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Walls Come Tumbling Down: The Music and Politics of Rock Against Racism, 2 Tone and Red Wedge by Daniel Rachel
RRP: $31.48$23.37Walls Come Tumbling Down charts the pivotal period between 1976 and 1992 that saw politics and pop music come together for the first time in Britain's musical history; musicians and their fans suddenly became instigators of social change, and 'the... -
Haunts of the Black Masseur: The Swimmer as Hero by Charles Sprawson
RRP: $20.98$14.93A new re-issue of the cult swimming classic, a beautiful read filled with detailed description and powerful prose.WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY AMY LIPTROT'A luminously romantic history of swimming' GuardianHaunts of the Black Masseur is a dazzling... -
Hobbes: Leviathan: Revised student edition by Thomas Hobbes
RRP: $37.78$34.31Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan is arguably the greatest piece of political philosophy written in the English language. Written in a time of great political turmoil (Hobbes' life spanned the reign of Charles I, the Civil Wars, the Commonwealth and the... -
1950s Childhood by Janet Shepherd
RRP: $16.78$13.13Children of the 1950s have much to look back on with fondness: Muffin the Mule, Andy Pandy, and Dennis the Menace became part of the family for many, while for others the freedom of the riverbank or railway platform was a haven away from the watchful... -
The Enlightenment: The Science of Freedom by Peter Gay 9780393313666
RRP: $66.15$57.04The Science of Freedom completes Peter Gay's brilliant reinterpretation begun in The Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Paganism. In the present book, he describes the philosophes' program and their views of society. His masterful appraisal opens a new... -
Didcot Steam Apprentice Patrick Kelly 9781857943108
RRP: $37.78$27.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857943108Author Patrick KellyFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media Group -
The Race Against the Stasi: The Incredible Story of Dieter Wiedemann, the Iron Curtain and the Greatest Cycling Race on Earth by Herbie Sykes 9781781315361
RRP: $20.98$14.28Cycling Book of the Year - Cross British Sports Book Awards When the 'Iron Curtain' descended across Europe, Dieter Wiedemann was a hero of East German sport. A podium finisher in The Peace Race, the Eastern Bloc equivalent of the Tour de France, he was... -
Red: A Natural History of the Redhead by Jacky Colliss Harvey
RRP: $35.68$24.32A New York Times bestseller, Red is the first book to explore the history of red hair and red-headedness throughout the world.With an obsessive fascination that is as contagious as it is compelling, Jacky Colliss Harvey explores red hair in the ancient... -
Bobby Sands: Nothing But an Unfinished Song Denis O'Hearn 9780745336336
RRP: $39.88$26.78This is the best-selling biography of the IRA resistance fighter and hunger-striker, Bobby Sands. In this updated, new edition, Denis O'Hearn draws from a wealth of interviews with friends, comrades, fellow prisoners and prison wardens, to provide a... -
Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle by Jody Rosen 9781847923073
RRP: $52.50$34.71**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... -
The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe 9780099479376
$12.22A wildly vivid and entertaining chronicle of America's manned space program, from the author of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test `What is it' asks Tom Wolfe, `that makes a man willing to sit on top of an enormous Roman Candle...and wait for someone to... -
A Life of Industry: The Photography of John R Hume by Daniel Gray
RRP: $42.00$30.74John R Hume is Scotland's foremost expert on industrial heritage. John's greatest passion was - and is - industry. Over the course of the 1960s, 70s and 80s, he took over 25,000 photographs of late-industrial and post-industrial Scotland. His collection... -
Forgotten Voices Of The Second World War: A New History of the Second World War in the Words of the Men and Women Who Were There by Max Arthur
RRP: $31.48$23.00The Imperial War Museum holds a vast archive of interviews with soldiers, sailors, airmen and civilians of most nationalities who saw action during WW2. As in the highly-acclaimed Forgotten Voices of the Great War, Max Arthur and his team of researchers... -
The Fields Beneath Gillian Tindall 9781906011482
RRP: $31.48$20.58A masterpiece of local history, by the Queen of the genre; Gillian Tindall has acquired a devoted readership through her lovingly researched works, such as the prize-winning "The House" by the Thames and "Celestine: Voices from a French Village". A... -
Locke: Two Treatises of Government Student edition by John Locke 9780521357302
RRP: $35.68$32.57This is the revised version of Peter Laslett's acclaimed edition of Two Treatises of Government, which is widely recognised as one of the classic pieces of recent scholarship in the history of ideas, read and used by students of political theory... -
The Last Viking: The Life of Olav Haraldsson by Desmond Seward
RRP: $46.20$30.89Raider. Conqueror. King. Saint. This is the story of Olav Haraldsson, the greatest Viking who ever lived. A ruthless Viking warrior who named his most prized battle weapon after the Norse goddess of death, Olav Haraldsson and his mercenaries... -
Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History by Adam Nicolson
RRP: $31.48$20.37A fascinating account from award-winning author Adam Nicolson of the history of Nicolson's own national treasure, his family home: Sissinghurst. Sissinghurst is world-famous as a place of calm and beauty, a garden slipped into the ruins of a... -
The Antisocial Network by Ben Mezrich 9780008497019
RRP: $35.68$31.73This is definitive take on the wildest story of the year- the David-vs.-Goliath GameStop short squeeze, a tale of fortunes won and lost overnight that may end up changing Wall Street forever. Bestselling author Ben... -
Coronation: A History of the British Monarchy by Roy Strong
RRP: $52.50$35.34The definitive history of coronations and the Royal Family, from acclaimed writer Roy Strong. 'What is the finest sight in the world? A Coronation.What do people talk most about? A Coronation.What is delightful to have passed? A... -
Great Glasgow Stories John Burrowes 9781845966782
RRP: $23.08$16.32Few cities in the world abound with so many extraordinary stories as Glasgow. The city has been the silent witness to some of the most significant events of the past century, from major triumphs to cataclysmic calamities, and the best of these anecdotes... -
Don't Let's Be Beastly to the Germans: The British Occupation of Germany, 1945-49 by Daniel Cowling 9781800243507
RRP: $58.78$42.02Germany, spring 1945. Hitler is dead and his armies crushed. Across the conquered Reich, cities lie devastated by Allied saturation bombing; their traumatised populations, exhausted and embittered by defeat, face a future of acute privation and hardship... -
The Anglo-Saxon Landscape: The Kingdom of the Hwicce by Della Hooke
RRP: $41.98$30.49The landscape of pre-Conquest England can often be reconstructed in minute detail. Yet this is one of the first attempts at such a project. Here the evidence is examined for the West Midlands - the counties of Worcestershire, Warwickshire and... -
Aboriginal Australians: First Nations of an Ancient Continent by Stephen Muecke
RRP: $16.70$11.09Here is a lively, vibrantly illustrated social and cultural history of the Aboriginal Australians, from their origins to the present day. The book explores the spiritual beliefs and Dreamings of the Indigenous people, their complex social structures and... -
The Old Gays’ Guide to the Good Life by Mick Peterson 9780008637262
RRP: $35.68$24.09'I've fallen in love with this fabulous foursome ... They are a phenomenon!' Drew Barrymore From @theoldgays, the internet's most beloved foursome, a book of inspirational stories and aspirational advice for living life at the... -
Gay Berlin by Robert Beachy
RRP: $35.68$24.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307473134Author Robert BeachyFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 283gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 131mm... -
Time, History, and Political Thought by John Robertson 9781009289368
RRP: $178.50$161.70Between the cliche that 'a week is a long time in politics' and the aspiration of many political philosophers to give their ideas universal, timeless validity lies a gulf which the history of political thought is uniquely qualified to bridge. For that... -
1940s Fashion by Fiona Kay
RRP: $18.88$12.64Despite - or perhaps because of - the privations of war, the 1940s was one of the greatest decades for fashion in Britain. The designs and fashions of the 1930s would linger on through the early years of the Second World War but with shortages and... -
Slavery: A World History by Milton Meltzer 9780306805363
$60.69Slavery is not and has never been a "peculiar institution," but one that is deeply rooted in the history and economy of most countries. Although it has flourished in some periods and declined in others, human bondage for profit has never been... -
The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia by James C. Scott
RRP: $46.20$45.40From the acclaimed author and scholar James C. Scott, the compelling tale of Asian peoples who until recently have stemmed the vast tide of state-making to live at arm's length from any organized state society For two thousand years the disparate groups... -
The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe by Matthew Gabriele
RRP: $27.28$17.81"The beauty and levity that Perry and Gabriele have captured in this book are what I think will help it to become a standard text for general audiences for years to come....The Bright Ages is a rare thing-a nuanced historical work that almost anyone... -
King Arthur: The Mystery Unravelled by Chris Barber
RRP: $35.68$28.58This book is the culmination of over thirty years of work and research by the author, who is a King Arthur specialist and bestseller. The book brings new information to light by examining through a jigsaw of connections throughout Dark Age Britain,... -
Sacred Land: Decoding Britain's extraordinary past through its towns, villages and countryside by Martin Palmer 9780749952921
$41.08SACRED LAND will enable you to discover the hidden secrets and meaning of the landscape around you, town or country, modern or old, wherever you live in Britain. There has been a dramatic growth in interest in our own history, buildings, landscape,... -
The London Restaurant, 1840-1914 by Brenda Assael
RRP: $60.88$56.09This is the first scholarly treatment of the history of public eating in London in the Victorian and Edwardian eras. The quotidian nature of eating out during the working day or evening should not be allowed to obscure the significance of the... -
The Greatest Shows on Earth: A History of the Circus by Linda Simon
RRP: $42.00$30.01Now available in paperback, The Greatest Shows on Earth takes us from eighteenth-century hippodromes in Britain to intimate one-ring circuses in nineteenth-century Paris, where Toulouse-Lautrec and Picasso became enchanted by aerialists and clowns. We... -
London Cemeteries: An Illustrated Guide and Gazetteer by Hugh Meller 9780750996532
RRP: $52.50$38.93London Cemeteries is a comprehensive guide to all cemeteries within Greater London. Listed alphabetically and with a map to help locate them, each entry includes the address, the date of foundation, the owner, the size, a note on its history, development... -
The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano: The Black History Classic Olaudah Equiano 9780857089137
RRP: $20.98$14.28DISCOVER THE INDIGNITIES AND REALITIES OF SLAVERY FROM A CAPTIVATING FIRST-HAND NARRATIVE Olaudah Equiano's interesting narrative is an astonishing first-hand account of kidnapping, enslavement and eventual emancipation that has horrified and enlightened... -
Millions Like Us: Women's Lives in the Second World War by Virginia Nicholson
RRP: $27.28$19.09In Millions Like Us Virginia Nicholson tells the story of the women's Second World War, through a host of individual women's experiences. We tend to see the Second World War as a man's war, featuring Spitfire crews and brave deeds on the Normandy beaches... -
Welsh Slate: Archaeology and History of an Industry by David Gwyn
$97.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781871184518Author David GwynFormat HardbackPage Count 292Imprint Royal Commission on the Ancient & Historical Monuments of WalesPublisher Royal Commission... -
In Fact: An Optimist's Guide to Ireland at 100 by Mark Henry 9780717190386
RRP: $48.28$36.29If you follow the headlines, you could be forgiven for thinking that things in Ireland are worse than ever. In fact, we live longer than ever before, we have never been healthier or better educated, we earn five times more than our grandparents did, our... -
Folklore and Nation in Britain and Ireland Matthew Cheeseman (University of Derby, UK) 9781032071824
RRP: $83.98$74.47This collection explores folklore and folkloristics within the diverse and contested national discourses of Britain and Ireland, examining their role in shaping the islands' constituent nations from the eighteenth century to our contemporary moment of...