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A Sweet, Wild Note: What We Hear When the Birds Sing by Richard Smyth 9781783963775
RRP: $20.98$14.81A Guardian `Readers' Choice' Best Book of 2017; Birdsong is the soundtrack to our world. We have tried to capture its fleeting, ephemeral beauty, and the feelings it inspires, for millennia.; In this captivating and lively account, Richard Smyth explores... -
A Guide to Wytham Woods by Nigel Fisher
RRP: $16.78$10.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399928397Author Nigel FisherFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Wytham WoodsPublisher Wytham Woods -
Fire! Fire! The Theatre's on Fire: A History of British Theatre Fires by Rodney Hardcastle
RRP: $27.28$20.45My involvement with the history of theatres suggested that the theme for this book should be the many theatres which have been affected in some way by the destructive force of fire. Their twice nightly entertainment of wide and varied music hall acts... -
Modern African Wars 5: The Nigerian-Biafran War 1967-70 by Philip Jowett
RRP: $27.28$19.61With decades of research to draw from Philip Jowett explores this extraordinary David-and-Goliath conflict, where the rag-tag Igbo tribal army of secessionist Biafra faced off against the Nigerian Federal forces. It was an African war that captured the... -
Missiles in Cuba: Kennedy, Khrushchev, Castro and the 1962 Crisis by Mark J. White 9781566631563
RRP: $27.28$20.39For many years historians of the Cuban missile crisis have concentrated on those thirteen days in October 1962 when the world teetered on the brink of nuclear war. Mark White's study adds an equally intense scrutiny of the causes and consequences of the... -
Northamptonshire Folk Tales by Kevan Manwaring 9780752467887
RRP: $20.98$16.32Take a walk through this county in the heart of England in the entertaining company of a local storyteller. Kevan Manwaring, born and raised in Northampton, regales you with tales ancient and modern. Learn how the farmer outwitted the bogle; how a Queen... -
Royal Books and Holy Bones by Eamon Duffy
RRP: $52.50$38.43In these vivid and approachable essays Eamon Duffy engages with some of the central aspects of Western religion in the thousand years between the decline of pagan Rome and the rise of the Protestant Reformation. In the process he opens windows on the... -
Oxfordshire Folk Tales by Kevan Manwaring
RRP: $27.28$20.73Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross and listen to the tales of this ancient county. Hear how a King and his knights were turned to stone at the mysterious Rollright Stones; how Dragon Hill got its name; take the Devil's Highway to the End of the World -... -
The Abyss: The Morland Dynasty, Book 18 Cynthia Harrod-Eagles 9780751517453
RRP: $23.08$15.981833: the industrial age is sweeping through England and the Stephensons are planning the greatest engineering scheme ever undertaken- a railway line from Liverpool to London.At Morland Place, Nicholas had hoped that his brother Benedict, had been... -
Secret Newark by Jillian Campbell
RRP: $33.58$20.54Secret Newark goes behind the facades of the familiar to discover the lesser-known aspects of the town's fascinating past. Situated on the important old Roman road, the Fosse Way, the ancestral market town grew around the, now ruined, Newark Castle and... -
Lancashire Murders by Alan Hayhurst
RRP: $35.68$27.57Contained within the pages of this book are the stories behind some of the most notorious murders in Lancashire's history. The cases covered here record the county's most fascinating but least known crimes, as well as famous murders that gripped not just... -
Pubs of Royal Leamington Spa - Two Centuries of History by Allan Jennings 9781858585222
$54.83Many books have been written about Leamington's history, but this one is unique - it is the first to document the history of its pubs. The authors have painstakingly researched more than 200 years of history tracking back to a time in the late 1700s when... -
Underground by Will Hunt
RRP: $35.68$23.27'A mesmerizingly fascinating tale, one astonishing adventure after another. I could not stop reading this beautifully written book.' Michael Finkel, author of The Stranger in the Woods'A unique history of a culturally and scientifically important... -
Operation Dragoon: The Allied Liberation of the South of France: 1944 by Robin Cross
RRP: $58.70$36.75Operation Dragoon is the story of the Allied invasion of the South of France on August 15, 1944. It was, in effect, the second D-Day, launched two months after "Overlord", the Allied invasion of Normandy. As such, it has often been overshadowed by its... -
North Wales Folk Tales for Children by Fiona Collins
RRP: $27.28$23.96If you love magic and adventure, here is the book for you. In this treasure trove of tales, storyteller Fiona Collins has collected the best-loved stories from the misty, magical mountains, rushing rivers and green rolling hills of North Wales. In these... -
Britain and Ireland: A Concise History by Jurgen Kramer 9780367650322
RRP: $71.38$63.00Britain and Ireland recounts the history of the two states - the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland (Eire) - and four nations - the Irish, the Welsh, the Scottish, and the English - from prehistory to the... -
The Baltic and the North Seas Merja-Liisa Hinkkanen 9780415132824
RRP: $283.50$247.13Exploring the themes of the human relationship with the marine environment and the ways in which the peoples of Northern Europe have experienced and exploited their seas, this book reveals how human perception of the northern seas has changed over time... -
Bow & Bromley-by-Bow: Britain in Old Photographs by Gary Haines
RRP: $27.28$20.73Bow and Bromley-by-Bow, at the heart of London's East End, grew up around crossings over the river Lea. The area saw rapid changes from a seventeenth-century rural retreat to densely populated terraced streets, as mills were built along the river and a... -
Cannock Chase Past by Sherry Belcher
RRP: $35.68$27.57Cannock Chase has had many changes in its boundaries over the years. This book deals mainly with the are which formed the ancient parish of Cannock; taking in Hednesford, Hatherton, Cannock Wood and Great Wyrley. Cheslyn Hay has been included, partly... -
Old Newry by Alex Young
RRP: $25.10$23.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840331929Author Alex YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 165mm * 236mm * 3mm -
Crewe: The Twentieth Century: Britain in Old Photographs by Howard Curran 9780752464503
RRP: $31.48$24.61This is a fascinating collection of many unpublished photographs showing Crewe's development during the twentieth century. Illustrated with well over 200 old photographs and images, it traces changes and development, and highlights the architectural... -
The Story of the British and Their Weather: From Frost Fairs to Indian Summers by Patrick Nobbs
RRP: $20.98$14.36The British weather: famously changeable, subject of endless complaint and endless small talk. We all feel we know it well as a largely benign backdrop to our lives, but the truth is our weather has changed the course of our history and society. This... -
Aftermath: Readings in the Archaeology of Recent Conflict by John Schofield 9780387094656
RRP: $94.48$94.44Conflict and Battlefield Archaeology is a growing and important field in archaeology, with implications on the state of the world today: how humanity has prepared for, reacted to, and dealt with the consequences of conflict at a national and... -
The Mapmaker's Wife: A True Tale Of Love, Murder And Survival In The Amazon by Robert Whitaker
RRP: $31.48$23.00In 1735 a team of French scientists set out on a daring expedition into the South American wilderness to resolve one of the great scientific challenges of the time: the precise size and shape of the Earth. Scaling the Andes and journeying along the... -
When Adam Delved And Eve Span: A History of the Peasants' Revolt by Mark O'Brien 9781910885260
RRP: $16.78$12.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910885260Author Mark O'BrienFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Bookmarks PublicationsPublisher Bookmarks Publications -
Confessions of a Thug by Philip Meadows Taylor 9780198854647
RRP: $23.08$16.78'You have given a faithful portrait of a Thug's life, his ceremonies, and his acts' Often overshadowed by Kipling's Kim or Forster's A Passage to India, Philip Meadows Taylor's forgotten classic, Confessions of a Thug (1839), is nevertheless the most... -
Passion and Power: Sexuality in History by Kathy Peiss 9780877226376
RRP: $58.78$51.49"Passion and Power" brings together some of the most recent and innovative writings on the history of sexuality and explores the experiences, ideas, and conflicts that have shaped the emergence of modern sexual identities. Arguing that sexuality is not... -
Women and Work Culture: Britain c.1850-1950 Louise A. Jackson 9780754650508
RRP: $273.00$235.43Women's work has proved to be an important and lively subject of debate for historians. An earlier focus on the pay, conditions and occupational opportunities of predominantly blue-collar working-class women has now been joined by an interest in other... -
The Making of Home: The 500-year story of how our houses became homes by Judith Flanders
RRP: $31.48$20.79The idea that 'home' is a special place, a separate place, a place where we can be our true selves, is so obvious to us today that we barely pause to think about it. But, as Judith Flanders shows in this revealing book, 'home' is a relatively new... -
Picturing the Pacific by James Taylor
RRP: $52.50$42.38For over 50 years between the 1760s and the early 19th century, the pioneers who sailed from Europe to explore the Pacific brought back glimpses of this new world in the form of oil paintings, watercolours and drawings - a sensational view of a part of... -
Macclesfield (South) 1897: Cheshire Sheet 36.12 by Chris Makepeace
$7.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781847848321Author Chris MakepeaceImprint Alan Godfrey MapsPublisher Alan Godfrey Maps -
The Origins of the First World War by Ruth Henig
RRP: $77.68$68.31First published in 2003. There is an enormous literature on the origins of the First World War and this pamphlet focuses on the major issues involved in the topic and assesses the validity of the different interpretations. Beginning with the legacy of... -
When I Am Playing With My Cat, How Do I Know She Is Not Playing With Me?: Montaigne and Being in Touch With Life Saul Frampton 9780571234585
RRP: $27.28$18.48In the year 1570, at the age of thirty-seven, Michel de Montaigne gave up his job as a magistrate and retired to his chateau to brood on his own private grief - the deaths of his best friends, his father, his brother, and most recently his first-born... -
Cornish Murders by John van der Kiste
RRP: $35.68$27.17Cornish Murders brings together numerous murderous tales that shocked not only the county but also made national news. They include the cases of Charlotte Dymond, whose throat was cut on Bodmin Moor in 1844, and Emily Tredrea, strangled at St Erth in... -
Uppies and Downies: The Extraordinary Football Games of Britain by Hugh Hornby
RRP: $46.20$28.01Association football, aka 'soccer', is the world's most popular sport. As is known, its rules were drawn up in England between the 1840s and 1860s, largely at the behest of ex public school and university players. Rugby, another version of football honed... -
Haunted Rotherham by Richard Bramall 9780752461175
RRP: $31.48$24.61This fascinating book contains a terrifying collection of true-life tales from in and around Rotherham. Featuring stories such as the Lunatic of Ulley Reservoir and the Old Hag of Hellaby Hall, this pulse-raising compilation of unexplained phenomena,... -
Power and Illicit Drugs in the Global South by Maziyar Ghiabi 9780367585181
RRP: $83.98$73.63More than a hundred years have passed since the adoption of the first prohibitionist laws on drugs. Increasingly, the edifice of international drug control and laws is vacillating under pressures of reform. Scholarship on drugs history and policy has had... -
The Mammoth Book of Superstition: From Rabbits' Feet to Friday the 13th by Roy Bainton 9781472137487
RRP: $27.28$6.41Rather than providing a dictionary of superstitions, of which there are already numerous excellent, exhaustive and, in many cases, academic works which list superstitions from A to Z, Bainton gives us an entertaining flight over the terrain, landing from... -
Voices of Southborough and High Brooms by Chris McCooey 9780752420547
RRP: $27.28$20.73Voices of SouthboroughBook InformationISBN 9780752420547Author Chris McCooeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 310gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 165mm * 10mm -
Recollections of Paisley by Donald Malcolm
RRP: $25.10$23.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840336429Author Donald MalcolmFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake Publishing