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Histories of the Unexpected: The Tudors by Dr Sam Willis 9781786497697
Booksplease Price: £10.80Histories of the Unexpected not only presents a new way of thinking about the past, but also reveals the world around us as never before.Traditionally, the Tudors have been understood in a... -
The Face: A Cultural Geography by Marty Roth
Booksplease Price: £90.87The face circulates through most things of this world: anything that has presence, that presents itself, that has a front, a surface, an appearance, an aspect, a reputation, or honor - anything that... -
Ilfracombe History Tour by Peter Christie 9781398100664
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £5.98Ilfracombe History Tour offers a fascinating glimpse into the past of this north Devon harbour town and holiday resort. Authors Peter Christie and Graham Hobbs guide readers around its streets and... -
The Heroine with 1,001 Faces by Maria Tatar
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.10The Heroine with 1,001 Faces dismantles the cult of warrior heroes, revealing a secret history of heroinism at the very heart of our collective cultural imagination. Maria Tatar, a leading authority... -
Scarborough History Tour by Mike Hitches 9781398100626
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.61Scarborough History Tour offers a fascinating glimpse into the past of this famous Yorkshire seaside resort. Over the centuries, the original fishing town evolved to become a popular holiday... -
Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism by Derrick Bell
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.86In Faces at the Bottom of the Well, civil rights activist and legal scholar Derrick Bell uses allegory and historical example to argue that racism is an integral and permanent part of American... -
Guildford History Tour by Bernard Parke
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.61Guildford History Tour provides a unique insight into the country town of Surrey. Complete with a map of the town's most notable places, readers are invited to see the changing face of the town as... -
The Poker Face of Wall Street by Aaron Brown 9780470127315
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £13.37Wall Street is where poker and modern finance?and the theory behind these "games"?clash head on. In both worlds, real risk means real money is made or lost in a heart beat, and neither camp is always... -
Faces of Union Soldiers at Antietam by Joseph Stahl 9781540239440
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £21.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540239440Author Joseph StahlFormat HardbackPage Count 194Imprint -
St Albans History Tour by Robert Bard
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.61St Albans History Tour is a unique guide to the illustrious past of this delightful city in southern Hertfordshire. As one of the earliest recorded cities in Britain, St Albans has had a long,... -
Liverpool City Centre History Tour by Ian Collard
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.61Liverpool City Centre History Tour is a unique insight into the illustrious history of this famous old port city. Local author Ian Collard guides us through the streets and alleyways, showing how its... -
The Many Faces of Anne Boleyn: Interpreting Image and Perception by Helene Harrison 9781036105020
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.23Mistress. Queen. Reformer. Traitor. Icon. This book is not like any others you might have read on Anne Boleyn. It is not a biography of the life of Henry VIII's second wife and queen. What this... -
A History of Australia Mark Peel (University of Leicester, Leicester) 9781137605481
Booksplease Price: £92.92This vivid, multi-dimensional history considers the key cultural, social, political and economic events of Australia's history. Deftly weaving these issues into the wider global context, Mark Peel... -
The Roma: A Travelling History by Madeline Potter 9781529967241
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.05A profoundly personal and moving portrait of a misunderstood people and their on-going journey - shedding new light on Romani history and what it means to be Romani in Europe today.'Fascinating'... -
A History of Scottish Witches: The Devil's Handmaidens Mary W Craig 9781036106317
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.23A History of Scottish Witches: The Devil's Handmaidens explores the phenomenon of witch persecution in Scotland between 1563 and 1736. Looking at the influence of the likes of John Knox and James VI... -
History, Space and Place by Susanne Rau
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08Spaces, too, have a history. And history always takes place in spaces. But what do historians mean when they use the word "spaces"? And how can spaces be historically investigated? Susanne Rau... -
Faces of Union Soldiers at South Mountain and Harpers Ferry by Matthew Borders
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £14.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467147439Author Joseph StahlFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint < -
A History of Britain - Volume 3: The Fate of Empire 1776-2000 by Simon Schama
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.24The final stage of Simon Schama's epic voyage around Britain spans centuries, crosses the breadth of the empire and covers a vast expanse of topics - from the birth of feminism to the fate of freedom... -
The History of Forgery Rachael Rowe 9781399055987
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.62From the flamboyant preacher accused of forgery to the fourteen year old burned at the stake for coining, the eighteenth century was rife with financial crime. This book outlines the stories of men... -
Small Change: A History of Everyday Coinage by Peter Johnson
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.42Since the Greeks of Asia Minor invented coined money in the late seventh century BC, the emphasis throughout history has been to focus on minting higher value pieces, with the production of small... -
Chatham History Tour by Philip MacDougall 9781445666600
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.61Chatham History Tour is a unique insight into the illustrious history of this historic Kentish town and its former dockyard, now a major tourist attraction. This book guides us through the streets... -
A-Z of Lincoln: Places-People-History by Wendy Turner
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.68The cathedral city of Lincoln offers a wealth of history dating from the first-century BC settlement of 'Lindon'. In successive centuries, the Romans, Vikings and Danes all made their mark here. The... -
The Zambezi: A History Malyn Newitt 9781805263173
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £18.37The Zambezi is the fourth-longest river in Africa, and one of the continent's principal arteries of movement, migration, conquest and commerce. In this book, historian Malyn Newitt quotes rarely used... -
The Double Face of Janus and Other Essays in the History of Medicine by Owsei Temkin
Booksplease Price: £34.78Preeminent historian of medicine Owsei Temkin brought to his writing an awesome range of scholarship, for he was at home in the classical, the medieval, and the modern eras. The essays gathered in... -
A History of Lincoln by Richard Gurnham
RRP: £22.50Booksplease Price: £15.15The earliest settlement beside the Brayford Pool was called Lindon, and this Celtic name was adopted by the Roman conquerors in the first century ad. e fortress established on the hill above the... -
Poetry Facing History by Traumear 9780244690724
RRP: £7.95Booksplease Price: £7.71This poetry addresses itself to the changing visage of the past, specifically the 'modern' past two millennia, in terms of contemporary sensibility. The accent is on mystic perception and the meaning... -
Black History Month UK Primary School Pack by DK 9780241552070
RRP: £36.95Booksplease Price: £27.80An inspiring collection of DK books focused on Black history.Discover the obstacles that many Black people faced on the way to making groundbreaking accomplishments. You'll find out how they created... -
A Visual History of HIV/AIDS: Exploring The Face of AIDS film archive by Elisabet Bjorklund
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24The Face of AIDS film archive at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, consists of more than 700 hours of unedited and edited footage, shot over a period of more than thirty years and all over the world by... -
A History of Virility by Alain Corbin
RRP: £134.00Booksplease Price: £107.83How has the meaning of manhood changed over time? A History of Virility proposes a series of answers to this question by describing a trajectory that begins with ancient conceptions of male... -
Faces of Union Soldiers at South Mountain and Harpers Ferry by Joseph Stahl 9781540247025
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £20.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540247025Author Joseph StahlFormat HardbackPage Count 194Imprint -
Newcastle-under-Lyme History Tour by Neil Collingwood
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.61The Staffordshire market town of Newcastle-under-Lyme owes its existence and its name to the building of a new castle there in the twelfth century. The town's status grew from the twelfth to the... -
Studies in Scottish Business History Peter L. Payne 9781138865143
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.93This book was first published in 1967. This volume contains a number of essays looking at Scottish business history, its sources and archives. Section two explores domestic and enterprise organsation... -
Fear: An Alternative History of the World by Robert Peckham 9781788167239
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.37It's been said that, after 9/11, the 2008 financial crash and the Covid-19 pandemic, we're a more fearful society than ever before. Yet fear, and the panic it produces, have long been driving forces... -
A History of Britain - Volume 1: At the Edge of the World? 3000 BC-AD 1603 by Simon Schama
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.94Change - sometimes gentle and subtle, sometimes shocking and violent - is the dynamic of Simon Schama's unapologetically personal and grippingly written history of Britain, especially the changes... -
Faces of Liberation by Frank Mehring 9789048565849
RRP: £44.95Booksplease Price: £40.51Dutch edition: Gezichten van de Bevrijding - Nederlandse versie: Gezichten van de Bevrijding. The Canadian War Cemetery in Groesbeek is the final resting place of 2,618 soldiers from Canada and the... -
A New Imperial History of Northern Eurasia, 1700-1918: From Russian to Global History Marina B. Mogilner 9781350196858
Booksplease Price: £30.54A New Imperial History of Northern Eurasia, 1700-1918 proposes a new language for studying and conceptualizing the spaces, societies, and institutions that existed on the territory of today's... -
History of Madness by Michel Foucault
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £33.69When it was first published in France in 1961 as Folie et Deraison: Histoire de la Folie a l'age Classique, few had heard of a thirty-four year old philosopher by the name of Michel Foucault. By the... -
The First World War: A Concise Global History by William Kelleher Storey
Booksplease Price: £32.38In a compact but comprehensive and clear narrative, this book explores the First World War from a genuinely global perspective. Putting a human face on the war, William Kelleher Storey takes into... -
Pattern and Meaning in History: Wilhelm Dilthey's Thoughts on History and Society by H. P. Rickman
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £31.19'One may state Dilthey's significance in most general fashion by characterizing his work as the first thorough-going and sophisticated confrontation of history with positivism and natural science... -
Magic City Rock: Spaces and Faces of Birmingham's Scene by Blake Ells 9781625858962
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £14.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781625858962Author Blake EllsFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint