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Letters of Note: Grief by Shaun Usher
RRP: $16.78$11.47In Letters of Note: Grief, Shaun Usher gathers together some of the most powerful messages about grief, from the heart-wrenching pain of losing a loved one to reliving fond memories of those who have passed on.Includes letters by:Audre Lorde, Robert... -
Notes from the Cevennes: Half a Lifetime in Provincial France by Adam Thorpe
RRP: $20.98$16.11Adam Thorpe's home for the past 25 years has been an old house in the Cevennes, a wild range of mountains in southern France. Prior to this, in an ancient millhouse in the oxbow of a Cevenol river, he wrote the novel that would become the Booker... -
Gay Life Stories by Robert Aldrich
RRP: $27.28$17.07A fascinating portrait of gay men and women throughout time whose lives have influenced society at large, as well as what we recognize as today's varied gay culture. This book gives a voice to more than eighty people from every major continent and from... -
Voices of the Forest: A Social History of Scottish Forestry in the Twentieth Century by Mairi Stewart
RRP: $52.50$39.73The creation of large new tracts of forest, together with the development of a modern wood processing sector, was the single biggest transformation to occur in the Scottish countryside during the twentieth century. While the environmental and landscape... -
Manchester: Mapping the City by Terry Wyke
RRP: $63.00$44.73Manchester is one the world's most iconic cities. Not only was it the first industrial city, it can claim to be the first post-industrial city. This book uses historic maps and unpublished and original plans to chart the dramatic growth and... -
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee 9781788169660
RRP: $20.98$14.93LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 'With intelligence and care (as well as with a trove of sometimes heartbreaking and sometimes heart-opening true stories) Heather McGhee shows us what racism has cost all of us' - Elizabeth Gilbert Picked for... -
Ideologies in the Age of Extremes: Liberalism, Conservatism, Communism, Fascism 1914-1991 by Willie Thompson 9780745327112
$63.69This is a history of political ideologies during the period from the First World War to the collapse of the Soviet Union, famously described by Eric Hobsbawm as 'The Age of Extremes'. By introducing the key ideologies of the twentieth-century:... -
Legendary Children by Tom Fitzgerald
RRP: $31.48$20.58Apologies 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 Shadow of the Mine: Coal and the End of Industrial Britain by Ray Hudson
RRP: $42.00$35.34No one personified the age of industry more than the miners. The Shadow of the Mine tells the story of King Coal in its heyday - and what happened to mining communities after the last pits closed. Coal was central to the British economy, powering its... -
1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: A Memoir by Ai Weiwei
RRP: $52.50$34.71A 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... -
Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians Tara Isabella Burton 9781529364699
RRP: $46.20$30.58'We're all now self-makers, whether we like it or not - and this witty, sceptical book is the thought-provoking story of how we got here' GUARDIAN'This funny, startling, insightful story of the selfie, from Durer to the Kardashians, is a must read if you... -
House Histories for Beginners by Colin Style
RRP: $42.00$31.58Popular television programmes highlight the satisfaction that can be gained from investigating the history of houses, and there is always plenty of interest in the subject, with archives becoming ever more accessible with access to the internet.As the... -
Annals by Cornelius Tacitus
RRP: $27.28$19.09A compelling new translation of Tacitus' Annals, one of the greatest accounts of ancient Rome, by Cynthia Damon.Tacitus' Annals recounts the major historical events from the years shortly before the death of Augustus to the death of Nero in AD 68. With... -
The Sami Peoples of the North: A Social and Cultural History by Neil Kent
RRP: $39.88$35.66The first comprehensive history of the Sami people of the Nordic countries and northwestern Russia. There is no single volume which encompasses an integrated social and cultural history of the Sami people from the Nordic countries and northwestern Russia... -
The Slave Trade Hugh Thomas 9780753820568
RRP: $42.00$30.14The rise and fall of the business of slave trading - by a bestselling historianThe Atlantic slave trade was one of the largest and most elaborate maritime and commercial ventures. Between 1492 and about 1870, ten million or more black slaves were carried... -
Below Stairs: The Bestselling Memoirs of a 1920s Kitchen Maid by Margaret Powell 9780330535380
RRP: $18.88$13.86Arriving at the great houses of 1920s London, fifteen-year-old Margaret's life in service was about to begin... As a kitchen maid - the lowest of the low - she entered an entirely new world; one of stoves to be blacked, vegetables to be scrubbed,... -
The People's Songs: The Story of Modern Britain in 50 Records by Stuart Maconie
RRP: $35.68$25.79These are the songs that we have listened to, laughed to, loved to and laboured to, as well as downed tools and danced to. Covering the last seven decades, Stuart Maconie looks at the songs that have sound tracked our changing times, and - just sometimes... -
Angels by Cecil Collins 9780954440909
RRP: $10.48$9.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954440909Author Cecil CollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 51Imprint Fools' PressPublisher Fools' Press -
The Memory Code: Unlocking the Secrets of the Lives of the Ancients and the Power of the Human Mind by Dr. Lynne Kelly
RRP: $42.00$30.85In ancient, pre-literate cultures across the globe, tribal elders had encyclopedic memories. They could name all the animals and plants across a landscape, identify the stars in the sky and recite the history of their people. Yet today, most of us... -
Tombstone: The Untold Story of Mao's Great Famine by Jisheng Yang
RRP: $31.48$23.00Yang Jisheng's Tombstone is the book that broke the silence on of one of history's most terrible crimesMore people died in Mao's Great Famine than in the entire First World War, yet this story has remained largely untold, until now. Still banned in... -
Worktown: The Astonishing Story of the Project that launched Mass Observation David Hall 9781780227801
RRP: $23.08$15.54The astonishing story of the project that launched Mass Observation In the late 1930s the Lancashire town of Bolton witnessed a ground-breaking social experiment. Over three years, a team of ninety observers recorded, in painstaking detail, the everyday... -
The Leaping Hare by George Ewart Evans
RRP: $23.08$15.37The Leaping Hare is a rare and remarkable book about every aspect of the life and legend of the wild hare, exploring nature, poetry, folklore, history and art. A frequent feature in the mythology of many cultures, the hare has been linked with mystery... -
Martin Luther King Godfrey Hodgson 9781849162623
RRP: $27.28$18.06Martin Luther King left an indelible mark on 20th-century American history through his leadership of the non-violent civil rights campaigns of the 1950s and 1960s. The election of Barack Obama as America's first black president in November 2008 has... -
Panic as Man Burns Crumpets: The Vanishing World of the Local Journalist Roger Lytollis 9781472145796
RRP: $35.68$24.23WINNER OF THE LAKELAND BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2022You dreamed of being a journalist and the dream has come true. You love working for your local paper . . . although not everything is as you imagined.You embarrass yourself with a range of celebrities,... -
Forgotten Voices of The Holocaust: A new history in the words of the men and women who survived by Lyn Smith
RRP: $31.48$23.00Following the success of Forgotten Voices of the Great War, Lyn Smith visits the oral accounts preserved in the Imperial War Museum Sound Archive, to reveal the sheer complexity and horror of one of human history's darkest hours. The great majority of... -
In the Shadow of St. Paul's Cathedral: The Churchyard that Shaped London by Margaret Willes 9780300273380
RRP: $23.08$19.68The extraordinary story of St. Paul's Churchyard-the area of London that was a center of social and intellectual life for more than a millennium St. Paul's Cathedral stands at the heart of London, an enduring symbol of the city. Less well known is the... -
After the Romanovs: the extraordinary lives of Russian exiles in Paris between the wars by Helen Rappaport 9781914484766
RRP: $23.08$15.37A TLS AND PROSPECT BOOK OF THE YEAR The scintillating story of the Russian aristocrats, artists, and intellectuals who sought refuge in interwar Paris. The fall of the Romanov dynasty in 1917 forced thousands of Russians to flee their homeland with... -
Protest and the Politics of Space and Place, 1789-1848 by Katrina Navickas 9781526116703
RRP: $52.50$45.76This book is a wide-ranging survey of the rise of mass movements for democracy and workers' rights in northern England from 1789 to 1848. It is a provocative narrative of the closing down of public space and dispossession from place. It offers historical... -
The Class of '37: Telling Tales of Girlhood from Before the War by Claire Langhamer 9781789464054
RRP: $35.68$24.70'A moving microhistory of working-class girlhood' BBC History MagazineIt is 1937 in a northern mill-town and a class of twelve- and thirteen-year-old girls are writing about their lives, their world, and the things that matter to them. They tell of... -
Pirate Enlightenment: Buccaneers, Women Traders and Mock Kingdoms in Eighteenth Century Madagascar by David Graeber
RRP: $39.88$30.05'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... -
Feminisms: A Global History by Lucy Delap
RRP: $23.08$16.32How has feminism developed? What have feminists achieved? What can we learn from the global history of feminism?Feminism is the ongoing story of a profound historical transformation. Despite being repeatedly written off as a political movement that has... -
For the Safety of All: A Story of Scotland's Lighthouses by Donald S Murray
RRP: $31.48$21.69'There have always been lighthouses in my life. There has been a closeness and steadiness to our relationship, as if they have kept pace and in close contact with me.' Lighthouses punctuate Scotland's coastline - a stoic presence on the edge of the... -
The Color of Time: Women in History: 1850-1960 by Dan Jones
RRP: $83.90$47.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639362851Author Dan JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 1089gDimensions(mm) 256mm * 204mm * 20mm -
The Stepney Doorstep Society: The remarkable true story of the women who ruled the East End through war and peace Kate Thompson 9780718189860
RRP: $20.98$14.93The unsung and remarkable stories of the women who held London's East End together during not one, but two world wars.'Inspiring tales of courage in the face of hardship' Mail on Sunday'Inspiring . . . Takes you back to a time of community and helping... -
The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity's Search for Meaning by Jeremy Lent
RRP: $37.78$29.48Winner of the 2017 Nautilus Silver Award! This fresh perspective on crucial questions of history identifies the root metaphors that cultures have used to construct meaning in their world. It offers a glimpse into the minds of a vast range of different... -
Jambusters: The remarkable story which has inspired the ITV drama Home Fires by Julie Summers
RRP: $20.98$13.46The Second World War was the WI's finest hour. The whole of its previous history - two decades of educating, entertaining and supporting women and campaigning on women's issues - culminated in the enormous collective responsibility felt by the members to... -
A Brief History of Ancient Greece: Politics, Society, and Culture by Sarah B. Pomeroy 9780190925369
RRP: $144.88$132.83Revised and updated throughout, the fourth edition of A Brief History of Ancient Greece presents the political, social, cultural, and economic history and civilization of ancient Greece in all its complexity and variety. Written by six leading ancient... -
Outpost: A Journey to the Wild Ends of the Earth by Dan Richards
RRP: $23.08$15.37There are still wild places out there on our crowded planet. Through a series of personal journeys, Dan Richards explores the appeal of far-flung outposts in mountains, tundra, forests, oceans and deserts. Following a route from the Cairngorms of... -
States and Citizens: History, Theory, Prospects by Quentin Skinner
RRP: $60.88$49.98The imminent demise of the nation-state in the face of global capitalism and supra-national agencies like the United Nations has often been predicted, yet in practice the death of the state seems unimaginable: indeed terrorist activity and corporate... -
A People Betrayed: A History of 20th Century Spain by Paul Preston
RRP: $27.28$17.81From the foremost historian of 20th century Spain, A People Betrayed is the story of the devastating betrayal of Spain by its political class, its military and its Church. This comprehensive history of modern Spain...