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Entertaining the Troops by Kiri Bloom Walden
RRP: £7.99£6.25This book explores the foundation and work of the Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA) and other entertainment organisations such as CEMA and Stars in Battledress. These organisations ensured that troops in all theatres of the Second World... -
Off with Her Head: Three Thousand Years of Demonizing Women in Power by Eleanor Herman 9780063095687
RRP: £21.99£13.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063095687Author Eleanor HermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 254g -
Women's Hats, Headdresses and Hairstyles: With 453 Illustrations, Medieval to Modern by Georgine De Courtais 9780486448503
RRP: £14.99£9.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486448503Author Georgine De CourtaisFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Life in the Victorian Kitchen: Culinary Secrets and Servants' Stories Karen Foy 9781783036394
RRP: £12.99£9.09Have you ever wondered what life was like for domestic servants, the etiquette involved during upper class banquets, or simply wished for a glimpse of day-to-day life in the Victorian kitchen? During the nineteenth century,the kitchen was a place where... -
Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties by Mike Davis
RRP: £14.99£12.95Histories of the US sixties invariably focus on New York City, but Los Angeles was an epicenter of that decade's political and social earthquake. L.A. was a launchpad for Black Power-where Malcolm X and Angela Davis first came to prominence and the Watts... -
Life in Brighton by Clifford Musgrave 9780752460475
RRP: £18.99£14.72Brilliantly researched and written, this is the definitive history of the city of Brighton. Divided into five sections - Fishermen and Farmers, Princes and Palaces, Late Georgian, Victorian Marvels and Mysteries, Battle Scene and Transformation - it... -
The Autumn of the Middle Ages by Johan H. Huizinga 9780226359946
RRP: £28.00£27.79This is a portrait of life, thought and art in 14th- and 15th-century France and the Netherlands. Regarded as an historical classic by many scholars, it has also been criticized and incorrectly translated. This edition corrects changes made by other... -
The Countess: The Scandalous Life of Frances Villiers, Countess of Jersey by Tim Clarke 9781445656267 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00£2.65One of the great beauties of Georgian society, Frances Villiers, Countess of Jersey, was a woman of enormous style and spirit whose life revolved around her pleasures. Clever and witty, her charm was legendary, earning her the nickname in the... -
London's Forgotten Children: Thomas Coram and the Foundling Hospital by Gillian Pugh
RRP: £14.99£11.55In 1739, the London Foundling Hospital opened its doors to take in the abandoned children of the city. It was the culmination of seventeen years of campaigning by Captain Thomas Coram, driven by his horror at seeing children die in the streets. He was... -
Growing Up with Ireland: A Century of Memories from Our Oldest and Wisest Citizens Valerie Cox 9781529337389
RRP: £9.99£6.80'An incredible portal to our past' The Sunday TimesOn 7 January 1922, Ireland became a free state. Born into that era of turbulence and hope were the twenty-six women and men whose stories and memories of a lifetime are captured by cherished Irish... -
James P. Cannon and the Emergence of Trotskyism in the United States, 1928-38 by Bryan D. Palmer
RRP: £65.00£43.09Bryan D. Palmer reinterprets the history of labour and the left in the United States during the 1930s through a discussion of the emergence of Trotskyism in the most advanced capitalist country in the world. Focussing on James P. Cannon, the founder of... -
Meanwhile, in Russia...: Russian Internet Memes and Viral Video by Professor Eliot Borenstein
RRP: £13.99£12.61The Russian internet is a hotbed for memes and viral videos: the political, satirical and simply absurd compete for attention in Russia while the West turns to it for an endless reserve of humorous content. But how did this powerful cyber community grow... -
Not Guilty: Queer Stories from a Century of Discrimination by Steve Humphries 9781785902161
£13.03Only fifty years ago, sex between men was a crime. The 1967 Sexual Offences Act changed that in part, but it was only the beginning of the long fight for equality in the eyes of the law, in society and in millions of private lives. This vital new oral... -
Life Below Stairs: The Real Lives of Servants, 1939 to the Present by Pamela Horn
RRP: £9.99£6.64We view domestic service today as an undesirable job, owing to the class divide it has come to represent, and this is reflected in the portrayals of mistresses and servants in books and on the screen. But what do we really know about how girls felt when... -
The Bear: History of a Fallen King by Michel Pastoureau
RRP: £24.95£20.29The oldest discovered statue, fashioned some fifteen to twenty thousand years ago, is of a bear. The lion was not always king. From antiquity to the Middle Ages, the bear's centrality in cults and mythologies left traces in European languages,... -
The Glory and the Sorrow: A Parisian and His World in the Age of the French Revolution by Timothy Tackett
RRP: £23.49£19.97An intimate history of an ordinary Parisian citizen and his neighbors that reflects on the origins and radicalization of the French Revolution. What was it like to live through one of the most transformational periods in world history? In The Glory... -
The Oldest Cure in the World: Adventures in the Art and Science of Fasting by Steve Hendricks
RRP: £21.99£15.60A journalist delves into the history, science, and practice of fasting, an ancient cure enjoying a dynamic resurgence. When should we eat, and when shouldn't we? The answers to these simple questions are not what you might expect. As Steve Hendricks... -
The Populist Vision by Charles Postel 9780195384710
RRP: £31.49£20.94The Populist movement has been both dismissed as an irrational response of backward-looking farmers to modernity and romanticized as a resistance movement of tradition-based communities to modern, commercial society. Now, in a wide-ranging and... -
The Diamond Queen: Elizabeth II and Her People by Andrew Marr
£6.14With the flair for narrative and the meticulous research that readers have come to expect, in The Diamond Queen Andrew Marr turns his attention to the monarch - and to the monarchy, chronicling the Queen's pivotal role at the centre of the state, which... -
A History of Britain's Fight for a Republic by Clive Bloom
RRP: £15.99£12.25From regicides to revolutionaries; from fascists to anarchists; from Tom Paine to Tom Wintringham, this book is a history of noble ideals and crushing failures in which Clive Bloom takes us on a journey through British history, exploring our often rocky... -
A Supernatural War: Magic, Divination, and Faith during the First World War by Owen Davies 9780198862659
RRP: £14.99£10.95A Supernatural War reveals the surprising stories of extraordinary people in a world caught up with the promise of occult powers. It was a commonly expressed view during the First World War that the conflict had seen a major revival of 'superstitious'... -
The Kingdom of Women: Life, Love and Death in China's Hidden Mountains by Choo Waihong
RRP: £14.99£9.98In a mist-shrouded valley on China's invisible border with Tibet is a place known as the 'Kingdom of Women'. A small tribe called the Mosuo lives in a cluster of villages that have changed little in centuries. This is one of the last matrilineal... -
The Zionist Idea: A Historical Analysis and Reader by Arthur Hertzberg
RRP: £27.99£24.54A classic since its initial publication in 1959, The Zionist Idea is an anthology of writings by the leading thinkers of the Zionist movement, including Theodor Herzl, Ahad Ha-Am, Martin Buber, Louis Brandeis, Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, Judah Magnes, Max... -
Our Liverpool: Memories of Life in Disappearing Britain Piers Dudgeon 9780755317165
RRP: £10.99£6.47OUR LIVERPOOL is an oral history about the real Liverpool - about the city before its slick transformation to European City of Culture and about the spirit that remains at its heart. Here, at last, is Liverpool's grievous and glorious past. And here,... -
Snifters at Tottering Hall by Annie Tempest
RRP: £15.99£11.05For nearly thirty years Annie Tempest has entertained 'Country Life' magazine readers with her weekly strip cartoon, Tottering-by-Gently, reaching much greater audiences worldwide through the associated merchandise, including book compilations such as... -
Discontented America: The United States in the 1920s by David J. Goldberg
£25.95It was a decade of great heroes like Babe Ruth and Charles Lindbergh, and of passive leaders like Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge. The exuberant freedom of flappers drinking bathtub gin and dancing the Charleston did little to counter such powers of... -
Labour and the Poor Volume VIII: Wales, The Mining and Manufacturing Districts by Special Correspondent 9781913515188
RRP: £16.99£16.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913515188Author Special CorrespondentFormat PaperbackPage Count 338Imprint Ditto BooksPublisher Ditto BooksDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 18mm -
Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush vs. Gore by James T. Patterson 9780195305227
RRP: £20.99£15.34James Patterson's Bancroft Prize-winning Grand Expectations, the penultimate volume in the Oxford History of the United States, was hailed by The New York Times as "a spirited, sprawling narrative of American life" and by The Wall Street Journal as "a... -
No Virtue Like Necessity: Realist Thought in International Relations Since Machiavelli by Jonathan Haslam 9780300205008
£31.81This wide-ranging book is the first comprehensive history of the development of realist ideas in international relations throughout the last five hundred years. Jonathan Haslam focuses on the emergence and relevance of realist (or statist) thought,... -
Wanderers, Kings, Merchants: The Story of India through Its Languages by Ms Peggy Mohan 9780670093687
RRP: £19.99£13.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780670093687Author Peggy MohanFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint PenguinPublisher Penguin Random House IndiaDimensions(mm) 220mm * 140mm * 30mm -
Letters of Note: New York by Shaun Usher
RRP: £7.99£5.46In Letters of Note: New York, Shaun Usher curates a collection of extraordinary written exchanges about the Big Apple, from the marvelling of wide-eyed newcomers and the devoted outpourings of native citizens, to the frustrated outcries of the... -
A London Safari: Walking Adventures in NW10 Rose Rouse 9781445644509
RRP: £9.99£6.64Rose's realisation that she knows almost nothing about the people and places she has encountered every day for years will be a familiar one for city dwellers all over Britain. For Rose, it sparks the inspiration for an adventure through one of the most... -
The Captured: A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier by Scott Zesch 9780312317898
RRP: £20.00£12.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312317898Author Scott ZeschFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 381gDimensions(mm) 212mm *... -
On Every Tide: The making and remaking of the Irish world by Sean Connolly
RRP: £12.99£8.60An immensely impressive, authoritative history of the Irish diaspora'A richly detailed, scholarly and challenging history' Sunday Times'Impressive, provocative and perception-tilting... it's indispensable' Irish Independent'Essential reading for... -
People, Places and Passions: A Social History of Wales and the Welsh 1870-1948 Volume 1 by Russell Davies 9781783162376
RRP: £19.99£15.63The first of two volumes on the social history of Wales in the period 1870-1948, People, Places and Passions concentrates on the social events and changes which created and forged Wales into the mid-twentieth century. This volume considers a range of... -
Strange Blooms: The Curious Lives and Adventures of the John Tradescants by Jennifer Potter
RRP: £14.99£9.80In seventeenth-century Britain, a new breed of 'curious' gardeners were pushing at the frontiers of knowledge and new plants were stealing into Europe from East and West. John Tradescant and his son were at the vanguard of this change - as gardeners, as... -
The Modern Venus: Dress, Underwear and Accessories in the late 18th-Century Atlantic World Elisabeth Gernerd 9781350293373
RRP: £27.99£22.77From rumps and stays to muffs and handkerchiefs, underwear and accessories were critical components of the 18th-century woman's wardrobe. They not only created her shape, but expressed her character, sociability, fashionability, and even political... -
European Cities and Towns: 400-2000 by Peter Clark
£41.01Since the Middle Ages Europe has been one of the most urbanized continents on the planet and Europe's cities have firmly stamped their imprint on the continent's economic, social, political, and cultural life. This study of European cities and towns... -
The Catholic Church and the Northern Ireland Troubles, 1968-1998 by Margaret M. Scull
RRP: £33.99£31.12Until surprisingly recently the history of the Irish Catholic Church during the Northern Irish Troubles was written by Irish priests and bishops and was commemorative, rather than analytical. This study uses the Troubles as a case study to evaluate the... -
Tales from Great Passenger Ships: A Jaunt Through Time by Paul Curtis
RRP: £18.99£14.32Passenger ships have always played a key role in shaping our lives and destinies. From the biggest to the smallest, the most beautiful to the most basic, in peacetime and war, they have carried emigrants, holidaymakers, troops and other travellers on...