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A 1950s Irish Childhood: From Catapults to Communion Medals by Ruth Illingworth
RRP: £12.99£9.371950s Ireland was the age of De Valera and John Charles McQuaid. It was the age before television, Vatican II, and home central heating. A time when motor cars and public telephones had wind-up handles, when boys wore short trousers and girls wore... -
London: A Pilgrimage by Blanchard Jerrold
RRP: £9.99£8.76'London: A Pilgrimage' was conceived in 1868 by the journalist and playwright Blanchard Jerrold. Accompanied by the famous artist Gustave Dore, Jerrold prowled every corner of the heaving metropolis, sometimes with plain-clothes police for protection... -
Two Brothers by Jonathan Wilson 9780349144825
RRP: £12.99£8.18'A powerful chronicle of the transformation of English football and society through the prism of two very different characters' Irish TimesJack was open, charismatic, selfish and pig-headed; Bobby was guarded, shy, polite and reserved to the point of... -
Luxury and power: Persia to Greece by James Fraser
RRP: £35.00£22.52An eye-opening publication that contrasts perceptions of luxury - together with its positive and negative connotations - in imperial Persia, democratic Athens and the Hellenistic world between 600 and 200 BCE. 'Luxuriously illustrated' - Asian Review of... -
We British: The Poetry of a People by Andrew Marr 9780008130893
RRP: £9.99£7.52More than just an anthology, WE BRITISH is a history of Britain told through its poetry. Written by Britain's most celebrated political commentator for World Poetry Day. This is the story of Britain told from inside. Hundreds of... -
Our Glasgow: Memories of Life in Disappearing Britain by Piers Dudgeon
RRP: £10.99£7.05This oral history of Glasgow spans most of the last century - a time of economic downturn and eventual renewal, in which the many communities making up the city experienced upheavals that tore some apart and brought others closer together. It tells of... -
Women of Steel: The Feisty Factory Sisters Who Helped Win the War by Michelle Rawlins
RRP: £12.99£8.18True stories of love and loss during WWII, from the tough Northern women who kept the foundry fires burning.When war broke out, the young women of Sheffield had their carefree lives turned upside down. With their sweethearts being sent away to fight,... -
A History of York in 101 People, Objects & Places: 2023 by Paul Chrystal 9781739819422
RRP: £16.99£11.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739819422Author Paul ChrystalFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Destinworld Publishing LtdPublisher Destinworld Publishing Ltd -
Clubland: How the working men’s club shaped Britain by Pete Brown
RRP: £10.99£7.25The untold story of a British institution 'Brilliant.' Alan Johnson 'Compelling.' David Kynaston 'The beer drinkers' Bill Bryson.' Times Literary... -
Between Britain: Walking the History of England and Scotland by Alistair Moffat 9781838854386
RRP: £20.00£13.46The border between Scotland and England is rich in history. It has been the site of battles, treaties, castles and crossroads. It is also a place where both countries display their nationalism: Saltires flying in the north, the Cross of St George to the... -
The Last Women of the Durham Coalfield: Hannah's Granddaughter by Margaret Hedley 9781803994192
RRP: £15.99£11.96'As this book shows, the women of the Durham coalfield played an equal role in shaping daily life and trajectories of history in the region, just as women today are building their own futures in communities around the world.' - Hillary Rodham ClintonThe... -
A Philosophy of Walking by Frédéric Gros 9781804290446
RRP: £9.99£6.64By walking, you escape from the very idea of identity, the temptation to be someone, to have a name and a history ... The freedom in walking lies in not being anyone; for the walking body has no history, it is just an eddy in the stream of immemorial... -
The War on our Doorstep: London's East End and how the Blitz Changed it Forever by Harriet Salisbury
RRP: £16.99£12.28London's East Enders are known for being a tough, humorous and lively lot. In the early 20th century, families crowded into single rooms, children played on the streets and neighbours' doors were never locked in case you needed an escape route from the... -
Scents of China: A Modern History of Smell by Xuelei Huang 9781009207041
RRP: £30.00£24.57In this vivid and highly original reading of recent Chinese history, Xuelei Huang documents the eclectic array of smells that permeated Chinese life from the High Qing through to the Mao period. Utilising interdisciplinary methodology and critically... -
Yorkshire: A lyrical history of England's greatest county by Richard Morris
RRP: £10.99£7.05'Restless, poetic, strange ... and the territory it describes deserves nothing less' Observer'Glittering and energetic' Country LifeYorkshire is 'a continent unto itself', a region where mountain, plain, coast, downs, fen and heath lie close. By weaving... -
James P. Cannon and the Origins of the American Revolutionary Left, 1890-1928 by Bryan D. Palmer
RRP: £33.00£28.90Bryan D. Palmer's award-winning study of James P. Cannon's early years (1890-1928) details how the life of a Wobbly hobo agitator gave way to leadership in the emerging communist underground of the 1919 era. This historical drama unfolds alongside the... -
Mescaline: A Global History of the First Psychedelic by Mike Jay
RRP: £11.99£11.02A definitive history of mescaline that explores its mind-altering effects across cultures, from ancient America to Western modernity Mescaline became a popular sensation in the mid-twentieth century through Aldous Huxley's The Doors of Perception, after... -
A World Beneath the Sands: Adventurers and Archaeologists in the Golden Age of Egyptology by Toby Wilkinson
RRP: £12.99£9.09'It is a story full of drama, with the Nile, the pyramids and the Valley of the Kings as backdrop. That A World Beneath the Sands is also a subtle and stimulating study of the paradoxes of 19th-century colonialism is a bonus indeed.' - Tom Holland,... -
A History of Contemporary Italy: 1943-80 by Paul Ginsborg
RRP: £14.99£10.95In this long-awaited book (already a major bestseller in Italy) Ginsborg has created a fascinating, sophisticated and definitive account of how Italy has coped, or failed to cope, with the past two decades. Contemporary Italy strongly mirrors Britain -... -
The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth and Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine by Thomas Morris
RRP: £10.99£7.77"Delightfully horrifying."--Popular ScienceOne of Mental Floss's Best Books of 2018One of Science Friday's Best Science Books of 2018* A mysterious epidemic of dental explosions... * A teenage boy who got his wick stuck in a candlestick..... -
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick
RRP: £14.99£9.70Winner of the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2012, the world's leading prize for popular science writing. We live in the information age. But every era of history has had its own information revolution: the invention of writing,... -
Riches and Poverty: An Intellectual History of Political Economy in Britain, 1750-1834 by Donald Winch
RRP: £36.99£33.66In Riches and Poverty, Donald Winch explores the implications of a fundamental and influential idea in political economy. Adam Smith's science of the legislator provided a key to studying the rich and poor in commercial societies, transformed an ancient... -
A House Full of Daughters by Juliet Nicolson 9780099598039
RRP: £12.99£9.09One woman's investigation into the nature of memory, the past, and above all, love. All families have their myths and Juliet Nicolson's was no different: her flamenco dancing great-great-grandmother Pepita, the flirty manipulation of her... -
1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: The story of two lives, one nation, and a century of art under tyranny by Ai Weiwei
RRP: £10.99£7.12A FAMILY STORY AND THE TALE OF A NATION.Ai Weiwei - one of the world's most famous artists and activists - weaves a century-long epic tale of China through the story of his own life and that of his father, Ai Qing, the nation's most celebrated poet... -
Camp!: The Story of the Attitude that Conquered the World by Paul Baker
RRP: £20.00£13.34'My dear, she's on fire!' DAMIAN BARR'A snappy guide to an all-conquering aesthetic' Financial Times'The following things have seemed impossibly camp to me at one point or another: a doll whose body acts as a cover for a toilet roll, a tantrum over wire... -
Free Time: The History of an Elusive Ideal by Gary S. Cross 9781479813070
RRP: £29.99£26.39The history of leisure time, from the earliest societies to the work-from-home era Free time, one of life's most precious things, often feels unfulfilling. But why? And how did leisure activities transition from strolling in the park for hours to... -
A Woman Lived Here: Alternative Blue Plaques, Remembering London's Remarkable Women by Allison Vale
RRP: £10.99£2.79'A pretty awesome present for the feminist in your life' - Caroline Criado Perez, OBE, author of Do It Like a WomanAt the last count, the Blue Plaque Guide honours 903 Londoners, and a walking tour of these sites brings to life the London of a bygone era... -
The Fall of Public Man by Richard Sennett 9780141007571
RRP: £14.99£10.95Richard Sennett's The Fall of Public Man examines the growing imbalance between private and public experience, and asks what can bring us to reconnect with our communities. Are we now so self-absorbed that we take little interest in the world beyond our... -
Those Wild Wyndhams: Three Sisters at the Heart of Power by Claudia Renton
RRP: £15.99£11.61Winner of the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize 2014 A rich historical biography of 'those wild Wyndhams' - three cultured aristocratic sisters born into great privilege in late Victorian Britain. Mary, Madeline and Pamela -... -
Patient Zero: A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases by Lydia Kang
RRP: £18.99£12.52From the masters of storytelling-meets-science and co-authors of Quackery, Patient Zero tells the long and fascinating history of disease outbreaks-how they start, how they spread, the science that lets us understand them, and how we race to destroy them... -
Women in Policing: A History through Personal Stories by Tom Andrews 9781803992495
RRP: £20.00£14.71The history of policing in Britain is a considerably under-researched subject, and the advancement of women within that history even more so. This book seeks to fill that gap, by tracking the progress of women in policing - a story that is longer and... -
Defying Hitler: A Memoir by Sebastian Haffner
RRP: £9.99£6.48An absolute classic of autobiography and history - one of the few books to explore how and why the Germans were seduced by Hitler and Nazism.'If you have never read a book about Nazi Germany before, or if you have already read a thousand, I would urge... -
England's Thousand Best Churches by Simon Jenkins
RRP: £40.00£29.99Simon Jenkins has travelled the length and breadth of England to select his thousand best churches. Organised by county, each church is described - often with delightful asides - and given a star-rating from one to five. All of the county sections are... -
City on Fire: the fight for Hong Kong by Antony Dapiran
RRP: £10.99£7.32A long-term resident and expert observer of dissent in Hong Kong takes readers to the frontlines of Hong Kong's revolution. Through the long, hot summer of 2019, Hong Kong burned. Anti-government protests, sparked by a government proposal to introduce a... -
A Brief History of Life in the Middle Ages by Martyn Whittock
RRP: £12.99£3.51Using wide-ranging evidence, Martyn Whittock shines a light on Britain in the Middle Ages, bringing it vividly to life in this fascinating new portrait that brings together the everyday and the extraordinary.Thus we glimpse 11th-century rural society... -
Tartan, The Illustrated Encyclopedia of: A history and visual guide to 750 tartans by Iain Zaczek 9780754835363
RRP: £15.00£11.96This newly updated illustrated guide provides a detailed insight into the origins and history of tartan, from the very earliest samples, through those worn by the warring clans in the Stuart rebellions, to the Katsushika Japanese Dancers. The first... -
The White Road: a pilgrimage of sorts by Edmund de Waal
RRP: £12.99£9.09The gripping story of the lure of porcelain, or 'white gold', from the Number One bestselling author of The Hare with Amber Eyes.** A Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller ** "Other things in the world are white but for me porcelain comes first" A handful of... -
Who’s to Blame? Collective Guilt on Trial by Coline Covington
RRP: £18.99£17.65Contains discussion of topics including the Holocaust, slavery, white guilt and the war in Ukraine. Accessibly written, current and engaging. Primarily psychoanalytic perspective but also includes discussion of history, morality and politics.About the... -
The Mavericks: English Football When Flair Wore Flares by Rob Steen
RRP: £12.99£9.09ONE OF FOUR FOUR TWO MAGAZINE'S '50 FOOTBALL BOOKS YOU MUST READ' 'A great book' - Henry Winter 'A lovely read, the kind in which you constantly annoy people by reading the funny bits out loud' - Irish Post ---- First published 25 years ago,... -
Gothic: An Illustrated History by Roger Luckhurst
RRP: £28.00£18.97Crumbling ruins, undead fiends, dark alleys and forests teeming with horrors seen and unseen: the tendrils of the Gothic have crept out of the architecture of churches, mosques and grand houses and into suburban malls, overcrowded cities, the deserted...