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Volcanic: Vesuvius in the Age of Revolutions by John Brewer 9780300272666
RRP: £30.00£24.85A vibrant, diverse history of Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples in the age of Romanticism "Momentous and spellbinding."-Caroline Eden, Financial Times "Endlessly fascinating."-Pratinav Anil, Times (UK) Vesuvius is best known for its disastrous... -
Strange Victoriana: Tales of the Curious, the Weird and the Uncanny from Our Victorian Ancestors by Jan Bondeson
RRP: £12.99£8.48This book makes use of a privately held archive of the old periodical Illustrated Police News to describe strange, macabre and uncanny episodes from the Victorian era. Dog-Faced Men are exhibited on stage, the doctors congregate around the bed of the... -
The Assassin's Cloak: An Anthology of the World's Greatest Diarists by Irene Taylor
RRP: £25.00£17.59'A diary is an assassin's cloak which we wear when we stab a comrade in the back with a pen', wrote William Soutar in 1934. But a diary is also a place for recording everyday thoughts and special occasions, private fears and hopeful dreams. The... -
1920s Scrapbook by Robert Opie
RRP: £14.95£10.78With over 1,000 colourful images, Robert Opie brings to life the 1920s and captures the mood of this radical decade in Great Britain. The Twenties were a time for change and invention. The arrival of the wireless provided a new form of entertainment and... -
The Oxford Handbook of the English Revolution by Michael J. Braddick
£39.14This Handbook brings together leading historians of the events surrounding the English revolution, exploring how the events of the revolution grew out of, and resonated, in the politics and interactions of the each of the Three Kingdoms - England,... -
The Frankfurt School: Its History, Theory and Political Significance by Rolf Wiggershaus 9780745616216
RRP: £24.99£22.81This widely acclaimed book is a comprehensive and authoritative account of the history and ideas of the Frankfurt School - the most important and influential group of leftist intellectuals, philosophers and social theorists in Germany this century... -
Hungry City: How Food Shapes Our Lives by Carolyn Steel
RRP: £14.99£10.95*According to the Trussell Trust, food bank use between April and Sept 2018 was up 13% on the same period in 2017.* ... -
Scotland's Lost Industries by Michael Meighan 9781445609171
RRP: £20.00£13.74Until the 1960's The Clyde was synonymous with shipbuilding with many yards dotted on both sides of the river all the way from Glasgow to Greenock. Today they have all but gone, waterside apartments, exhibition centres and light industrial units taking... -
The Taste of War: World War Two and the Battle for Food by Lizzie Collingham
RRP: £16.99£12.28In World War Two, 19 million people died in the conflicts across the globe. Yet in those same years, more than 20 million died from starvation and malnutrition. In The Taste of War Lizzie Collingham shows how food - and its lack - was central to the... -
Our Village Ancestors: A Genealogist's Guide to Understanding the English Rural Past by Helen Osborn 9780719814167
RRP: £15.99£13.05This book will be a source of help for anybody researching their farming and countryside ancestors in England. Looked at through the lens of rural life, and specifically the English village, it provides advice and inspiration on placing rural people into... -
The Matter of the Heart: A History of the Heart in Eleven Operations by Thomas Morris
£3.78 - £9.09'Thrilling... The "dizzying" story of heart surgery is every bit as important as that of the nuclear, computer or rocket ages. And now it has been given the history it deserves' James McConnachie, Sunday TimesFor thousands of years the human heart... -
Guyana At 50: Reflection, Celebration And Inspiration by Arif Ali 9781910553572
RRP: £30.00£19.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910553572Author Arif AliFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint Hansib Publications LimitedPublisher Hansib Publications Limited -
Prisoners of History: What Monuments to the Second World War Tell Us About Our History and Ourselves by Keith Lowe
RRP: £20.00£13.34A Spectator Book of the Year 2020 A Times and Sunday Times Best Book of 2020 A Mail on Sunday Book of the Year 2020 'Inspired ... Lowe's sensitive, disturbing book should be... -
Colossus: Bletchley Park's Last Secret by Paul Gannon
RRP: £14.99£10.20This is the last untold story of Bletchley Park. Using recently declassified information, Paul Gannon has written a gripping account of the invention of the world's first true computer, Colossus.Uncover the secrets of Bletchley Park's code-breaking... -
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets by Svetlana Alexievich 9780399588822
RRP: £20.00£11.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399588822Author Svetlana AlexievichFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
Workhouses of London and the South East by Peter Higginbotham 9780750987776
RRP: £18.99£14.40Our image of workhouses has often been coloured by the writings of authors such as Charles Dickens. But what was the reality? Where exactly were all these institutions located - and what happened to them? You might be surprised to discover that a... -
Not a Guide to: Torbay by Anthony Poulton-Smith 9780752468822
RRP: £5.99£5.10Did you know? Torbay, 'The English Riviera' boasts 22 miles of coastline, with 20 beaches and coves. The famous Torbay palm is in fact a cabbage tree (cordyline australis) from New Zealand. The Torbay Picture House was Europe's oldest cinema. Seat 2, Row... -
Of Ice and Men: How We've Used Cold to Transform Humanity by Fred Hogge
RRP: £20.00£14.29A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice An exploration of humanity's relationship with ice since the dawn of civilization, Of Ice and Men reminds us that only by understanding this unique substance can we save the ice on our planet-and perhaps... -
War And An Irish Town by Eamonn McCann
RRP: £14.99£9.88Eamonn McCann's account of what it is like to grow up a Catholic in a Northern Irish ghetto - first published in 1974 - quickly became a classic account of the feelings generated by British rule. The author was at the centre of events in Derry which... -
Quackery by Lydia Kang 9780761189817
RRP: £15.99£11.33What won't we try in our quest for perfect health, beauty, and the fountain of youth? Well, just imagine a time when doctors prescribed morphine for crying infants. When liquefied gold was touted as immortality in a glass. And when strychnine-yes, that... -
Angels by Cecil Collins 9780954440909
RRP: £4.99£4.25Apologies 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 -
70s Dinner Party: The Good, the Bad and the Downright Ugly of Retro Food by Anna Pallai
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Spaghetti in aspic, anyone? Revel in astonishing dishes from yesteryear: Stuffed Cocktail Grapes, Savoury Sausage Salad, a spunky Shrimp-Salmon Mould and so much more. Anna Pallai was brought up on 1970s stalwarts of stuffed peppers, meatloaf and... -
Angels and Ages: A short book about Darwin, Lincoln and modern life by Adam Gopnik
RRP: £10.99£7.40'Adam Gopnik has taken a coincidence and turned it into a theory of everything, or at least of everything important ... Outstanding' - Andrew MarrOn February 12th, 1809, two men were born an ocean apart: Abraham Lincoln in a one-room Kentucky log cabin;... -
In Bed with the Tudors: The Sex Lives of a Dynasty from Elizabeth of York to Elizabeth I by Amy Licence
RRP: £11.99£7.86Learn what went on behind closed doors in the Tudor court. Illegitimate children, adulterous queens, impotent kings, and a whole dynasty resting on their shoulders. Sex and childbirth were quite literally a matter of life or death for the Tudors - ... -
The Hijacking of American Flight 119: How D.B. Cooper Inspired a Skyjacking Craze and the FBI's Battle to Stop It by John Wigger
RRP: £22.99£20.33He pulled off what some deem the crime of the century: skyjacking a commercial jetliner, collecting a ransom of $200,000, parachuting off the aft stairs of the Boeing 727 into the night, and simply disappearing. Since November 1971, "D.B. Cooper"-no one... -
The Rise of Devils: Fear and the Origins of Modern Terrorism by James Crossland
RRP: £20.00£14.93'Punctuated by the stories of a host of interesting and extraordinary characters, Crossland has produced a fascinating exploration of the long nineteenth century's development of terrorism and counterterrorism, highlighting the role of fear and the... -
The Magic Bean: A Short History of Coffee by Gordon Kerr
RRP: £9.99£7.11Having conquered the world's taste buds and established itself as a staple in our daily lives, coffee has mirrored the moods and movements of society for centuries - yet, how much do we know about its history? In his riveting new book, A Short History of... -
The Museum of the Wood Age by Max Adams 9781788543514
RRP: £12.99£9.09A passionate and imaginative exploration of wood - the material that shaped human history. Wood - humankind's long-term partner in our evolution from woodland foragers to engineers of our own destiny - has no equal in strength, resilience,... -
Spare Parts: A Surprising History of Transplants by Paul Craddock
£6.63 - £16.78A DAILY MAIL BOOK OF THE WEEK'Spare Parts is a fascinating read filled with adventure, delight and surprise' RAHUL JANDIAL, surgeon author of 'Life on a Knife's Edge''This is a joyful romp through a fascinating slice of medical history' WENDY MOORE,... -
White Boots and Miniskirts: A True Story of Life in the Swinging Sixties by Jacky Hyams 9781782190141
£3.13 - £5.79The place is London, and the year is 1966. It's a time when anything seems possible, especially if you are a young, free-spirited, mini-skirted girl in search of adventure and independence. An incredible explosion of pop music, fashion and youth culture... -
Stained Glass by Aidan McRae Thomson
RRP: £8.99£6.02Stained glass has been one of the chief glories of Britain's churches since Norman times. Stained glass windows developed through the middle ages, as new techniques were introduced, and the art of storytelling in glass reached ever greater heights... -
Tenements, Towers & Trash: An Unconventional Illustrated History of New York City by Julia Wertz
RRP: £25.00£18.30Here is New York as you've never seen it before; the New York behind the New York that you think you know so well. With drawings and comics in her signature style, Julia Wertz regales us with dozens of street scenes that show exactly what the city looked... -
The Cottage Garden by Twigs Way
RRP: £8.99£6.45Hollyhocks and cabbages, roses and runner beans: the English cottage garden combined beauty and utility, pride and productivity. But what was the reality of the space immortalised in images of thatched cottages with floral borders and ducks on the path?... -
Republic of Religion: The Rise and Fall of Colonial Secularism in India by Abhinav Chandrachud 9780670092451
RRP: £23.99£13.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780670092451Author Abhinav ChandrachudFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Penguin VikingPublisher Penguin Random House India -
An Irish Folklore Treasury: A selection of old stories, ways and wisdom from The Schools' Collection by John Creedon
RRP: £23.99£17.34In this people's history of Ireland, John Creedon introduces a fascinating collection of stories from the Schools' Collection. This treasure trove of old stories, ways and wisdom, which could have been lost for ever, was collected by schoolchildren as... -
Moral Authoritarianism: Neighborhood Associations in the Three Koreas, 1931–1972 by Shinyoung Kwon 9780824896232
RRP: £27.95£22.58Moral Authoritarianism offers a new perspective on the three modern Korean states-the Japanese colonial state, South Korea, and North Korea-by studying neighborhood associations during the four war decades (1930s-1960s). The existing historiography... -
The Toll-Houses of Staffordshire by Tim Jenkinson 9781907154072
RRP: £9.95£7.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907154072Author Tim JenkinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Polystar PressPublisher Polystar PressWeight(grams) 375gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 154mm *... -
The Official History of the Tour de France by Luke Edwardes-Evans
RRP: £20.00£12.65The Official History of the Tour de France is a celebration of one of the greatest annual sporting events, and the premier competition in world cycling. Through more than 300 photographs, rarely seen documents and items of memorabilia, this book covers... -
A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution by Toby Green
RRP: £14.99£10.95Shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize, Cundill History Prize, Fage and Oliver Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Pius Adesanmi Memorial Award Winner of the Historical Writers' Association Non-Fiction Crown 2020Winner of the American... -
The Land of Hope and Fear: Israel’s battle for its inner soul by Isabel Kershner 9781915590220
RRP: £25.00£16.13One of the New York Times' 100 Notable Books for 2023 A correspondent who has spent thirty years in Israel presents a rich, wide-ranging portrait of the Israeli people at a critical juncture in their country's history. Despite Israel's determined...