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First Women: The Grace and Power of America's Modern First Ladies by Kate Andersen Brower 9780062439666 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£3.32Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Women of the Durham Coalfield in the 19th Century: Hannah's Story by Margaret Hedley 9780750989886
£11.55The success of the Durham Coalfield and its important role in the Industrial Revolution is attributed to men of influence who owned the land and the pits, and men who worked in the coal-mining industry during the Victorian period. There has been very... -
Secrets of the Bayeux Tapestry by Brenda Williams
£4.44Ever since it came to the world's attention in the 17th century, the world's most famous tapestry has been a source of never-ending speculation. This book highlights the background of its construction and the events of 1066 that it portrays. It details... -
The Grand Tour by Mike Rendell
£6.96An introduction to the raucous yet educational 'gap year' tours of Europe taken by wealthy British aristocrats in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. For many young eighteenth-century aristocrats, the Grand Tour was an essential rite of... -
Things Can Only Get Better by John O'Farrell
RRP: £12.99£9.09Like bubonic plague and stone cladding, no-one took Margaret Thatcher seriously until it was too late. Her first act as leader was to appear before the cameras and do a V for Victory sign the wrong way round. She was smiling and telling the British... -
Forgotten Voices Of The Great War by Max Arthur
RRP: £15.99£11.61This unique landmark oral history uses first-hand accounts from ordinary men and women who were there. Gripping, poignant, surprising and even humorous, the personal experiences of these soldiers, civilians, marines and medics from both sides tell us... -
London: The Concise Biography by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: £20.00£14.69An abridged edition of Peter Ackroyd's magisterial biography of the city of London.Prize-winning historian, novelist and broadcaster, Peter Ackroyd takes us on a journey - historical, geographical and imaginative - through the city of London. Moving back... -
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... -
Voices from the Blue: The Real Lives of Policewomen by Jennifer Rees 9781472143105 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£2.57Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Wanderers, Kings, Merchants: The Story of India through Its Languages by Ms Peggy Mohan 9780670093687
RRP: £19.95£13.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780670093687Author Peggy MohanFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint PenguinPublisher Penguin Random House IndiaDimensions(mm) 220mm * 140mm * 30mm -
Re-sisters: The Lives and Recordings of Delia Derbyshire, Margery Kempe and Cosey Fanni Tutti by Cosey Fanni Tutti 9780571362189
RRP: £18.99£13.23From the acclaimed author of Art Sex Music comes a vital meditation on womanhood, creativity and self-expression, and a revelatory exploration into the lives of three visionary artists.'A fascinating tale of the interlinking lives of three legendary... -
Scotland: Her Story: The Nation's History by the Women Who Lived It by Rosemary Goring
RRP: £12.99£8.56Scotland's history has been told many times, but never exclusively by its women. This book takes a unique perspective on dramatic national events as well as ordinary life, as experienced by women down the centuries. From the saintly but severe medieval... -
British Military Dinky Toys by Alan Spree
RRP: £15.99£11.61This book on British-produced Military Dinky Toys takes a detailed look at the popular Army, Naval and Aircraft models produced from 1933 until the closure of the Binns Road factory in 1977. The book includes sections on the history of the... -
The Treason of the Intellectuals by Julien Benda
RRP: £43.99£38.44Julien 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... -
Arnold: 'Culture and Anarchy' and Other Writings by Matthew Arnold
RRP: £18.99£16.78Matthew 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... -
Nancy Wake: World War Two's Most Rebellious Spy by Russell Braddon 9781542021661
RRP: £14.95£10.40'Of all the variously talented women SOE sent to France, Nancy Wake was perhaps the most formidable' -Sebastian Faulks This is the incredible true story of the greatest spy you've never heard of-as told to the author by the woman herself. At the... -
Vagabonds: Life on the Streets of Nineteenth-century London by Oskar Jensen
RRP: £20.00£18.02Dickensian London is brought to real and vivid life in this Wolfson History Prize-shortlisted portrait by a rising-star historian and New Generation Thinker Until now, our view of bustling late Georgian and Victorian London has been filtered through... -
Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother: Stories of Loss and Love by Xinran
RRP: £15.99£11.61Ten chapters, ten women and many stories of heartbreak, including her own: Xinran once again takes us right into the lives of Chinese women and their lost daughters. Whether as a consequence of the single-child policy, destructive age-old traditions or... -
Thoroughly Modern: The pioneering life of Barbara Ker-Seymer, photographer, and her brilliant Bohemian friends by Sarah Knights
RRP: £22.00£14.96The life of pioneering photographer Barbara Ker-Seymer'Thoroughly entertaining... Knights expertly evokes this hedonistic period' The Times'A picturesque portrayal of a world that sounds as thoroughly maniacal as it was modern' Daily Telegraph'I just... -
Race: The History of an Idea in the West by Ivan Hannaford
RRP: £26.50£22.04In Race: The History of an Idea in the West Ivan Hannaford guides readers through a dangerous engagement with an idea that so permeates Western thinking that we expect to find it, active or dormant, as an organizing principle in all societies. But,... -
Stowe Legends of the Roxburgh Era by Anthony Meredith 9781805141884
RRP: £15.99£11.61The 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... -
100 Great Black Britons by Patrick Vernon
RRP: £12.99£8.60'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: £10.99£7.77A 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,... -
History of the Jews by Paul Johnson
RRP: £16.99£11.94A 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... -
Stop, Thief!: The Commons, Enclosures, And Resistance by Peter Linebaugh 9781604867473
RRP: £23.99£15.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604867473Author Peter LinebaughFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 332g -
Dope Girls: The Birth Of The British Drug Underground by Marek Kohn 9781862076181
RRP: £9.99£7.23This 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... -
When Champagne Became French: Wine and the Making of a National Identity by Kolleen M. Guy
RRP: £27.50£26.93Winner of the Outstanding Manuscript Award from Phi Alpha Theta, this work explains how nationhood emerges by viewing countries as cultural artifacts, a product of "invented traditions." In the case of France, scholars sharply disagree, not only over the... -
Fowl Play: A History of the Chicken from Dinosaur to Dinner Plate by Sally Coulthard 9781801104487
RRP: £10.99£7.12The humble chicken has conquered the world. This unlikely descendant of Tyrannosaurus Rex is now so ubiquitous there are more than 20 billion chickens pecking, strutting and scratching around the planet at any one time. And yet, of all animals, the... -
This Sporting Life: Sport and Liberty in England, 1760-1960 by Robert Colls 9780198208334
RRP: £20.99£18.34Why 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... -
Clanship to Crofters' War: The Social Transformation of the Scottish Highlands by T. Devine 9780719090769
RRP: £19.99£17.61Received to wide acclaim when first published in the 1990s, this absorbing book remains one of the most important, influential and widely read histories of the Scottish Highlands from the end of the Jacobite Risings to the great crofters' rebellion of... -
Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD by Martin A. Lee 9780802130624
RRP: £18.00£12.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802130624Author Martin A. LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 12Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly... -
The Artist, The Philosopher and The Warrior by Paul Strathern
RRP: £16.99£12.28In 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... -
Osebol: Voices from a Swedish Village by Marit Kapla
RRP: £14.99£10.95A SUNDAY TELEGRAPH AND GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEARWINNER OF SWEDEN'S AUGUST PRIZEWINNER OF THE WARWICK PRIZE FOR WOMEN IN TRANSLATIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE'Osebol is a magnificent success; it is hard to imagine it better ... Kapla... -
The Founding Gardeners: How the Revolutionary Generation created an American Eden by Andrea Wulf
RRP: £10.99£7.77A follow-up to Andrea Wulf's award-winning and critically acclaimed history of British gardening, this is the story of how George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and James Madison's passion for nature, plants, agriculture and gardens shaped the... -
After Charlemagne: Carolingian Italy and its Rulers by Clemens Gantner
RRP: £79.99£72.56After Charlemagne's death in 814, Italy was ruled by a succession of kings and emperors, all of whom could claim some relation to the Carolingians, some via the female line of succession. This study offers new perspectives on the fascinating but... -
The Secret History of Georgian London: How the Wages of Sin Shaped the Capital by Dan Cruickshank
RRP: £16.99£12.68Georgian London evokes images of elegant buildings and fine art, but it was also a city where prostitution was rife, houses of ill repute widespread, and many tens of thousands of people dependent in some way or other on the wages of sin. The sex... -
The Art of Dining: The History of Cooking and Eating by Sara Paston-Williams
£15.24A 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... -
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... -
Heart of Europe: The Past in Poland's Present by Norman Davies
RRP: £19.99£14.28The image of Poland has once again been impressed on European consciousness. Norman Davies provides a key to understanding the modern Polish crisis in this lucid and authoritative description of the nation's history. Beginning with the period since 1945,... -
The Good Girls: An Ordinary Killing by Sonia Faleiro
RRP: £9.99£7.11**Longlisted for the ALCS Gold Non-Fiction Dagger** **Longlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize 2022** 'Haunting ... lingers in the mind long after the final page is turned' Sunday Times 'A compelling whodunnit ... Devastating'...