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Witchfinders by Malcolm Gaskill
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $7.05By the spring of 1645, civil war had exacted a terrible toll upon England. Disease was rife, apocalyptic omens appeared in the skies, and idolators detected in every shire. In a remote corner of... -
Witchcraft: A Very Short Introduction by Malcolm Gaskill 9780199236954
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Between Two Worlds: How the English Became Americans by Malcolm Gaskill
RRP: $23.44Booksplease Price: $18.43Between Two Worlds is a story teeming with people on the move, making decisions, indulging or resisting their desires and dreams. In the seventeenth century a quarter of a million men, women, and... -
The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World by Malcolm Gaskill
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $11.28*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE**A TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES AND BBC HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR*'A bona fide historical classic' Sunday Times'Simply one of the best... -
Women, Crime, and the Courts in Early Modern England by Garthine Walker
RRP: $50.92Booksplease Price: $42.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807845004Author Garthine WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint -
Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials Marion Gibson 9781398508538
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75'These stories of witchcraft, true and vividly told, demonstrate the potent reality of belief in evil and how in any era or place fear can be weaponised and marginal people, mostly women, labelled as... -
The Witches: Salem, 1692 by Stacy Schiff
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11'An oppressive, forensic, psychological thriller: J.K. Rowling meets Antony Beevor, Stephen King and Marina Warner ... Schiff's writing is to die for' THE TIMESIt began in 1692, over an exceptionally... -
Witchcraft: The Basics by Marion Gibson
RRP: $32.15Booksplease Price: $31.54Witchcraft: The Basics is an accessible and engaging introduction to the scholarly study of witchcraft, exploring the phenomenon of witchcraft from its earliest definitions in the Middle Ages through... -
Republic: Britain’s Revolutionary Decade, 1649–1660 by Alice Hunt 9780571303205
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37'An enthralling narrative of the rise and fall of Britain's republican experiment.'DOMINIC SANDBROOK, The Times 'Best History Books of 2024''A gripping tale of political and cultural crisis but also... -
The Book of Phobias and Manias: A History of the World in 99 Obsessions by Kate Summerscale 9781800813359
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $16.48THE PERFECT GIFT FOR ALL BIBLIOMANES A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, SPECTATOR AND DAILY MAIL AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 WOMAN'S HOUR AND START THE WEEK Plunge into this... -
Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic Tabitha Stanmore 9781529931563
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92Cunning Folk transports us to a time when magic was used to solve life's day-to-day problems - as well as some of deadly importance.'A brilliant book, written with wit and vigour' MALCOLM GASKILL,... -
The Dead of Winter: The Demons, Witches and Ghosts of Christmas Sarah Clegg 9781803511535
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08As winter comes and the hours of darkness overtake the light, we seek out warmth, good food, and good company. But beneath the jollity and bright enchantment of the festive season, there lurks a... -
Notorious: Anne Boleyn and the Great Tudor Hoax Hayley Nolan 9781037200533
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.42'An imaginatively compelling investigation of a remarkable Tudor life, shedding sympathetic light on a world where prophecy and divine revelation unleashed dangerous political power' Malcolm Gaskill,... -
Ghosts of the British Museum: A True Story of Colonial Loot and Restless Objects by Noah Angell 9781800961340
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $14.74'An absorbingly creepy travelogue through the corridors, tunnels and basements of our most famous cultural repository. With Noah Angell as our guide, the British Museum becomes a haunted prison... -
The Dead of Winter: The Demons, Witches and Ghosts of Christmas Sarah Clegg 9781803513706
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK As winter comes and the hours of darkness overtake the light, we seek out warmth, good food, and good company. But beneath the jollity and bright enchantment of the... -
All Things Made New: Writings on the Reformation by Diarmaid MacCulloch
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $10.09The Reformation which engulfed England and Europe in the sixteenth century was one of the most highly-charged, bloody and transformative periods in their history, and has remained one of the most... -
Origins of the Witches' Sabbath by Michael D. Bailey
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $22.26While the perception of magic as harmful is age-old, the notion of witches gathering together in large numbers, overtly worshiping demons, and receiving instruction in how to work harmful magic as... -
America Bewitched: The Story of Witchcraft After Salem by Owen Davies
RRP: $20.76Booksplease Price: $16.71America Bewitched is the first major history of witchcraft in America - from the Salem witch trials of 1692 to the present day. The infamous Salem trials are etched into the consciousness of... -
The Siege of Loyalty House: A new history of the English Civil War by Jessie Childs
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68**A TIMES, GUARDIAN, TELEGRAPH, SPECTATOR, THE CRITIC, MAIL ON SUNDAY, ECONOMIST AND PROSPECT BOOK OF THE YEAR**'A gifted narrative historian, eloquent, graceful and witty; the stories she tells are... -
The Astronomer and the Witch: Johannes Kepler's Fight for his Mother by Ulinka Rublack 9780198736783
RRP: $20.76Booksplease Price: $17.82Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) was one of the most admired astronomers who ever lived and a key figure in the scientific revolution. A defender of Copernicus s sun-centred universe, he famously... -
The Astronomer and the Witch: Johannes Kepler's Fight for his Mother by Ulinka Rublack
RRP: $32.15Booksplease Price: $26.16Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) was one of the most admired astronomers who ever lived and a key figure in the scientific revolution. A defender of Copernicus s sun-centred universe, he famously... -
The Witch: A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present by Ronald Hutton
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11Why have societies all across the world feared witchcraft? This book delves deeply into its context, beliefs, and origins in Europe's history"Traces the idea of witches far beyond the Salem witch... -
A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience by Emerson W. Baker 9780190627805
Booksplease Price: $20.27Beginning in January 1692, Salem Village in colonial Massachusetts witnessed the largest and most lethal outbreak of witchcraft in early America. Villagers--mainly young women--suffered from unseen... -
Heretics and Believers: A History of the English Reformation by Peter Marshall
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $18.64WINNER OF THE 2018 WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE Centuries on, what the Reformation was and what it accomplished remain deeply contentious. Peter Marshall's sweeping new history-the first major overview... -
Martin Luther Lyndal Roper 9781784703448
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.48SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2017 SHORTLISTED FOR THE ELIZABETH LONGFORD PRIZE 2017'A magnificent study of one of history's most compelling and divisive figures' Richard J. EvansWhen...