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Useful Toil: Autobiographies of Working People from the 1820s to the 1920s by Professor John Burnett
RRP: $88.18$77.18Useful Toil engages freshly and directly with the `ordinary' people of the nineteenth century. John Burnett has assembled twenty seven telling extracts from the diaries and autobiographies of working people - wheelwrights and stone-masons, miners and... -
Discovering the River Tamar by John Neale
RRP: $33.58$24.76The 50-mile stretch of the River Tamar forms a unique county boundary between the counties of Devon and Cornwall. The Tamar's source is East Youlstone near Bude less than 4 miles from the north Cornish coast. But instead of flowing northward into the... -
Feminine Ingenuity by Anne Louise MacDonald 9780345383143
RRP: $39.88$31.79Apologies 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 -
Bradwell's Images of South Wales Coal Mining Ray Lawrence 9781912060597
RRP: $27.28$19.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912060597Author Ray LawrenceFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Bradwell BooksPublisher Bradwell Books -
Haunted Swansea and Beyond by South Wales Paranormal Research
RRP: $31.48$24.61South Wales Paranormal Research firmly believes that Wales contains more ghouls and goblins than anywhere else in the country, and this book will take the reader on a paranormal journey through some of the lesser-known stories from Swansea and beyond... -
British Political History, 1867-2001: Democracy and Decline by Malcolm Pearce 9780415268707 [USED COPY]
RRP: $77.68$5.88This third edition of British Political History, 1867-2001 is an accessible summary of major political developments in British history over the last 140 years.Analyzing the changing nature of British society and Britain's role on the world stage, Malcolm... -
British Political History, 1867-2001: Democracy and Decline by Malcolm Pearce
RRP: $77.68$70.41This third edition of British Political History, 1867-2001 is an accessible summary of major political developments in British history over the last 140 years.Analyzing the changing nature of British society and Britain's role on the world stage, Malcolm... -
Sunderland by Carol Roberton 9780752436166
RRP: $31.48$24.61Looks at the last hundred years of Sunderland through a sequence of old photographs selected from the archives of the Sunderland Echo by journalist Carol Roberton. Here are the shipyards and the miners, the shopkeepers and publicans, the schools, the... -
Lost Railways of County Durham by Bernard Byrom 9781840335194
RRP: $25.10$23.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840335194Author Bernard ByromFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 174mm * 240mm * 4mm -
Critique Of Cynical Reason by Peter Sloterdijk 9780816615865
RRP: $50.38$45.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816615865Author Peter SloterdijkFormat PaperbackPage Count 600Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher University of Minnesota PressDimensions(mm)... -
Crime And Punishment In England: An Introductory History by John Briggs 9781857281545
RRP: $88.18$77.78This survey of crime in ENgland from the medieval period to the present day synthesizes case-study and local-level material and standardizes the debates and issues for the student reader.About the AuthorJohn Briggs, Mr John Briggs, Christopher Harrison,... -
The Jews and Germans of Hamburg: The Destruction of a Civilization 1790-1945 by J. A. S. Grenville 9780415665865
RRP: $79.78$70.94Based on more than thirty years archival research, this history of the Jewish and German-Jewish community of Hamburg is a unique and vivid piece of work by one of the leading historians of the twentieth century. The history of the Holocaust here is fully... -
Cattle on a Thousand Hills by Katharine Stewart 9781906817442
RRP: $16.78$12.87While their role has been all too often overlooked by historians, cattle played an integral part in the economy, ecology and culture of Highland life. Although many of these animals and their keepers have been abandoned in favour of sheep walks and deer... -
Chain & Anchor Making in the Black Country by Ron Moss
RRP: $27.28$20.73For two centuries, England led the world in the manufacture of chain and anchors, and at the end of the nineteenth century the majority of all the chain workshops in England and Wales were based in the Black Country, notably Cradley, Cradley Heath, Old... -
Shire Green, Wincobank & Beyond: Britain In Old Photographs by Bryan Woodriff
RRP: $31.48$24.61This third book continues the story of the many people who devoted so much of their lives to creating a wholesome environment in which to live and bring up their children. The background to this book is the development of the Methodist community, their... -
Class 08 Locomotives in Scotland by Colin J. Howat 9781398105607
RRP: $33.58$22.79Since their introduction in the 1950s, the Class 08, the most common type of British Rail shunter, has been found in almost every area of the UK. These machines carried out the shuntings and movements around stations and yards, with most depots carrying... -
The Origins of the Second World War in Asia and the Pacific by Akira Iriye
RRP: $151.18$145.95Professor Iriye analyses the origins of the 1941 conflict against the background of international relations in the preceding decade in order to answer the key question: Why did Japan decide to go to war against so formidable a combination of... -
Burnley Football Club 1882-1968: Images of Sport by Ray Simpson
RRP: $27.28$20.73This collection of over 200 photographs and items of memorabilia traces the course of one of English football's most famous clubs, from its birth in 1882 to the watershed period of the late 1960s. As a founder member of the Football League in 1888, the... -
Hampshire at War 1939-45 by Murray Rowlands 9781473869967
RRP: $27.28$19.30This 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... -
Murder on the Home Front: a gripping murder mystery set during the Blitz - now on Netflix! Molly Lefebure 9780751552041
RRP: $25.18$17.26The remarkable true story, as seen in the brilliant TV adaptation now showing on Netflix! Murder on the Home Front follows Molly Lefebure as she navigates working for the Home Office's chief forensic pathologist while living in a bomb-stricken London... -
Rebel Saint, A PB: Baptist Wriothesley Noel, 1798-1873 by Philip Hill
$58.84Baptist 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... -
The Secret Army: The IRA J. Bowyer Bell 9781560009016
RRP: $104.98$94.16The Secret Army is the definitive work on the Irish Republican Army. It is an absorbing account of a movement that has had a profound effect on the shaping of the modern Irish state. The secret army in the service of the invisible Republic has had a... -
Veteran Motor Cars by Steve Lanham
RRP: $18.88$15.06This colourful introduction to the first decades of the motor car covers its earliest iterations, when the automobile represented the very peak of technological innovation. It is packed with fascinating facts about the experimental origins of the motor... -
Voices From the Past: A year of great quotations - and the stories from history that inspired them by W.B. Marsh
RRP: $25.18$17.14366 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... -
What's Wrong with the United Nations and How to Fix It Thomas G. Weiss (City University of New York) 9781509507443
RRP: $35.68$32.47Seven decades after its establishment, the United Nations and its system of related organizations and programs are perpetually in crisis. While the twentieth-century's world wars gave rise to ground-breaking efforts at international organization in 1919... -
Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines and the Health of Nations by Simon Schama 9781471169908
RRP: $35.68$27.45'This splendid and often moving work of history... Schama has a gift for combining novelistically colourful detail, serious analysis and wryly amusing asides' Daily Telegraph 'Superb' Observer 'Extraordinary... A meticulous retelling of a terrible... -
Unfolding Catastrophe: Australia by John Stapleton 9780645039436
RRP: $25.20$18.52Apologies 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 -
Fowey: Source to Sea by Sue Lewington
$22.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781850222422Author Sue LewingtonFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint TruranPublisher TruranDimensions(mm) 155mm * 110mm * 10mm -
A Century of Birkenhead & Wirral: Events, People and Places Over the 20th Century by Cliff Hayes
RRP: $31.48$24.61This fascinating selection of photographs illustrates the extraordinary transformation that has taken place in Birkenhead and Wirral during the 20th century. The book offers an insight into the daily lives and living conditions of local people and gives... -
How Russia Lost Bulgaria, 1878-1886: Empire Unguided by Mikhail S. Rekun 9781498559638
RRP: $178.50$157.31How 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... -
The Carlyles at Home by Thea Holme 9781903155226
RRP: $35.70$32.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903155226Author Thea HolmeFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Persephone Books LtdPublisher Persephone Books LtdDimensions(mm) 194mm * 139mm * 19mm -
Crusading Warfare, 1097-1193 by R. C. Smail
RRP: $56.68$47.88This 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... -
Great State: China and the World by Timothy Brook 9781781258286
RRP: $52.50$47.33China is one of the oldest states in the world. It achieved its approximate current borders with the Ascendancy of the Yuan dynasty in the 13th century, and despite the passing of one Imperial dynasty to the next, it has maintained them for the eight... -
Macclesfield History Tour by Paul Hurley
RRP: $18.88$13.06Macclesfield is an ancient Cheshire town that stands beneath the sprawling and beautiful Peak District. It is Cheshire's farthest outpost before taking the road into Derbyshire; many years ago it entered the Industrial Revolution in a more genteel manner... -
A History of Shropshire by Barrie Trinder 9780750983686
RRP: $47.25$35.81Shropshire is England's largest inland county, extending from the fringes of the Black Country and the Potteries to the high sheep pastures of Clun Forest and the craggy heights of the Stiperstones. Dr Trinder's very readable narrative encompasses... -
Mr Selden's Map of China: The spice trade, a lost chart & the South China Sea Timothy Brook 9781781250396
RRP: $27.28$19.61In 1659, a vast and unusual map of China arrived in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. It was bequeathed by John Selden, a London business lawyer, political activist, former convict, MP and the city's first Orientalist scholar. Largely ignored, it remained in... -
Wounded Knee: Party Politics and the Road to an American Massacre by Heather Cox Richardson 9780465025114
$44.73On December 29, 1890, five hundred American troops massed around hundreds of unarmed Lakota Sioux men, women, and children near Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota. Outnumbered and demoralized, the Sioux posed no threat to the soldiers and put up no... -
On Every Tide: The making and remaking of the Irish world by Sean Connolly
RRP: $27.28$18.27An immensely impressive, authoritative history of the Irish diaspora'A richly detailed, scholarly and challenging history' Sunday Times'Impressive, provocative and perception-tilting... it's indispensable' Irish Independent'Essential reading for... -
Food: A Culinary History by Jean-Louis Flandrin 9780231111553
RRP: $42.00$35.97When did we first serve meals at regular hours? Why did we begin using individual plates and utensils to eat? When did "cuisine" become a concept and how did we come to judge food by its method of preparation, manner of consumption, and gastronomic... -
The Meaning of the Library: A Cultural History by Alice Crawford 9780691166391
RRP: $79.80$63.86From Greek and Roman times to the digital era, the library has remained central to knowledge, scholarship, and the imagination. The Meaning of the Library is a generously illustrated examination of this key institution of Western culture. Tracing what...