 564Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers -
Salute the eagle: My experiences as a parabat in Angola by Kevin Vos 9780620734837
RRP: £15.00£12.49"This is my story; from the time when I was conscripted as a schoolboy into the army at age seventeen." This story is fact and not fiction. It is not a historical account written in the first person, it is written as a novel giving insight into the small... -
The Lady Risks All Stephanie Laurens 9780749958732
RRP: £9.99£7.00Neville Roscoe, notorious and enigmatic, lives resolutely outside society, bound only by his code of honour - until challenged by his desire for the one woman he cannot have.Miranda Clifford is a lady imprisoned by rigid respectability - until tempted by... -
West Bromwich Yesterdays: Britain in Old Photographs by Terry Price 9780752469980
RRP: £17.99£13.84Once known as 'the Chicago of the Midlands', in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries West Bromwich was a renowned industrial town of a thousand trades without equal. Its bustling High Street also offered a range of goods and services which were... -
Haunted Neath by Robert King 9780752450056
RRP: £12.99£9.87This collection of true-life ghost stories tells of apparitions, manifestations, strange sightings and happenings in Neath's streets, cemeteries and alehouses. Authentic stories that have been collected by the author over a period of forty years, most of... -
The Nazi Germany Sourcebook: An Anthology of Texts by Roderick Stackelberg
RRP: £43.99£38.84The Nazi Germany Sourcebook is an exciting new collection of documents on the origins, rise, course and consequences of National Socialism, the Third Reich, the Second World War, and the Holocaust.Packed full of both official and private papers from the... -
The Causes of the First World War: The Long Blame Game Annika Mombauer 9780815347941
RRP: £35.99£31.69More than a hundred years after it began, the question of the origins of World War I remains contested. Based on Mombauer's The Origins of the First World War (2002), this thoroughly revised and expanded volume surveys the long debate, taking the... -
Pershore Revisited by Dr. Carol Freeman 9780752437378
RRP: £12.99£9.87A collection of images showing the changes that have taken place in the town of Pershore over the last century.Book InformationISBN 9780752437378Author Marion FreemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press... -
History Of The Cathars, A Pocket Essential Short by Sean Martin 9780857303097
RRP: £16.99£11.26Catharism was the most successful heresy of the Middle Ages. Flourishing principally in the Languedoc and Italy, the Cathars taught that the world is evil and must be transcended through a simple life of prayer, work, fasting and non-violence. They... -
Out of Our Minds: What We Think and How We Came to Think It by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto 9781786077851
RRP: £12.99£8.41'Immensely learned and ambitious...seam-bursting eclecticism and polymathic brio... This is by any standards a significant book and its author deserves high praise.' Literary Review To imagine - to see that which is not there - is the... -
Nationalism and the State by John Breuilly 9780719038006
RRP: £25.00£18.60Penny politics offers a new way to read early Victorian popular fiction such as Jack Sheppard, Sweeney Todd, and The Mysteries of London. It locates forms of radical discourse in the popular literature that emerged simultaneously with Brittan's longest... -
Walking Gloucestershire with Ivor Gurney: Poetry & landscape explored through 20 circular walks by Eleanor Rawling 9781910839683
RRP: £15.99£13.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910839683Author Eleanor RawlingFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Logaston PressPublisher Fircone Books Ltd -
Ipswich Past & Present by Dave Kindred
RRP: £12.99£9.87This fascinating selection of photographs illustrates the changes which have occurred in Ipswich. The town has experiences an enormous amount of development to keep up with its growing population. Attractive buildings, some centuries old, were swept away... -
The Rise and Fall of a Medieval Family: The Despensers by Kathryn Warner 9781526744937
RRP: £25.00£17.90The Despensers were a baronial English family who rose to great prominence in the reign of Edward II (1307-27) when Hugh Despenser the Younger became the king's chamberlain, favourite and perhaps lover. He and his father Hugh the Elder wielded great... -
Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast Marjoleine Kars 9781800812284
RRP: £10.99£4.17THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE BERBICE SLAVE REBELLION Winner of the 2021 Cundill History Prize Winner of the 2021 Frederick Douglass Prize 'A gripping tale about the human need for freedom ... spellbinding' NPR 'Impressively detailed ... Kars... -
Making Edwardian Costumes for Women by Suzanne Rowland
RRP: £25.00£21.02Edwardian fashions for women were characterized by the S-shaped silhouette, embellished with lace, tucks, ruffles, tassels, frills and flounces. This essential book includes eleven detailed projects, which form a capsule collection of clothing and... -
The White House and White Africa: Presidential Policy Toward Rhodesia During the UDI Era, 1965-1979 by Eddie Michel 9780367588526
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book offers an insightful analysis of presidential policy towards Rhodesia during the UDI era of 1965-1979. Michel provides an informative account of the stance adopted by the differing presidential administrations towards Salisbury and highlights... -
Beatrice Goes to Brighton M.C. Beaton 9781849014823
RRP: £9.99£7.00The fourth book in M.C. Beaton's charming Travelling Matchmaker series. The unsinkable Miss Pym returns to the English stagecoach in search of adventure and troubled hearts, and with her delightful schemes and discerning eye, she never fails to strike a... -
Haunted Middlesbrough by Tina Lakin 9780752441931
RRP: £14.99£11.72This creepy collection of true-life tales takes the reader on a tour through the streets, cemeteries, alehouses and attics of Middlesbrough and surrounding towns including Redcar, Guisborough, Yarm and Great Ayton. Drawing on historical and contemporary... -
Medicine in the Making of Modern Britain, 1700-1920 by Christopher Lawrence
RRP: £37.99£33.38Christopher Lawrence's critical overview of medicine's place in the development of modern Britain examines the significance of the clinical encounter in contemporary society. * first short synoptic study of its kind * breaks new ground by bringing... -
Contesting the Middle Ages: Debates that are Changing our Narrative of Medieval History by John Aberth 9780415729307
RRP: £38.99£34.62Contesting the Middle Ages is a thorough exploration of recent arguments surrounding nine hotly debated topics: the decline and fall of Rome, the Viking invasions, the Crusades, the persecution of minorities, sexuality in the Middle Ages, women within... -
The Guide to Mysterious Loch Ness and the Inverness Area by Geoff Holder 9780752444857
RRP: £15.99£12.43This is a guide to everything supernatural, paranormal, folkloric, eccentric and, above all, mysterious that has occurred on the dark waters of the enigmatic Loch Ness and the surrounding area of Inverness. Containing Celtic gods and martyrs, telepathy,... -
Penelope Goes to Portsmouth M.C. Beaton 9781849014816
RRP: £8.99£6.39The third book in M.C. Beaton's charming Travelling Matchmaker series. Kind-hearted Miss Hannah Pym is off to Portsmouth in the company of the beautiful but practical Miss Penelope Wilkins. Miss Pym quickly realises that Penelope needs someone to enliven... -
The Norman Conquest: A New Introduction Richard Huscroft 9781405811552
RRP: £36.99£36.42The Norman Conquest was one of the most significant events in European history. Over forty years from 1066, England was traumatised and transformed. The Anglo-Saxon ruling class was eliminated, foreign elites took control of Church and State, and... -
A History of the Parish of Draycott-En-Le-Moors by Matthew Pointon 9780244038304
RRP: £10.88£9.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244038304Author Matthew PointonFormat PaperbackImprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 254g -
Enemies of the Later Roman Order - A Study of the Phenomenon of Language Aggression in the Theodosian Code, Post-Theodosian Novels, and the S by Micha Stachura
RRP: £50.00£39.12The book deals with the presence of language aggression in postclassical Roman law, in common opinion one of the characteristic features of the decadence at the dawn of the Byzantine culture. In his analysis of normative sources, the author makes use of... -
The New Unhappy Lords: An Exposure of Power Politics by A. K. Chesterton 9780957540323
RRP: £14.00£12.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957540323Author A. K. ChestertonFormat PaperbackPage Count 201Imprint The A. K. Chesterton TrustPublisher The A. K. Chesterton Trust -
Edward I and Wales, 1254-1307 by David Pilling 9781526776419
RRP: £25.00£18.30Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Around Hoyland by Geoffrey Howse
RRP: £12.99£9.87A history of HoylandBook InformationISBN 9780750922685Author Geoffrey HowseFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 240mm * 172mm * 10mm -
Bastard Feudalism by M.A. Hicks 9780582060920
RRP: £54.99£52.88This major work is the most radical reinterpretation of the subject for fifty years. Hicks argues that Bastard Feudalism was far more complex - and positive in its effects - than previous accounts have suggested. A major contribution to historical debate... -
The Invention of Race: Scientific and Popular Representations by Nicolas Bancel 9780367208646
RRP: £41.99£37.15This edited collection explores the genesis of scientific conceptions of race and their accompanying impact on the taxonomy of human collections internationally as evidenced in ethnographic museums, world fairs, zoological gardens, international colonial... -
Halifax Pubs: Britain in Old Photographs by Stephen Gee 9780752448114
RRP: £14.99£11.72Steve Gee takes the reader on a delightful tour of the most interesting pubs, inns and taverns of Halifax and provides a fascinating insight into the changing history of Halifax's pubs over the last 200 years. Illustrated with over 100 images, this book... -
Bad Blood by James H. Jones 9780029166765
£16.34From 1932 to 1972, the United States Public Health Service conducted a non-therapeutic experiment involving over 400 black male sharecroppers infected with syphilis. The Tuskegee Study had nothing to do with treatment. It purpose was to trace the... -
Bury St Edmunds Through Time Revisited by Martyn Taylor 9781398109308
RRP: £15.99£11.02The wonderful town of Bury St Edmunds is indelibly linked to the first patron saint of England, St Edmund, who was martyred in AD 869 and would eventually be enshrined in his magnificent abbey church, alas now in ruins. The town's affinity with Magna... -
Special Forces Heroes by Michael Ashcroft 9780755318087 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.29This book tells the stories of forty heroes, all awarded bravery medals for their conduct during Special Forces missions over the last 150 years. Often covert hit-and-run operations involving very small numbers of highly skilled men, those who partake in... -
Special Forces Heroes Michael Ashcroft 9780755318087
RRP: £12.99£8.83This book tells the stories of forty heroes, all awarded bravery medals for their conduct during Special Forces missions over the last 150 years. Often covert hit-and-run operations involving very small numbers of highly skilled men, those who partake in... -
Basingstoke Canal by Dieter Jebens
RRP: £14.99£11.55The Basingstoke Canal was built towards the end of the 'great canal mania' in the eighteenth century. It was intended to provide a transport route to and from London via the Wey and the Thames, but the expectations of its promoters were never realised;... -
Danger Uxb: The Heroic Story of the WWII Bomb Disposal Teams by James Owen 9780349122373
£14.87Autumn 1940: the Front Line is now Britain itself. Cities are blitzed night after night and even after the bombers have turned for home, a deadly menace remains: thousands upon thousands of UXBs. Buried underground, their clocks ticking remorselessly,... -
Exceptional People: How Migration Shaped Our World and Will Define Our Future by Ian Goldin
RRP: £25.00£20.30Throughout history, migrants have fueled the engine of human progress. Their movement has sparked innovation, spread ideas, relieved poverty, and laid the foundations for a global economy. In a world more interconnected than ever before, the number of... -
Filey by Peter Harris
RRP: £14.99£11.72Filey has been a popular holiday destination. This volume presents a collection of more than 200 photographs. It explores the decline of old Filey, the building of the elegant Crescent, the expanding seafront and the maturing new town, offering a look...