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And I Looked Back: East Anglians In Their Own Words by Gillian Campbell 9781803136905
RRP: £12.99£9.09This is a work of East Anglian oral history. Over a period of nearly 30 years I listened to and recorded a number people from different backgrounds, all born in the early years of the 20th century, in an attempt to capture and save the memories of those... -
Yesterday's Cardiff Revisited: Britain in Old Photographs by Brian Lee 9780752465296
RRP: £13.99£10.85Following the success of Yesterday's Cardiff, Brian Lee has returned, accompanied by his daughter Amanda Harvey, to take the reader on a further pictorial journey through the Cardiff of yesteryear. Drawing on their detailed knowledge of the city's... -
Ryan's Daughter: A Glorious Folly by Paul Benedict Rowan
RRP: £15.99£12.23The making of Ryan's Daughter in Dingle 1969 is shrouded in myth and sensational stories. Hollywood superstars in late-1960s Ireland, the Irish climate, the studio system and one of film's greatest auteurs all combined into a troubled and fabled... -
Ladies Can't Climb Ladders: The Pioneering Adventures of the First Professional Women by Jane Robinson 9780857525871
RRP: £39.95£23.93It is a myth that the First World War liberated women. The Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act of 1919 was one of the most significant pieces of legislation in modern Britain. It should have marked a social revolution, opening the doors of the traditional... -
Wally Funk's Race for Space: The Extraordinary Story of a Female Aviation Pioneer by Sue Nelson 9781908906380
RRP: £8.99£6.20As seen in the major Netflix documentary `Mercury 13' In 1961, Wally Funk was among the Mercury 13, the first group of American pilots to pass the `Woman in Space' programme. Wally sailed through a series of rigorous physical and mental tests, with... -
Community and Identity: The Making of Modern Gibraltar Since 1704 by Stephen Constantine
RRP: £25.00£19.20This fluent, accessible and richly informed study, based on much previously unexplored archival material, concerns the history of Gibraltar following its military conquest in 1704, after which sovereignty of the territory was transferred from Spain to... -
What's the Matter with Kansas? by Thomas Frank 9780805077742
RRP: £19.99£11.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805077742Author Thomas FrankFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USA -
Learning Latin the Ancient Way: Latin Textbooks from the Ancient World by Eleanor Dickey
RRP: £21.99£18.09What did Greek speakers in the Roman empire do when they wanted to learn Latin? They used Latin-learning materials containing authentic, enjoyable vignettes about daily life in the ancient world - shopping, banking, going to the baths, having fights,... -
Crime and Mentalities in Early Modern England by Malcolm Gaskill 9780521531184
RRP: £30.99£28.68Crime and law have now been studied by historians of early modern England for more than a generation. Crime and Mentalities in Early Modern England attempts to reach further than most conventional treatments of the subject, to explore the cultural... -
These Houses are Ours: Co-operative and community-led housing alternatives 1870-1919 by Andrew Bibby
RRP: £18.95£16.95The years before the First World War saw the development of a widespread housing movement in Britain which delivered homes at affordable rents through co-operative and community endeavour. From Cornwall to central Scotland, Suffolk to South Wales,... -
Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens by Aristotle
RRP: £44.99£39.88This new collection of Aristotle's political writings provides the student with all the necessary materials for a full understanding of his work as a political scientist. Not only does it offer an unusually lucid and accessible account of The Politics,... -
Charitable Hatred: Tolerance and Intolerance in England, 1500-1700 by Alexandra Walsham 9780719052408
RRP: £25.00£22.19Charitable hatred offers a challenging new perspective on religious tolerance and intolerance in early modern England. Setting aside traditional models charting a linear progress from persecution to toleration, it emphasises instead the complex interplay... -
Bees and Beekeeping by Tiffany Francis-Baker
RRP: £8.99£6.96Bees existed long before human beings, but our future is perhaps more reliant upon them than any other species. They pollinate 80 per cent of the world's crops and plants, but how much do we really know about them? Small, clever and mysterious, the... -
Canning Town Voices by Howard Bloch
RRP: £12.99£9.62Canning Town VoicesBook InformationISBN 9780752410531Author Howard BlochFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm) 240mm * 172mm * 10mm -
Recovering Bookchin: Social Ecology and the Crises of Our Time by Andy Price
RRP: £18.00£12.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849354943Author Andy PriceFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint AK PressPublisher AK Press -
The Opening Of The American Mind by Lawrence W. Levine 9780807031193
£18.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807031193Author Lawrence W. LevineFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press -
England in the Age of Dickens: 1812-70 Jeremy Black 9781398101692
RRP: £20.00£14.29Beginning with an overview of the age of Dickens, Professor Jeremy Black guides the reader through the biography and writings of the great man to show how his work not only expressed his experience of Victorian England, but also defined it, for his... -
Cathedral Architecture by Martin S. Briggs
RRP: £6.99£5.07The landmark of many cities is the cathedral. Some had their beginnings as monastic buildings, have stood for nearly a thousand years, and remain essential icons, or even emblems, of a city's character. Yet not all cathedrals look alike, and indeed these... -
Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey from East to West and Back by Janice P. Nimura
RRP: £12.99£11.86In 1871, five young girls were sent by the Japanese government to the United States. Their mission: learn Western ways and return to help nurture a new generation of enlightened men to lead Japan. Raised in traditional samurai households during the... -
A Short History of San Francisco by Tom Cole 9781597142731
RRP: £14.99£9.88This is the story of San Francisco, a unique and rowdy tale with a legendary cast of characters. It tells of the Indians and the Spanish missions, the arrival of thousands of gold seekers and gamblers, crackbrains and dreamers, the building of the... -
Daniel Defoe and the Bank of England - The Dark Arts of Projectors Valerie Hamilton 9781782799528
RRP: £11.99£10.15This little book tells the truthful story of how the Bank of England actually came into being. It is a story of pirates, treasure, random good fortune and sheer determination. This is an institution founded on risk, daring and imagination. The tale is... -
The Greeks and the Making of Modern Egypt by Alexander Kitroeff 9789774168581
RRP: £35.00£28.82From the early nineteenth century through to the 1960s, the Greeks formed the largest, most economically powerful, and geographically and socially diverse of all European communities in Egypt. Although they benefited from the privileges extended to... -
The Game of Hearts by Felicity Day
RRP: £22.00£14.91'The real world of Jane Austen is brought vividly to life in this beautifully written, endlessly captivating and often surprising account of Regency women. Not to be missed' Tracy Borman'If Georgette Heyer had written non-fiction it might have looked... -
Bluebottle Goes To War: Peter Sellers & the RAF Gang Shows by PJ Brownsword
RRP: £15.99£11.61Peter Sellers was one of the biggest stars of the 1960s and 70s. His career began with characters such as Bluebottle on BBC radio's The Goon Show and he achieved global fame as Inspector Clouseau in the Pink Panther series. What is less well known is... -
Nature's Evil: A Cultural History of Natural Resou rces by A Etkind
RRP: £17.99£12.14This bold and wide-ranging book views the history of humankind through the prism of natural resources - how we acquire them, use them, value them, trade them, exploit them. History needs a cast of characters and in this story the leading actors are peat... -
Disability in Eighteenth-Century England: Imagining Physical Impairment David M. Turner 9781138107588
RRP: £43.99£38.44This is the first book-length study of physical disability in eighteenth-century England. It assesses the ways in which meanings of physical difference were formed within different cultural contexts, and examines how disabled men and women used,... -
The Victorian Frame of Mind, 1830-1870 by Walter E. Houghton 9780300001228
£31.81"It is now forty years," Walter Houghton writes, "since Lytton Strachey decided that we knew too much about the Victorian era to view its culture as a whole." Recently the tide has turned and the Victorians have been the subject of sympathetic "period... -
Wish You Were Here!: The Lives, Loves and Friendships of the Butlin's Girls by Lynn Russell 9780007546381
RRP: £10.99£3.40Touching true stories from the heyday of the Butlin's holiday camps. 'When I got to the camp I felt as if I'd suddenly walked into Utopia - it was so colourful, so warm, so friendly. There were lights across the roads, there were banners... -
The Arts of Intimacy: Christians, Jews, and Muslims in the Making of Castilian Culture by Jerrilynn D. Dodds 9780300142143
£22.68A dynamic vision of medieval Castilian culture and the Arabic, Hebrew, and Latin strands that are woven into its fabric Named a Book of the Year by the Times Literary Supplement, this lavishly illustrated work explores the vibrant interaction among... -
A Journey Through the Chiltern Hills Jill Eyers 9781445636245
RRP: £15.99£11.61With rolling green hills and extensive woodlands, it's easy to see why the Chiltern Hills are one of the most beautiful and well visited of all England's natural wonders. Crossing five counties and covering 833 square kilometres, the Hills are home to... -
The Guga Hunters by Donald S. Murray
RRP: £10.99£7.64Every year, ten men from Ness, at the northern tip of the Isle of Lewis, sail north-east for some forty miles to a remote rock called Sulasgeir. Their mission is to catch and harvest the guga; the almost fully grown gannet chicks nesting on the two... -
Crucible: The Long End of the Great War and the Birth of a New World, 1917-1924 Charles Emmerson 9781847923967
RRP: £25.00£18.62'A REMARKABLE BOOK... AN AMAZINGLY AUDACIOUS AND COMPLETELY INNOVATIVE WAY OF WRITING HISTORY... IMMEDIATE AND GRIPPING' - WILLIAM BOYD In Petrograd a fire is lit. The Tsar is packed off to the Urals. A rancorous Russian exile crosses war-torn Europe to... -
The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community by William H. McNeill
RRP: £28.00£24.27The Rise of the West, winner of the National Book Award for history in 1964, is famous for its ambitious scope and intellectual rigor. In it, McNeill challenges the Spengler-Toynbee view that a number of separate civilizations pursued essentially... -
Common Ground by Naomi Ishiguro
RRP: £16.99£11.67*An Evening Standard Must Read, Grazia Best Book of 2021 and Independent Debut Not to Miss*'Beautifully written, this is a book of real hope and connection' StylistA bittersweet story of coming-of-age in a divided world, in the tradition of TIN MAN or... -
Spies and Stars: MI5, Showbusiness and Me Charlotte Bingham 9781526608802
RRP: £9.99£7.11'Wickedly funny' Country Life 'Hilarious and candid' Observer _____________________________ London in the 1950s. Lottie is a reluctant typist at MI5 and the even more reluctant daughter of the organisation's most illustrious spy. Now she has had... -
The Letters to the Seven Churches of Asia in Their Local Setting by C.J. Hemer 9780802847140
RRP: £27.99£15.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802847140Author C.J. HemerFormat PaperbackPage Count 364Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing CoWeight(grams)... -
The Off-Comers of Windermere, Birth of a Vibrant Victorian Township by Ian Jones
RRP: £18.00£13.36The Off-Comers of Windermere, Birth of a Vibrant Victorian Township fills a gap in the literature of the Lake District. It presents a comprehensive social history of the many off-comers who built their villas and mansions in a sylvan landscape, amongst... -
Albion's Fatal Tree: Crime and Society in Eighteenth Century England by Douglas Hay
RRP: £24.99£23.39In the popular imagination, informed as it is by Hogarth, Swift, Defoe and Fielding, the eighteenth-century underworld is a place of bawdy knockabout, rife with colourful eccentrics. But the artistic portrayals we have only hint at the dark reality. In... -
Miss Cranston: Patron of Charles Rennie Mackintosh by Perilla Kinchin
RRP: £14.99£12.55Miss Kate Cranston opened four Glasgow Tea Rooms at the end of the 19th century/beginning of the 20th, including the famous Willow Tea Rooms. Ahead of her time, Miss Cranston ensured that her Rea Rooms were designed and furnished by talented young... -
A Social History of English Rugby Union by Tony Collins
RRP: £43.99£38.84From the myth of William Webb Ellis to the glory of the 2003 World Cup win, this book explores the social history of rugby union in England.Ever since Tom Brown's Schooldays the sport has seen itself as the guardian of traditional English middle-class...