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Let’s Get Physical: How Women Discovered Exercise and Reshaped the World by Danielle Friedman
RRP: £11.99£7.72A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2022'Well-researched and readable' - Financial Times'An absorbing, pacy read' - New Statesman'The story of lycra-clad feminism' Stylist'Canny and informative' - The New YorkerThe untold history of women's exercise culture, from... -
Rise: Extraordinary Women of Colour who Changed the World by Maliha Abidi 9780863561375
RRP: £20.00£13.75Rise celebrates the inspirational stories of 100 remarkable women of colour. From the entrepreneur with a homemade marmalade business who went on to found Women's World Banking, to the educator who built the first university in the world; and from the... -
An Ancient Mesopotamian Herbal by Barbara Böck 9781842467985
£40.84Throughout the world, traditional medical systems continue to impact the lives of many people. These systems vary greatly in their underlying beliefs - but all commonly rely on the consumption of plant matter as a central practice. An Ancient... -
A Victorian Cyclist: Rambling Through Kent in 1886 by Stephen Channing 9780955921971
£20.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955921971Author Stephen ChanningFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint Ozaru BooksPublisher Ozaru BooksWeight(grams) 582g -
Compact Wales: Llyn, The Peninsula and Its past Explored by Ioan Roberts
RRP: £5.95£5.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845242435Author Ioan RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Llygad Gwalch CyfPublisher Llygad Gwalch Cyf -
Remaking History: The Past in Contemporary Historical Fictions by Jerome de Groot
RRP: £41.99£36.75Remaking History considers the ways that historical fictions of all kinds enable a complex engagement with the past. Popular historical texts including films, television and novels, along with cultural phenomena such as superheroes and vampires, broker... -
The Horsekeeper's Daughter by Jane Gulliford Lowes
RRP: £8.99£6.45NON-FICTION: A TRUE FAMILY SAGA. Durham, England, 1886: Your father is dead, your mother and six younger sisters are destitute. You have the chance to start a new life in Australia - alone. What would you do? "A small girl's fascination with a... -
Last Curtsey: The End of the Debutantes by Fiona MacCarthy
RRP: £12.99£8.56Once upon a time the well-bred daughters of Britain's aristocracy took part in a female rite of passage: curtseying to the Queen. But in 1958 this ritual was coming to an end. Under pressure to shine - not least from their mothers - the girls became the... -
Wolverhampton: Britain in Old Photographs by Heidi McIntosh 9780752463568
RRP: £13.99£10.85This fascinating collection of over 200 archive images traces some of the changes and developments that have taken place in Wolverhampton during the last century, as many old agricultural communities were swallowed up by the development of modern... -
The Archaeology of Sutton Park by Michael Hodder 9780752468006
RRP: £17.99£13.64Sutton Park is a nationally important historic landscape. Its many visitors are often drawn by the rich ecology that this public open space of about 2,250 acres provides. However, the Park also contains extensive and well-preserved archaeological remains... -
Piccadilly: The Circus at the Heart of London Midge Gillies 9781529339710
RRP: £25.00£16.78There's nowhere quite like Piccadilly Circus.From the moment they emerge, blinking from the underground station, visitors to Piccadilly Circus face a sensory onslaught. Its streets and alleyways merge into an intoxicating thoroughfare, with the power to... -
The Hidden Mod in Modern Art: London, 1957-1969 Thomas Crow 9781913107130
RRP: £25.00£21.32An investigation of the outsized influence of the Mod subculture on key figures of the 1960s London art scene Bonding over matters of taste and style, the 'Mods' of late 1950s London recognised in one another shared affinities for Italian-style suits,... -
Longford Castle: The Treasures and the Collectors by Amelia Smith 9781910787687
RRP: £40.00£29.40Longford Castle is a fine Elizabethan country house, home to a world-class collection of art built up in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by the Bouverie family and still owned today by their descendants. Until now, it has been relatively little... -
The Murder of Dr Muldoon: A Suspect Priest, A Widow's Fight for Justice by Ken Boyle
£14.28A priest and his housekeeper abandon a baby girl on the doorstep of a house near the Black Church in Dublin's north inner city in February 1923. Three local women notice the couple's suspicious behaviour and apprehend them. The two are handed over to the... -
The Everyday Life of the Clans of the Scottish Highlands by Michael Steven Newton 9780971385825
RRP: £11.99£8.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780971385825Author Michael Steven NewtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Michael NewtonPublisher Michael NewtonWeight(grams) 152g -
Crime, Law and Society in the Later Middle Ages by Anthony Musson 9780719038020
RRP: £19.99£14.52This book provides an accessible collection of translated legal sources through which the exploits of criminals and developments in the English criminal justice system (c.1215-1485) can be studied. Drawing on the wealth of archival material and an array... -
Shoes: Revised and Expanded by Rebecca Shawcross
RRP: £40.00£30.38'[A] lively journey through the evolution of footwear' - The i 'Handsomely illustrated and meticulously assembled' - Shahidha Bari, author of Dressed: The Secret Life of Clothes 'An exuberant romp through footwear evolution ... a cornucopia of... -
The Tulip: Twentieth Anniversary Edition by Anna Pavord 9781635573909
RRP: £60.00£39.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635573909Author Anna PavordFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint Bloomsbury PublishingPublisher Bloomsbury PublishingWeight(grams) 1588gDimensions(mm)... -
University Politics: F.M. Cornford's Cambridge and his Advice to the Young Academic Politician by Gordon Johnson 9780521723732
RRP: £23.99£19.99This entertaining account of Cambridge around the turn of the twentieth century contains the centenary edition of the complete text of F. M. Cornford's famous satire of 1908 on university politics, Microcosmographia Academica, together with a full... -
Clay Cross & Clay Cross Company by Gareth Williams
RRP: £5.99£4.78Clay Cross is a classic product of the Industrial Revolution. The town's industrial future was sealed in 1837 with the driving of the Clay Cross Tunnel and the simutaneous founding of the George Stephenson Company, which became the Clay Cross Company in... -
Unspoken: A Father's Wartime Escape. A Son's Family Discovered by Tom McGrath
RRP: £15.99£11.61'A triumph of family story-telling' Hugo Hamilton, author of The Pages. A tale of three journeys, the final one a successful pursuit of shadows' Myles Dungan Growing up in Waterford, Tom McGrath never noticed the odd gaps in the stories of his... -
At Home in Postwar France: Modern Mass Housing and the Right to Comfort by Nicole C. Rudolph 9781789208047
RRP: £27.95£22.58After World War II, France embarked on a project of modernization, which included the development of the modern mass home. At Home in Postwar France examines key groups of actors - state officials, architects, sociologists and tastemakers - arguing that... -
The Humanist Movement in Modern Britain: A History of Ethicists, Rationalists and Humanists by Callum G. Brown
RRP: £19.99£16.54Humanists have been a major force in British life since the turn of the 20th century. Here, leading historians of religious non-belief Callum Brown, David Nash, and Charlie Lynch examine how humanist organisations brought ethical reform and rationalism... -
Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body by Rosemarie Garland Thomson
RRP: £23.99£21.24A groundbreaking anthology that probes the disposition towards the visually different Giants. Midgets. Tribal non-Westerners. The very fat. The very thin. Hermaphrodites. Conjoined twins. The disabled. The very hirsute. In American history, all have... -
Winchester: History You Can See by Penny Legg
RRP: £20.00£15.04Winchester offers a veritable feast of history, much of it unrecognised by twenty-first century visitors. This history of the Saxon capital of Wessex is told through evocative photographs of its buildings and intricate nooks and crannies. Brought to life... -
The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist by Marcus Rediker 9781786634726
RRP: £14.99£12.55The Fearless Benjamin Lay chronicles the transatlantic life and times of a singular and astonishing man-a Quaker dwarf who became one of the first ever to demand the total, unconditional emancipation of all enslaved Africans around the world. He... -
Lordship, State Formation and Local Authority in Late Medieval and Early Modern England by Spike Gibbs 9781009311830
RRP: £85.00£76.60Providing a new narrative of how local authority and social structures adapted in response to the decline of lordship and the process of state formation, Spike Gibbs uses manorial officeholding - where officials were chosen from among tenants to help run... -
Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud by Thomas Laqueur
RRP: £28.95£22.90This is a book about the making and unmaking of sex over the centuries. It tells the astonishing story of sex in the West from the ancients to the moderns in a precise account of developments in reproductive anatomy and physiology. We cannot fail to... -
GI Brides: The wartime girls who crossed the Atlantic for love by Duncan Barrett 9780007501441 [USED COPY]
RRP: £11.99£2.29The Sunday Times bestseller From the bestselling authors of The Sugar Girls, G.I. Brides weaves together the real-life stories of four women who crossed the ocean for love, providing a moving true tale of romance and resilience. The... -
GI Brides: The wartime girls who crossed the Atlantic for love by Duncan Barrett 9780007501441
RRP: £11.99£9.00The Sunday Times bestseller From the bestselling authors of The Sugar Girls, G.I. Brides weaves together the real-life stories of four women who crossed the ocean for love, providing a moving true tale of romance and resilience. The... -
A Dance Called America: The Scottish Highlands, the United States and Canada by James Hunter
RRP: £14.99£9.80A dance was devised in eighteenth-century Skye. An exhilarating dance. A dance, a visitor reports, 'the emigration from Skye has occasioned'. The visitor asks for the dance's name. 'They call it America,' he's told. In his introduction to this new... -
State and Society: A Social and Political History of Britain since 1870 Professor Martin Pugh (Newcastle University, UK) 9781350243101
RRP: £27.99£24.44Covering the major social and political events of British history from the late Victorian era through to the present day, the 6th edition of this landmark textbook helps students critically examine the relationship between the British state and its... -
The Invention of Sustainability: Nature and Destiny, c.1500-1870 by Paul Warde
RRP: £24.99£21.58The issue of sustainability, and the idea that economic growth and development might destroy its own foundations, is one of the defining political problems of our era. This groundbreaking study traces the emergence of this idea, and demonstrates how... -
Bohemian Lives: Three Extraordinary Women: Ida Nettleship, Sophie Brzeska and Fernande Olivier by Amy Licence
RRP: £9.99£7.11Ida Nettleship was a flamboyant Bohemian who gave up a promising artistic career to marry Augustus John. She had five pregnancies in just six years, lived with Augustus and his mistress in a menage a trois, and died exhausted in childbirth aged thirty... -
Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History by Eduardo Galeano 9780141975986
RRP: £12.99£9.09From Eduardo Galeano, one of Latin America's greatest living writers, author of the Memory of Fire trilogy, comes Children of the Days, a new kind of history that shows us how to remember and how to liveThis book is shaped like a calendar. Each day... -
Nurses and Nursing by Dr Susan Cohen 9781445683287
RRP: £8.99£6.02Nurses and nursing are firmly rooted in Britain's heritage, for the profession as we know it today owes much to the pioneering work of Florence Nightingale. Before she helped establish the first nurse training school in Liverpool in the late 1800s, the... -
Belfast: Photographic Memories Henry Hall 9781859373033
RRP: £15.00£10.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781859373033Author Henry HallFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Frith Book Company Ltd.Publisher Frith Book Company Ltd. -
Black London: The Imperial Metropolis and Decolonization in the Twentieth Century by Marc Matera 9780520284302
RRP: £25.00£19.99This vibrant history of London in the twentieth century reveals the city as a key site in the development of black internationalism and anticolonialism. Marc Matera shows the significant contributions of people of African descent to London's rich social... -
Roman Gardens by Anthony Beeson
RRP: £15.99£10.85This book looks at the origins of ancient Roman garden design and its Greek influences. It includes the use and design of private domestic gardens as well as those connected to theatres and temples. Gardens connected to mausolea are also included. It... -
Africans and Native Americans: The Language of Race and the Evolution of Red-Black Peoples by Jack D. Forbes
RRP: £20.99£18.37Jack D. Forbes's monumental Africans and Native Americans has become a canonical text in the study of relations between the two groups. Forbes explores key issues relating to the evolution of racial terminology and European colonialists' perceptions of...