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The Shah's Imperial Celebrations of 1971: Nationalism, Culture and Politics in Late Pahlavi Iran by Robert Steele
RRP: £22.99£22.85In October 1971 Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran, held a celebration to commemorate the 2500th anniversary of the founding of the Persian Empire by Cyrus the Great. Dozens of heads of state descended on Persepolis for these Celebrations, where they... -
Corpus Christi College, Oxford: A History by Thomas Charles-Edwards 9780198792475
£81.04Corpus Christi College, Oxford, is 500 years old in March 2017. This book is the first history of the College in over a century and covers the full chronological range from its foundation by Richard Fox in pre-Reformation Oxford to the present day... -
Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities by James Turner
RRP: £22.00£17.76Many today do not recognize the word, but "philology" was for centuries nearly synonymous with humanistic intellectual life, encompassing not only the study of Greek and Roman literature and the Bible but also all other studies of language and... -
The Book of the People: How to Read the Bible by A. N. Wilson
RRP: £9.99£7.11In The Book of the People A. N. Wilson explores how readers and thinkers have approached the Bible, and how it might be read today. Charting his own relationship with the Bible over a lifetime of writing, Wilson argues that it remains relevant even in a... -
The Countess: The Scandalous Life of Frances Villiers, Countess of Jersey by Tim Clarke
RRP: £10.99£7.25Her charm, when she chose to use it, was legendary, even bewitching. She had enormous force of will and could, like an enchantress, bend people to her will - even against their better judgement ... One of the great beauties of Georgian society,... -
Essex Girls: The Scandalous History of the Women of Essex by Karen Bowman
RRP: £9.99£6.64Queen, temptress, martyr, witch: the Essex Girl has left her mark on history. For centuries, society allocated women a role of service and obedience; an invisible woman, circumscribed by home and family, was a righteous woman. The Essex Girl, however,... -
Voices from Barrow and Furness by Alice Leach
RRP: £12.99£9.62Barrow-in-Furness grew from a tiny hamlet into the largest iron and steel centre on the world, as well as a major shipbuilding centre, in just forty years. Still home to the busiest shipyard in England, Barrow retains many of the spacious streets and... -
The English Poor Law, 1531-1782 by Paul Slack
RRP: £23.99£16.18The poor law had a profound impact on English society between the sixteenth and the eighteenth centuries. Designed to reform the poor as much as to relieve poverty, it also shaped institutions of government and determined people's expectations and... -
Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland by Jan T. Gross 9780691234304
RRP: £14.99£11.15A landmark book that changed the story of Poland's role in the HolocaustOn July 10, 1941, in Nazi-occupied Poland, half of the town of Jedwabne brutally murdered the other half: 1,600 men, women, and children-all but seven of the town's Jews. In this... -
Shop Talk by Philip Roth
RRP: £12.99£9.09Philip Roth is the voice of our times.In a sequence of intimate conversations with some of the most influential and insightful writers of the twentieth century, Roth explores the importance of region, politics and history in their work and that of their... -
Unveiling Jazbaa: A History of Pakistan Women's Cricket by Aayush Puthran
RRP: £17.99£12.20Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Cricket Book of the Year 2023 Jazbaa - Definition: spirit, feeling, passion, desire, sentiment, emotion In 1996, Shaiza Khan led a Pakistan team on a tour of New Zealand and Australia. While the tour was a failure... -
Illustrated Tales of Staffordshire by Helen Harwood 9781398107762
RRP: £15.99£10.85Staffordshire is renowned for its impressive industrial heritage and as one of the counties that drove the Industrial Revolution. In this book Helen Harwood looks at another aspect of the county's history: its rich folklore, which is all too often... -
Doing Oral History: A Practical Guide by Donald A. Ritchie 9780199329335
RRP: £34.99£29.05Doing Oral History: A Practical Guide is considered the premier guidebook to oral history, used by professional oral historians, public historians, archivists, and genealogists as a core text in college courses and throughout the public history community... -
The Principle of Hope: Volume 1 by Ernst Bloch 9780262521994
£71.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262521994Author Ernst BlochFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 862gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 33mm -
One Man's Railway: 0 Gauge in the Garden by Allen Jackson
RRP: £15.99£10.85This book is about one ordinary person's efforts, largely carried out single-handedly and with limited funds, to build a model railway layout in his garden that runs just like the real thing. It is based on Brymbo in North Wales, where the GWR and... -
Mountain Tales: Love and Loss in the Municipality of Castaway Belongings by Saumya Roy 9781788165365
RRP: £16.99£12.28'Roy has a journalist's unflinching eye, a poet's talent for detail, and a radical sense of empathy ... a stunning achievement.' - Kiran Desai, Booker Prize-winning author of The Inheritance of Loss 'If you read one book about India, read this one.' ... -
'The People Are Not There': The Transformation of Badenoch 1800–1863 by David Taylor
RRP: £25.00£21.79Winner of the Saltire Society Scottish History Book of the Year Award Badenoch today is a landscape of empty glens and ruined settlements, but it was not always so. This book examines the transformative events that shaped the region's destiny: climate... -
Hellenistic Age by Peter Green
£13.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812967401Author Peter GreenFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 179gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Women of Scotland by David R. Ross
RRP: £9.99£7.27In a mix of historical fact and folklore, 'biker-historian' David R. Ross journeys across Scotland to tell the stories of some of Scotland's finest women. From the legend of Scota over 3,000 years ago to the Bruce women, Black Agnes and the real Lady... -
The Magical History of Britain by Martin Wall 9781445677088
RRP: £20.00£18.66In this profoundly personal journey through British history, Martin Wall traces the influence of Magic and Myth from the earliest times to the present day. Our abiding myths have endured since before the time of the Druids, reaching their apotheosis in... -
Little Oxford Dictionary of Word Origins by Julia Cresswell
RRP: £11.99£8.64Did you know that coconut derives from the Spanish and Portuguese coco for 'grinning face'? Or that giraffes used to be called camelopards? Or that walrus has its origin in Dutch, meaning 'whale horse'. The Little Oxford Dictionary of Word Origins... -
Plagues upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History by Kyle Harper 9780691230597
RRP: £22.00£18.36A sweeping germ's-eye view of history from human origins to global pandemicsPlagues upon the Earth is a monumental history of humans and their germs. Weaving together a grand narrative of global history with insights from cutting-edge genetics, Kyle... -
How the Victorians Lived by Shona Parker 9781399056663
RRP: £22.00£15.62The Victorian era is arguably the most exciting and invigorating reign of an English monarch ever, and one of progress on a massive scale. By the time Queen Victoria died in 1901, England was almost unrecognisable. The Victorians neatly avoided... -
The History of Emotions by Rob Boddice 9781526171177
RRP: £17.99£13.16This book introduces students and professional historians to the main areas of concern in the history of emotions and its intersection with emotion research in other disciplines. It discusses how the emotions intersect with other lines of historical... -
Frantz Fanon's 'Black Skin, White Masks': New Interdisciplinary Essays by Max Silverman
RRP: £19.99£17.61First published in 1952, Frantz Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks is one of the most important anti-colonial works of the post-war period. It is both a profound critique of the conscious and unconcious ways in which colonialism brutalises the colonised and... -
The Vagabond and the Princess: Paddy Leigh Fermor in Romania by Alan Ogden 9781910533352
RRP: £11.99£8.29Invention, passion, war and exile are but some of the elements in this revealing new insight into Paddy Leigh Fermor's many Romanian journeys. Starting with the `great trudge' on foot through Romania in 1934 and ending in 1990 with his assignment for... -
Great Irish Households: Inventories from the Long Eighteenth Century by Tessa Murdoch
RRP: £75.00£60.54The value of inventories in charting how houses were arranged, furnished and used is now widely appreciated. Typically, the listings and valuations were occasioned by the death of an owner and the consequent need to deal with testamentary dispositions... -
A History of the Greek Resistance in the Second World War: The People's Armies by Spiros Tsoutsoumpis 9781526143495
RRP: £30.00£26.68A history of the Greek resistance in the Second World War discusses one of the most troubled and fascinating aspects of modern Greek and European history: the anti-axis resistance. It is a pioneering history of the men and women who waged the struggle... -
The Ace Cafe Then and Now by Winston G. Ramsey
RRP: £16.99£12.28During the 1960s swarms of motorcyclists roamed along London's North Circular Road in nightly burn ups. Their pit stop was the Ace Cafe at Stonebridge Park. This is their story as told by the boys who raced and the policemen who chased, woven against a... -
Empire of Salons: Conquest and Community in Early Modern Ottoman Lands by Helen Pfeifer
RRP: £38.00£30.01A history of the Ottoman incorporation of Arab lands that shows how gentlemanly salons shaped culture, society, and governanceHistorians have typically linked Ottoman imperial cohesion in the sixteenth century to the bureaucracy or the sultan's court. In... -
The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell 9780141395456
RRP: £8.99£6.45A searing account of George Orwell's observations of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the 1930s, The Road to Wigan Pier is a brilliant and bitter polemic that has lost none of its political impact... -
American Sirens: The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America's First Paramedics by Kevin Hazzard 9780306926099
RRP: £16.99£12.25Until the 1970s, if you suffered a medical crisis, your chances of survival were minimal. A 9-1-1 call might bring police or even the local funeral home. But that all changed with Freedom House EMS in Pittsburgh, a group of Black men who became America's... -
The Saucer and the Swastika: The Dark Myth of Nazi UFOs by S. D. Tucker
RRP: £20.00£13.74If only the war had lasted another six months, then Hitler would have won ... because his scientists stood upon the very brink of inventing flying saucers. That, at least, is the myth as it is currently being peddled today, in books, pamphlets and... -
The Art of Walking: A History in 100 Images by William Chapman Sharpe
RRP: £25.00£20.92A lively and thought-provoking tour of the intertwined histories of art and walking "A broad-ranging book [that] has something for every rambler."-Benjamin Riley, New Criterion What does a walk look like? In the first book to trace the history of... -
Death and Burial in the Roman World by J.M.C. Toynbee
RRP: £29.00£26.08Never before available in paperback, J. M. C. Toynbee's study is the most comprehensive book on Roman burial practices. Ranging throughout the Roman world from Rome to Pompeii, Britain to Jerusalem-Toynbee's book examines funeral practices from a wide... -
Love From Kew: A postcard scrapbook by Sophie Shillito
RRP: £15.00£9.54Love From Kew is a postbag full of scribbled stories - tiny tales from visitors' lives are entwined with Kew's secrets in an imaginative and beautiful scrapbook of poetic postcard prose that sings with the spirit of the Gardens. Postcards let us look... -
Voices from the Blue: The Real Lives of Policewomen by Jennifer Rees
RRP: £18.99£5.71'God, I love these women! Their breeziness, compassion, humour and resilience are a tonic'Libby Purves, Times Literary SupplementIn February 1919, London's first women police officers took to the streets of the city. They battled entrenched gender... -
Beer: Britain in Old Photographs by Ted Gosling 9780752461908
RRP: £12.99£9.62The village of Beer has a very special community spirit which has built up over the years. No doubt the rich history and heritage that Beer has is the reason why its inhabitants are so justifiably proud of the place in which they live. With its idyllic... -
The Public Culture of the Victorian Middle Class: Ritual and Authority in the English Industrial City 1840-1914 by Simon Gunn
RRP: £19.99£17.61The public culture of the Victorian middle class looks at the creation of a distinctive 'high' culture in the industrial cities of Birmingham, Leeds and Manchester in the mid-nineteenth century and its incipient decline from the 1880s.The history of... -
Stay: A History of Suicide and the Arguments Against It by Jennifer Michael Hecht
RRP: £12.99£11.46A leading public critic reminds us of the compelling reasons people throughout time have found to stay alive Worldwide, more people die by suicide than by murder, and many more are left behind to grieve. Despite distressing statistics that show suicide...