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The Wonderbox: Curious histories of how to live Roman Krznaric 9781846683947
RRP: £8.99£6.45There are many ways to try to improve our lives - we can turn to the wisdom of philosophers, the teachings of religions or the latest experiments of psychologists. But we rarely to look to history for inspiration - and when we do it can be surprisingly... -
Animals Strike Curious Poses Elena Passarello 9781784707354
RRP: £12.99£9.09Beginning with Yuka, a 39,000-year-old mummified woolly mammoth recently found in the Siberian permafrost, each of the sixteen essays in Animals Strike Curious Poses investigates a different famous animal named and immortalised by humans. Here are the... -
The Amusement Park: 900 Years of Thrills and Spills, and the Dreamers and Schemers Who Built Them by Stephen M. Silverman
RRP: £30.00£23.38Step right up! The Amusement Park is a rich, anecdotal history that begins nine centuries ago with the "pleasure gardens" of Europe and England and ends with the rise and fall and rise again of some of the most elaborate parks in the world. It's a... -
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... -
The Age of Guilt: The Super-Ego in the Online World by Mark Edmundson
RRP: £18.99£16.18How Freud's concept of the super-ego can help us to understand the harsh cultural climate of the digital age Cancellation, scapegoating, raving on Twitter. How did the Internet, which began as a place for open thought and exchange, become a forum for... -
The Conservatives and British Society 1880-1990 by Martin Francis 9780708313633
RRP: £48.00£39.13This collection of research explores the relationship between the Conservative party and British society since 1880 by focusing on the key themes of ideology, national identity, gender and policy. The focus of the text is not so much on the Conservative... -
Slate Mining in the Lake District: An Illustrated History by Alastair Cameron
RRP: £15.99£10.85The remnants of slate mining and quarrying form as much a part of the Lakeland historic landscape as the stone walls, heathered moorlands and Lakeland farms do. A significant number of local families currently living in Lake District villages has had... -
Beneath the Big Top: A Social History of the Circus in Britain by Steve Ward 9781783030491
£16.28Beneath the Big Top is a social history of the circus, from its ancient roots to the rise of the 'modern' tented travelling shows. A performer and founder of a circus group, Steve Ward draws on eye-witness accounts and contemporary interviews to explore... -
We, the Oppressors Dr Dr Jack Davy 9781529413922
RRP: £20.00£12.05'I thought I had a pretty good sense of how colonialism shapes modern society, but Dr Davy has shown me that understanding these things is a lifetime's work. In the absence of time to read everything, you could not ask for a more eloquent guide than this... -
Berlin Calling: A Story of Anarchy, Music, The Wall, and the Birth of the New Berlin by Paul Hockenos 9781620971956
RRP: £19.99£13.56Berlin Calling is a gripping account of the 1989 'peaceful revolution' in East Germany that upended communism and the tumultuous years of artistic ferment, political improvisation, and pirate utopias that followed. It's the story of a newly undivided... -
The First Urban Christians: The Social World of the Apostle Paul by Wayne A. Meeks 9780300098617
RRP: £21.00£20.31In this classic work, Wayne A. Meeks analyzes the earliest extant documents of Christianity-the letters of Paul-to describe the tensions and the texture of life of the first urban Christians. In a new introduction, he describes the evolution of the field... -
Schiller as Philosopher: A Re-Examination by Frederick Beiser 9780199532315
RRP: £46.99£35.64Fred Beiser, renowned as one of the world's leading historians of German philosophy, presents a brilliant new study of Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805), rehabilitating him as a philosopher worthy of serious attention. Beiser shows, in particular, that... -
Dangerous Days on the Victorian Railways: Feuds, Frauds, Robberies and Riots by Terry Deary
RRP: £9.99£4.08The Victorians risked more than just delays when boarding a steam train . . .Victorian inventors certainly didn't lack steam, but while they squabbled over who deserved the title of 'The Father of the Locomotive' and enjoyed their fame and fortune,... -
The House of Rothschild: Money's Prophets 1798-1848 by Niall Ferguson
RRP: £22.00£17.51In his rich and nuanced portrait of the remarkable, elusive Rothschild family, Oxford scholar and bestselling author Niall Ferguson uncovers the secrets behind the family's phenomenal economic success. He reveals for the first time the details of the... -
Re-Writing the French Revolutionary Tradition: Liberal Opposition and the Fall of the Bourbon Monarchy by Robert Alexander 9780521039765
RRP: £30.99£28.68This book examines the politics of the French Revolutionary tradition during the Bourbon Restoration and early July Monarchy. Robert Alexander argues that political change was achieved by legal grassroots organization and persuasion - rather than by the... -
Somewhere To Lay My Head by Robert Douglas
RRP: £10.99£7.40We left Robert a long way from home, a sixteen-year-old recruit in the RAF. Now, we follow his escape from the Forces (until National Service a few years later!), his return to Glasgow and life down the pit. Once more, Robert's fantastic memory for... -
Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates by Adrian Johns
£33.05Since the rise of Napster and other file-sharing services in its wake, most of us have assumed that intellectual piracy is a product of the digital age and that it threatens creative expression as never before. The Motion Picture Association of America,... -
The Deepest Sense: A Cultural History of Touch by Constance Classen
RRP: £20.99£18.37From the softest caress to the harshest blow, touch lies at the heart of our experience of the world. Now, for the first time, this deepest of senses is the subject of an extensive historical exploration. The Deepest Sense: A Cultural History of Touch... -
The Circus: A Visual History by Pascal Jacob
RRP: £45.00£36.99Winner of 2019 British Book Design & Production Award for Scholarly, Academic & Reference Books This beautiful book charts the development of the circus as an art form around the world, from antiquity to the present day. Using over 200 circus... -
The Society of Timid Souls: Or, How to be Brave by Polly Morland
£9.00This book is a modern investigation of an ancient virtue, inspired by a group for stage-frightened musicians in 1940s Manhattan. Coinciding with the terrifying height of World War Two, it was called The Society of Timid Souls. Seventy years later, as... -
Women Art Workers and the Arts and Crafts Movement by Zoe Thomas
RRP: £19.99£17.82This book constitutes the first comprehensive history of the network of women who worked at the heart of the English Arts and Crafts movement from the 1870s to the 1930s. Challenging the long-standing assumption that the Arts and Crafts simply revolved... -
The Little History of Scottish Brewing by John Alexander
RRP: £14.99£11.55From the time of the Picts to the present day, Scotland has played an important role in the development of British brewing, providing a host of inventions and other contributions vital to its success. Covering such topics as Scotch Ale, Porter, Shilling... -
Lesbian Love Story: A Queer History of Sapphic Romance by Amelia Possanza
RRP: £20.00£14.29Charting the stories of Olympic athletes and lesbian memoirists, via Sappho, Lesbian Love Story is a genre-defying respository of sapphic romance like no other.On her quest to discovering lesbian role models overlooked by history, Amelia Possanza... -
Tollund Man by Christian Fischer 9780752486352
RRP: £22.00£16.44On May 6, 1950, Viggo and Emil Hojgaard from the small village of Tollund were cutting mud to find peat for their stove in the Bjaeldskovdal peat bog, 12km west of Silkeborg, Denmark. As they worked, one of their wives noticed in the peat layer a corpse... -
The Way It Was: Life in Elizabeth’s Britain, 1952-1979 by Matthew Engel 9781786496690
RRP: £12.99£8.56Book of the Year in the Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph and New Statesman'A powerful illumination of a lost world that is nevertheless part of living memory.' Simon Heffer, 'Books of the Year' , Daily Telegraph'A joyous new book on post-war Britain.' Daily... -
Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present by Frank M. Snowden
RRP: £17.99£15.79A "brilliant and sobering" (Paul Kennedy, Wall Street Journal) look at the history and human costs of pandemic outbreaksAs seen on "60 Minutes" The World Economic Forum #1 book to read for context on the coronavirus outbreak This sweeping exploration... -
Youthquake: Why African Demography Should Matter to the World by Edward Paice 9781800241589
RRP: £25.00£21.79A riveting study of Africa's demographics - its youth and growth - and what they mean for the continent, today and into the future. 'Essential reading' Guardian 'Intensely researched - and very important!' The Week 'The research in Youthquake... -
The Idea of the Union: Great Britain and Northern Ireland - Realities and Challenges John Wilson Foster 9780993560729
RRP: £12.99£11.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993560729Author John Wilson FosterFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint Belcouver PressPublisher Belcouver PressWeight(grams) 551g -
The Real Diana Dors by Anna Cale 9781526782151
RRP: £19.99£14.28The story of Swindon-born film star Diana Dors is one of fame, glamour and intrigue. From the moment she came into the world, her life was full of drama. Her acting career began in the shadow of the Second World War, entering the film world as a... -
Managing the Economy, Managing the People: Narratives of Economic Life in Britain from Beveridge to Brexit by Jim Tomlinson 9780198786092
£93.77This study offers a distinctive new account of British economic life since the Second World War, focussing upon the ways in which successive governments, in seeking to manage the economy, have sought simultaneously to 'manage the people': to try and... -
Crime & Punishment in 18th century Kent by Michael Fairley 9780954396787
RRP: £11.99£10.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954396787Author Michael FairleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint MifairPublisher MifairWeight(grams) 227g -
Unofficial Ancestry.com Workbook: A How-To Manual for Tracing Your Family Tree on the Number-One Genealogy Website by Nancy Hendrickson
RRP: £18.99£14.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781440349065Author Nancy HendricksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Family Tree BooksPublisher F&W Publications Inc -
Electric Shock: From the Gramophone to the iPhone - 125 Years of Pop Music by Peter Doggett
RRP: £14.99£10.95Ambitious and groundbreaking, Electric Shock tells the story of popular music, from the birth of recording in the 1890s to the digital age, from the first pop superstars of the twentieth century to the omnipresence of music in our lives, in hit singles,... -
Dartmoor Tin Mining: History and Heritage by Bruce Boulton 9780857101327
RRP: £9.99£8.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857101327Author Bruce BoultonFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint PiXZ BooksPublisher PiXZ Books -
African Dominion: A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa by Michael Gomez
RRP: £28.00£22.20A groundbreaking book that puts early and medieval West Africa on the map of global historyPick up almost any book on early and medieval world history and empire, and where do you find West Africa? On the periphery. This pioneering book tells a different... -
The Medieval Kitchen: A Social History with Recipes by Hannele Klemetilla 9781861899088
RRP: £30.00£21.35Contrary to what is often believed, good food was valued highly in the Middle Ages - the fragrance of exotic spices filled the air, meat turned on the spit and fish was consumed in abundance for religious reasons. The wealthy made a show of their... -
Translation as Transhumance by Mireille Gansel 9780993009372
RRP: £10.00£6.80Mireille Gansel grew up in the traumatic aftermath of her family losing everything-including their native languages-to Nazi Germany. In the 1960s and 70s, she translated poets from East Berlin and Vietnam to help broadcast their defiance to the rest of... -
Ghost Towns of Ontario's Cottage Country by Andrew Hind
RRP: £17.99£12.30Explore the remnants of vanished villages across Ontario’s cottage country.Crumbling foundations lost in the forest, weathered buildings leaning wearily with age, cracked tombstones jutting from the ground — all serve as haunting reminders of once... -
The Welsh Gypsies: Children of Abram Wood by Eldra Jarman 9780708323984
RRP: £18.99£14.52The Gypsy family of Abram Wood first arrived in Wales in the eighteenth century, a tawny-skinned people speaking a language close to Hindi and Sanskrit. Welsh society found their customs strange and sometimes unacceptable. The family included such... -
1215: The Year of Magna Carta by Danny Danziger
RRP: £12.99£7.51On 15 June 1215, rebel barons forced King John to meet them at Runnymede. They did not trust the King, so he was not allowed to leave until his seal was attached to the charter in front of him.This was Magna Carta. It was a revolutionary document. Never...