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The Great Western Steam Retreat: Chasing the Final Steam Trains in BR's Western Region, Wales and the Welsh Marches by Keith Widdowson
RRP: $35.68$27.17In mid-1964, Keith Widdowson got wind that the Western Region was hell-bent on being the first to eliminate the steam locomotive on its tracks by December 1965. The 17-year-old hurriedly homed in on train services still in the hands of GWR steam power,... -
Thinking the Twentieth Century by Tony Judt
RRP: $31.48$23.00Two explorers set out on a journey from which only one of them will return. Their unknown land is that often fearsome continent we call the 20th Century. Their route is through their own minds and memories. Both travellers are professional historians... -
John Knox by Rosalind K. Marshall 9781839830488
RRP: $23.08$16.04In this best-selling biography of John Knox, Rosalind K. Marshall traces the life of one of the Reformations' central characters. Following his career in Scotland, England, France, Switzerland and Germany, she explains in straightforward terms the issues... -
Surviving the Home Front: The People and the Media in the Second World War by Stuart Hylton 9781803993560
RRP: $31.48$24.26Terrifying raids, thousands of bombs and countless petrified inhabitants of Britain's busiest cities. These are the prevailing images of the Blitz and the Home Front in the Second World War. However, for the people who experienced it, it was so much more... -
Homecoming: The Scottish Years of Mary, Queen of Scots by Rosemary Goring 9781780278254
RRP: $27.28$17.98One of the most famous queens in history, Mary Stuart lived in her homeland for just twelve years: as a dauntless child who laughed at her friends' seasickness as they sailed to safety in France and later, on her return as a 18-year-old widow to take... -
Land of the Ilich: Journey's into Islay's Past by Stephen Mithen
RRP: $84.00$60.69As an archaeologist, Steven Mithen has worked on the Hebridean island of Islay over a period of many years. In this book he introduces the sites and monuments and tells the story of the island's people from the earliest stone age hunter-gatherers to... -
Outrageous: A History of Showbiz and the Culture Wars by Kliph Nesteroff 9781419760983
RRP: $46.18$31.92From the preeminent historian of modern comedy comes an expansive history of showbiz and the culture wars There is a common belief that we live in unprecedented times, that people are too sensitive today, that nobody objected to the actions of actors,... -
Late Victorian Holocausts: El Nino Famines and the Making of the Third World by Mike Davis
RRP: $27.28$26.38Examining a series of El Nino-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe in the last third of the 19th century, Mike Davis discloses the intimate, baleful relationship between imperial arrogance and natural incident that combined... -
The Weaker Vessel Lady Antonia Fraser 9781842126356
RRP: $35.68$25.07Antonia Fraser's bestselling account of the lives of women in seventeenth-century England.Just how weak were the women of the Civil War era? What could they expect beyond marriage and childbirth in an age where infant and maternal mortality was frequent... -
Early Days Miss Read 9780752882208
RRP: $20.98$14.28The enchanting childhood memoirs of bestselling author Miss Read.Miss Read's early days were spent with two remarkable grandmothers - one in Lewisham and one in Walton-on-the-Naze. EARLY DAYS is full of childhood memories of an extended family of uncles,... -
The Perfect Sword: Forging the Middle Ages by Edoardo Albert
RRP: $46.20$30.89The story of the Bamburgh Sword - one of the finest swords ever forged. In 2000, archaeologist Paul Gething rediscovered a sword. An unprepossessing length of rusty metal, it had been left in a suitcase for thirty years. But Paul had a suspicion that... -
A History of Thailand by Chris Baker
RRP: $48.28$40.05Since it was first published in 2005, A History of Thailand has been hailed as an authoritative, lively and readable account of Thailand's political, economic, social and cultural history. From the early settlements in the Chao Phraya basin to today,... -
The Condition of the Working Class in England by Friedrich Engels 9780141191102
RRP: $27.28$19.09Written when Engels was only twenty-four, and inspired in particular by his time living amongst the poor in Manchester, this forceful polemic explores the staggering human cost of the Industrial Revolution in Victorian England. Engels paints an... -
Aprons and Silver Spoons: The heartwarming memoirs of a 1930s scullery maid Mollie Moran 9780718159993
RRP: $23.08$16.32'IF YOU LOVE DOWNTON, THIS IS RIGHT UP YOUR STREET! CloserIf you liked Downton Abbey and Upstairs, Downstairs, it's time to discover the true story in Mollie Moran's Sunday Times charming bestselling memoir of life as a 1930s kitchen maid. When young... -
Letters of Note: Fathers by Shaun Usher 9781838850135 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.78$4.77In Letters of Note: Fathers, Shaun Usher collects together remarkable correspondence by and about fathers, including proud parental words of love, advice from experienced dads to new ones, as well as letters from both frustrated and adoring offspring... -
Letters of Note: Fathers by Shaun Usher
RRP: $16.78$11.47In Letters of Note: Fathers, Shaun Usher collects together remarkable correspondence by and about fathers, including proud parental words of love, advice from experienced dads to new ones, as well as letters from both frustrated and adoring offspring... -
Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience and Family Secrets by Burkhard Bilger
RRP: $52.50$34.50A New Yorker staff writer, investigates his grandfather, a Nazi Party Chief, in this "unflinching, gorgeously written, and deeply moving exploration of morality, family, and war" Patrick Radden Keefe, author of Empire of Pain ... -
The Study of Dress History by Lou Taylor
RRP: $52.50$39.46Over the past ten years the study of dress history has finally achieved academic respectability. This book shows how the fields of dress history and dress studies are now benefitting from the adoption of new multi-disciplinary approaches and outlines the... -
Cavern Club: The Inside Story by Debbie Greenberg 9780986377044
RRP: $36.23$25.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986377044Author Debbie GreenbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Jorvik PressPublisher Jorvik PressWeight(grams) 260gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
Pragmatism and Other Writings by William James
RRP: $23.08$16.32The writings of William James represent one of America's most original contributions to the history of ideas. Ranging from philosophy and psychology to religion and politics, James composed the most engaging formulation of American pragmatism. ... -
Ladies Can't Climb Ladders: The Pioneering Adventures of the First Professional Women by Jane Robinson 9781784163990 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.08$5.10It is a myth that either of the World Wars liberated women.The Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act of 1919 was one of the most significant pieces of legislation in modern Britain. It marked at once political watershed and a social revolution; the point at... -
Ladies Can't Climb Ladders: The Pioneering Adventures of the First Professional Women by Jane Robinson
RRP: $23.08$16.32It is a myth that either of the World Wars liberated women.The Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act of 1919 was one of the most significant pieces of legislation in modern Britain. It marked at once political watershed and a social revolution; the point at... -
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State by Friedrich Engels
RRP: $31.48$20.81The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (1884), was a provocative and profoundly influential critique of the Victorian nuclear family. Engels argued that the traditional monogamous household was in fact a recent construct, closely bound... -
Campbell Bunk: The Worst Street in North London Between the Wars Jerry White 9780712636254
RRP: $42.00$30.01From the 1880s to the Second World War, Campbell Road, Finsbury Park (known as Campbell Bunk), had a notorious reputation for violence, for breeding thieves and prostitutes, and for an enthusiastic disregard for law and order. It was the object of... -
Irwin Allen Collectibles by John Buss 9781398115316
RRP: $33.58$22.79What is the appeal to Irwin Allen's shows? Well, to a sixties TV audience used to a diet of westerns and hard-boiled detectives, they were new and exciting compared to what had appeared before. As for the appeal, much of this is down to the groups of... -
Our Woman in Havana: Reporting Castro's Cuba by Sarah Rainsford
RRP: $20.98$14.93Graham Greene saw the Castros rise; Sarah Rainsford watched them leave. From the street where Wormold, the hapless hero of Greene's Our Man in Havana, plied his trade, BBC foreign correspondent Rainsford reports on Fidel's reshaping of a nation, and... -
Groupthink by Christopher Booker 9781472959058
RRP: $42.00$32.00In Groupthink, his final book, the late, eminent journalist and bestselling author Christopher Booker seeks to identify the hidden key to understanding much that is disturbing about the world today. With reference to the ideas of a Yale professor... -
Gay Life Stories by Robert Aldrich
RRP: $27.28$17.07A fascinating portrait of gay men and women throughout time whose lives have influenced society at large, as well as what we recognize as today's varied gay culture. This book gives a voice to more than eighty people from every major continent and from... -
Who Owns History?: Elgin's Loot and the Case for Returning Plundered Treasure by Geoffrey Robertson
RRP: $42.00$30.41The biggest question in the world of art and culture concerns the return of property taken without consent. Throughout history, conquerors or colonial masters have taken artefacts from subjugated peoples, who now want them returned from museums and... -
Letters of Note: Music by Shaun Usher
RRP: $14.68$10.16In Letters of Note: Music, Shaun Usher brings together a riveting collection of letters by and about some of the musicians and music that enrich our lives. It is a wonderfully wide-ranging and illuminating book that will delight music lovers of all... -
Blitz Spirit: 'Fascinating' -Tom Hanks Becky Brown 9781529347081
RRP: $23.08$15.54'An utterly fascinating book - conversations and human behaviours recorded in real time' Tom Hanks'Fascinating ' Elizabeth Day'A hugely affecting and absorbing read.' The Bookseller'Finally, a book that is proving very therapeutic in these difficult... -
Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe by Richard Holloway
RRP: $35.68$25.79Throughout history we have told ourselves stories to try and make sense of what it all means: our place in a small corner of one of billions of galaxies, at the end of billions of years of existence. In this new book Richard Holloway takes us on a... -
Patrick Leigh Fermor: Noble Encounters between Budapest and Transylvania by Michael O'Sullivan 9786155225642
RRP: $54.50$47.92This book revisits the trajectory of one section of Patrick Leigh Fermor's famous pedestrian excursion from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople. This S.O.E. officer walked into Hungary as a youth of 19 at Easter of 1934 and left Transylvania in August... -
The Empress and the English Doctor: How Catherine the Great defied a deadly virus by Lucy Ward
RRP: $42.00$30.01A TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2022 SO FAR Shortlisted for the Pushkin House Book Prize 2022 'Sparkling history...with a fairytale atmosphere of sleigh rides, royal palaces and heroic risk-taking' The Times A killer virus...an all-powerful Empress...an... -
Voices of Kent Hop Pickers by Hilary Heffernan 9780752411309
RRP: $27.28$20.20Before the advent of machines in the late 1950s, hop-picking was undertaken by an army of people, many of whom saw the countryside only during these four to six weeks of picking. It was work and a way of earning some much needed extra money, but it was... -
Jews and Words by Amos Oz
RRP: $23.08$19.68A celebrated novelist and an acclaimed historian of ideas, father and daughter, unravel the chain of words at the core of Jewish life, history, and culture Why are words so important to so many Jews? Novelist Amos Oz and historian Fania Oz-Salzberger... -
After The Victorians: The World Our Parents Knew A.N. Wilson 9780099451877
RRP: $44.08$31.37When this book begins, in the reign of Edward VII, Great Britain commands the mightiest empire the world has ever seen. By the time it ends, with the Coronation of Elizabeth II, Britain has emerged victorious from a world war, but ruined as a world power... -
A Natural History of Beer by Rob DeSalle
RRP: $23.08$19.68A celebration of beer-its science, its history, and its impact on human culture "Curatorial eminences Rob DeSalle and Ian Tattersall serve up a potent scientific brew. . . . A marvellous paean to the pint, and to the researchers probing its depths... -
The Whisky Distilleries of the United Kingdom by Alfred Barnard
RRP: $84.00$77.32Around the year 1885, Alfred Barnard was secretary of Harper's Weekly Gazette, a journal which featured facets of the wine and spirit trade. In order to provide his readers with the history and detailed descriptions of the whisky-making process, Barnard... -
Britain's Forgotten Film Factory: The Story of Isleworth Studios by Ed Harris
RRP: $20.98$15.25The story of Isleworth Studios is essentially that of the British film industry from 1914 to 1952. Beginning with the first British Sherlock Holmes screen adaptation and ending with its Oscar-winning swansong, The African Queen, in the intervening years...