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Curious Camden Town by Martin Plaut 9781910170236
RRP: $20.98$17.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910170236Author Martin PlautFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Five Leaves PublicationsPublisher Five Leaves Publications -
Lakeland: A Personal Journey by Hunter Davies
RRP: $35.68$32.99'I don't know any tract of land in which in so narrow a compass may be found an equal variety of sublime and beautiful features'. So said the poet Wordsworth of England's Lake District, an area as rich in cultural associations as it is in beautiful... -
Custom and Commercialisation in English Rural Society: Revisiting Tawney and Postan by J. P. Bowen 9781909291454
RRP: $39.88$36.50English rural society underwent fundamental changes between the thirteenth and eighteenth centuries with urbanization, commercialization and industrialization producing new challenges and opportunities for inhabitants of rural communities. However, our... -
Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger by Rebecca Traister 9781668022924
RRP: $20.98$13.46Journalist Rebecca Traister's New York Times bestselling exploration of the transformative power of female anger and its ability to transcend into a political movement is "a hopeful, maddening compendium of righteous feminine anger, and the good it can... -
Speeches That Changed Our Times: From 1945 to the Present by Carlo Batà 9788854420403
RRP: $52.50$37.76The history of humankind has always been marked by natural catastrophes, migrations, discoveries, revolutions, and wars. But there have also been speeches that marked an era; instilling hope in crucial moments, reawakening the collective conscience of a... -
Troubled by Faith: Insanity and the Supernatural in the Age of the Asylum by Prof Owen Davies 9780198873006
RRP: $52.50$45.34The nineteenth century was a time of extraordinary scientific innovation, but with the rise of psychiatry, faiths and popular beliefs were often seen as signs of a diseased mind. By exploring the beliefs of asylum patients, we see the nineteenth century... -
Women in the Second World War by Neil R. Storey 9780747808121
RRP: $18.88$14.62As the world became embroiled in the second global conflagration in just over two decades, the women of Britain once more answered the call of duty. Many of the first volunteers had served in the Great War and now they offered their services again - this... -
Prisoners of History: What Monuments to the Second World War Tell Us About Our History and Ourselves by Keith Lowe
RRP: $42.00$28.01A Spectator Book of the Year 2020 A Times and Sunday Times Best Book of 2020 A Mail on Sunday Book of the Year 2020 'Inspired ... Lowe's sensitive, disturbing book should be... -
A Bollywood State of Mind: A journey into the world's biggest cinema by Sunny Singh
RRP: $42.00$30.24'Prepare to laugh, sob and dance: this lively history of Indian cinema is imprinted with the memories of a life-long cinephile.' The Telegraph'A gem of a book and a must for film lovers everywhere' Abir Mukherjee'My biggest recommendation of the year... -
1066: The Year of The Three Battles Frank McLynn 9780712666725
RRP: $35.68$25.79Everyone knows what William the Conqueror won the Battle of Hastings in 1066, but in recent years is has become customary to assume that the victory was virtually inevitable, given the alleged superiority of Norman military technology. In this new study,... -
An Illustrated History of Butlins by Derek Tait
RRP: $31.48$23.00For over seventy-five years, Butlin's have been entertaining families of all ages. Billy Butlin opened his first holiday camp in Skegness in 1936 and continued to expand with camps at Clacton, Ayr, Pwllheli, Bognor Regis, Mosney, Minehead and Barry... -
Place in the Country: Three Counties Asylum 1860-1999 by Judith Pettigrew
RRP: $27.28$25.10In the mid-1850s, the counties of Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Huntingdonshire set about looking for a site for a new asylum to house their 'pauper lunatics'. Two hundred acres of farmland at Stotfold on the Hertfordshire-Bedfordshire border were... -
Switzerland: Village History by Professor David Birmingham
RRP: $44.08$38.58Switzerland: A Village History is an account of an Alpine village that illuminates the broader history of Switzerland and its rural, local underpinnings. It begins with the colonization of the Alps by Romanized Celtic peoples who came from the plain to... -
The Cult of Nothingness: The Philosophers and the Buddha by Pamela Vohnson 9780807854495
RRP: $115.50$104.79The common Western understanding of Buddhism today envisions this major world religion as one of compassion and tolerance. But as Roger-Pol Droit reveals, this view bears little resemblance to one broadly held in the 19th century European philosophical... -
Fifty Years of Hurt: The Story of England Football and Why We Never Stop Believing Henry Winter 9781784161729
RRP: $27.28$19.09'England invented football, codified it, became champions of the world in 1966 but humiliatingly then forgot how to play the greatest game of all. England took their eye off a ball they arrogantly thought they owned, allowing other nations to run off... -
Bad Girls: The Rebels and Renegades of Holloway Prison by Caitlin Davies
RRP: $27.28$18.06LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING'Davies's absorbing study serves up just enough sensationalism - and eccentricity - along with its serious inquiry' SUNDAY TIMES'[A] revealing account of the jail's 164-year history' DAILY... -
The Dandy: Peacock or Enigma? by Nigel Rodgers 9781903071304
RRP: $52.50$37.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903071304Author Nigel RodgersFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Bene Factum Publishing LtdPublisher Bene Factum Publishing Ltd -
Living in Early Victorian London by Michael Alpert 9781399060844
RRP: $46.20$32.80London in the 1840s was sprawling and smoke-filled, a city of extreme wealth and abject poverty. Some streets were elegant with brilliantly gas-lit shop windows full of expensive items, while others were narrow, fetid, muddy, and in many cases foul with... -
Warrior Queens Lady Antonia Fraser 9781842126363
RRP: $31.48$20.58An inspired evaluation of women leaders in war by a bestselling historian.Antonia Fraser's Warrior Queens are those women who have both ruled and led in war. They include Catherine the Great, Elizabeth I, Isabella of Spain, the Rani of Jhansi, and the... -
Bakunin: Statism and Anarchy by Mikhail Bakunin 9780521369732
RRP: $37.78$31.46Statism and Anarchy is a complete English translation of the last work by the great Russian anarchist Michael Bakunin, written in 1873. Then he assails the Marxist alternative, predicting that a 'dictatorship of the proletariat' will in fact be a... -
The Tommy of the First World War by Neil R. Storey
RRP: $18.88$12.64'Tommy Atkins' has been the nickname given to soldiers of the British Army since the eighteenth century. The origin of the name is shrouded in mystery, but it has stuck. By 1914, the Tommy had changed dramatically since the days of Queen Victoria's... -
The Zoo: The Wild and Wonderful Tale of the Founding of London Zoo by Isobel Charman 9780241975060
RRP: $33.58$24.38How one man's mad mission became one of the best-loved places in the worldThe creation of London Zoo - when only one other existed across the world - is a story of jaw-dropping audacity. It is the story of trailblazing scientists, rival keepers and... -
The Oldest House in London by Fiona Rule 9781803993782
RRP: $35.68$27.17London's old buildings hold a wealth of clues to the city's rich and vibrant past. The histories of some, such as the Tower of London and Westminster Abbey, are well documented. However, these magnificent, world-renowned attractions are not the only... -
Menagerie: The History of Exotic Animals in England by Caroline Grigson 9780198714705
RRP: $60.88$44.52Menagerie is the story of the panoply of exotic animals that were brought into Britain from time immemorial until the foundation of the London Zoo - a tale replete with the extravagant, the eccentric, and - on occasion - the downright bizarre. From... -
Scottish Proverbs by Colin S.K Walker
RRP: $14.68$10.16Proverbs, once described as 'the wisdom of many and the wit of one', offer unique insights the way of life and the social mores of past generations. This book features an introduction which explores the role of proverbs in Scottish culture and over... -
The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War by Jeff Sharlet 9781324074519
RRP: $31.48$25.20Nominally Christian churches glorify materialism, a gluttony of the soul, while others celebrate an ecstatic indulgence in hate, citing Scripture whilst preparing for civil war. Lonely men gather to rage against women. There, too, in the undertow, the... -
Craeft: How Traditional Crafts Are about More than Just Making by Alexander Langlands
RRP: $46.20$31.73In a period of meaningless mass manufacturing, our growing appetite for hand-made objects, artisan food, and craft beverages reveals our deep cravings for tradition and quality. But there was a time when craft meant something very different; the Old... -
Making Noise: From Babel to the Big Bang and Beyond by Hillel Schwartz
RRP: $79.80$67.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935408123Author Hillel SchwartzFormat HardbackPage Count 912Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 1384gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 64mm -
The Vichy Syndrome: History and Memory in France since 1944 by Henry Rousso
RRP: $67.10$52.86From the Liberation purges to the Barbie trial, France has struggled with the memory of the Vichy experience: a memory of defeat, occupation, and repression. In this provocative study, Henry Rousso examines how this proud nation-a nation where reality... -
The Golden Years of The Anchor Line Martin Bellamy 9781840335293
RRP: $35.60$31.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840335293Author Martin BellamyFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake Publishing -
Poverty/Prostitution York by Frances Finnegan 9780521033374
RRP: $83.98$69.85Poverty and Prostitution is a study of 1,400 prostitutes and brothel-keepers operating in a Victorian cathedral city over a half century. It is based on the unique and systematic use of detailed evidence from such sources as the weekly newspaper reports... -
We Are The Legion: The Royal British Legion at 100 by Julie Summers
RRP: $39.88$28.31Formed in 1921 to provide welfare to soldiers returning from the First World War, the Royal British Legion is today the UK's leading military charity. In May 2021 the Legion celebrates its centenary. We Are the Legion is the first book to look at the... -
After the Wall: Confessions from an East German Childhood and the Life that Came Next by Jana Hensel
$32.97Jana Hensel was thirteen on November 9, 1989, the night the Berlin Wall fell. In all the euphoria over German reunification, no one stopped to think what it would mean for Jana and her generation of East Germans. These were the kids of the seventies, who... -
Year Zero: A History of 1945 by Ian Buruma
RRP: $31.48$20.58Many books have been written, and continue to be written, about the Second World War: military histories, histories of the Holocaust, the war in Asia, or collaboration and resistance in Europe. Few books have taken a close look at the immediate aftermath... -
Hobbes and Republican Liberty by Quentin Skinner 9780521714167
RRP: $48.28$35.74Quentin Skinner is one of the foremost historians in the world, and in Hobbes and Republican Liberty he offers a dazzling comparison of two rival theories about the nature of human liberty. The first originated in classical antiquity, and lay at the... -
Tremors in the Blood by Amit Katwala
RRP: $42.00$28.85Nominated for the CWA Dagger Award 2023 'A wonderful book' - Guardian Truth, murder and the birth of the lie detector Henry Wilkens burst through the doors of the... -
A Very British Family: The Trevelyans and Their World by Laura Trevelyan 9781350154537
RRP: $39.88$38.43"It is a rule that no Trevelyan ever sucks up either to the press, or the chiefs, or the "right people". The world has given us money enough to enable us to do what we think is right. We thank it for that and ask no more of it, but to be allowed to serve... -
Butlin's: 80 Years of Fun! by Sylvia Endacott
RRP: $37.78$28.64After successfully developing a series of funfairs, Billy Butlin progressed to opening holiday centres and hotels across the UK to provide families with an inexpensive but entertaining holiday. Over the years these centres first expanded and then... -
The Biscuit Girls by Hunter Davies
RRP: $31.48$23.00Ivy, Dulcie, Barbara, Ann, Dorothy and Jean all had different reasons for applying to work at Carr's biscuits, but once they had put on their overalls and walked through the factory gates they discovered a community full of life, laughter and friendship... -
Battles of Conscience: British Pacifists and the Second World War by Tobias Kelly
RRP: $46.20$33.64A ground-breaking new study brings us a very different picture of the Second World War, asking fundamental questions about ethical commitmentsAccounts of the Second World War usually involve tales of bravery in battle, or stoicism on the home front, as...