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When There Were Birds by Roy Adkins
RRP: £25.00£4.39A landmark book that charts humanity's changing relationship with birds - from the ancient Egyptians to the twenty-first century 'A marvellously original slice of social history' Daily Mail'The facts and folklore of birdlife are dissected in admirable... -
How to Drink Like a Writer: Recipes for the Cocktails and Libations That Inspired 100 Literary Greats by Apollo Publishers
RRP: £15.99£11.04Pairing 100 famous authors, poets, and playwrights from the Victorian age to today with recipes for their iconic drinks of choice, How to Drink Like a Writer is the perfect guide to getting lit(erary) for madcap mixologists, book club bartenders, and... -
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... -
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... -
1920s Berlin by Rainer Metzger
RRP: £15.00£11.96It was the decade of daring Expressionist canvases, of brilliant book design, of the Bauhaus total work of art, of pioneering psychology, of drag balls, cabaret, Metropolis, and Marlene Dietrich's rising star in theater and silent film. Between the... -
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... -
The Jewish Journey: 4000 Years in 22 Objects from the Ashmolean Museum by Rebecca Abrams
RRP: £15.00£10.20The Jewish Journey is unique in three respects. First, it is a short, accessible, affordable and illustrated history of the Jewish people. Most books of this kind are heavy, unwieldy, expensive coffee-table books. Secondly, the book is absolutely unique... -
The Life of Olaudah Equiano: The Black History Cla ssic by O Equiano 9780857089137
RRP: £9.99£6.80DISCOVER 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... -
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... -
Workhouses of London and the South East by Peter Higginbotham 9780750987776
RRP: £18.99£14.72Our 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... -
Neolithic Britain: The Transformation of Social Worlds by Keith Ray 9780198823896
RRP: £40.49£39.03The Neolithic in Britain was a period of fundamental change: human communities were transformed, collectively owning domesticated plants and animals, and inhabiting a richer world of material things: timber houses and halls, pottery vessels, polished... -
Voices of the Forest: A Social History of Scottish Forestry in the Twentieth Century by Mairi Stewart
RRP: £25.00£18.92The 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... -
Women Money Power: The Rise and Fall of Economic Equality by Josie Cox 9781419762987
RRP: £21.99£14.83In 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... -
Halifax 1842: A Year of Crisis by Catherine Howe 9780957000582
RRP: £14.50£13.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957000582Author Catherine HoweFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Breviary Stuff PublicationsPublisher Breviary Stuff PublicationsWeight(grams) 319g -
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
RRP: £18.99£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
RRP: £7.99£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... -
When the Children Came Home: Stories of Wartime Evacuees by Julie Summers 9781847398765
RRP: £9.99£6.41On 1 September 1939 Operation Pied Piper bgan to place the children of Britain's industrial cities beyond the reach of the Luftwaffe. 1.5 million children, pregnant women and schoolteachers were evacuated in 3 days. A further 2 million children were... -
Prohibition: A Very Short Introduction by W. J. Rorabaugh 9780190280109
RRP: £8.99£6.45Americans have always been a hard-drinking people, but from 1920 to 1933 the country went dry. After decades of pressure from rural Protestants such as the hatchet-wielding Carry A. Nation and organizations such as the Women's Christian Temperance Union... -
Viking Identities: Scandinavian Jewellery in England by Jane F. Kershaw
£43.15Viking Identities is the first detailed archaeological study of Viking-Age Scandinavian-style female dress items from England. Based on primary archival and archaeological research, including the analysis of hundreds of recent metal-detector finds, it... -
Toltec Dreaming: Don Juans Teachings on the Energy Body by Ken Eagle Feather 9781591430728
RRP: £15.99£12.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781591430728Author Ken Eagle FeatherFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Bear & CompanyPublisher Inner Traditions Bear and CompanyWeight(grams)... -
Gypsies: An English History by David Cressy 9780198768135
RRP: £31.49£23.46Gypsies, Egyptians, Romanies, and -more recently-Travellers. Who are this marginal and mysterious people who first arrived in England in early Tudor times? Are tales of their distant origins on the Indian subcontinent true, or just another of the many... -
The Toll-Houses of Staffordshire by Tim Jenkinson 9781907154072
RRP: £9.95£8.20Apologies 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 *... -
A Brief History of the Celts by Peter Ellis 9781841197906
RRP: £10.99£3.51For centuries the Celts held sway in Europe. Even after their conquest by the Romans, their culture remained vigorous, ensuring that much of it endured to feed an endless fascination with Celtic history and myths, artwork and treasures. A foremost... -
Russian Thinkers by Isaiah Berlin
RRP: £10.99£7.77Few, if any, English-language critics have written as perceptively as Isaiah Berlin about Russian thought and culture. Russian Thinkers is his unique meditation on the impact that Russia's outstanding writers and philosophers had on its culture. In... -
Jambusters: The remarkable story which has inspired the ITV drama Home Fires by Julie Summers
RRP: £9.99£6.41The 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... -
To the Letter: A Curious History of Correspondence by Simon Garfield 9780857868619 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£2.29Every letter contains a miniature story, and here are some of the greatest. From Oscar Wilde's unconventional method of using the mail to cycling enthusiast Reginald Bray's quest to post himself, Simon Garfield uncovers a host of stories that capture the... -
To the Letter: A Curious History of Correspondence by Simon Garfield
RRP: £9.99£6.70Every letter contains a miniature story, and here are some of the greatest. From Oscar Wilde's unconventional method of using the mail to cycling enthusiast Reginald Bray's quest to post himself, Simon Garfield uncovers a host of stories that capture the... -
Play It Loud: An Epic History of the Style, Sound, and Revolution of the Electric Guitar by Brad Tolinski
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101970393Author Brad TolinskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 201mm *... -
A Woman Lived Here: Alternative Blue Plaques, Remembering London's Remarkable Women by Allison Vale
RRP: £10.99£3.51'A pretty awesome present for the feminist in your life' - Caroline Criado Perez, OBE, author of Do It Like a WomanAt the last count, the Blue Plaque Guide honours 903 Londoners, and a walking tour of these sites brings to life the London of a bygone era... -
Bright Young People: The Rise and Fall of a Generation 1918-1940 by D. J. Taylor
RRP: £12.99£9.09Bright Young People/ Making the most of our youth/ They talk in the Press of our social success/ But quite the reverse is the truth. [Noel Coward]The Bright Young People were one of the most extraordinary youth cults in British history. A... -
Hellish Nell: Last of Britain's Witches by Malcolm Gaskill 9781802061994
RRP: £12.99£9.09One of the last criminal trials using the 1735 Witchcraft Act was, improbably, in London in 1944. The accused was Helen Duncan, a middle-aged Scotswoman. This is her extraordinary story.Helen Duncan - known since childhood as 'Hellish Nell', for her... -
Dürer's Lost Masterpiece: Art and Society at the Dawn of a Global World by Prof Ulinka Rublack 9780198873105
£31.17Durer's Lost Masterpiece tracks the history of a turning point in the career of the celebrated German artist Albrecht Durer (1471-1528), when he stopped painting altarpieces after arguing with a merchant patron over payment. As an eloquent homage to... -
Punk Rock: An Oral History by John Robb
RRP: £22.00£16.02'To see The Clash on the White Riot tour was like discovering how to be a rock star: you just did it yourself. You didn't wait for someone to come and discover you. That was the most important thing that came out of punk... We came home and we cut our... -
Medieval Women: Social History Of Women In England 450-1500 by Henrietta Leyser
RRP: £12.99£8.60Henrietta Leyser considers the problems and attitudes fundamental to every woman of the time: medieval views on sex, marriage and motherhood; the world of work and the experience of widowhood for peasant, townswoman and aristocrat. The intellectual and... -
Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World by Malcolm Harris
RRP: £30.00£20.40The true, unvarnished history of the town at the heart of Silicon Valley.Palo Alto is nice. The weather is temperate, the people are educated, rich, healthy, enterprising. Remnants of a hippie counterculture have synthesized with high technology and big... -
Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: £30.00£21.35Highly original and magnificent in scope, Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination discovers the roots of English cultural history in the Anglo-Saxon period, and traces it through the centuries. What does it mean to be English? This dazzling book... -
Their Own Receive Them Not by Horace L Griffin 9781608995950
RRP: £27.00£20.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608995950Author Horace L GriffinFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)... -
Field Work: What Land Does to People & What People Do to Land by Bella Bathurst
RRP: £10.99£7.77'A priceless portrait of one of the least understood and frequently most vilified of people: farmers. It should really be read by all in this country who buys food - i.e. everyone.' Daily Mail 'Highly researched and deeply thoughtful ... Bathurst...