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The Ration Book Diet by Mike Brown
$22.20In 1939, Britain was preparing for war. As well as building aeroplanes and digging Anderson shelters, this meant managing food supplies for the home front.The Ministry of Food rose to the challenge, introducing rationing, encouraging the nation to dig... -
Alle Thyng Hath Tyme: Time and Medieval Life by Gillian Adler
RRP: $29.07$21.03Alle Thyng Hath Tyme recreates medieval people's experience of time: as continuous and discontinuous, linear and cyclical, embracing Creation and Judgement, shrinking to 'atoms' or 'droplets' and extending to the silent spaces of eternity. They might... -
London: The Illustrated History by Simon Hall
RRP: $51.37$38.63Discover which prehistoric mammals would once have lived by the River Thames. Take a detailed look at the crystal palace of the Great Exhibition and an early map of the underground. See the locations of medieval plague pits, Tudor inns,... -
The Irish Slaves: Slavery, indenture and Contract labor Among Irish Immigrants by Rhetta Akamatsu 9781456306120
RRP: $22.21$20.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781456306120Author Rhetta AkamatsuFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Stiff Upper Lip: Secrets, Crimes and the Schooling of a Ruling Class by Alex Renton
RRP: $18.85$12.69'A brave and necessary book' GUARDIAN'Shocking, gripping and sobering' SUNDAY TELEGRAPHNo other society sends its young boys and girls away to school to prepare them for a role in the ruling class.Beating, bullying, fagging, cold baths, vile food and... -
British Royal Tombs by Aidan Dodson 9781843681182
RRP: $29.14$19.79Aidan Dodson's British Royal Tombs covers all the burials of the kings, queens (and lords protector) of England, Scotland and the United Kingdom, from the occupant of the great Sutton Hoo ship burial, to George VI, last Emperor of India, including of... -
Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body by Rosemarie Garland Thomson
$39.26A groundbreaking anthology that probes the disposition towards the visually different Giants. Midgets. Tribal non-Westerners. The very fat. The very thin. Hermaphrodites. Conjoined twins. The disabled. The very hirsute. In American history, all have... -
Former People: The Destruction of the Russian Aristocracy by Douglas Smith
$15.88Epic in scope, intimate in detail, heartbreaking in its human drama, this is the first book to recount the history of the nobility caught up the maelstrom of the Bolshevik Revolution and the creation of Stalin's Russia. Historian Douglas Smith's Former... -
The Great Western Steam Retreat: Chasing the Final Steam Trains in BR's Western Region, Wales and the Welsh Marches by Keith Widdowson
$22.20In mid-1964, Keith Widdowson got wind that the Western Region was hell-bent on being the first to eliminate the steam locomotive on its tracks by December 1965. The 17-year-old hurriedly homed in on train services still in the hands of GWR steam power,... -
The Last Witches of England: A Tragedy of Sorcery and Superstition by John Callow 9781350387126
$17.48"Fascinating and vivid." New Statesman "Thoroughly researched." The Spectator "Intriguing." BBC History Magazine "Vividly told." BBC History Revealed "A timely warning against persecution." Morning Star "Astute and thoughtful." History Today "An... -
Ocean of Sound: Ambient sound and radical listening in the age of communication by David Toop
RRP: $22.28$15.59David Toop's extraordinary work of sonic history travels from the rainforests of Amazonas to the megalopolis of Tokyo via the work of artists as diverse as Brian Eno, Sun Ra, Erik Satie, Kate Bush, Kraftwerk and Brian Wilson. Beginning in 1889 at the... -
Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century England by Keith Thomas
RRP: $32.57$24.03Witchcraft, astrology, divination and every kind of popular magic flourished in England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, from the belief that a blessed amulet could prevent the assaults of the Devil to the use of the same charms to recover... -
Feast & Fast: The Art of Food in Europe, 1500-1800 by Victoria Avery
$34.10The UK Winner of the Entertaining category of the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2020, Feast and Fast explores our evolving relationship with food with treasures from the Fitzwilliam Museum. Food defines us as individuals, communities, and nations -... -
Wild History: Journeys into Lost Scotland by James Crawford
RRP: $37.74$25.92From the presenter of BBC One's Scotland from the Sky You scramble up over the dunes of an isolated beach. You climb to the summit of a lonely hill. You pick your way through the eerie hush of a forest. And then you find them. The traces of the past... -
The House By The Thames: And The People Who Lived There by Gillian Tindall
RRP: $22.28$15.59Just across the River Thames from St Paul's Cathedral stands an old and elegant house. Over the course of almost 450 years the dwelling on this site has witnessed many changes. From its windows, people have watched the ferrymen carry Londoners to and... -
Women Money Power: The Rise and Fall of Economic Equality by Josie Cox 9781419762987
RRP: $37.72$25.44In Women Money Power, financial journalist Josie Cox tells the compelling story of women's fight for financial freedom, the social and political hurdles that have kept them from equality and the work that remains to be done."A bold, fascinating, and... -
Devil's Advocate by John Humphrys
RRP: $27.43$19.91________________________For decades, John Humphrys has been at the beating heart of the BBC's news division.From the 9 O'Clock News desk to his marathon 32-year stint on the Today Programme, Humphrys has had a remarkable career as a journalist, steering... -
France: An Adventure History by Graham Robb
RRP: $22.28$15.06A Spectator and Prospect Book of the YearWinner of the American Library in Paris Book Award'Ceaselessly interesting, knowledgeable and evocative' - Spectator'A fresh way to write history' - Alan Johnson'An amused, erudite homage to France . . . ambitious... -
Born for Liberty: A History of Women in America by Sara M. Evans 9780684834986
RRP: $37.74$24.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684834986Author Sara M. EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Prentice Hall & IBDPublisher Prentice Hall (a Pearson Education company)Weight(grams)... -
Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal City by Russell Shorto
RRP: $22.28$8.08Amsterdam is not just any city. Despite its relative size it has stood alongside its larger cousins - Paris, London, Berlin - and has influenced the modern world to a degree that few other cities have. Sweeping across the city's colourful thousand year... -
The Taming of Chance by Ian Hacking
RRP: $56.59$35.03In this important study Ian Hacking continues the enquiry into the origins and development of certain characteristic modes of contemporary thought undertaken in such previous works as the best-selling The Emergence of Probability. Professor Hacking shows... -
The Penguin Social History of Britain: English Society in the Eighteenth Century by Roy Porter
RRP: $22.28$15.59A portrait of 18th century England, from its princes to its paupers, from its metropolis to its smallest hamlet. The topics covered include - diet, housing, prisons, rural festivals, bordellos, plays, paintings, and work and wages.About the AuthorRoy... -
The Rise and Fall of Harland and Wolff by Tom McCluskie
$19.81Harland and Wolff, once acknowledged as the greatest and best-known shipbuilding company in the world, for many years enjoyed a mighty eminence before a gradual descent into near obscurity. This illustrated book, told from the unique perspective of... -
The World Wide Web of Work: A History in the Making by Marcel van der Linden
RRP: $51.46$45.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800084568Author Marcel van der LindenFormat PaperbackImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 780g -
Rewriting the Troubles: War and Propaganda, Ireland and Algeria by Patrick Anderson 9783949573026
RRP: $30.88$27.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783949573026Author Patrick AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 379Imprint Greenisland PressPublisher Elsinor Verlag e.K.Weight(grams) 539g -
Belonging: A Memoir by Catherine Corless
RRP: $27.43$19.43ONE WOMAN, THE SECRETS OF A SMALL TOWN, AND A QUEST FOR JUSTICE THAT ROCKED A NATION. Catherine Corless could not have known where her interest in local history would lead her, as she began researching the Tuam Mother and Baby Home in Galway in 2010... -
Murder at Wrotham Hill by Diana Souhami 9780857382856 [USED COPY]
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Murder at Wrotham Hill by Diana Souhami
RRP: $25.71$3.96Murder at Wrotham Hill takes the killing in October 1946 of Dagmar Petrzywalski as the catalyst for a compelling and unique meditation on murder and fate. Dagmar, a gentle, eccentric spinster, was the embodiment of Austerity Britain's prudence and thrift... -
Corgi Toys by Mick Overton
RRP: $15.42$10.33The Corgi model of James Bond's Aston Martin DB5 is the best-selling toy car ever produced and found a place in the hearts of children of all ages around the world. Corgi Toys was founded in Swansea in 1956 and was always highly innovative,... -
Art Deco by Oliver Green
RRP: $15.42$10.33Art deco refers to a striking range of decorative design styles that emerged in the early twentieth century and comes from the influential 1925 Paris International Exhibition of Decorative Arts. Spreading from Paris, it became particularly associated... -
Bad Bridget: Crime, Mayhem and the Lives of Irish Emigrant Women by Elaine Farrell 9780241994320 [USED COPY]
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Bad Bridget: Crime, Mayhem and the Lives of Irish Emigrant Women by Elaine Farrell 9780241994320
RRP: $18.85$13.33The Number 1 Bestseller'A captivating account of lives previously ignored' Sunday Independent'An important, impeccably researched though eminently readable book that charts new territory' Irish Examiner* * *Ireland in the nineteenth and early twentieth... -
The House By The Thames: And The People Who Lived There by Gillian Tindall 9781844130948 [USED COPY]
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Marx: Later Political Writings by Karl Marx
RRP: $29.14$24.19Marx: Later Political Writings, first published in 1996, brings together translations of Marx's most important texts in political philosophy written after 1848. Marx challenged political theory to its very fundamentals, as his works do not follow... -
Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes: The Story of Women in the 1950s by Virginia Nicholson
RRP: $22.28$15.59In Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes, Virginia Nicholson tells the story of women in the 1950s: a time before the Pill, when divorce spelled scandal and two-piece swimsuits caused mass alarm.Turn the page back to the mid-twentieth century, and discover a... -
The Swordfish and the Star: Life on Cornwall's most treacherous stretch of coast by Gavin Knight
RRP: $18.85$12.21The Penwith Peninsula in Cornwall is where the land ends. In The Swordfish and the Star Gavin Knight takes us into this huddle of grey roofs at the edge of the sea at the beginning of the twenty-first century. He catches the stories of a whole community,... -
Up and Down Stairs: The History of the Country House Servant by Jeremy Musson
RRP: $18.85$12.69Country houses were reliant on an intricate hierarchy of servants, each of whom provided an essential skill. Up and Down Stairs brings to life this hierarchy and shows how large numbers of people lived together under strict segregation and how sometimes... -
Lark Rise to Candleford by Flora Thompson 9780198796695
RRP: $17.14$12.20'People were poorer and had not the comforts, amusements, or knowledge we have today; but they were happier.' Lark Rise to Candleford is Flora Thompson's classic evocation of a vanished world of agricultural customs and rural culture. The trilogy of... -
A Little History of British Gardening by Jenny Uglow
RRP: $42.88$30.91Get out in your garden and discover the history hidden in the hedges.Did the Romans have rakes? Did the monks get muddy? Did potatoes seem really, really weird when they arrived on our shores?Drawn from Jenny Uglow's own love for plants, this lively... -
Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle by Jody Rosen 9781847923073
RRP: $42.88$28.35**SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2023** A panoramic revisionist portrait of the nineteenth-century invention that is transforming the twenty-first-century world.'The real feat of this book is that it takes us on a ride-across the...