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William Burrell: A Collector's Life by Martin Bellamy
RRP: £25.00£16.99In 1944, Glasgow received one of the greatest gifts ever made to any city in the world: a collection of over 6,000 artworks of many types spanning centuries and civilisations. The benefactors were Glasgow-born shipping magnate Sir William Burrell and... -
Going to Seed: From Flower Child to Radical Farmer, a Counterculture Memoir by Simon Fairlie
RRP: £14.99£9.80Simon Fairlie is possibly the most influential - and unusual - eco-activist you might not have heard of. The Observer Simon Fairlie is the original hippie. The Idler This is a fascinating, funny and moving record of an extraordinary life lived in... -
The Curious History of Dating: From Jane Austen to Tinder by Nichi Hodgson
RRP: £12.99£8.60AN EMPHATICALLY FEMINIST HISTORY OF DATING'A new approach to romance... The heroines of Regency novels could teach today's young women a trick or two' Sunday TimesWhat if Mr Darcy had simply been able to swipe right?'This book was a real education for me... -
100 People You Never Knew Were at Bletchley Park by Sinclair McKay 9781838405120
RRP: £14.99£11.66The reason for the huge commercial success of Sinclair McKay's The Secret Life of Bletchley Park was simple: for the first time it told the stories of the ordinary people (mostly women), who worked there, and what it was like. Sworn to secrecy, they... -
Queer London: Perils and Pleasures in the Sexual Metropolis, 1918-1957 by Matt Houlbrook
RRP: £27.00£26.87In August 1934, young Cyril L. wrote to his friend Billy about all the exciting men he had met, the swinging nightclubs he had visited, and the vibrant new life he had forged for himself in the big city. He wrote, "I have only been queer since I came to... -
Murderous Contagion: A Human History of Disease by Mary Dobson
RRP: £12.99£8.60Disease is the true serial killer of human history: the horrors of bubonic plague, cholera, syphilis, smallpox, tuberculosis and the like have claimed more lives and caused more misery than the depredations of warfare, famine and natural disasters... -
Medici Money: Banking, metaphysics and art in fifteenth-century Florence by Tim Parks
RRP: £10.99£7.77The Medici are famous as the rulers of Florence at the high point of the Renaissance. Their power derived from the family bank, and this book tells the fascinating, frequently bloody story of the family and the dramatic development and collapse of their... -
Fifty Things You Need To Know About British History by Hugh Williams
RRP: £14.99£9.70What are the 50 key events you need to understand to grasp British history? If you could choose the 50 things that define British history, events of significance not only in themselves, but in their importance to wider themes running through... -
The First Bohemians: Life and Art in London's Golden Age by Vic Gatrell
RRP: £16.99£12.28The colourful, salacious and sumptuously illustrated story of Covent Garden - the creative heart of Georgian London - from Wolfson Prize-winning author Vic GatrellSHORT-LISTED FOR THE HESSELL TILTMAN PRIZE 2014In the teeming, disordered, and sexually... -
On This Day She: Putting Women Back Into History, One Day At A Time by Tania Hershman
RRP: £25.00£17.79'A joyous and celebratory tribute to all those who battled to be heard, who fought for their achievements to be recognised and honoured, who simply kept going' Kate MosseThe tried and tested 'On This Day in History' format has elevated the stories of... -
Simone De Beauvoir's the Second Sex by Ruth Evans 9780719043031
RRP: £19.99£17.82Acknowledged by many feminists as the single most important theoretical work of the twentieth century, Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex (1949) nevertheless occupies an anomalous place in the feminist 'canon'. Yet it has had an undeniable impact, not... -
How to Be a Patriot: Why love of country can end our very British culture war by Sunder Katwala
RRP: £16.99£11.47How do we define patriotism in a diverse society? What divides us and what brings us together? Why do we feel uncomfortable celebrating our country's history? How to be a Patriot offers a new way of understanding our... -
Empire of the Sum: The Rise and Reign of the Pocket Calculator by Keith Houston 9780393882148
RRP: £25.00£21.32Starting with hands, abacus and slide rule, humans have always reached for tools to simplify math. Pocket-sized calculators ushered in modern mathematics, helped build the atomic bomb, took us to the bottom of the ocean and accompanied us to the moon... -
Palace of Palms: Tropical Dreams and the Making of Kew by Kate Teltscher
RRP: £9.99£7.27'A glorious green adventure story.' Ann Treneman, The Times 'Books of the Year''The most enthralling historical book I've read this year.' Claire Tomalin, New Statesman 'Books of the year' Daringly innovative when it opened in 1848, the Palm House in Kew... -
Heritage: A History of How We Conserve Our Past by James Stourton 9781838933173
RRP: £14.99£10.95What is heritage? When was it invented? What is its place in the world today? What is its place tomorrow? Heritage is all around us: millions belong to its organisations, tens of thousands volunteer for it, and politicians pay lip service to it. When... -
Mixing It: Diversity in World War Two Britain by Wendy Webster 9780198735762
£38.28During the Second World War, people arrived in Britain from all over the world as troops, war-workers, nurses, refugees, exiles, and prisoners-of-war-chiefly from Europe, America, and the British Empire. Between 1939 and 1945, the population in Britain... -
Shake it Up, Baby: The Rise of Beatlemania and the Mayhem of 1963 by Ken McNab 9781846976346
RRP: £22.00£15.11When BEATLEMANIA seized the nation: Relive the Mayhem of 1963 The Beatles broke up more than half a century ago, yet millions around the globe are still drawn to the legacy of four lads from Liverpool. It really shouldn't be like this. But, from the... -
The Guinness Story: The Family, The Business and The Black Stuff by Edward J. Bourke
RRP: £10.99£8.29This 250-year old story will fascinate lovers of Guinness beer and memorabilia as well as those interested in this remarkable family of brewers and the industrial history of Ireland's most famous export. Over 100 fascinating photographs bring to life... -
Georgian London: Into the Streets by Lucy Inglis
RRP: £14.99£10.95In Georgian London: Into the Streets, Lucy Inglis takes readers on a tour of London's most formative age - the age of love, sex, intellect, art, great ambition and fantastic ruin. Travel back to the Georgian years, a time that changed expectations of... -
Reporting the Troubles 2: More Journalists Tell Their Stories of the Northern Ireland Conflict by Deric Henderson
RRP: £16.99£14.10In this follow-up to their landmark first book, Deric Henderson and Ivan Little have gathered new stories from seventy journalists who have worked in Northern Ireland during the Troubles. These contributors write powerfully about the victims they have... -
British Bricks by David Kitching
RRP: £15.99£10.85Bricks are all around us, yet we seldom stop to look at them. There is an almost infinite range of bricks and, likewise, brick colours. Years ago every small district had its own brickworks to meet local demand, and larger businesses began to develop... -
Ruth Bader Ginsburg: a life by Jane Sherron De Hart 9781913348496
RRP: £10.99£7.32The definitive account of an icon who shaped gender equality for all women. In this comprehensive, revelatory biography - fifteen years of interviews and research in the making - historian Jane Sherron De Hart explores the central experiences that... -
Mussolini's Italy: Life Under the Dictatorship, 1915-1945 by Richard J. B. Bosworth
RRP: £18.99£13.61For almost all nations the First World War was an unparalleled disaster, but the Italian experience especially was to have catastrophic consequences. Weakened and embittered, trying and failing to come to terms with 600,000 dead and with an entire... -
The Soviet Sixties by Robert Hornsby 9780300250527
RRP: £25.00£20.92The story of a remarkable era of reform, controversy, optimism, and Cold War confrontation in the Soviet Union Beginning with the death of Stalin in 1953, the "sixties" era in the Soviet Union was just as vibrant and transformative as in the West. The... -
Sport and Ireland: A History by Paul Rouse
RRP: £29.49£27.15This is the first history of sport in Ireland, locating the history of sport within Irish political, social, and cultural history, and within the global history of sport. Sport and Ireland demonstrates that there are aspects of Ireland's sporting history... -
The Railway Navvies: A History of the Men who Made the Railways by Terry Coleman
RRP: £12.99£9.09This is the definitive story of the men who built the railways - the unknown Victorian labourers who blasted, tunnelled, drank and brawled their way across nineteenth-century England. Preached at and plundered, sworn at and swindled, this anarchic... -
A Small Town in Ukraine: Krakowiec and the Storm of History by Bernard Wasserstein
RRP: £25.00£17.62'A fine and deeply affecting work of history and memoir' Philippe SandsDecades ago, the historian Bernard Wasserstein set out to uncover the hidden past of the town forty miles west of Lviv where his family originated: Krakowiec (Krah-KOV-yets). In... -
The Graveyard Wanderers: The Wise Ones and the Dead in Sweden by Thomas K Johnson 9781947544390
RRP: £15.99£11.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947544390Author Thomas K JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Revelore PressPublisher Revelore PressWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Adventures on the High Teas: In Search of Middle England by Stuart Maconie
RRP: £14.99£10.95Everyone talks about 'Middle England'. Sometimes they mean something bad, like a lynch mob of Daily Mail readers, and sometimes they mean something good, like a pint of ale in a sleepy Cotswold village in summer twilight. But just where and what is... -
The People's Peace: Britain Since 1945 by Kenneth O. Morgan 9780198841074
RRP: £19.99£14.28The People's Peace: Britain since 1945 is the first comprehensive study by a professional historian of British history from 1945 to the present day. It examines the transformation of post-war Britain from the planning enthusiasm of 1945 to the rise of... -
Queen Bees: Six Brilliant and Extraordinary Society Hostesses Between the Wars - A Spectacle of Celebrity, Talent, and Burning Ambition by Sian Evans
RRP: £12.99£8.60'ENORMOUS FUN' GUARDIAN'SO ENTERTAINING' THE TIMES'GOSSIPY, LIGHT AND FUN' TLSQueen Bees looks at the lives of six remarkable women who made careers out of being society hostesses, including Lady Astor, who went on to become the first female MP, and Mrs... -
Return To Akenfield: Portrait Of An English Village In The 21st Century by Craig Taylor
RRP: £9.99£6.70Ronald Blythe's 1969 book Akenfield - a moving portrait of English country life told in the voices of the farmers and villagers themselves - is a modern classic. In 2004, writer and reporter Craig Taylor returned to the village in Suffolk on which... -
Irish: The Remarkable Saga of a Nation and a City by John Burrowes
RRP: £11.99£8.43Irish is the story of the mass migration from Ireland to Glasgow that took place in the wake of the Great Famine of the mid-nineteenth century. It is an epic account of the coming together of a nation and a city. This is the tale of those who escaped a... -
The Great British Dream Factory: The Strange History of Our National Imagination by Dominic Sandbrook
RRP: £16.99£14.15'Delightfully good ... an exuberant and learned celebration of British culture ... full of love for and fascination with everything from the origins of heavy metal in the metal-bashing industries of the West Midlands to John Lennon's and Damien Hirst's... -
Social Work’s Histories of Complicity and Resistance: A Tale of Two Professions by Rich Moth
RRP: £27.99£21.57Social work is often presented as a benevolent and politically neutral profession, avoiding discussion about its sometimes troubling political histories. This book rethinks social work's legacy and history of both political resistance and complicity... -
Full Steam Ahead: How the Railways Made Britain by Peter Ginn
RRP: £25.00£17.43The Age of Railways was an era of extraordinary change which utterly transformed every aspect of British life - from trade and transportation to health and recreation. Full Steam Ahead reveals how the world we live in... -
Stone on Stone: The Men Who Built The Cathedrals by Imogen Corrigan
RRP: £25.00£20.70Standing in the nave of a cathedral, it is hard not to wonder how ordinary human beings could have created sky-scraping, dizzyingly high buildings on which even the top-most parts were delicately decorated, in an age before even the simplest of power... -
Conspiracy: A History of Boll*cks Theories, and How Not to Fall for Them by Tom Phillips
RRP: £16.99£15.11'Uproarious . . . [Phillips and Elledge] pair the abundant good humour of this book with a warning about the corrosive effects of conspiracy theories' The Times From the Satanic Panic to the anti-vaxx movement, the moon landing to Pizzagate, it's always... -
Mabel's War: Love and Hope Beyond the Blitz by Mabel Hewitt
RRP: £10.99£8.25With devastating clarity and gentle humour, Mabel Hewitt takes us through her extraordinary life, from her childhood in the shadow of the First World War right up to the present day. Born in the tumultuous thirties, when the threat of the poorhouse hung... -
Marriages Are Made in Bond Street: True Stories from a 1940s Marriage Bureau by Penrose Halson
RRP: £9.99£7.27In the spring of 1939, with the Second World War looming, two determined twenty-four-year-olds, Heather Jenner and Mary Oliver, decided to open a marriage bureau. They found a tiny office on London's Bond Street and set about the delicate business of...