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Bike Boom: The Unexpected Resurgence of Cycling Carlton Reid 9781610918169
RRP: £28.00£23.27Cycling advocates envisage a future in which bikes are a widespread daily form of transportation. While many global cities are seeing the number of bike commuters increase, this future is still far away; at times, urban cycling seems to be fighting for... -
What Regency Women Did For Us by Rachel Knowles 9781473882249
RRP: £12.99£9.09Regency women inhabited a very different world from the one in which we live today. Considered intellectually inferior to men, they received little education and had very few rights. This book tells the inspirational stories of twelve women, from very... -
Dress in Anglo-Saxon England Professor Gale R. Owen-Crocker 9781843835721
RRP: £25.99£22.69Splendid . . . the major overview of Anglo-Saxon clothing and textile from the 5th to 11th centuries. . . . Owen-Crocker has become the authority reconstructors call upon. . . . A wise and scholarly book. TOEBI Newsletter Based on the revised and... -
The Little Book of Snow by Sally Coulthard
RRP: £7.99£5.79A charming celebration of all things snow. Is it true that no two snowflakes are ever alike? How many Christmases have actually been white? Do the Inuit have dozens of words for snow? Can it ever be too cold to snow? Our memories and imagination... -
Utopia: The History of an Idea by Gregory Claeys
RRP: £10.99£7.40Aspirations for a better - even a perfect - society have existed throughout history, often imagined in intricate detail by philosophers, poets, social reformers, architects and artists. This book explores a perennially powerful idea: the quest for the... -
Perfect Red by Amy Butler Greenfield
RRP: £13.99£11.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060522766Author Amy Butler GreenfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Afternoon Tea: A History and Guide to the Great Edwardian Tradition by Vicky Straker
RRP: £15.99£10.85The Edwardian era was the golden age of etiquette and gentility, and the taking of tea was rather like a ceremonial masquerade. At this time, it was not uncommon for ladies to change up to five times a day, and one of their outfits would have been a tea... -
1997: The Future that Never Happened by Richard Power Sayeed 9781786991997
RRP: £12.99£9.79'Beautifully written, brilliantly insightful' Owen Jones Tony Blair and Noel Gallagher shaking hands at No. 10. Saatchi's YBAs setting the international art world aflame. Geri Halliwell in a Union Jack dress. A time of vibrancy and optimism: when the... -
The Cambridge Handbook of Western Mysticism and Esotericism by Glenn Alexander Magee 9780521734912
RRP: £28.99£23.78Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The World of Odysseus by Professor M I Finley
RRP: £16.95£9.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590170175Author M. I. FinleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
Sealand: The True Story of the World's Most Stubborn Micronation by Dylan Taylor-Lehman 9781785787164
RRP: £9.99£6.70'The unexpected comic masterpiece of the year' Daily MailIn 1967, retired army major and self-made millionaire Paddy Roy Bates inaugurated himself ruler of the Principality of Sealand on a World War II Maunsell Sea Fort near Felixstowe - and began the... -
Life in the Victorian Hospital by Michelle Higgs 9780752448046
RRP: £17.99£13.64Throughout the Victorian period, life-threatening diseases were no respecter of class, affecting rich and poor alike. However, the medical treatment for such diseases differed significantly, depending on the class of patient. The wealthy received private... -
Edith Stein's Life in a Jewish Family, 1891–1916: A Companion by Joyce Avrech Berkman 9781666912494
RRP: £73.00£64.18Edith Stein's Life in a Jewish Family, 1891-1916 is a treasure trove for the study of Stein's youth and early adulthood, her approach to writing autobiographically, and her intricate relationship with historical influences of her time and place. Through... -
The Gold Machine: In the Tracks of the Mule Dancers by Iain Sinclair
RRP: £20.00£13.50A New Statesman Book of the Year, 2021 'Follow Iain Sinclair into the cloud jungles of Peru and emerge questioning all that seemed so solid and immutable.' Barry Miles From the award-winning author of The Last London and Lights Out for the... -
Fowl Play: A History of the Chicken from Dinosaur to Dinner Plate by Sally Coulthard
RRP: £20.00£14.29The chicken can fly only a few metres but - somehow - this unlikely evolutionary descendant of Tyrannosaurus Rex has conquered the world. Earth is now home to more than twenty billion chickens, at least ten times more than any other bird. For every human... -
The Russia Anxiety: And How History Can Resolve It by Mark B. Smith
RRP: £12.99£9.09'This exciting and provocative book blows apart misconceptions about the Russian past' Lara Douds, Times Higher Education Russia is an exceptional country, the biggest in the world. It is both European and exotic, powerful and weak, brilliant and... -
Revolution: How the Bicycle Reinvented Modern Britain by William Manners
RRP: £9.99£6.75It is easy to see bicycles as commonplace machines, but at the end of the nineteenth-century there was no other piece of technology which attracted the same level of excitement, discussion or controversy. Significant societal shifts followed the... -
Burbage Through the Centuries: A History of the Village and Its People, Domesday to World War One by Jo Garner Williams 9781804675922
£27.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804675922Author Jo Garner WilliamsFormat HardbackPage Count 399Imprint Bookvault PublishingPublisher Bookvault PublishingWeight(grams)... -
Queen and Country: Same-Sex Desire in the British Armed Forces, 1939-45 by Emma Vickers 9781784991180
RRP: £19.99£17.61Queen and country examines the complex intersection between same-sex desire and the British Armed Forces during the Second World War. It illuminates how men and women lived, loved and survived in an institution which, at least publicly, was unequivocally... -
Reassessing 1970s Britain by Lawrence Black 9780719099793
RRP: £19.99£17.61Available in paperback for the first time, this book examines a decade of extraordinary ferment in ideas, and the battles about those ideas out of which emerged the Britain of the late-twentieth century. In addressing the ideational contours of the... -
The Routledge Atlas of Jewish History by Martin Gilbert 9780415558112
RRP: £23.99£20.99'An unusual and compelling insight into Jewish history... sheer detail and breadth of scale' BBC History MagazineThis newly revised and updated edition of Martin Gilbert's Atlas of Jewish History spans over four thousand years of history in 154 maps,... -
Bacardi And The Long Fight For Cuba by Tom Gjelten
RRP: £17.99£12.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143116325Author Tom GjeltenFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 452g -
Shakespeare's First Folio: Four Centuries of an Iconic Book by Emma Smith 9780198819998
RRP: £12.99£9.09This is a biography of a book: the first collected edition of Shakespeare's plays printed in 1623 and known as the First Folio. It begins with the story of its first purchaser in London in December 1623, and goes on to explore the ways people have... -
Women In England 1500-1760 Anne Laurence 9781842126226
RRP: £12.99£8.60Drawing on a wide range of recent research, WOMEN IN ENGLAND is an intimate social history of women who experienced life between the Reformation and the Industrial Revolution.Anne Laurence writes about marriage, sex, childbirth, work within and outside... -
The Black Death in London by Barnie Sloane 9780752428291
RRP: £14.99£11.55The Black Death of 1348-49 may have killed more than 50% of the European population. This book examines the impact of this appalling disaster on England's most populous city, London. Using previously untapped documentary sources alongside archaeological... -
The Golden Age of Yorkshire Resorts 1800-1914 George Sheeran 9781398113459
RRP: £15.99£10.85The Yorkshire coast has been attracting holidaymakers for centuries. This book is the first to delve into the world of moneyed visitors to the county's seaside resorts, showing what attracted such people and why places like Scarborough, Filey and others... -
All Together Now?: One Man's Walk in Search of a Lost England Mike Carter 9781783351572
RRP: £10.99£7.32'This important, disturbing and frequently heartbreaking book should be read by every politician in Westminster.' Adrian Tempany, Observer'In a few weeks' time, it would be thirty-five years to the day since those men and women had walked 340 miles to... -
The Official History of Britain: Our Story in Numbers as Told by the Office For National Statistics by Boris Starling
RRP: £9.99£6.64A wonderfully written and entertaining book which places Britain under the microscope and asks who we are today and how we've changed as a nation. 'Entertaining and absorbing' - The Sunday Times In 1841 there were 734 female... -
Mill and Liberalism by Maurice Cowling
RRP: £22.99£20.66Mill and Liberalism was first published in 1963. Initial reactions varied from the uncomprehending to the splenetic. In the intervening quarter-century the intellectual climate has changed as reflected by its greatest exemplar, to warrant fresh... -
In Our Time: The companion to the Radio 4 series by Melvyn Bragg 9780340977521
RRP: £12.99£8.60Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time series regularly enlightens and entertains substantial audiences on BBC Radio 4. For this book he has selected episodes which reflect the diversity of the radio programmes, and takes us on an amazing tour through the history of... -
Channel Island Murders by Nicola Sly
RRP: £14.99£11.55Although an idyllic setting, where violent crime is thankfully rare, the Channel Islands have a shadier side. Contained within the pages of this book are twenty-five historic cases of murder committed in the Channel Islands. They include a fatal assault... -
The Age of Migration: International Population Movements in the Modern World by Hein de Haas
RRP: £36.99£33.28Long established as the leading textbook on migration and used by students and scholars alike all over the world, this fully revised and updated sixth edition continues to offer an authoritative and cutting-edge account of migration flows, why they... -
Queer Premises: LGBTQ+ Venues in London Since the 1980s Prof. Ben Campkin (University College London, UK) 9781350324855
RRP: £24.99£20.44Queer premises provide vital social and cultural infrastructure - a queer infrastructure - connecting different generations and locations, facilitating the movement of resources, across and beyond the city. Queer Premises offers evidence for how... -
Let Our Fame Be Great: Journeys among the defiant people of the Caucasus by Oliver Bullough
RRP: £16.99£12.28Oliver Bullough's Let Our Fame be Great: Journeys Among the Defiant Peoples of the Caucasus is the extraordinary untold story of the inhabitants of the Caucasus and their unbreakable spirit. The Caucasus mountains are a land of jagged peaks and rugged... -
The Strathclyde and the Anglo-Saxons in the Viking Age by Tim Clarkson
RRP: £20.00£14.05This book traces the history of relations between the kingdom of Strathclyde and Anglo-Saxon England in the Viking period of the ninth to eleventh centuries AD. It puts the spotlight on the North Britons or 'Cumbrians', an ancient people whose kings... -
The Best of Enemies, Movie Edition: Race and Redemption in the New South by Osha Gray Davidson 9781469646602
RRP: £19.95£13.65C. P. Ellis grew up in the poor white section of Durham, North Carolina, and as a young man joined the Ku Klux Klan. Ann Atwater, a single mother from the poor black part of town, quit her job as a household domestic to join the civil rights fight... -
The Last Witches of England: A Tragedy of Sorcery and Superstition by John Callow
RRP: £30.00£22.84"Fascinating and vivid." New Statesman "Thoroughly researched." The Spectator "Intriguing." BBC History Magazine "Vividly told." BBC History Revealed "A timely warning against persecution." Morning Star "Astute and thoughtful." History Today "An... -
Death in England: An Illustrated History by Peter Jupp
RRP: £25.00£22.43Death in England provides the first ever social history of death from the earliest times 500,000 BC to Diana, Princess of Wales.. The book reveals how attitudes, practices and beliefs about death have undergone constant change: how, why and at what ages... -
Serendipities: Language And Lunacy by Umberto Eco
RRP: £9.99£6.80The extraordinary historical consequences of errors and fictional inventions.SERENDIPITIES is an iconoclastic, dazzlingly erudite and witty demonstration, by one of the world's most brilliant thinkers, of how myths and lunacies can produce historical... -
Childhood in Anglo-Saxon England by Sally Crawford 9781803995847
RRP: £14.99£11.55What was it like to be a child in England between the fifth and eleventh centuries?Who looked after children, how were they educated, what games did they play, and when did they have to take on adult responsibilities?What happened at birth, when were...