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The Last Women of the Durham Coalfield: Hannah's Granddaughter by Margaret Hedley 9781803994192
RRP: $27.43$20.51'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: $17.14$14.01By 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 Roots of Radicalism: Tradition, the Public Sphere, and Early Nineteenth-Century Social Movements by Craig Calhoun
RRP: $48.03$47.67The story of the rise of radicalism in the early nineteenth century has often been simplified into a fable about progressive social change. The diverse social movements of the era - religious, political, regional, national, antislavery, and protemperance... -
The War on our Doorstep: London's East End and how the Blitz Changed it Forever by Harriet Salisbury
RRP: $29.14$21.06London'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... -
James P. Cannon and the Origins of the American Revolutionary Left, 1890-1928 by Bryan D. Palmer
RRP: $56.60$49.57Bryan 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... -
Liberty over London Bridge: A History of the People of Southwark by Margaret Willes 9780300272208
RRP: $34.31$29.13The first complete history of Southwark, London's stubbornly independent community over the Thames Southwark's fortunes have always been tied to those of the City of London across the river. But from its founding in Roman times through to flourishing... -
A World Beneath the Sands: Adventurers and Archaeologists in the Golden Age of Egyptology by Toby Wilkinson
RRP: $22.28$15.59'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: $25.71$18.78In 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: $18.85$13.33"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: $25.71$16.64Winner 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: $63.45$57.74In 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... -
Two Brothers by Jonathan Wilson 9780349144825
RRP: $22.28$14.75'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... -
Pride: The Story of the LGBTQ Equality Movement by Matthew Todd
RRP: $34.31$23.59In June 1969, police raided New York gay bar the Stonewall Inn. Pride charts the events of that night, the days and nights of rioting that followed, the ensuing organization of local members of the community - and the 50 years since in which activists... -
A House Full of Daughters by Juliet Nicolson 9780099598039
RRP: $22.28$15.59One 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: $18.85$12.21A 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: $34.31$22.88'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... -
Our Glasgow: Memories of Life in Disappearing Britain by Piers Dudgeon
RRP: $18.85$12.69This 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... -
Free Time: The History of an Elusive Ideal by Gary S. Cross 9781479813070
RRP: $51.44$45.27The 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... -
The Fall of Public Man by Richard Sennett 9780141007571
RRP: $25.71$18.78Richard 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: $27.43$19.91Winner 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: $32.57$25.59From 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: $34.31$25.23The 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... -
England's Thousand Best Churches by Simon Jenkins
RRP: $68.61$51.44Simon 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... -
Yorkshire: A lyrical history of England's greatest county by Richard Morris
RRP: $18.85$12.69'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... -
City on Fire: the fight for Hong Kong by Antony Dapiran
RRP: $18.85$12.56A 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... -
Mescaline: A Global History of the First Psychedelic by Mike Jay
RRP: $20.57$18.10A 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... -
Tartan, The Illustrated Encyclopedia of: A history and visual guide to 750 tartans by Iain Zaczek 9780754835363
RRP: $25.73$23.26This 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: $22.28$15.59The 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: $32.57$28.94Contains 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 Gentleman's Daughter: Women's Lives in Georgian England by Amanda Vickery 9780300102222
RRP: $24.00$21.01What was the life of an eighteenth-century British genteel woman like? In this lively and controversial book, Amanda Vickery invokes women's own accounts of their intimate and their public lives to argue that in the eighteenth and early nineteenth... -
The Mavericks: English Football When Flair Wore Flares by Rob Steen
RRP: $22.28$15.59ONE 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,... -
The Covent Garden Ladies: the book that inspired BBC2’s ‘Harlots’ by Hallie Rubenhold
RRP: $18.85$13.33***By the No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author of THE FIVE***'A fascinating expose of the seamy side of eighteenth century life' MAIL ON SUNDAY'Rubenhold's pages practically reek with smelly, pox-ridden Georgian Soho'... -
Summer of Blood: The Peasants' Revolt of 1381 by Dan Jones
RRP: $22.28$15.59Revolt and upheaval in medieval Britain by a brilliant new narrative historian, 'Summer of Blood' breaks new ground in its portrayal of the personalities and politics of the bloody days of June 1381. The Peasants' Revolt of 1381 is one of the... -
The Order of Things by Michel Foucault 9780415267373
RRP: $29.14$26.11When one defines "order" as a sorting of priorities, it becomes beautifully clear as to what Foucault is doing here. With virtuoso showmanship, he weaves an intensely complex history of thought. He dips into literature, art, economics and even biology in... -
The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels by Jon Meacham
RRP: $30.02$21.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399589829Author Jon MeachamFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
I Read the News Today, Oh Boy: The short and gilded life of Tara Browne, the man who inspired The Beatles' greatest song by Paul Howard
RRP: $22.28$15.47Few people rode the popular wave of the sixties quite like Tara Browne. One of Swinging London's most popular faces, he lived fast, died young and was immortalized for ever in the opening lines of 'A Day in the Life', a song that many critics regard as... -
Why We Drive: On Freedom, Risk and Taking Back Control by Matthew Crawford
RRP: $17.14$12.20Why We Drive is a rebellious and daring celebration of the human spirit and the competence of ordinary people by the bestselling author of The Case for Working with Your Hands.Once we were drivers on the open road.Today we are more often in the back seat... -
The Captain's Apprentice: Ralph Vaughan Williams and the Story of a Folk Song by Caroline Davison
RRP: $34.31$24.51***AS READ ON BBC RADIO 4******WINNER OF THE NEW ANGLE PRIZE FOR LITERATURE******LONGLISTED FOR THE HWA AWARDS***A beautifully written exploration of the world of Edwardian folk music, and its influence on the composer Ralph Vaughan WilliamsIn January... -
The Mountains Are High: a year of escape and discovery in rural China by Alec Ash 9781914484377
RRP: $29.14$19.86What is it like to radically change your life? Writer Alec Ash meets the Chinese who are doing just this, 'reverse migrating' from the cities to the remote countryside of southwest China - and joins them himself, in an extraordinary and inspiring journey... -
Vagabonds: Life on the Streets of Nineteenth-century London - by BBC New Generation Thinker 2022 by Oskar Jensen
RRP: $18.85$12.66Dickensian London is brought to real and vivid life in this Wolfson History Prize-shortlisted portrait by a rising-star historian and New Generation Thinker Until now, our view of bustling late Georgian and Victorian London has been filtered through...