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Mrs Woolf and the Servants by Alison Light
RRP: £15.99£11.61Virginia 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... -
The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators between Qing China and the British Empire by Henrietta Harrison 9780691225463
RRP: £17.99£14.38A fascinating history of China's relations with the West-told through the lives of two eighteenth-century translatorsThe 1793 British embassy to China, which led to Lord George Macartney's fraught encounter with the Qianlong emperor, has often been... -
Terroni: All That Has Been Done to Ensure That the Italians of the South Became Southerners by Pino Aprile 9781599540313
RRP: £14.25£11.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599540313Author Pino AprileFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint Bordighera PressPublisher Bordighera PressWeight(grams) 485gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm... -
Everybody Wants to Rule the World: Britain, Sport and the 1980s by Roger Domeneghetti
RRP: £20.00£14.691980s Britain, told through the sport of the time.Travel back to the 1980s - to Botham's Ashes and the Brixton riots; the Moscow Olympics and the miners' strike; the Crucible Theatre and the Falklands - to explore how we got to where we are now. Discover... -
Surviving the Future: Culture, Carnival and Capital in the Aftermath of the Market Economy by David Fleming
RRP: £13.99£9.20Surviving the Future is a story drawn from the fertile ground of the late David Fleming's extraordinary Lean Logic: A Dictionary for the Future and How to Survive It. That hardback consists of four hundred and four interlinked dictionary entries,... -
The World of the Crusades by Christopher Tyerman
RRP: £27.50£23.89A lively reimagining of how the distant medieval world of war functioned, drawing on the objects used and made by crusaders Throughout the Middle Ages crusading was justified by religious ideology, but the resulting military campaigns were fueled by... -
Women and the Miners' Strike, 1984-1985 by Dr Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite 9780192843098
RRP: £35.00£30.50Just days into the miners' strike of 1984-1985, a few women in coalfield communities around Britain began to meet to consider how they could support the strike, a clash with the Thatcher government over the future of the coal industry. Women ultimately... -
Queer Beyond London by Matt Cook
RRP: £20.00£14.93Where exactly is queer England? There has been much discussion of London as a queer city, but what about the many thousands of queer lives lived elsewhere? From Manchester's bars and nightclubs, to Brighton's seafront, the attractions of Leeds to the... -
Culture in Nazi Germany by Michael H. Kater
RRP: £12.99£11.46A fresh and insightful history of how the German arts-and-letters scene was transformed under the Nazis Culture was integral to the smooth running of the Third Reich. In the years preceding WWII, a wide variety of artistic forms were used to instill a... -
The Science Of Discworld II: The Globe by Terry Pratchett
RRP: £14.99£11.35Acclaimed The Science of Discworld centred around an original Pratchett story about the wizards of Discworld. In it they accidentally witnessed the creation and evolution of our universe, a plot which was interleaved with a Cohen & Stewart non-fiction... -
A Revolution on Canvas - The Rise of Women Artists in Britain and France, 1760-1830 by Paris Spies-gans
RRP: £45.00£38.03The first collective, critical historical study of women artists in Britain and France during the Revolutionary era In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, hundreds of women in London and Paris became professional artists, exhibiting and... -
Bread for All: The Origins of the Welfare State by Chris Renwick
RRP: £10.99£7.77SHORTLISTED FOR THE LONGMAN-HISTORY TODAY PRIZE 2018LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2018 'Makes a gripping human story out of the wisest and most progressive policy achievement of any government in the history of the world ... the welfare state deserves... -
Marriage, a History: How Love Conquered Marriage by Stephanie Coontz
RRP: £20.00£12.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143036678Author Stephanie CoontzFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 425gDimensions(mm) 213mm *... -
One Fine Day by Ian Marchant
RRP: £20.00£13.75A time-travelling, genealogical adventure, bringing pre-industrial, rural, eighteenth-century England vividly to life on the page. One day Ian Marchant, acclaimed author of books on music, railways and pubs, decided, as all men of a certain age must,... -
The Rough-Stuff Fellowship Archive: Adventures with the world's oldest off-road cycling club by Mark Hudson 9780995488656
RRP: £32.00£26.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995488656Author Mark HudsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Isola PressPublisher Isola PressWeight(grams) 950g -
American Hardcore: A Tribal History by Steven Blush 9781932595895
RRP: £21.99£14.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781932595895Author Steven BlushFormat PaperbackPage Count 410Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S.Weight(grams) 824g -
Disability in Eighteenth-Century England: Imagining Physical Impairment by David M. Turner
RRP: £43.99£38.44This is the first book-length study of physical disability in eighteenth-century England. It assesses the ways in which meanings of physical difference were formed within different cultural contexts, and examines how disabled men and women used,... -
Berlin. Portrait of a City by Unknown 9783822814451
RRP: £50.00£38.12Berlin has survived two world wars, was divided by a wall during the Cold War, and after the fall of the wall was reunited. The city emerged as a center of European power and culture. From 1860 to the present day, this book is the most comprehensive... -
American Jesus: How The Son Of God Became A National Icon by Stephen Prothero 9780374529567
RRP: £20.00£13.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374529567Author Stephen ProtheroFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc -
The Witchcraft Sourcebook: Second Edition by Brian P. Levack 9781138774971
RRP: £51.99£45.59The Witchcraft Sourcebook, now in its second edition, is a fascinating collection of documents that illustrates the development of ideas about witchcraft from ancient times to the eighteenth century. Many of the sources come from the period between 1400... -
The Butcher, The Tailor, The Picture-Frame Maker…: Stories of Middle Way by Gareth Winrow
RRP: £8.99£6.45As she awaits her execution at Oxford Castle, a newly wed woman from a God-fearing family, convicted for murdering her housemaid, is pardoned at the last minute by King George II. A butcher suddenly disappears and changes his identity after the tragic... -
Law's Strangest Cases: Extraordinary but true tales from over five centuries of legal history by Peter Seddon 9781911622352
RRP: £12.99£8.48A rollicking collection of barely believable stories from five centuries of legal history - you'll be gripped by these tales of murder, intrigue, crime, punishment and the pursuit of justice. Meet the only dead parrot ever to give evidence in a court of... -
How to Teach Philosophy to Your Dog: A Quirky Introduction to the Big Questions in Philosophy by Anthony McGowan
RRP: £10.99£7.38Monty was just like any other dog. A scruffy and irascible Maltese terrier, he enjoyed barking at pugs and sniffing at trees. But after yet another dramatic confrontation with the local Rottweiler, Anthony McGowan realises it's high time he and Monty had... -
Birds Britannica by Mark Cocker
RRP: £60.00£44.45The British love their birds, which are inextricably entwined with every aspect of their island life. British customs, more than 1,000 years of English literature, the very fabric of society, even the landscape itself, have all been enhanced by the... -
Thurcroft: A Village and the Miners' Strike: An Oral History by the People of Thurcroft by Peter Gibbon 9780851248363
£11.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851248363Author Peter GibbonFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Spokesman BooksPublisher Spokesman Books -
Aprons and Silver Spoons: The heartwarming memoirs of a 1930s scullery maid by Mollie Moran
RRP: £10.99£7.77'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... -
Behind the Mask: The Life of Vita Sackville-West by Matthew Dennison 9780007486984
RRP: £12.99£9.09Aristocrat, literary celebrity, 'Rose Queen', devoted wife, lesbian, recluse, iconoclast - Vita Sackville-West was many things, but she was never straightforward. Her life is re-told here in a dazzling new biography. Vita Sackville-West was a... -
Set Adrift Upon the World: The Sutherland Clearances by James Hunter 9781839830303
RRP: £14.99£10.77Winner of Saltire Scottish History Book of the Year They would be better dead, they said, than set adrift upon the world. But set adrift they were - thousands of them, their communities destroyed, their homes demolished and burned. Such were the... -
Uprooted: How 3000 Years of Jewish Civilization in the Arab World Vanished Overnight by Lyn Julius 9781910383643
RRP: £30.00£22.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910383643Author Lyn JuliusFormat HardbackPage Count 360Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd -
Dawn of the Belle Epoque: The Paris of Monet, Zola, Bernhardt, Eiffel, Debussy, Clemenceau, and Their Friends by Mary McAuliffe
RRP: £17.99£14.04A humiliating military defeat by Bismarck's Germany, a brutal siege, and a bloody uprising-Paris in 1871 was a shambles, and the question loomed, "Could this extraordinary city even survive?" With the addition of an evocative new preface, Mary... -
The Ahoms: A Reimagined History by Arup Kumar Dutta
£22.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789356294141Author Arup Kumar DuttaFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint HarperCollins IndiaPublisher HarperCollins IndiaWeight(grams) 487gDimensions(mm)... -
The Picts: A History by Tim Clarkson
RRP: £10.99£7.32The Picts were an ancient nation who ruled most of northern and eastern Scotland during the Dark Ages. Despite their historical importance, they remain shrouded in myth and misconception. Absorbed by the kingdom of the Scots in the ninth century, they... -
The Husband Hunters: Social Climbing in London and New York by Anne de Courcy 9781474601450 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£2.29Towards the end of the nineteenth century and for the first few years of the twentieth, a strange invasion took place in Britain. The citadel of power, privilege and breeding in which the titled, land-owning governing class had barricaded itself for so... -
The Husband Hunters: Social Climbing in London and New York by Anne de Courcy
RRP: £10.99£7.40Towards the end of the nineteenth century and for the first few years of the twentieth, a strange invasion took place in Britain. The citadel of power, privilege and breeding in which the titled, land-owning governing class had barricaded itself for so... -
Henry VII's New Men and the Making of Tudor England by Steven Gunn
RRP: £32.49£29.81The reign of Henry VII is important but mysterious. He ended the Wars of the Roses and laid the foundations for the strong governments of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I. Yet his style of rule was unconventional and at times oppressive. At the heart of his... -
Voice of the Past: Oral History by Paul Thompson 9780192893178
RRP: £32.49£26.85In this revised edition of Paul Thompson's successful book, he traces oral history through its own past and weighs up the recent achievements of this international movement. He challenges myths of historical scholarship and looks at the use of oral... -
Rabbit Stew And A Penny Or Two: A Gypsy Family's Hard and Happy Times on the Road in the 1950s by Maggie Smith-Bendell
RRP: £10.99£7.40Born on a Somerset pea-field in 1941, the second of eight children in a Romani family, Maggie Smith-Bendell has lived through the years of greatest change in the travelling community's long history. As a child, Maggie rode and slept in a horse-drawn... -
Cultures of London: Legacies of Migration by Charlotte Grant 9781350242012
RRP: £19.99£16.54From its origin as the Roman city of Londinium through to its latest incarnation as a super-diverse World City in the twenty-first century, London's history and culture has been shaped by migration. This book expresses and celebrates the plurality of the... -
Surviving the Home Front: The People and the Media in the Second World War by Stuart Hylton 9781803993560
RRP: £14.99£11.55Terrifying 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... -
Violent Victorians: Popular Entertainment in Nineteenth-Century London by Rosalind Crone 9780719086854
RRP: £19.99£17.82By drawing attention to the wide range of gruesome, bloody and confronting amusements patronised by ordinary Londoners this book challenges our understanding of Victorian society and culture. From the turn of the nineteenth century, graphic, yet orderly,...