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Workhouses of London and the South East by Peter Higginbotham 9780750987776
RRP: $39.88$30.91Our 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... -
A History of Religious Ideas: v. 3: From Muhammad to the Age of Reforms by Mircea Eliade 9780226204055
RRP: $50.40$42.25This volume completes the immensely learned three-volume A History of Religious Ideas. Eliade examines the movement of Jewish thought out of ancient Eurasia, the Christian transformation of the Mediterranean area and Europe, and the rise and diffusion of... -
The Daughters of Yalta: The Churchills, Roosevelts and Harrimans - A Story of Love and War by Catherine Grace Katz
RRP: $27.28$17.81The brilliant untold story of three daughters of diplomacy: Anna Roosevelt, Sarah Churchill, and Kathleen Harriman, glamorous, fascinating young women who accompanied their famous fathers to the Yalta Conference with Stalin in the waning... -
Women in England 1760-1914: A Social History Professor Susie Steinbach 9780753819890
RRP: $20.98$14.93A rich and fresh survey of women's lives between George III and the First World WarUsing diaries, letters, memoirs as well as social and statistical research, this book looks at life-expectancy, sex, marriage and childbirth, and work inside and outside... -
Letters from Alice: A tale of hardship and hope. A search for the truth. by Petrina Banfield 9780008264703 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.78$3.07Two women. One secret. Will they be able to keep it under wraps? It was a stormy evening in 1920s London. When newly qualified almoner, Alice, stepped into the home of Charlotte, a terrified teenager who had just given birth out of wedlock,... -
The Men of the North: The Britons of Southern Scotland by Tim Clarkson
RRP: $42.00$29.51The North Britons are the least-known among the inhabitants of early medieval Scotland. Like the Picts and Vikings they played an important role in the shaping of Scottish history during the first millennium AD but their part is often neglected or... -
The Lives of Tudor Women by Elizabeth Norton
RRP: $23.08$16.32The turbulent Tudor age never fails to capture the imagination. But what was it actually like to be a woman during this period? This was a time when death in infancy or during childbirth was rife; when marriage was usually a legal contract, not a matter... -
The World We Have Lost by Peter Laslett
RRP: $37.78$33.68What was life like in England before the Industrial Revolution? The World We Have Lost is widely regarded as a classic of historical writing and a vital book in reshaping our understanding of the past and the structure of family life in England. Turning... -
Elizabeth Gaskell by Jenny Uglow
RRP: $35.68$24.32Winner of the Portico PrizeShortlisted for the Whitbread Biography of the YearHigh-spirited, witty and passionate, Elizabeth Gaskell wrote some of the most enduring novels of the Victorian age, including Mary Barton, North and South and Wives and... -
King's Road: The Rise and Fall of the Hippest Street in the World by Max Decharne 9781913172602
RRP: $52.50$39.10The King's Road in Chelsea was at the epicentre of not one, but two worldwide cultural shifts. In the mid-sixties, it became a focal point and shop window for the new 'swinging' London, encompassing music, theatre, the visual arts, fashion and much more... -
Here's the Story: A Memoir by Mary McAleese
RRP: $20.98$14.93The groundbreaking two-term President of Ireland tells the stories of her lifeWhen a young Mary McAleese told a priest that she planned to become a lawyer, the priest dismissed the idea: she knew no one in the law, and she was female. The reality of what... -
Traction Engines by Anthony Coulls
RRP: $18.88$12.64The first traction engines were built around the middle of the nineteenth century. Their great pulling power and ability to provide power for other equipment revolutionised road haulage and agriculture. Great makers like Burrell and Garrett from East... -
The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century by Peter Linebaugh 9781859845769
RRP: $65.08$60.96Peter Linebaugh's groundbreaking history has become an inescapable part of any understanding of the rise of capitalism. In eighteenth-century London the spectacle of a hanging was not simply a form of punishing transgressors.Rather it evidently served... -
Dominion: A History of England Volume V by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: $35.68$24.93'Ackroyd makes history accessible to the layman' - Ian Thomson, IndependentThe penultimate volume of Peter Ackroyd's masterful History of England series, Dominion begins in 1815 as national glory following the Battle of Waterloo gives way to post-war... -
Hellfire: Evelyn Waugh and the Hypocrites Club by David Fleming
RRP: $42.00$32.42Late one evening in March 1924, a tipsy young nun was seen trying to slip into Balliol, an all-male Oxford college, just as the gates were about to close for the night. The nun - subsequently unmasked as the son of the college bursar - was returning... -
The Volga: A History by Janet M. Hartley
RRP: $27.28$24.07A rich and fascinating exploration of the Volga River and its vital place in Russian history-named a Best Book of 2021 by the Financial Times "A memorable journey into the heart of Russian social, political, and cultural history."-Jennifer Eremeeva,... -
Witchcraft: The Basics by Marion Gibson
RRP: $41.98$37.15Witchcraft: The Basics is an accessible and engaging introduction to the scholarly study of witchcraft, exploring the phenomenon of witchcraft from its earliest definitions in the Middle Ages through to its resonances in the modern world. Through the use... -
British Goats by Tiffany Francis-Baker
RRP: $16.78$13.13A lively, engaging introduction to the history of goats in Britain, and the recent renaissance of goat-related products. Ever wondered why a goat's eyes have rectangular pupils? Or what happened to Thor's goats each day after they finished pulling his... -
Sex, Gender and Social Change in Britain since 1880 by Lesley A. Hall 9780230297814
$69.85Sexual attitudes and behaviour have changed radically in Britain between the Victorian era and the twenty-first century. However, Lesley A. Hall reveals how slow and halting the processes of change have been, and how many continuities have persisted... -
Soho in the Eighties by Christopher Howse
RRP: $42.00$30.85A fascinating glimpse into 1980s Soho by leading journalist and writer Christopher Howse. In the 1980s Daniel Farson published Soho in the Fifties. This memoir is a sequel from the Eighties, a decade that saw the brilliant flowering of a daily... -
Sorel: Reflections on Violence by Georges Sorel 9780521559102
RRP: $56.68$49.98Georges Sorel's Reflections on Violence is one of the most controversial books of the twentieth century: J. B. Priestley argued that if one could grasp why a retired civil servant had written such a book then the modern age could be understood. It... -
Gender, Family, and Politics: The Howard Women, 1485-1558 by Nicola Clark 9780198784814
$200.32Gender, Family, and Politics is the first full-length, gender-inclusive study of the Howard family, one of the pre-eminent families of early-modern Britain. Most of the existing scholarship on this aristocratic dynasty's political operation during the... -
Mr Barry's War: Rebuilding the Houses of Parliament after the Great Fire of 1834 by Caroline Shenton 9780198707202
RRP: $31.48$23.00When the brilliant classical architect Charles Barry won the competition to build a new, Gothic, Houses of Parliament in London he thought it was the chance of a lifetime. It swiftly turned into the most nightmarish building programme of the century... -
The Real Lives of Roman Britain by Guy de la Bedoyere
RRP: $27.28$24.07An innovative, informative, and entertaining history of Roman Britain told through the lives of individuals in all walks of life The Britain of the Roman Occupation is, in a way, an age that is dark to us. While the main events from 55 BC to AD 410 are... -
In These Times: Living in Britain through Napoleon's Wars, 1793-1815 by Jenny Uglow
RRP: $35.68$24.32Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper PrizeAs the Napoleonic wars raged, what was life really like for those left at home? Award-winning social historian Jenny Uglow reveals the colourful and turbulent everyday life of Georgian Britain through the diaries,... -
Look Back in Anger: The Miners' Strike in Nottinghamshire 30 Years on by Harry Paterson 9781907869952
RRP: $20.98$17.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907869952Author Harry PatersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint Five Leaves PublicationsPublisher Five Leaves Publications -
1941: Politics, Espionage and the Secret Pact between Churchill and Roosevelt by Marc Wortman
RRP: $23.08$15.37Prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor, America had long been involved in a shadow war. Throughout 1941, President Roosevelt concocted ingenious ways to come to Winston Churchill's aid, without breaking the Neutrality Acts. Conducting espionage at home and... -
Land Girls: Women's Voices from the Wartime Farm by Joan Mant
RRP: $20.98$13.94The Women's Land Army was actually founded in 1917, but it was during the Second World War that it attracted the kind of attention which assured its place in the annals of the British war effort. The Services' demands on manpower created a gap which the... -
Yellow Earl by Douglas Sutherland
RRP: $42.00$30.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910723036Author Douglas SutherlandFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Merlin Unwin BooksPublisher Merlin Unwin BooksWeight(grams) 797g -
Up and Down Stairs: The History of the Country House Servant Jeremy Musson 9780719597305
RRP: $23.08$15.54Country 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... -
The Astronomer and the Witch: Johannes Kepler's Fight for his Mother by Ulinka Rublack 9780198736783
RRP: $31.48$23.00Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) was one of the most admired astronomers who ever lived and a key figure in the scientific revolution. A defender of Copernicus s sun-centred universe, he famously discovered that planets move in ellipses, and defined the three... -
Gardens for Gloriana: Wealth, Splendour and Design in Elizabethan Gardens by Jane Whitaker
RRP: $84.00$64.64The formal gardens of Elizabethan England were among the glories of their age. Complementing the great houses of the day, they reflected the aspirations of their owners, whose greatest desire was to achieve success at Court and to delight the Queen. No... -
Time's Witness: History in the Age of Romanticism by Rosemary Hill
RRP: $27.28$19.09From the Wolfson Prize-winning author of God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic BritainBetween the fall of the Bastille in 1789 and the opening of the Great Exhibition in 1851, history changed. The grand narratives of the Enlightenment,... -
The Body and Society: Men, Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity by Peter Brown
RRP: $63.00$49.75First published in 1988, Peter Brown's The Body and Society was a groundbreaking study of the marriage and sexual practices of early Christians in the ancient Mediterranean and Near East. Brown focuses on the practice of permanent sexual... -
Promise Me You'll Shoot Yourself: The Downfall of Ordinary Germans, 1945 by Florian Huber
RRP: $23.08$16.32The extraordinary German bestseller on the final days of the Third ReichOne of the least understood stories of the Third Reich is that of the extraordinary wave of suicides, carried out not just by much of the Nazi leadership, but also by thousands of... -
Lust: The Seven Deadly Sins by Simon Blackburn 9780195162004
RRP: $41.98$31.54Lust, says Simon Blackburn, is furtive, headlong, always sizing up opportunities. It is a trail of clothing in the hallway, the trashy cousin of love. But be that as it may, the aim of this delightful book is to rescue lust "from the denunciations of old... -
The Butcher, the Baker, the Candlestick-Maker: The story of Britain through its census, since 1801 by Roger Hutchinson
RRP: $27.28$15.77At the beginning of each decade for 200 years the national census has presented a self-portrait of the British Isles.The census has surveyed Britain from the Napoleonic wars to the age of the internet, through the agricultural and industrial revolutions,... -
Pirate Enlightenment: Buccaneers, Women Traders and Mock Kingdoms in Eighteenth Century Madagascar by David Graeber
RRP: $39.88$30.24'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... -
Stained Glass by Aidan McRae Thomson
RRP: $18.88$12.64Stained 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... -
Drawing the Global Colour Line: White Men's Countries and the International Challenge of Racial Equality by Marilyn Lake
RRP: $65.08$50.48In 1900 W. E. B. DuBois prophesied that the colour line would be the key problem of the twentieth-century and he later identified one of its key dynamics: the new religion of whiteness that was sweeping the world. Whereas most historians have confined...