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On the Back of and Envelope: A Life in Writing Peter Hennessy 9781914979323
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51As one of Britain's foremost constitutional experts and contemporary historians, Peter Hennessy has spent his professional life unpicking the arcane world of Whitehall and Westminster. He began his... -
The Falklands War: An Imperial History by Ezequiel Mercau 9781108483292
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £34.10Why did Britain and Argentina go to war over a wintry archipelago that was home to an unprofitable colony? Could the Falklands War, in fact, have been a last-ditch revival of Britain's imperial past?... -
The Impossible Bomb: The Hidden History of British Scientists and the Race to Create an Atomic Weapon Gareth Williams 9780300284881
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.23The remarkable story of the forgotten British scientists who enabled the Manhattan Project to create the atomic bomb Atomic weaponry is widely understood as a story of American scientific... -
New Labour, New Britain?: How the Blair Governments Reshaped the Country Glen O’Hara 9781526146328
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.70A bold and balanced re-appraisal of New Labour in power.Rewriting the story of New Labour, Glen O'Hara challenges the prevailing narrative to present a more balanced and positive assessment. New... -
Churchill and the Islamic World: Orientalism, Empire and Diplomacy in the Middle East by Warren Dockter 9781788319249
Booksplease Price: £26.03Winston Churchill began his career as a junior officer and war correspondent in the North West borderlands of British India, and this experience was the beginning of his long relationship with the... -
John Maynard Keynes by Vincent Barnett 9780415567701
Booksplease Price: £47.39John Maynard Keynes is arguably the most important and influential economist of the twentieth century, and stands alongside Adam Smith and Karl Marx as one of the most famous economic thinkers of all... -
From Servants of the Empire to Everyday Heroes: The British Honours System in the Twentieth Century by Tobias Harper
RRP: £86.00Booksplease Price: £83.47In the twentieth century, the British Crown appointed around a hundred thousand people - military and civilian - in Britain and the British Empire to honours and titles. For outsiders, and sometimes... -
MI5, the Cold War, and the Rule of Law by Keith Ewing 9780198818625
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £115.69This book explores the powers, activities, and accountability of MI5 from the end of the Second World War to 1964. It argues that MI5 acted with neither statutory authority nor statutory powers, and... -
'Guilty Women', Foreign Policy, and Appeasement in Inter-War Britain by Julie V. Gottlieb 9780230304307
RRP: £79.99Booksplease Price: £61.04British women were deeply invested in foreign policy between the wars. This study casts new light on the turn to international affairs in feminist politics, the gendered representation and experience... -
'Guilty Women', Foreign Policy, and Appeasement in Inter-War Britain by Julie V. Gottlieb 9780230304291
RRP: £79.99Booksplease Price: £76.10British women were deeply invested in foreign policy between the wars. This study casts new light on the turn to international affairs in feminist politics, the gendered representation and experience... -
Muv: The Story of the Mitford Girls' Mother Rachel Trethewey 9781803997803
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £16.44'Rachel Trethewey has done the seemingly impossible in a book about the Mitfords: she has found something original to say, thanks to her excellent scholarship, and has written Muv's story... -
Blood, Sweat, and Toil: Remaking the British Working Class, 1939-1945 by Geoffrey G. Field 9780199675364
Booksplease Price: £53.97Blood, Sweat, and Toil is the first scholarly history of the British working class in the Second World War. It integrates social, political, and labour history, and reflects the most recent... -
Out of the Cold: The Cold War and Its Legacy by Michael R. Fitzgerald
Booksplease Price: £37.81Featuring first hand accounts by international politicians and diplomats along with analyses by leading scholars, this unique collection of essays provides insights from multiple perspectives to... -
The Cold War: A Military History by Professor Jeremy Black 9781474217989
Booksplease Price: £37.42The term the Cold War has had many meanings and interpretations since it was originally coined and has been used to analyse everything from comics to pro-natalist policies, and science fiction to... -
Empires of the Mind: The Colonial Past and the Politics of the Present by Robert Gildea 9781107159587
RRP: £30.99Booksplease Price: £26.35'The empires of the future would be the empires of the mind' declared Churchill in 1943, envisaging universal empires living in peaceful harmony. Robert Gildea exposes instead the brutal realities of... -
Empires of the Mind: The Colonial Past and the Politics of the Present by Robert Gildea
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.05'The empires of the future would be the empires of the mind' declared Churchill in 1943, envisaging universal empires living in peaceful harmony. Robert Gildea exposes instead the brutal realities of... -
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H. G. Wells in "Nature", 1893-1946: A Reception Reader by Dr. John S. Partington 9783631571101
RRP: £101.35Booksplease Price: £89.58Since its foundation in 1869 Nature has consistently been the pre-eminent English-language science journal, and for a period of over fifty years, H. G. Wells was a central feature within its pages... -
Britain's War Machine: Weapons, Resources and Experts in the Second World War by David Edgerton 9780141026107
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEARThe familiar image of the British in the Second World War is that of the plucky underdog taking on German might. David Edgerton's bold, compelling new history shows the... -
A History of the Northern Ireland Labour Party: Democratic Socialism and Sectarianism by Aaron Edwards 9780719078743
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £61.61This book is the first definitive history of the Northern Ireland Labour Party (NILP), a unique political force which drew its support from Protestants and Catholics and became electorally viable... -
The Wild Men: The Remarkable Story of Britain's First Labour Government David Torrance 9781399411479
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42A century ago a Labour government took power for the first time, meet the Wild Men who led the way... 'Superb' -- New Statesman 'Fascinating' -- The Sunday Times. In 1923, five short... -
A History of the Northern Ireland Labour Party: Democratic Socialism and Sectarianism by Aaron Edwards 9780719086380
Booksplease Price: £23.54Available for the first time in paperback, this book is the first definitive history of the Northern Ireland Labour Party (NILP), a unique political force which drew its support from Protestants and... -
Churchill and the Bomb in War and Cold War by Kevin Ruane 9781472523389
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £59.16Covering the development of the atomic bomb during the Second World War, the origins and early course of the Cold War, and the advent of the hydrogen bomb in the early 1950s, Churchill and the Bomb... -
No Wealth but Life: Welfare Economics and the Welfare State in Britain, 1880-1945 by Professor Roger E. Backhouse 9780521197861
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £64.89This book re-examines early twentieth-century British welfare economics in the context of the emergence of the welfare state. There are fresh views of the well-known Cambridge School of Sidgwick,... -
No Wealth but Life: Welfare Economics and the Welfare State in Britain, 1880-1945 by Professor Roger E. Backhouse 9781107569430
Booksplease Price: £32.12This book re-examines early twentieth-century British welfare economics in the context of the emergence of the welfare state. There are fresh views of the well-known Cambridge School of Sidgwick,... -
Churchill and the Bomb in War and Cold War by Kevin Ruane 9781472530806
Booksplease Price: £25.65Covering the development of the atomic bomb during the Second World War, the origins and early course of the Cold War, and the advent of the hydrogen bomb in the early 1950s, Churchill and the Bomb... -
Churchill and the Dardanelles by Christopher M. Bell
RRP: £15.49Booksplease Price: £12.47The failed naval offensive to force a passage through the Straits of the Dardanelles in 1915 drove Winston Churchill from office in disgrace and nearly destroyed his political career. For over a... -
The Conservative Human Rights Revolution: European Identity, Transnational Politics, and the Origins of the European Convention by Marco Duranti 9780199811380
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £79.20The Conservative Human Rights Revolution radically reinterprets the origins of the European human rights system, arguing that its conservative inventors envisioned the European Convention on Human... -
The Conservative Human Rights Revolution: European Identity, Transnational Politics, and the Origins of the European Convention by Marco Duranti 9780197532348
Booksplease Price: £38.86The European Court of Human Rights has long held unparalleled sway over questions of human rights violations across continental Europe, Britain, and beyond. Both its supporters and detractors accept...