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The Ornament Of The World by Maria Rosa Menocal
$12.61 - $16.81This classic bestseller - the inspiration for the PBS series - is an "illuminating and even inspiring" portrait of medieval Spain that explores the golden age when Muslims, Jews, and Christians lived together in an atmosphere of tolerance (Los Angeles... -
The Invention of News: How the World Came to Know About Itself by Dr. Andrew Pettegree
RRP: $29.14$25.75The extraordinary history of news and its dissemination, from medieval pilgrim tales to the birth of the newspaper Long before the invention of printing, let alone the availability of a daily newspaper, people desired to be informed. In the... -
Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia by David Graeber 9781802061567
RRP: $18.85$13.33'A characteristically radical re-reading of history that places the social and political experiments of pirates at the heart of the European Enlightenment. A brilliant companion volume to the best-selling Dawn of Everything' Amitav GhoshThe Enlightenment... -
Tattoos: An Illustrated History by Tina Brown
RRP: $27.43$18.61The art of tattoos goes back hundreds, if not thousands, of years and today they are more popular than ever, but how many people really know the story behind tattoos? With a fascination for the Victorian tattoo craze, and the way the story behind these... -
China’s hidden century: 1796–1912 by Jessica Harrison-Hall 9780714124933
RRP: $77.19$54.29'Handsomely illustrated' - Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide 'The exhibition catalogue's seven essays...are a guide to [a] re-reading of the past, threading the relics on display into a rich tapestry of what life entailed under the last century of Manchu... -
The Poor in Western Europe in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries by Stuart Woolf
RRP: $68.59$60.14First published in 1986, this book examines poverty and changing attitudes towards the poor and charity across England, France and Italy. It discusses the causes of poverty and the distinctions between the poor and the class-conscious proletariat. Taking... -
The History of Emotions: A Very Short Introduction by Thomas Dixon
RRP: $15.42$11.06Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Emotions are complex mental states that resist reduction. They are visceral reactions but also beliefs about the world. They are spontaneous outbursts but also culturally learned performances... -
Metropolis: A History of Humankind's Greatest Invention by Ben Wilson
RRP: $22.28$15.59From the Sunday Times bestselling author, a dazzling, globe-spanning history of humankind's greatest invention: the city.'Brilliant...enchanting' Evening Standard 'Exhilarating' New York TimesThe story of the city is the story of civilisation. From Uruk... -
Red Closet: The Hidden History of Gay Oppression in the USSR by Rustam Alexander
RRP: $30.86$22.57In 1934, Joseph Stalin enacted sodomy laws, unleashing a wave of brutal detentions of homosexual men in large Soviet cities. Rustam Alexander recounts the compelling stories of people whose lives were directly affected by those laws, including a naive... -
This Is Anfield: The Illustrated History of Liverpool Football Club's Matchday Programme by Liverpool Football Club 9781914197451
RRP: $32.57$25.06'I Feel Fine' is a beautifully produced official book, a must-buy for every Reds fan wanting to revel in the colour, culture and pride of Jurgen Klopp's Liverpool FC.Book InformationISBN 9781914197451Author Liverpool Football ClubFormat HardbackPage... -
The Reivers: The Story of the Border Reivers by Alistair Moffat
RRP: $18.85$12.56From the early fourteenth century to the end of the sixteenth, the Anglo-Scottish borderlands witnessed one of the most intense periods of warfare and disorder ever seen in modern Europe. As a consequence of near-constant conflict between England and... -
Rousseau: The Social Contract and Other Later Political Writings by Victor Gourevitch 9781316605448
$34.97A comprehensive and authoritative anthology of Rousseau's major later political writings in up-to-date English translations. This volume includes the essay on Political Economy, The Social Contract, and the extensive, late Considerations on the... -
The Island that Dared: Journeys in Cuba by Dervla Murphy 9781906011468
RRP: $25.71$16.81"The Island That Dared" is a passionate book from the pen of Dervla Murphy, which begins with a three-generational family holiday in Cuba. Led by their redoubtable hard-walking grandmother, the trio of young girls and their mother soon find themselves... -
A Brief History of Life in Victorian Britain by Michael Paterson
RRP: $18.85$12.69The Victorian era has dominated the popular imagination like no other period, but these myths and stories also give a very distorted view of the 19th century. The early Victorians were much stranger that we usually imagine, and their world would have... -
300,000 Kisses: Tales of Queer Love from the Ancient World by Luke Edward Hall 9780241575734
RRP: $42.88$30.22Steeped in honey, Juventius, your golden eyes, and as sweet too when I press my lips to them - three hundred thousand kisses is not close to enoughFor centuries, evidence of queer love in the ancient world was ignored or suppressed. Even today, only a... -
Legendary Children by Tom Fitzgerald
RRP: $25.71$16.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143134626Author Tom FitzgeraldFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
The London Underworld in the Victorian Period: v. 1: Authentic First-person Accounts by Beggars, Thieves and Prostitutes by Henry Mayhew 9780486440064
RRP: $27.43$17.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486440064Author Henry MayhewFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
The Eagle and the Bear: A New History of Roman Scotland by John H. Reid
RRP: $30.86$21.61For over three centuries, the inhabitants of North Britain faced the might of Rome, resulting in some of the most extraordinary archaeology of the ancient world. This richly illustrated new history of Roman Scotland explores the complex, often... -
The Gangs Of New York by Herbert Asbury
$6.48 - $16.07The Gangs of New York is a tour through a now unrecognisable city of abysmal poverty and habitual violence centred around the infamous slum of Five Points, with its rival Irish and American gangs. Cobbled from legend, memory, police records, the... -
Innovation: A History of England Volume VI by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: $51.46$36.62'Ackroyd makes history accessible to the layman' - Ian Thomson, IndependentInnovation brings Peter Ackroyd's History of England to a triumphant close. In it, Ackroyd takes readers from the end of the Boer War and the accession of Edward VII to the end of... -
The Circus: A Visual History by Pascal Jacob
RRP: $77.19$61.68Winner of 2019 British Book Design & Production Award for Scholarly, Academic & Reference Books This beautiful book charts the development of the circus as an art form around the world, from antiquity to the present day. Using over 200 circus... -
Seaside 100: A History of the British Seaside in 100 Objects by Kathryn Ferry
RRP: $25.71$18.77Sandcastles, donkeys, piers and sticks of rock. Beach huts, paddle steamers, promenade shelters and ice cream cones. Our modern seaside is the sum of its parts and all those parts have their history. This book explores the best-loved features of our... -
Britain'S 'Brown Babies': The Stories of Children Born to Black GIS and White Women in the Second World War by Lucy Bland 9781526160119
RRP: $25.71$22.86This book recounts a little-known history of the estimated 2,000 babies born to black GIs and white British women in the second world war. The African-American press named these children 'brown babies'; the British called them 'half-castes'. Black GIs,... -
The Sega Mega Drive & Genesis Encyclopedia: Every Game Released for Sega's 16-bit Console by Chris Scullion
RRP: $51.46$39.18The third book in Chris Scullion's series of video game encyclopaedias, the Sega Mega Drive and Genesis Encyclopedia is dedicated to Sega's legendary 16-bit video game console. The book contains detailed information on every single game released for the... -
The Power of Art by Simon Schama
RRP: $51.46$38.68* 'Great art has dreadful manners...' Simon Schama observes at the start of his epic exploration of the power, and whole point, of art. 'The hushed reverence of the gallery can fool you into believing masterpieces are polite things, visions that soothe,... -
The Corner Shop: 'A delightful story of growing up "above the shop"' Nigel Slater: A Radio 4 Book of the Week by Babita Sharma 9781473673236
RRP: $17.14$11.66A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK'Nuanced, human and engaging' Nikesh Shukla, Observer'Full of life, characters, gossip and all the richness of the local community' Sir David Jason'A delightful story of growing up "above the shop"' Nigel Slater,... -
Iga and Koka Ninja Skills: The Secret Shinobi Scrolls of Chikamatsu Shigenori by Antony Cummins
RRP: $25.71$19.35'A retainer of our domain, Renpeido Chikamatsu Hikonoshin Shigenori, each morning washed his face and hands, dressed himself in Hakama and prayed in front of the kamidana alter ... His prayer was thus: "Please afford me success in war." He kept to this... -
Auntie's War: The BBC during the Second World War by Edward Stourton
RRP: $17.14$12.20"An engaging, balanced and thoroughly researched history. It is often a moving and amusing tale containing plenty of mavericks and colourful episodes." (Lawrence James, The Times)Auntie's War is a love letter to radio. The British Broadcasting... -
The Oxford Handbook of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe by Judith M. Bennett
$60.04The Oxford Handbook of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe provides a comprehensive overview of the gender rules encountered in Europe in the period between approximately 500 and 1500 C.E. The essays collected in this volume speak to interpretative... -
Calling Detective Crockford: The story of a pioneering policewoman in the 1950s by Ruth D'Alessandro
RRP: $15.42$11.06This nostalgic and absorbing memoir tells the story of a real-life female police detective in post-war Britain, as she navigates a man's world.It's 1956, and the Berkshire Constabulary has never had a woman detective before. That is, until bright and... -
Coconut: A memoir of belonging, identity and finding home by Florence Olajide
RRP: $15.42$10.63'Why am I not white like everybody else?' Nan came and sat on the edge of my bed. 'What do you mean?' A tender finger brushed against my cheek. 'Well, everyone in this house is white. Why am I Black?'A generation of Nigerian children were born in Britain... -
Shroom: A Cultural History of the Magic Mushroom by Andy Letcher 9780571227716
RRP: $22.28$14.68Is Santa Claus really a magic mushroom in disguise? Was Alice in Wonderland a thinly veiled psychedelic mushroom odyssey? Did mushroom tea kick-start ancient Greek philosophy? The 'magic mushroom' was only rediscovered fifty years ago, but has... -
In the Shadow of Vesuvius: A Cultural History of Naples by Jordan Lancaster
RRP: $22.28$16.36The definitive companion for anyone seeking to delve beneath the surface of Naples. Naples is an Italian city like no other. Drama and darkness are often associated with the Naples, which rests beneath active Mount Vesuvius and is the home of the... -
The United States, 1865-1920: Reuniting a Nation by Adam Burns
RRP: $65.16$57.26The United States, 1865-1920: Reuniting a Nation explores how the U.S. attempted to heal Civil War-era divisions, as well as maintain and strengthen its unity as new rifts developed in the conflict's aftermath.Taking a broadly thematic approach to the... -
When I Passed the Statue of Liberty I Became Black by Harry Edward 9780300270976
RRP: $32.57$27.75"Harry Edward was a hugely talented athlete and an extraordinary man who fought all his life for justice and fairness in the face of repeated prejudice. His story is as powerful today as it was when he lived it and I urge everyone to read this book... -
Long Road from Jarrow: A journey through Britain then and now by Stuart Maconie
RRP: $22.28$15.59The Sunday Times Bestseller'A tribute and a rallying call' - GuardianThree and half weeks. Three hundred miles. I saw roaring arterial highway and silent lanes, candlelit cathedrals and angry men in bad pubs. The Britain of 1936 was a land of beef paste... -
A Mind at Play: The Brilliant Life of Claude Shannon, Inventor of the Information Age by Jimmy Soni
RRP: $32.57$22.49Named a best book of the year by Bloomberg and Nature. 'Soni and Goodman have done their research...A Mind at Play reveals the remarkable human behind some of the most important theoretical and practical contributions to the information age.' (Nature)... -
Hidden Patrons: Women and Architectural Patronage in Georgian Britain by Amy Boyington 9781350358607
RRP: $34.29$28.37An enduring myth of Georgian architecture is that it was purely the pursuit of male architects and their wealthy male patrons. History states that it was men who owned grand estates and houses, who commissioned famous architects, and who embarked upon... -
Prostitution in Victorian Colchester: Controlling the uncontrollable by Jane Pearson
RRP: $32.57$28.51The decision to build a new army camp in the small market town of Colchester in 1856 was well received and helped to stimulate the local economy after a prolonged period of economic stagnation. Before long the Colchester garrison was one of the largest... -
A Duty of Care: Britain Before and After Corona by Peter Hennessy
RRP: $34.31$24.51One of our most celebrated historians shows how we can use the lessons of the past to build a new post-covid society in BritainThe 'duty of care' which the state owes to its citizens is a phrase much used, but what has it actually meant in Britain...