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Wars and Battles of Ancient Greece by Paul Chrystal 9781781556818
Booksplease Price: £20.34One of the most popular areas of ancient history is war in the Greek world. The number of books, articles, web pages and blogs on every conceivable aspect of war in ancient Greece is endless, and... -
A History of Britain in 100 Objects by Paul Chrystal 9781838008659
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838008659Author Paul ChrystalFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint -
Central Leeds Through Time by Paul Chrystal 9781445656441
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.68The city of Leeds, self-proclaimed 'Capital of the North', has come a long way since receiving its first charter in 1207. From its early developments during the Industrial Revolution, it has become a... -
Redcar, Marske & Saltburn Through Time by Paul Chrystal
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.87Redcar, Marske & Saltburn Through Time is a wonderful collection of old and new photographs of this historic area of Yorkshire. The older images are printed alongside a contemporary full colour... -
A-Z of Leeds: Places-People-History by Paul Chrystal
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.42Leeds is a city of great history and heritage. From its beginnings as a religious and agricultural centre in the Middle Ages to its twenty-first-century status as one of the UK's leading digital and... -
Trailblazing Women of the Industrial Revolution Paul Chrystal 9781036132866
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £19.23We hear a lot about the contribution of men to the brave new world which began to emerge in the mid-18th century with the start of the Industrial Revolution; and we can read the uplifting story of... -
York Industries Through Time by Paul Chrystal 9781445602141
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47The foundations of York's commercial identity lie in the powerful medieval guilds that controlled and organised business development here until the nineteenth century. Unlike other Yorkshire towns,... -
The History of the World in 100 Pandemics, Plagues and Epidemics by Paul Chrystal
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399005425Author Paul ChrystalFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint -
The Rowntree Family of York: A Social History by Paul Chrystal 9781906259358
Booksplease Price: £19.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906259358Author Paul ChrystalFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint -
Bradford at Work: People and Industries Through the Years by Paul Chrystal
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.68Bradford is rightly proud of its industrial heritage. This West Yorkshire city rose to prominence during the nineteenth century as an international centre of textile manufacturing, particularly... -
York in the 1950s: Ten Years that Changed a City by Paul Chrystal
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.68The 1950s in York was a decade of reconstruction and regeneration after the depredations of the Second World War. This book charts these changes to give a unique picture of the city that gradually... -
Life in York: One hundred years ago by Paul Chrystal
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £9.11This book is different from other books on York. Contained within its pages are hugely appealing photographic glimpses of how people lived, worked and played in the city a century ago, images full of... -
North York Moors Through Time by Paul Chrystal 9781848688988
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.68The North York Moors is one of Britain's most beautiful and picturesque rural areas. This book provides an at-a-glance picture of some of the towns and villages here through 200 or so images which,... -
In & Around York District Through Time by Paul Chrystal 9781445602158
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47A fascinating and informative look at one of Europe's finest cities and some of the delightful villages which surround it. The book uniquely features a selection of images from the renowned Evelyn... -
Whitby at Work: People and Industries Through the Years Paul Chrystal 9781445685151
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.42Despite its remote location, surrounded by the high ground of the North York Moors, Whitby has featured significantly in history throughout the years. One of the earliest records of Whitby is from AD... -
Bioterrorism and Biological Warfare: Disease as a Weapon of War by Paul Chrystal 9781399090803
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.19This important, disturbing and timely book focuses on on the use of disease and germs as a weapon of mass destruction (WMD) and the threat bioterrorism poses in an increasingly unpredictable and... -
York in the 1970s: Ten Years that Changed a City by Paul Chrystal 9781445640662
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.68This is the third volume in a unique and exciting series on the modern history of York. With the dawning of the 1970s the city underwent seismic changes that saw it become one of Europe's foremost... -
Miracula: Weird and Wonderful Stories of Ancient Greece and Rome Paul Chrystal 9781836390497
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £13.86Both humorous and shocking, Miracula is filled with astonishing facts and stories drawn from ancient Greece and Rome that have rarely been retold in English. It explores 'the incredible' as presented... -
Bridgerton Revisited: Women, Fashion & Society in the Regency Period Paul Chrystal 9781036132712
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £19.23Bridgerton Revisited is the first book to place the hugely successful Netflix production Bridgerton in its historical context, the Regency Period of English history which ran from around 17295 until... -
Historic England: Leeds: Unique Images from the Archives of Historic England by Paul Chrystal
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.68This illustrated history portrays one of England's finest cities. It provides a nostalgic look at Leeds' past and highlights the special character of some of its most important historic sites. The... -
Rome: Republic into Empire: The Civil Wars of the First Century BCE by Paul Chrystal 9781526710093
Booksplease Price: £26.18Rome: Republic into Empire looks at the political and social reasons why Rome repeatedly descended into civil war in the early 1st century BCE and why these conflicts continued for most of the... -
Historic England: York: Unique Images from the Archives of Historic England by Paul Chrystal
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.87This illustrated history portrays one of England's finest cities. It provides a nostalgic look at York's past and highlights the special character of some of its most important historic sites. The... -
Historic England: Bradford: Unique Images from the Archives of Historic England by Paul Chrystal
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.68This illustrated history portrays one of England's most historically significant cities. It provides a nostalgic look at Bradford's past and highlights the special character of some of its most... -
Old Hessle: with Anlaby, North Ferriby, West Ella and Willerby by Paul Chrystal 9781840338386
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840338386Author Paul ChrystalFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint -
Historic England: Hull: Unique Images from the Archives of Historic England Paul Chrystal 9781445675343
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.68This illustrated history portrays one of England's most fascinating cities. It provides a nostalgic look at Kingston upon Hull's past and highlights the special character of some of its most... -
The Roman Empire and the Wider World: The Two-way Trade of Goods, Culture, Knowledge and Religion Paul Chrystal 9781399035712
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.23Much has been written about the great extent encompassed by the Roman Empire's borders, their armies' attempts to expand and defend them, and about the extent to which 'Romanization' imposed a... -
Women at Work in World Wars I and II: Factories, Farms and the Military and Civil Services by Paul Chrystal 9781399071260
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.47This book is about women in World Wars I & II - women working in factories and on farms, or toiling perilously in field stations just behind the front lines, in inhospitable hospitals and... -
Gunners from the Sky: 1st Air Landing Light Regiment in Italy and at Arnhem, 1942 44 by Paul Chrystal 9781399088084
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.23This is the story of the 1st Air Landing Light Regiment RA and its role in the Italian campaign and at the Battle of Arnhem. It is also the story of one of its soldiers: 14283058 Gunner Eric Wright... -
Jack Youll VC, Great War Hero: And the First World War on the Western Front and in Italy by Paul Chrystal 9781036108977
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.23John ('Jack') Scott Youll (June 1897- 27 October 1918) was a colliery electrician from a small village near Hartlepool, County Durham, before volunteering for the Army in 1915. Joining 1st Battalion,... -
The Place Names of Yorkshire: Cities, Towns, Villages, Hills, Rivers and Dales Some Pubs Too, in Praise of Yorkshire Ales by Paul Chrystal 9781840337532
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £16.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840337532Author Paul ChrystalFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint -
World-Changing Women: 150 Women who Rewrote the Histories of Ancient Egypt, Israel, Greece and Rome Paul Chrystal 9781399056465
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.62Countless books have been written about prominent women in Greece and Rome, so we know all about Medea, Sappho, Lucretia, Boudica and Cleopatra and their significant actions and achievements. This... -
Factory Girls: The Working Lives of Women and Children by Chrystal, Paul 9781399011921
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.23Ever since there have been factories women and children have, more often than not, worked in those factories. What is perhaps less well known is that women also worked underground in coal mines and... -
What We Did in Bed: A Horizontal History by Brian Fagan
RRP: £22.50Booksplease Price: £20.58Pulling back the covers on the fascinating, yet often forgotten, history of the bed "If you thought that your bed was only good for sleeping in, having sex in, or dying in, then this book will... -
Bramhall Through Time by Simon Crossley
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.68Bramhall is a thriving, bustling and leafy suburb of Stockport, close to Manchester. It has been voted the least 'lonely place' in Britain; according to research from the University of Sheffield,... -
Crossing the Rubicon: Caesar's Decision and the Fate of Rome by Luca Fezzi
RRP: £27.50Booksplease Price: £24.95A dramatic account of the fateful year leading to the ultimate crisis of the Roman Republic and the rise of Caesar's autocracy When the Senate ordered Julius Caesar, conqueror of Gaul, to disband his... -
Myths of the Underworld in Contemporary Culture: The Backward Gaze by Judith Fletcher 9780198767091
Booksplease Price: £100.94Myths of the Underworld in Contemporary Culture: The Backward Gaze examines a series of twentieth and twenty-first century fictional works that adapt Greco-Roman myths of the catabasis, the heroic... -
Mercury's Wings: Exploring Modes of Communication in the Ancient World by Richard J. A. Talbert 9780195386844
Booksplease Price: £110.12Mercury's Wings: Exploring Modes of Communication in the Ancient World is the first-ever volume of essays devoted to ancient communications. Comparable previous work has been mainly confined to... -
In the Orbit of Love: Affection in Ancient Greece and Rome by David Konstan 9780190887872
RRP: £30.99Booksplease Price: £29.60This book is about love in the classical world -- not erotic passion but the kind of love that binds together intimate members of a family and very close friends, but which may also extend to include... -
A Century of Miracles: Christians, Pagans, Jews, and the Supernatural, 312-410 by H. A. Drake 9780199367412
Booksplease Price: £45.03Traditionally, in the year 312, the Roman emperor Constantine experienced a "vision of the Cross" that led him to convert to Christianity and to defeat his last rival to the imperial throne; and, in...