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The World's War by David Olusoga
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.68'A groundbreaking and important book that will surely reframe our understanding of the Great War' David Lammy 'A genuinely groundbreaking piece of research' BBC History 'Meticulously researched... -
A House Through Time by David Olusoga
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'A very readable history of the British way of life viewed through its homes' Choice MagazineIn recent years house histories have become the new frontier of popular, participatory history. People,... -
Black and British: An Illustrated History by David Olusoga
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.33This beautiful hardback gift book is a stunning visual journey through Black British history for younger readers by award-winning historian and broadcaster David Olusoga and illustrated by Jake... -
Black and British: A Forgotten History by David Olusoga
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.06'[A] comprehensive and important history of black Britain . . . Written with a wonderful clarity of style and with great force and passion.' - Kwasi Kwarteng, Sunday TimesIn this vital re-examination... -
Black and British: A short, essential history by David Olusoga
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.03Winner of the Book of the Year, Children's Illustrated and Non-Fiction at The British Book Awards, 2021Shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year 2020A short, essential introduction to Black... -
Black History for Every Day of the Year David Olusoga 9781529066203
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £16.31Black History for Every Day of the Year by award-winning historian and broadcaster David Olusoga and his siblings, Yinka Olusoga and Kemi Olusoga, tells the story of Black history, sweeping across... -
Civilisations: First Contact / The Cult of Progress: As seen on TV by David Olusoga
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.21Oscar Wilde said, 'Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life.' Was he right? In Cult of Progress, David Olusoga travels the world to piece together the shared histories that link nations. ... -
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: With a foreword by David Olusoga Olaudah Equiano 9781529371864
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.05Equiano's narrative is the most significant autobiographical account of slavery to emerge from Britain's centuries as a slave trading and slave owning power. It remains as powerful today as it was... -
The Story of Windrush by K. N. Chimbiri
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £4.89The story before the scandal. A book to celebrate the inspiring legacy of the Windrush pioneers. In June 1948, hundreds of Caribbean men, women and children arrived ... -
The Windrush Betrayal: Exposing the Hostile Environment by Amelia Gentleman
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.57A NEW STATESMAN AND SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITINGLONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZEA searing portrait of Britain's hostile environment by the... -
Windrush Child by Benjamin Zephaniah
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £4.55In this heart-stopping adventure, Benjamin Zephaniah shows us what it was like to be a child of the Windrush generation. Leonard is shocked when he arrives with... -
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Hidden Heritage: Rediscovering Britain's Lost Love for the Orient by Fatima Manji 9781784742911 [USED COPY]
Booksplease Price: £4.21A vital new perspective on British history from award-winning broadcaster Fatima Manji"This is such an important, brave book that sheds a calm, bright light on the complexity of history at a time... -
Hidden Heritage: Rediscovering Britain's Lost Love of the Orient by Fatima Manji
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02A fresh perspective on British history from award-winning broadcaster Fatima ManjiWhy was there a Turkish mosque adorning Britain's most famous botanic garden in the eighteenth century? How did a... -
Bloody Foreigners: The Story of Immigration to Britain by Robert Winder
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.05The story of the way Britain has been settled and influenced by foreign people and ideas is as old as the land itself. In this original, important and inspiring book, Robert Winder tells of the... -
Superior: The Return of Race Science by Angela Saini 9780008293864
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.50Financial Times Book of the Year Telegraph Top 50 Books of the Year Guardian Book of the Year ... -
Heaven's Command by Jan Morris
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.81Jan Morris tells the epic story of the rise of the British Empire, from the accession of Queen Victoria in 1837 to her Diamond Jubilee in 1897. In this celebrated masterwork she vividly evokes every... -
Black Victorians: Hidden in History by John Woolf
Booksplease Price: £14.66Beyond the patrician vision of Victorian Britain traditionally advanced in our textbooks, there always existed another, more diverse Britain, populated by people of colour marking achievements both... -
Black Victorians: Hidden in History by Keshia N. Abraham 9780715654880
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.88Beyond the patrician vision of Victorian Britain traditionally advanced in our textbooks, there always existed another, more diverse Britain, populated by people of colour marking achievements both... -
Among the Mosques: A Journey Across Muslim Britain by Ed Husain
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'Timely and important' THE TIMES 'Considered and nuanced ... A must-read' The Rt Hon. Sajid Javid MP 'Compelling and moving' Tom Holland, author of Dominion __________________ Islam is the... -
Exterminate All The Brutes by Sven Lindqvist 9781847081988
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.59The classic investigation - inspiration for a major HBO series - revealing the true horror of Europe's racist colonial past in Africa. Over a quarter of a century ago historian Sven Lindqvist set... -
Resistance, Rebellion and Revolt: How Slavery Was Overthrown by Professor James Walvin 9781472141453
RRP: £3.99Booksplease Price: £3.16This long overdue, vivid and wide-ranging examination of the significance of the resistance of the enslaved themselves - from sabotage and running away to outright violent rebellion - shines fresh... -
Pax Britannica by Jan Morris
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.81The second instalment of the Pax Britannica Trilogy by Jan Morris, recreates the British Empire at its dazzling climax - the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1897, celebrated as a festival of... -
Dispatches from the Diaspora: From Nelson Mandela to Black Lives Matter by Gary Younge
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.05BY THE WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR JOURNALISM 2023A powerful collection of journalism on race, racism and Black life and death from one of the nation's leading political voices.'An outstanding... -
Resistance, Rebellion and Revolt: How Slavery Was Overthrown by Professor James Walvin
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £5.86'Walvin synthesises this complex global history with skill and ingenuity. Freedom is beautifully written and clearly organised . . . thought-provoking, rich in detail and imbued with an emotional... -
Resistance, Rebellion and Revolt: How Slavery Was Overthrown by Professor James Walvin 9781472141439
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £3.76In this timely and very readable new work, Walvin focuses not on abolitionism or the brutality and suffering of slavery, but on resistance, the resistance of the enslaved themselves - from sabotage... -
Elizabethans: How Modern Britain Was Forged by Andrew Marr
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.77The Sunday Times bestseller THE STORY OF BRITAIN during the long reign of Queen Elizabeth II. Find out how Britain changed in this entrancing, lively portrait of Britain's Elizabethan Age... -
The History Lessons by Shalina Patel 9781837731619
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.28GO AND BUY THIS BOOK - SHALINA IS AN EXTRAORDINARY TEACHER AND MAKES EVERY SUBJECT FASCINATINGBella Mackie, author of How to Kill Your FamilyTaking the reader on a tour through history, from the... -
Dispatches from the Diaspora: From Nelson Mandela to Black Lives Matter Gary Younge 9780571391158
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.57BY THE WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR JOURNALISM 2023*Includes additional material*A powerful collection of journalism on race, racism and black life and death from one of the nation's leading... -
Mary Seacole: Bound for the Battlefield by Susan Goldman Rubin
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £5.85The true story of Mary Seacole, the "Celebrated Heroine of the Crimean War".Over two hundred years ago in Kingston, Jamaica, a little girl called Mary watched as her mother selected a bottle of... -
One Fine Day: Britain's Empire on the Brink Matthew Parker 9780349142364
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.79'Breathtaking... vital and important. A wonderful read' PETER FRANKOPAN'Marvellous... escapes the inane, balance-sheet view of Empire and sees its full complexity' SATHNAM SANGHERA'Excellent... his... -
What is Black Art? by Alice Correia
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02A landmark anthology on British art history, bringing together overlooked and marginalized perspectives from 'the critical decade'What is Black art? This vital anthology gives voice to a generation... -
America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s by Elizabeth Hinton
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.50A New York Times Notable Book Best Books of 2021: TIME, Smithsonian New York Times Book Review * Editors' Choice ... -
America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s by Elizabeth Hinton 9780008443832
Booksplease Price: £6.37A New York Times Notable Book Best Books of 2021: TIME, Smithsonian New York Times Book Review * Editors' Choice ... -
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson
Booksplease Price: £7.87THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the Civil War to our combustible present, White Rage reframes the continuing conversation about race in America, chronicling the history of the powerful forces... -
One Fine Day: Britain's Empire on the Brink by Matthew Parker 9781408708583
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £14.42'Breathtaking... vital and important. A wonderful read' PETER FRANKOPAN'Marvellous... escapes the inane, balance-sheet view of Empire and sees its full complexity' SATHNAM SANGHERA'Excellent... his... -
100 Great Black Britons by Patrick Vernon
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.09'An empowering read . . . it is refreshing to see somebody celebrate the role that black Britons have played in this island's long and complicated history'DAVID LAMMY, author of Tribes, in 'The best... -
Under Fire: Black Britain in Wartime 1939-45 by Stephen Bourne
Booksplease Price: £9.33During the Second World War all British citizens were called upon to do their part for their country. Despite facing the discriminatory 'colour bar', many black civilians were determined to... -
The Mystery of the Parsee Lawyer: Arthur Conan Doyle, George Edalji and the Case of the Foreigner in the English Village by Shrabani Basu
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.77'Basu's account of how Arthur Conan Doyle set about trying to get a pardon for Edalji is in itself a fine piece of detective work.' The Times 'Compulsive reading.' A.N. Wilson 'Nails the nastiness... -
The BBC: A People's History by David Hendy 9781781255261
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.34'Thorough and engaging ... you can't understand England without understanding the BBC' New York Times 'Fascinating and informative' Daily Telegraph 'A dramatic tale of innovation and... -
The Silent Twins by Marjorie Wallace
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.36The astounding true story behind the major new motion picture starring Letitia Wright and Tamara Lawrance, with a new epilogue from the author'A compelling and tragic story' Mail on Sunday...