Social History

Upstairs, an Edwardian home was a picture of elegance, sophistication and serenity, filled with social engagements and lavish dinner parties. Downstairs was another story; a hive of domestic activity, as servants strove to ensure that life ran as...

More than a capital city, Londoners had witnessed the unthinkable - the public execution of a king at Whitehall. Thousands had died in the Plague of 1665, then the Great Fire of 1666. But from the ashes rose a modern city, rebuilt with the shining dome...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780948699085Author Rodney LeggFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Dorset Publishing CompanyPublisher Halsgrove

This eloquent and provocative essay describes the emergence of a Virginia gentleman. Sent to England for an education, William Byrd II soon learned to emulate the ideals of English gentility. In 1704 the thirty-year-old Byrd inherited his father's...

Some of you think an Indian is like a wild animal. This is a great mistake. I will tell you all about our people, and then you can judge whether an Indian is a man or not. . . What I have to say will come from my heart, and I will speak with a straight...

Without the Thames there would be no London. From earliest times, the city's needs --whether for stone, gold or coal, for hay to feed livestock or food, or wine and spices for human beings -- were supplied from the river, as the fierce tides brought...

The authors tell the story of Berlin through political events and through a vast range of extraordinary personalities: politicians, soldiers and businessmen, artists, writes and performers, and the often bizarre Hohenzollern princes who ruled the city...

In May 2003 journalist Rory McCarthy went to Iraq to cover what was claimed to be the triumphant rebuilding of the country after the American invasion. Two years later he left a place teetering on the brink of civil war, whose inhabitants longed for the...

Based on the BBC television series, Shopgirls is the true story of the incredible women behind the counters of Britain's most famous - and not so famous - stores. From the Victorian age through to the present day, an unsung army of shopgirls have been at...

The Way We Lived Then is a fascinating anthology of memoirs chronicling British life in the seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The wealth of material from people of all classes provides an enthralling and detailed portrait...

An illustrated, introductory history of the indigenous North American people, aiming to give a sense of the cultural richness of native American traditions. Josephy delivers an authoritative account of the hundreds of Indian nations that have inhabited...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783170197541Author Jeannette GodauFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint KohlhammerPublisher KohlhammerWeight(grams) 449g

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Planet Taco asks the question, "what is authentic Mexican food?" The burritos and taco shells that many people think of as Mexican were actually created in the United States, and Americanized foods have recently been carried around the world in tin cans...

As Britain's population grew and the country became more urbanised and industrialised in eighteenth and early nineteenth century, so shops, shopkeepers and shopworkers also increased in number. Once people were no longer self-sufficient, so mass...

Enamel signs emerged as the jewel in the crown of British advertising in the late Victorian era, commanding public attention for over half a century before technological, economic and social change combined to render them redundant. From the 1950s...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800085398Author Anamarija BatistaFormat PaperbackImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 760g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913505066Format PaperbackImprint And Other StoriesPublisher And Other Stories

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Trentham was the Staffordshire home of the Leveson-Gower family, the Dukes of Sutherland. In the mid-nineteenth century they were said to be the richest non-royal family in Britain. They owned many other country houses and estates, bound to each other by...

During the last days of peace in 1939 nearly two million people, most of them children, were evacuated from British cities, towns and ports to the countryside, or across the Atlantic to the USA and Canada. Whole schools were evacuated together and found...

Recycling, composting, buying locally-sourced food and vintage clothing, checking air miles and carbon footprints - our ever-growing national obsession with being green, healthy and preserving the planet is beginning to affect the way many of us shop,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781852604196Author Alec BeilbyFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint Patrick Stephens LtdPublisher Haynes Publishing GroupWeight(grams) 175g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780113000289Author English HeritageFormat PaperbackPage Count 119Imprint The Stationery OfficePublisher The Stationery Office Books (Agencies)Weight(grams)...

The unsung and remarkable stories of the women who held London's East End together during not one, but two world wars. _____________ Minksy, Gladys, Beatty, Joan, Girl Walker. While the men were at war, these women ruled the streets of the East End...

From longbow, pike, and musket to Challenger tanks, from the Napoleonic Wars to the Gulf Campaign, from the Duke of Marlborough to Field Marshal Montgomery, this informative book recounts the history of the British army from its medieval antecedents to...

The English have long been the drunken men of Europe and for many centuries observers have marvelled at the capacity of the English to get bevvied, blotto, fuddled, hammered, titillated, plastered or sozzled. Everyone has been involved: drunken clergy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956244901Author Anne BridgerFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint The Society for Promoting the Training of WomenPublisher The Society for Promoting the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955761508Author M. J. ClubbFormat PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint Gwasg Blaen-Y-WawrPublisher Gwasg Blaen-Y-Wawr

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955522802Author Andrew MerrimanFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Down's Syndrome AssociationPublisher Down's Syndrome Association

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780953085903Author Neil M.C. SinclairFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Dragon & Tiger EnterprisesPublisher Dragon & Tiger Enterprises

This enthralling collection of memories records life in the Rhondda valleys from the late nineteenth century onwards. Drawn from a wide variety of sources, it includes the often humorous anecdotes of everyday life from local people, notes from the diary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780750907279Author Barbara LoweFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Sutton Publishing LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 270g

The Victorian clergyman is a familiar character in the fiction of the period, especially in the novels of Anthony Trollope and George Eliot. Through text and pictures, this book sets out to tell their story and to set them firmly in the context of the...

No building type arouses more nostalgic affection than the traditional high street cinema, not only because of the impression made by the films on the screen and the havent if offered to courting couples, but also because of its own special atomosphere...

The American Civil Rights Movement: A documentary history collects in a single, brief volume, documents reflecting key aspects of the Civil Rights Movement: the voices of social activists (and opponents), the legal struggle in the courts, and...

Crossrail, the `Elizabeth' line, with its spacious, light-filled stations, is simply the latest way of traversing a very old east-west route through what was once countryside to the old City core and out again. Visiting Stepney, Liverpool Street,...

Whether you are curious to know what your village, town, or county was like many years ago, or have an overiding desire to uncover the everyday lives of your ancestors - this is the perfect book - an unrivalled new guide to investigating how we used to...

Why do we still get misty-eyed about England's green and pleasant land? What explains our obsession with country houses - from the National Trust to Downton Abbey? Why do we still dream of a place in the country? In this delightul book Roy Strong...