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Secret Bury St Edmunds by Martyn Taylor
RRP: £15.99£10.85During the 1,000-year history of Bury St Edmunds, the town has acquired a mix of unexpected, weird and wonderful examples of buildings and the people associated with them. The old adage of looking up when going round any town is as true to Bury St... -
Croydon Past by John Gent 9780750970457
RRP: £14.99£11.55Croydon was for centuries a small but important market town, set in attractive open countryside and separated from London by poor roads, large commons, the Great North Wood and, probably, by inclination. As the principal town in East Surrey it had large... -
The Prime Minister: The Office and Its Holders Since 1945 by Peter Hennessy 9780312293130
RRP: £59.99£39.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312293130Author Peter HennessyFormat HardbackPage Count 688Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams) 1152gDimensions(mm)... -
A Social History of England 1851-1990 by Francois Bedarida
RRP: £36.99£32.93In this, the second edition of A Social History of England, Francois Bedarida has added a new final chapter on the last fifteen years.The book now traces the evolution of English society from the height of the British Empire to the dawn of the single... -
Lost Ludlow: A collection of rare and early photographs by Ralph Beardmore 9781910839669
RRP: £16.99£14.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910839669Author Ralph BeardmoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Logaston PressPublisher Fircone Books Ltd -
Secret Wokingham by Richard Gibbs 9781398104006
RRP: £15.99£10.85The Berkshire town of Wokingham has over 1,000 years of history, and this history is interwoven with the bigger story of England. Underneath the vestiges of the modern town, it is still possible to uncover Wokingham's secret past, which includes... -
Who Needs Greek?: Contests in the Cultural History of Hellenism by Simon Goldhill 9780521011761
RRP: £39.99£33.26Does Greek matter? To whom and why? This interdisciplinary study focuses on moments when passionate conflicts about Greek and Greek-ness have erupted in both the modern and the ancient worlds. It looks at the Renaissance, when men were burned at the... -
Cardinal's College: Christ Church, Chapter and Verse by Judith Curthoys
RRP: £40.00£30.25Christ Church, founded by Cardinal Wolsey in 1525, and arguably the grandest college in the University of Oxford, has been the subject of only one previous history. Now Judith Curthoys, the college archivist, presents a new and fascinating account of... -
Ilkley Revisited: Britain in Old Photographs by Mike Dixon 9780752448947
RRP: £14.99£11.55This fascinating collection of over 200 photographs of Ilkley, covering more than a century of history, has been compiled by local author Mike Dixon. All aspects of life in the area are here, from natural disasters, such as the Ilkley flood of 1900, and... -
Legal Pluralism and Empires, 1500-1850 by Lauren Benton
RRP: £24.99£21.67This wide-ranging volume advances our understanding of law and empire in the early modern world. Distinguished contributors expose new dimensions of legal pluralism in the British, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Ottoman empires. In-depth analyses probe... -
Feminine Ingenuity by Anne Louise MacDonald 9780345383143
RRP: £19.74£15.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345383143Author Anne Louise MacDonaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 529Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 609g -
By the Sword: Gladiators, Musketeers, Samurai Warriors, Swashbucklers and Olympians by Richard Cohen 9781847396709
RRP: £12.99£8.18The art and science of sword fighting goes back almost to the dawn of civilization and has been an obsession for much of mankind throughout recorded history. From the Roman arena to feudal Japan and from the duellists of Europe to the development of... -
The Last White Rose: The Secret Wars of the Tudors by Desmond Seward
RRP: £12.99£8.60A brilliant new interpretation of one of the most dramatic periods of British history.The Wars of the Roses didn't end at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485. Despite the death of Richard III and Henry VII's victory, it continued underground into the... -
War and Conflict in the Middle Ages by Stephen Morillo
RRP: £18.99£16.87In War and Conflict in the Middle Ages, Stephen Morillo offers the first global history of armed conflict between 540 and 1500 or as late as 1800 CE, an age shaped by climate change and pandemics at both ends. Examining armed conflict at all levels, and... -
How to Survive in Ancient Egypt by Charlotte Booth
RRP: £19.99£14.68Imagine you were transported back in time to Ancient Egypt and you had to start a new life there. How would you fit in? Where would you live? What would you eat? Where would you go to have your hair done? Who would you go to if you got ill, or if you... -
Lost Girls: Love, War and Literature: 1939-51 by D.J. Taylor 9781472126849 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£4.35A Times Book of the Year 2019'You should not deny yourself the pleasure of reading it' Sunday Times'A remarkable work and an important addition to the extraordinary wartime history of literary London' Literary ReviewWho were the Lost Girls? At least a... -
Lost Girls: Love, War and Literature: 1939-51 by D.J. Taylor
RRP: £12.99£8.60A Times Book of the Year 2019'You should not deny yourself the pleasure of reading it' Sunday Times'A remarkable work and an important addition to the extraordinary wartime history of literary London' Literary ReviewWho were the Lost Girls? At least a... -
Frontier Living: An Illustrated Guide To Pioneer Life In America by Edwin Tunis 9781585741373
RRP: £14.99£11.53With more than 200 illustrations by the author.AwardsCommended for Newbery Medal (Children's) 1962.Book InformationISBN 9781585741373Author Edwin TunisFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint The Lyons PressPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams)... -
Bicycle: The History by David V. Herlihy 9780300120479
£27.93The first comprehensive history of the bicycle-lavishly illustrated with images spanning two centuries During the nineteenth century, the bicycle evoked an exciting new world in which even a poor person could travel afar and at will. But was the... -
A Wild Life: My Adventures Around the World Filming Wildlife by Martin Hughes-Games
RRP: £10.99£7.40The frozen wastes of the Southern Ocean; the tropical rainforests of South America, the scorching grasslands of Africa, the dizzy heights of the snow-capped peaks of the Himalayas: Martin Hughes-Games has been to every continent on earth filming natural... -
The Worst Medieval Monarchs by Phil Bradford 9781399083058
RRP: £25.00£17.62Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Chessington Remembered by Mark Hamilton Davison 9780953424016
RRP: £9.95£9.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780953424016Author Mark Hamilton DavisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Mark DavisonPublisher Mark Davison -
Audience by Helen Wood 9781032539744
RRP: £28.99£25.09This accessible guide through audience studies' histories outlines a contemporary Cultural Studies approach to audiences for the digital age. This book is not a survey of all existing audience research. Instead, its chapters survey parts of the field in... -
The Beatles and the Historians: An Analysis of Writings About the Fab Four by Erin Torkelson Weber
RRP: £21.99£17.97Hundreds of books have been written about The Beatles. Over the last half century, their story has been mythologized and de-mythologized and presented by biographers and journalists as history. Yet many of these works do not strictly qualify as history... -
Elizabeth I by Judith M. Richards
RRP: £37.99£33.38Elizabeth I was Queen of England for almost forty-five years. The daughter of Henry VIII and Ann Boleyn, as an infant she was briefly accepted as her father's heir. After her mother was executed at her father's command she was declared illegitimate and... -
Hampshire at War 1939-45 by Murray Rowlands 9781473869967
RRP: £12.99£9.09This is an important first book on the major pivotal role Hampshire played in World War II. You will find principal details of the genesis for D-Day and how the Battle for Britain happened on a day by day basis. The author highlights the people s... -
Baybars' Successors: Ibn al-Furat on Qalawun and al-Ashraf by Translated by David Cook
RRP: £39.99£35.06Ibn al-Furat (d. 1405) is an understudied Mamluk historian, whose materials for the period of the later Crusades is unique. While sections of his history for the period prior to 1277 have been translated, later sections have not. His text provides both... -
Filey by Peter Harris
RRP: £14.99£11.55Filey 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... -
Rebel Saint, A PB: Baptist Wriothesley Noel, 1798-1873 by Philip Hill
£28.02Baptist Noel (1798-1873) has been described by the American Evangelical Anglican historian Grayson Carter as a towering figure in nineteenth-century Evangelicalism, but he has been written out of its story because he was a saintly rebel who counted a... -
War Hotels by Kenneth Morrison
RRP: £14.99£12.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785374029Author Malachi O'DohertyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Merrion PressPublisher Merrion Press -
Voices From the Past: A year of great quotations - and the stories from history that inspired them by W.B. Marsh
RRP: £11.99£7.93366 quotations - one for every day of the (leap) year - each with a fascinating historical storyIn a treasure trove for history buffs, W. B. Marsh fleshes out the context behind famous quotations associated with each day of the year, sending us back and... -
Horseman Pass by! by Michel Deon
RRP: £10.00£8.18These reflective essays about Deon's life and experiences in the west of Ireland describe the colourful and varied personalities that the French novelist has come across since he and his family moved there in the mid 1970s. From his friendship with John... -
Unfolding Catastrophe: Australia by John Stapleton 9780645039436
RRP: £12.00£8.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645039436Author John StapletonFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint Sense of Place PublishingPublisher Sense of Place PublishingWeight(grams) 431g -
The Nanteos Grail: The Evolution of a Holy Relic by John Matthews
RRP: £16.99£11.47The theft of the Nanteos Cup from a private home in Wales in 2015 - and its even more remarkable recovery two years later - made the headlines in most major newspapers and featured on BBC Crimewatch. People who had never heard of the cup began asking... -
Introducing the Holocaust: A Graphic Guide by Haim Bresheeth
RRP: £8.99£2.26'Excellent ... an astounding amount of material.'Times Educational Supplement Popular culture often portrays the Holocaust as ahorrific drama played out between Nazi executioners and ghetto Jewish victims -in short, a single aberration of history... -
Anti-Semitism and the Left by Ian Hernon 9781398102231
RRP: £20.00£14.29'Under Corbyn, the true Left of radical campaigning and genuine anti-racism has been bastardised into a hate cult distinguished by repellent self-righteousness. Corbyn's cronies, more than willing to act with venality when it suits them, have told... -
How Russia Lost Bulgaria, 1878-1886: Empire Unguided by Mikhail S. Rekun 9781498559638
RRP: £85.00£74.91How Russia Lost Bulgaria looks at the rapid breakdown in Russo-Bulgarian relations in the years following the Russian liberation of Bulgaria in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878. Initially, the Russian Empire and the Principality of Bulgaria were close... -
Crusading Warfare, 1097-1193 by R. C. Smail
RRP: £26.99£22.80This is a revised edition of R. C. Smail's classic account of the military achievements of the Crusaders in the context of a 'feudal society organized for war'. A new bibliographical introduction and an updated bibliography have been provided by... -
The Gods of the Celts by Miranda Green
RRP: £12.99£9.62The presence of gods was felt in every corner of the Celtic world, and influenced all areas of life in Celtic society. This fascinating book delves into these corners to examine all aspects of the gods, ritual customs, cult objects and sacred places of... -
Bedminster by Anton Bantock 9780752410661
RRP: £14.99£11.55A history of Bedminster.Book InformationISBN 9780752410661Author Anton BantockFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 165mm * 10mm