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Birkbeck: 200 Years of Radical Learning for Working People by Joanna Bourke 9780192846631
RRP: $83.98$71.88Birkbeck traces the 200-year history of Birkbeck, University of London from its founding at a time when social elites deplored the notion of educated working people to the present day. Joanna Bourke writes a lively history of the institution, and how it... -
Hey America!: The Epic Story of Black Music and the White House by Stuart Cosgrove
RRP: $52.50$35.68This is the untold story of black music - its triumph over racism, segregation, undercapitalised record labels, media discrimination and political anxiety - told through the perspective of the most powerful office in the world: from Louis Armstrong's... -
The Wine List: Stories and Tasting Notes behind the World's Most Remarkable Bottles Grant Reynolds 9781454947509
RRP: $42.00$28.04A one-of-a-kind exploration of the relationship between culture, politics, history, and wine. Vintage refers to the year grapes are harvested, and that vintage holds meaning. You can look up the weather in any almanac, but some stories are known only to... -
Folktales of the Peak District Mark P. Henderson 9781445601076
RRP: $35.68$24.09The Peak District is noted for its beautiful and varied scenery, its fascinating history, and its abundance of folktales. The sixty-two pieces in this collection include both wonder tales (fairy tales) and local legends, together with a few genuinely... -
The Beau Monde: Fashionable Society in Georgian London by Hannah Greig 9780198861188
RRP: $28.33$24.93The story of the world's first fashion-obsessed society in 18th-century London Caricatured for extravagance, vanity, glamorous celebrity and, all too often, embroiled in scandal and gossip, 18th-century London's fashionable society had a... -
Preston's Victorian red light district: Into the Sandhole John Garlington 9781910837474
RRP: $20.98$14.93The Sandhole was Preston's place of debauchery and shame. But Victorian morality ensured that it never appeared on any town maps, and despite regular reports in the newspapers of the time, it doesn't even survive in folk memory. It is a part of Preston's... -
The Cult of Creativity: A Surprisingly Recent History by Samuel W. Franklin
RRP: $42.00$35.66A history of how, in the mid-twentieth century, we came to believe in the concept of creativity. Named a best book of 2023 by the New Yorker and a notable book of 2023 by Behavioral Scientist. Creativity is one of American society's signature values,... -
A Grim Almanac of the Workhouse by Peter Higginbotham
RRP: $31.48$25.10For two centuries, the shadow of the workhouse hung over Britain. The recourse of only the most desperate, dark and terrible tales of malnutrition, misery, mistreatment and murder ran like wildfire through the poorer classes, who lived in terror of being... -
London Labour and the London Poor by Victor Neuburg
RRP: $31.48$23.00London Labour and the London Poor originated in a series of newspaper articles written by the great journalist Henry Mayhew between 1849 and 1850. A dozen years later, it had grown into the fullest picture we have of labouring people in the world's... -
Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War by Barbara Ehrenreich
RRP: $20.98$14.07What lies behind the human attraction to violence? Why do we glorify war, seeing it as an almost sacred undertaking? Barbara Ehrenreich is known for the originality and clarity of her thinking, and in Blood Rites she proposes a radical new theory about... -
Brittany: A Cultural History by Wendy Mewes
RRP: $31.50$28.67Brittany's richly layered landscape has contributed depth and character to the region's traditional oral culture, from stories of the sea and shore to tales of misty moors, sacred hill-tops and secretive forests. Evangelizing Dark Age saints from Britain... -
Radio: Making Waves in Sound by Alasdair Pinkerton 9781789140781
RRP: $42.00$30.85Radio is a medium of seemingly endless contradictions. Now in its third century of existence, the technology still seems startlingly modern; despite frequent predictions of its demise, radio continues to evolve and flourish in the age of the internet and... -
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward E. Baptist
RRP: $35.68$31.23Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution,the nation's original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America's later success. But to do so robs the millions who suffered in bondage of their full legacy. As historian... -
The Oxford Illustrated History of the Renaissance by Gordon Campbell
RRP: $49.33$36.98The Renaissance is one of the most celebrated periods in European history. But when did it begin? When did it end? And what did it include? Traditionally regarded as a revival of classical art and learning, centred upon fifteenth-century Italy, views... -
The Treasuries: Poetry Anthologies and the Making of British Culture by Clare Bucknell
RRP: $58.78$51.81The fascinating history of poetry anthologies and their influence on British society and culture over the last four centuries. For hundreds of years, anthologies have shaped the way we encounter literature. Eighteenth-century children and young women... -
Making Cars at Longbridge: 1905 to the Present Day by Gillian Bardsley 9780750965293
RRP: $47.25$38.58Lavishly illustrated with unique images from the official company archive, this book charts more than 100 years of car-making at the Longbridge factory, near Birmingham. Herbert Austin founded the Austin Motor Company here in April 1905 and it was... -
Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers by Cheryl Misak 9780198755357
RRP: $60.88$43.43When he died in 1930 aged 26, Frank Ramsey had already invented one branch of mathematics and two branches of economics, laying the foundations for decision theory and game theory. Keynes deferred to him; he was the only philosopher whom Wittgenstein... -
Adventures in Stationery: A Journey Through Your Pencil Case by James Ward
RRP: $23.08$16.32We are surrounded by stationery: half-chewed Cristal Bics and bent paper clips, rubber bands to fiddle with or ping, blunt pencils, rubbers and Tipp-ex are integral parts of our everyday environment. So much so that we never think about where they come... -
The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators between Qing China and the British Empire by The Perils of Interpreting Henrietta Harrison
RRP: $73.50$58.25A 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... -
Bodin: On Sovereignty by Jean Bodin 9780521349925
RRP: $52.48$45.74Bodin's Six livres de la republique is a vast synthesis of comparative public law and politics, the theoretical core of which is formed by the four chapters translated in this volume. These contain his celebrated theory of sovereignty, which informed his... -
Life Unseen: A Story of Blindness by Selina Mills 9781848856905
RRP: $42.00$32.17Imagine a world without sight. Is it dark and gloomy? Is it terrifying and isolating? Or is it simply a state of not seeing, which we have demonised and sentimentalized over the centuries? And why is blindness so frightening? In this fascinating... -
The Oxford History of Modern China by Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom 9780192895202
RRP: $31.48$23.00'excellent' LSE Review of Books China is the world's most populous country and newest superpower, whose place on the international stage can only be understood through the lens of its modern history. The Oxford History of Modern China is essential... -
The Book That Started It All by Anonymous 9781592859474
RRP: $157.48$105.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592859474Author ANONYMOUSFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint Hazelden Information & Educational ServicesPublisher Hazelden Information & Educational... -
The Spider (The UNDER THE NORTHERN SKY Series, Book 2) by Leo Carew
RRP: $31.48$20.58After the critically acclaimed epic fantasy THE WOLF comes THE SPIDER, book two in Leo Carew's UNDER THE NORTHERN SKY seriesA battle has been won, but the war still wages on . . .Roper, the Black Lord of the northern people, may have vanquished the... -
Sweet and Clean?: Bodies and Clothes in Early Modern England by Susan North 9780198856139
$244.46Sweet and Clean? challenges the widely held beliefs on bathing and cleanliness in the past. For over thirty years, the work of the French historian, George Vigarello, has been hugely influential on early modern European social history, describing an... -
Napoleon: A Life in Gardens and Shadows by Ruth Scurr
RRP: $23.08$16.32'Glorious... Scurr is one of the most gifted non-fiction writers alive' Simon Schama, Financial TimesA revelatory portrait of Napoleon written for our own time, exploring his love of nature and the gardens that gave his revolutionary life its light and... -
Whigs and Hunters: The Origin of the Black Act by E. P. Thompson 9780957000520
RRP: $33.60$30.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957000520Author E. P. ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint Breviary Stuff PublicationsPublisher Breviary Stuff PublicationsWeight(grams) 432g -
When There Were Birds by Roy Adkins
RRP: $52.50$11.15A landmark book that charts humanity's changing relationship with birds - from the ancient Egyptians to the twenty-first century 'A marvellously original slice of social history' Daily Mail'The facts and folklore of birdlife are dissected in admirable... -
A Gay History of Britain: Love and Sex Between Men Since the Middle Ages by Matt Cook 9781846450020
$118.36The book explores the changing ways in which male-male sex and love have been perceived and experienced from the late Anglo-Saxon period to the present. Celebrated figures, such as Richard Lionheart, whose love for Philip Augustus of France was so... -
Seductress: Women Who Ravished the World and Their Lost Art of Love by Elizabeth Prioleau
RRP: $39.92$30.53In this road map to restoring feminine sexual power, Betsy Prioleau introduces and analyzes the stories and stratagems of history's greatest seductresses. These are the women who ravished the world-from such classic figures as Cleopatra and Mae West to... -
Double Lives: A History of Working Motherhood by Helen McCarthy
RRP: $27.28$21.19SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2021 Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2021 Longlisted for the HWA Non-Fiction Crown 2021 'Fabulous' - The Times 'A milestone in women's history' - Observer 'Groundbreaking ... a fascinating... -
Uncommon Grounds (New edition): The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World by Mark Pendergrast
RRP: $42.00$39.56First published in 1999, Uncommon Grounds tells the story of coffee from its discovery on a hill in ancient Abyssinia to the advent of Starbucks and the coffee crisis of the 21st century. Mark Pendergrast uses coffee production, trade, and consumption as... -
This New Noise: The Extraordinary Birth and Troubled Life of the BBC by Charlotte Higgins 9781783350728 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28$4.75A brilliantly researched and gripping history of the BBC, from its origins to the present day.'The book could scarcely be better or better timed. It is elegantly written, closely argued, balanced, pulls no punches.' MELVYN BRAGG, GUARDIANCharlotte... -
This New Noise: The Extraordinary Birth and Troubled Life of the BBC Charlotte Higgins (Arts Correspondent) 9781783350728
RRP: $27.28$17.98A brilliantly researched and gripping history of the BBC, from its origins to the present day.'The book could scarcely be better or better timed. It is elegantly written, closely argued, balanced, pulls no punches.' MELVYN BRAGG, GUARDIANCharlotte... -
A Dictionary of Scottish Phrase and Fable by Ian Crofton
RRP: $73.50$51.30INCLUDES HUNDREDS OF NEW AND EXPANDED ENTRIES From 'Aald Rock' to 'Zeenty-teenty', A Dictionary of Scottish Phrase and Fable is an unputdownable gallimaufry of curious items embracing sayings, put-downs, insults, mottos, traditions, legends, folklore,... -
Compacts and Cosmetics: Beauty from Victorian Times to the Present Day by Madeleine Marsh 9781473822948
RRP: $35.68$26.63This fascinating book explores the history of makeup and beauty from lipstick to leg shaving. Madeleine Marsh chronicles the development of cosmetics from a secret shame in the 19th century, to a handbag essential in the 20th. She tells the stories... -
Never Tell Anyone You're Jewish: My Family, the Holocaust and the Aftermath by Maria Chamberlain 9781803710143
RRP: $35.60$34.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781803710143Author Maria ChamberlainFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd -
Winter: Five Windows on the Season Adam Gopnik 9781780874470
RRP: $27.28$15.77Winter takes us on an intimate tour of the artists, poets, composers, writers, explorers, scientists and thinkers who helped shape a new and modern idea of winter. We learn how literature heralds the arrival of the middle class; how snow science leads to... -
Swansea’s Royal Institution and Wales’ First Museum by Helen Hallesy 9781837720903
RRP: $94.50$77.18The Royal Institution of South Wales is a very special organisation, one of the few such institutions to survive into the twenty-first century. Founded in 1835, it opened Wales's first museum in 1841, running it until 1990, and it remains today a... -
Inheritance: The Lost History of Mary Davies: A Story of Property, Marriage and Madness by Leo Hollis
RRP: $23.08$16.32'Brilliant' Financial Times 'Hollis expertly weaves together the human tragedy and high politics behind the explosion of one of the world's greatest cities' Dan Snow The reclaimed history of a woman whose tragic life tells a story of madness,...