Filter By
- Book
- Qty in Cart
- Quantity
- Price
- Subtotal
-
Cornwall at War 1939 45 by Derek Tait 9781473892248
RRP: £12.99£8.56When the Second World War commenced on 1 September 1939, the people of Cornwall rallied together in a way that they hadn t done since the Great War of 1914 18/. Young men in their thousands enlisted in the army while older men joined the country s home... -
1980's LONDON: Making the Best of It by Alec Forshaw
RRP: £15.00£14.92Alec Forshaw's latest volume covers the troubled decade of 1980s London, the Thatcher years, a time of political and civil unrest and protest, deregulation and privatisation, a period when London underwent changes that would shape its development through... -
Chester: A History by Simon Ward
RRP: £17.99£13.84Chester has a long and fascinating history, dating from the arrival of the Roman army around AD 74. Their fortress was the stimulus for the growth of a prosperous town with such attributes of classical civilisation as bathhouses, central heating and an... -
The Lost Ark of the Covenant: The Remarkable Quest for the Legendary Ark by Tudor Parfitt 9780007262687
RRP: £12.99£9.96Professor Tudor Parfitt, a real-life British Indiana Jones, has made the biggest discovery of the last 3,000 years - what became of the fabled Ark of the Covenant. This is the amazing story of his quest. This is the real-life account of... -
Norwich in the 1950s: Ten Years That Changed a City by Pete Goodrum
RRP: £15.99£10.85Norwich in 1950 was a different place. Still scarred by war the city was coming to terms with itself. Children played in the rubble of bomb sites, and workers strove to build a prosperous peace on building sites. By the end of the decade the retail heart... -
The Gun and the Olive Branch: The Roots of Violence in the Middle East by David Hirst 9781560254836
£21.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781560254836Author David HirstFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Thunder's Mouth PressPublisher Thunder's Mouth Press -
The Illustrated History of Southampton Suburbs by Jim Brown 9781780913261
£15.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780913261Author Jim BrownFormat PaperbackImprint DB PublishingPublisher DB Publishing -
What Was the Oxford Movement? by George Herring 9780826451866
£27.40This account of the Oxford or Tractarian movement provides essential information to the study of English church history and the history of England during the Victorian era. This book is an up-to-date, scholarly but approachable exploration of the... -
Glasgow's Grand Central Hotel: Glasgow's Most-loved Hotel Jill Scott 9781849342209
RRP: £20.00£14.91Glasgow's most loved and famous hotel - choice of Hollywood stars on trips to Scotland, is the subject of this timely chronicle. Glamour, drama, stars, fame, food and travel, weddings, life above and below stairs, music and dance, weddings and pianos,... -
1967: Israel, the War and the Year that Transformed the Middle East by Tom Segev
RRP: £16.99£11.941967 did not mark the beginning of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but it was a year that changed the course of history. When Egypt's President Nasser closed the straits of Tiran to Israeli navigation, it triggered a conflict between Israel and the... -
The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats by Daniel Stone 9781101990599
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101990599Author Daniel StoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint E P Dutton & Co IncPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Introducing the Enlightenment: A Graphic Guide by Lloyd Spencer
RRP: £8.99£6.70"Introducing The Enlightenment" is the essential guide to the giants of the Enlightenment - Voltaire, Diderot, Adam Smith, Samuel Johnson, Immanuel Kant, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson. The Enlightenment of the 18th century was a crucial time in... -
The Germans by Gordon A. Craig 9780452010857
£14.42They have given mankind unique triumphs in science, literature, philosophy, music, and art. They have also produced Hitler and the Holocaust. They are romantic and conservative, idealistic and practical, proud and insecure, ruthless and good-natured... -
Eminent Churchillians Andrew Roberts 9781857992137
RRP: £12.99£8.83A controversial account of the Churchill years by a bestselling historian.'The best sort of history - revealing, gossipy and acidulous' OBSERVERThis highly praised book by the Wolfson History Prize-winning author of SALISBURY tackles six aspects of... -
A History of Norfolk in 100 Objects by John A. Davies 9780752461625
RRP: £14.99£11.72Compiled by two highly respected authors and museum curators, this richly illustrated book features 100 objects - ranging from a Viking Thor's Hammer and Lord Nelson's funeral drape, to the whistle used during the Christmas truce of 1914. Norfolk has... -
Master of Deception by Alan Ogden
RRP: £35.00£27.33Master of Deception is a biography of Peter Fleming, elder brother of Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond. Peter Fleming worked as a travel writer and journalist, serving with distinction throughout World War II and played a crucial role in British... -
Pamela's War: A Moving Account of a Young Girl's Life in the Midlands during the Second World War by Cherryl Vines 9780752468136
RRP: £7.99£6.35It is the third of September 1939. It is just after half past eleven in the morning. I am fifteen years and sixteen days old. The radiogram at my home, the Woodman Hotel in Clent, has just been switched off, the silence resonates around the room, and a... -
Back in Society M.C. Beaton 9781780333229
RRP: £8.99£6.39The Poor Relation hotel is the toast of London and its owners are preparing to sell up and retire - but one last romantic adventure awaits them!Driven into hiding at the hotel by a tyrannous father and a rich but wizened suitor, Lady Jane Fremney... -
The Hundred Years War by Robin Neillands 9780415261302
RRP: £135.00£117.68The Hundred Years War is a lively survey, re-creating the vigour of this turbulent epoch stretching from 1152 to 1453. The Hundred Years War was the longest war in European history, a war which brought fundamental change in two medieval societies, and... -
Money Changes Everything: How Finance Made Civilization Possible by William N. Goetzmann 9780691143781
RRP: £30.00£24.29"[A] magnificent history of money and finance."--New York Times Book Review "Convincingly makes the case that finance is a change-maker of change-makers."--Financial Times In the aftermath of recent financial crises, it's easy to see finance as a... -
Imperialism: A Study by J. A. Hobson 9780851247885
RRP: £19.95£19.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851247885Author J. A. HobsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Spokesman BooksPublisher Spokesman BooksDimensions(mm) 210mm * 140mm * 23mm -
Secret Stratford-upon-Avon by Nicholas Fogg
RRP: £15.99£11.02Stratford-upon-Avon is a much-visited town. Visitors will be familiar with Shakespeare's birthplace, Holy Trinity Church, and the theatre, but may overlook many of the place's hidden secrets. Among them are a pitch for the playing of the ancient game of... -
Alfred the Great: War, Kingship and Culture in Anglo-Saxon England by Richard Abels 9780582040472
RRP: £47.99£45.98This biography of Alfred the Great, king of the West Saxons (871-899), combines a sensitive reading of the primary sources with a careful evaluation of the most recent scholarly research on the history and archaeology of ninth-century England. Alfred... -
Up and Down Stairs: The History of the Country House Servant by Jeremy Musson 9780719597305 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£2.29Country houses were reliant on an intricate hierarchy of servants, each of whom provided an essential skill. Up and Down Stairs brings to life this hierarchy and shows how large numbers of people lived together under strict segregation and how sometimes... -
Up and Down Stairs: The History of the Country House Servant Jeremy Musson 9780719597305
RRP: £10.99£6.67Country houses were reliant on an intricate hierarchy of servants, each of whom provided an essential skill. Up and Down Stairs brings to life this hierarchy and shows how large numbers of people lived together under strict segregation and how sometimes... -
Coatbridge Then & Now by Sandra Malcolm
RRP: £12.95£11.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840338492Author Sandra MalcolmFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 176mm * 235mm * 4mm -
Selected Letters of Friedrich Nietzsche by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 9780872203587
RRP: £25.99£21.38This collection of more than two hundred of Nietzsche's letters offers a representative body of correspondence on subjects of main concern to him--philosophy, history, morals, music and literature. Also included are letters of biographical interest... -
Perpetua's Passion: The Death and Memory of a Young Roman Woman by Joyce E. Salisbury 9780415918374
RRP: £41.99£36.75Perpetua's Passion studies the third-century martyrdom of a young woman and places it in the intellectual and social context of her age. Conflicting ideas of religion, family and gender are explored as Salisbury follows Perpetua from her youth in a... -
A Ride to Khiva: An Adventure in Central Asia Fred Burnaby 9781780601120
RRP: £12.99£8.83In the winter of 1875, a young British officer set out across central Asia on an unofficial mission to investigate the latest Russian moves in the Great Game. His goal was the mysterious Central Asian city of Khiva, closed to all European travellers by... -
Middlebrough St. Hilda's: Timelines by Araf Chohan 9780956718785
RRP: £12.99£9.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956718785Author Araf ChohanFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Destinworld Publishing LtdPublisher Destinworld Publishing LtdDimensions(mm) 228mm *... -
Leeds in the Age of the Tram 1950- 59 by Graham H.E. Twidale
RRP: £14.99£9.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857941876Author Graham H.E. TwidaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media Group -
Bloody Welsh History: Swansea by Geoff Brookes 9780752480534
RRP: £14.99£11.72Swansea has long been a busy industrial port and has always had an edgy history. Explore the hidden stories from its long and dangerous past, with tales of rebellion, shipwreck and murder. From Romans to the Red Lady, Viking raids to English attacks,... -
Old Blyth by John Alexander 9781840337167
RRP: £11.95£11.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840337167Author John AlexanderFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake Publishing -
Women, Family and Ritual in Renaissance Italy by Christiane Klapisch-Zuber 9780226439266
RRP: £30.00£29.25Christiane Klapisch-Zuber, a brilliant historian of the Annales school, skillfully uncovers the lives of ordinary Italians of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, Tuscans in particular, young and old, rich, middle-class, and poor. From the... -
Memories of Middlesbrough by Tosh Warwick 9781913375157
£17.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913375157Author Tosh WarwickFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Heritage UnlockedPublisher Print My Book -
The Stones of Christ Church: The Story of the Buildings of Christ Church, Oxford by Judith Curthoys
RRP: £35.00£25.83Christ Church, Oxford's largest and arguably grandest college, has awed visitors ever since its foundation by Cardinal Wolsey in 1525: one seventeenth-century visitor said 'it is more like some fine castle, or great palace than a College'. The already... -
Blood and Fire: William and Catherine Booth and the Salvation Army by Roy Hattersley 9780349112817
RRP: £15.99£15.94An uneducated youth, William Booth left home in 1849 at the age of twenty to preach the gospel for the New Methodist Connexion. Six years later he founded a new religious movement which succeeded to such a degree that the Salvation Army (which it became)... -
Behaving Badly: Social Panic and Moral Outrage - Victorian and Modern Parallels Judith Rowbotham 9780754609650
RRP: £135.00£118.20Both the Victorian age and the late twentieth century are often characterised by contemporaries as times of apparent economic affluence and stability. They are often depicted as periods that shared a conviction that the stability of society, including... -
Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Have Cornered Culture and What It Means For All Of Us by Jonathan Taplin
RRP: £18.99£14.54A Financial Times 'Best Thing I Read This Year' 2017LONGLISTED FOR THE FT & MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDGoogle. Amazon. Facebook. The modern world is defined by vast digital monopolies turning ever-larger profits. Those of us who consume the... -
God's Terrorists: The Wahhabi Cult and the Hidden Roots of Modern Jihad by Charles Allen
RRP: £12.99£8.83The brutal assasination of Commissioner Frederick Mackeson on British India's North-West Frontier in 1853 was a bloody and public declaration of a conflict that was to stretch well into the next one hundred and fifty years. The Wahhabi tribe, extreme...