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Arnold: 'Culture and Anarchy' and Other Writings by Matthew Arnold
RRP: $39.88$35.24Matthew Arnold's Culture and Anarchy (1869) is one of the most celebrated works of social criticism ever written. It has become an inescapable reference-point for all subsequent discussion of the relations between politics and culture, and it has... -
Women and Museums 1850-1914: Modernity and the Gendering of Knowledge by Kate Hill 9781526136671
RRP: $52.50$45.76This book recovers the significant contribution made by women to museums, not just in obvious roles such as workers, but also as donors, visitors, volunteers and patrons. It suggests that women persistently acted to domesticate the museum, by importing... -
The Inca Empire: An Illustrated History by David Jones
RRP: $42.00$35.05The history of the Incas fascinates the modern world. This groundbreaking book separates fact from fiction, exploring the native peoples of Peru and the Andes, their mythologies and ancient belief systems, and the amazing beauty of Inca art and... -
The Castle: A History by John Goodall
RRP: $41.98$36.48A vibrant history of the castle in Britain, from the early Middle Ages to the present day The castle has long had a pivotal place in British life, associated with lordship, landholding, and military might, and today it remains a powerful symbol of... -
Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade by Hannah Durkin 9780008446512
RRP: $46.20$30.62GUARDIAN: BOOKS TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2024 WATERSTONES: JANUARY'S BEST BOOKS BBC: BOOK HIGHLIGHTS FOR 2024 'GRIPPING' THE TIMES ... -
My Mad Fat Diary by Rae Earl
RRP: $23.08$15.54My Mad Fat Diary is now a major new comedy for E4!It's 1989 and Rae is a fat, boy-mad 17-year-old girl, living in Stamford, Lincolnshire with her mum and their deaf white cat in a council house with a mint off-green bath suite and a larder Rae can't keep... -
The Shop Girls: A True Story of Hard Work, Friendship and Fashion in an Exclusive 1950s Department Store by Ellee Seymour
RRP: $23.08$15.54For Eve, Irene, Betty and Rosemary, working at the exclusive Heyworth's department store in Cambridge is a dream come true. Once the girls step inside the elegant building - surrounded by luxurious dresses and beautiful accessories - the hardships of... -
Lark Rise to Candleford by Flora Thompson 9780198796695
RRP: $20.98$14.93'People were poorer and had not the comforts, amusements, or knowledge we have today; but they were happier.' Lark Rise to Candleford is Flora Thompson's classic evocation of a vanished world of agricultural customs and rural culture. The trilogy of... -
Elizabeth's London: Everyday Life in Elizabethan London by Liza Picard 9780753817575 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28$4.81'Reading this book is like taking a ride on a marvellously exhilarating time-machine, alive with colour, surprise and sheer merriment' Jan MorrisElizabethan London reveals the practical details of everyday life so often ignored in conventional history... -
Elizabeth's London: Everyday Life in Elizabethan London Liza Picard 9780753817575
RRP: $27.28$18.06'Reading this book is like taking a ride on a marvellously exhilarating time-machine, alive with colour, surprise and sheer merriment' Jan MorrisElizabethan London reveals the practical details of everyday life so often ignored in conventional history... -
100 Great Black Britons by Patrick Vernon
RRP: $27.28$18.06'An empowering read . . . it is refreshing to see somebody celebrate the role that black Britons have played in this island's long and complicated history'DAVID LAMMY, author of Tribes, in 'The best books of 2020', the Guardian'Timely and so important . ... -
The Turning Point: A Year that Changed Dickens and the World by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
RRP: $23.08$16.32A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR The year is 1851. It's a time of radical change in Britain, when industrial miracles and artistic innovations rub shoulders with political unrest, poverty and disease. It's also a turbulent time in the life of Charles Dickens,... -
Coal and Tobacco: The Lowthers and the Economic Development of West Cumberland, 1660-1760 by J. V. Beckett 9780521090162
RRP: $65.08$47.99Economic historians have long appreciated the important role of the Lowther family in the developing Whitehaven from a tiny fishing village into a flourishing industrial centre. In Coal and Tobacco, Dr Beckett has attempted, by analysing the west... -
History of the Jews by Paul Johnson
RRP: $35.68$25.07A classic study of the Jews by a best selling author.In this critically acclaimed book, Paul Johnson delves deep into the 4,000-year history of the Jews: a race of awe-inspiring endurance, steadfast homogeneity and loyalty and, above all, the belief that... -
Dope Girls: The Birth Of The British Drug Underground by Marek Kohn 9781862076181
RRP: $20.98$15.18This is a discussion of the transformation of drug use (especially morphine and cocaine, which was once commonly available in any chemist's shop) into a national menace. It revolves around the death of Billie Carleton, a West End musical actress, in 1918... -
This Sporting Life: Sport and Liberty in England, 1760-1960 by Robert Colls 9780198208334
$44.67Why did killing a fox mean liberty? What did parish revels have to do with the Peterloo Massacre? What did animal cruelty have to do with the English constitution? What did the Factory Acts mean for modern football? In This Sporting Life, Robert... -
Technics and Civilization by Lewis Mumford
RRP: $52.50$51.11"Technics and Civilization" first presented its compelling history of the machine and critical study of its effects on civilization in 1934 - before television, the personal computer, and the Internet even appeared on our periphery. Drawing upon art,... -
The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea by Robert Wald Sussman
RRP: $41.90$34.69Biological races do not exist-and never have. This view is shared by all scientists who study variation in human populations. Yet racial prejudice and intolerance based on the myth of race remain deeply ingrained in Western society. In his powerful... -
Trick or Treat: A History of Halloween by Lisa Morton 9781789141580
RRP: $25.18$17.70Trick or Treat is the first book to both examine the origins and history of Halloween and explore in depth its current global popularity. Festivals like the Celtic Samhain and Catholic All Souls' Day have blended to produce the modern Halloween, which... -
Bayle, Jurieu, and the Dictionnaire Historique et Critique by Mara Van der Lugt
$243.62Bayle, Jurieu and the Dictionnaire Historique et Critique presents a new study of Pierre Bayle's Dictionnaire Historique et Critique (1696), with special reference to Bayle's polemical engagement with the theologian Pierre Jurieu. While recent years have... -
Strange Ways to Die in History: The Heroic, Tragic and Funny by Ben Gazur 9781399045520
RRP: $46.20$32.80Death comes for us all in the end. But it does not always come in a way you might expect. Throughout history there have been people who have suffered extraordinary, unusual, and downright weird demises. In Strange Ways to Die in History you will find out... -
The Art of Dining: The History of Cooking and Eating by Sara Paston-Williams
$32.00A reissue of the classic reference work on the history of cooking and eating. Sara Paston-Williams has used the great wealth of National Trust houses and records to produce this wonderful book which is a feast for the eye as well as a fascinating guide... -
France in the World: A New Global History by Patrick Boucheron
RRP: $41.98$30.58A fresh, provocative history that renews our understanding of France in the world through short, incisive essays ranging from prehistoric frescoes to Coco Chanel to the terrorist attacks of 2015. Bringing together an impressive group... -
What's Tha Up To?: Memories of a Yorkshire Bobby Martyn Johnson 9780751547771
RRP: $23.08$15.54'A wonderful slice-of-life autobiography' Daily Express'I've turned boys into men and policemen into coppers,' said the Sergeant. 'Policemen have got brains, but coppers, they've got brains and common sense.'No two days were ever the same for... -
Gentlemen Bankers: The World of J. P. Morgan by Susie J. Pak 9780674416901
RRP: $44.00$35.45Gentlemen Bankers investigates the social and economic circles of one of America's most renowned and influential financiers to uncover how the Morgan family's power and prestige stemmed from its unique position within a network of local and international... -
The Ghost In The Garden: in search of Darwin's lost garden by Jude Piesse
RRP: $20.98$14.07The forgotten garden that inspired Charles Darwin becomes the modern-day setting for an exploration of memory, family, and the legacy of genius. Darwin's childhood garden at The Mount in Shrewsbury was the site of some of the great scientist's earliest... -
Ypres: Great Battles by Mark Connelly
RRP: $55.63$39.08In 1914, Ypres was a sleepy Belgian city admired for its magnificent Gothic architecture. The arrival of the rival armies in October 1914 transformed it into a place known throughout the world, each of the combatants associating the place with it its own... -
The Sioux Chef's Indigenous Kitchen by Sean Sherman 9780816699797
RRP: $62.98$57.752018 James Beard Award Winner: Best American Cookbook Named one of the Best Cookbooks of 2017 by NPR, The Village Voice, Smithsonian Magazine, UPROXX, New York Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, Mpls. St. PaulMagazine and others Here is real food-our... -
Housman Country: Into the Heart of England by Peter Parker
RRP: $31.48$20.58Why is it that for many people 'England' has always meant an unspoilt rural landscape rather than the ever-changing urban world in which most English people live? What was the 'England' for which people fought in two world wars? What is about the English... -
Stowe Legends of the Roxburgh Era by Anthony Meredith 9781805141884
RRP: $33.58$24.38The foundation of Stowe as a Public School in 1923 saved a fine eighteenth-century mansion from demolition and the surrounding landscape gardens from being built upon or farmed. Stowe Legends tells of a host of intriguing characters who, under the... -
The Treason of the Intellectuals Julien Benda 9781412806237
RRP: $92.38$80.72Julien Benda's classic study of 1920s Europe resonates today. The "treason of the intellectuals" is a phrase that evokes much but is inherently ambiguous. The book bearing this title is well known but little understood. This edition is introduced by... -
Mrs Woolf and the Servants by Alison Light
RRP: $33.58$24.38Virginia Woolf was a feminist and a bohemian but without her servants - cooking, cleaning and keeping house - she might never have managed to write.Mrs Woolf and The Servants explores the hidden history of service. Through Virginia Woolf's extensive... -
Everyday Life in Tudor London: Life in the City of Thomas Cromwell, William Shakespeare & Anne Boleyn by Stephen Porter
RRP: $42.00$19.57Tudor London was a vibrant capital city, the very hub of English cultural and political life. The thriving metropolis had a strong royal presence, at the long established Tower of London and Westminster, and later at the palaces of Whitehall, Bridewell... -
Spike Island: The Memory of a Military Hospital by Philip Hoare
RRP: $23.08$15.23The story of Netley in Southampton - its hospital, its people and the secret history of the 20th-century. Now with a new afterword uncovering astonishing evidence of Netley's links with Porton Down & experiments with LSD in the 1950s. It was... -
What's in a Name?: Friendship, Identity and History in Modern Multicultural Britain by Sheela Banerjee 9781529367591
RRP: $39.88$26.78A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR'A brilliantly enlightening book . . . at times moving, at others ironic, full of insights and detail'Michael Rosen'A kaleidoscopic portrait of the UK . . . with insight and compassion'Irish TimesOur names are so mundane... -
The Berbers: The Peoples of Africa Michael Brett (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London) 9780631207672
RRP: $90.20$78.90The Berbers provides a comprehensive overview of the history of the Berber-speaking peoples.About the AuthorMichael Brett is Lecturer in African History at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London University. Elizabeth Fentress was formerly a... -
Simple Living in History: Pioneers of the Deep Future by Samuel Alexander 9780987588494
RRP: $44.08$38.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780987588494Author Samuel AlexanderFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Simplicity InstitutePublisher Simplicity InstituteWeight(grams) 345g -
Crowdie And Cream And Other Stories: Memoirs of a Hebridean Childhood Finlay J. Macdonald 9780751513486
RRP: $27.28$18.06CROWDIE AND CREAM: Peopled with characters like Great Aunt Rachel, 'built like a Churchill tank and with a personality to match', these are the stories of a childhood, of the hard years of the Depression, and then the departure of the island's young men... -
The Artist, The Philosopher and The Warrior by Paul Strathern
RRP: $35.68$25.79In the autumn of 1502 three giants of the Renaissance period - Cesare Borgia, Leonardo da Vinci and Niccolo Machiavelli - set out on one of the most treacherous military campaigns of the period. Cesare Borgia was a ferocious military leader whose name... -
The Little Book of Collectable British Pyrex by Susan Hibberd 9781999932145
$45.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999932145Author Susan HibberdFormat PaperbackImprint Butterfly Cottage PublishingPublisher Butterfly Cottage Publishing