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Aylesbury: A History by Hugh Hanley 9781860774966
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.84Situated on the Roman Akeman Street, in the heart of the Vale to which it gives its name, Aylesbury's claim to be the county town of Buckinghamshire derives from its centrality and its early status... -
The Discovery of Sussex by Peter Brandon 9781860776168
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £16.47There is a greater difference between life in Sussex today and life one hundred years ago than there was between the times of our great-grandparents and of Queen Elizabeth, for in 1900 Sussex away... -
Pinner, Hatch End, North Harrow and Rayners Lane by Patricia A Clarke 9781860774652
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47The success of 1994's Pinner, Hatch End, North Harrow and Rayners Lane. A Pictorial History gave Pinner Local History Society unrivalled access to old photographs that had previously languished... -
The Story of Leicester by Siobhan Begley 9781860776953
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £14.31The Story of Leicester traces the evolution of this remarkable city. When the Romans arrived they developed an existing settlement into Ratae, an administrative capital. During the Tudor, Stuart and... -
The Story of Exeter by Hazel Harvey 9780750966184
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.54Exeter is one of the oldest cities in Britain. It was an inhabited place some two hundred years before the Romans came, and people have lived here without a break for more than two thousand years... -
The Law of Domicil. by Robert Phillimore 9781240023677
Booksplease Price: £17.89Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Salisbury Past by Ruth Newman 9781860776564
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.54Salisbury is always symbolised by its cathedral spire and the physical dominance of that magnificent building over the surrounding city is as impressive today as it was in medieval times. The two... -
Maidstone: A History by Cyril Cooper 9781860776489
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78The town of Maidstone became indelibly associated with revolution and riot between the 14th and 16th centuries when it experienced the Peasants' Revolt, Cade's Rebellion and the Wyatt Revolt. The... -
King's Norton: A History by Stephen Price
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.80Standing in front of the former Saracen's Head Inn, with the tower and spire of St Nicolas church ahead, the visitor to King's Norton is presented with a classic image of the English village - a fine... -
The Phillimore Atlas and Index of Parish Registers: 3rd edition by Cecil Humphery-Smith 9781860772399
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.36If you are trying to find yours ancestors, especially before 1837, then this book is a vital source. The first section has a detailed topographical map together with a map showing the parishes for... -
Emsworth: A History by Robert Whitfield
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.83Emsworth has a unique character. The marketplace at the centre of the town is a reminder of Emsworth's beginnings: as a small hamlet with a weekly market to serve the needs of farmers. It later... -
The Story of Coventry by Peter Walters 9781860776922
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.24The Story of Coventry traces the evolution of the city, from the myths of Godiva, through to the issues, challenges and opportunities facing it in the twenty-first century. Exploring Coventry's... -
Cannock Chase Past by Sherry Belcher 9781860775109
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.24Cannock Chase has had many changes in its boundaries over the years. This book deals mainly with the are which formed the ancient parish of Cannock; taking in Hednesford, Hatherton, Cannock Wood and... -
Bexhill-on-Sea:: A History by Julian Porter 9780750967365
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.47Bexhill-on-Sea has a long and eventful history, yet the fascinating past of this remarkable town is not as well known as it deserves to be. This is probably because its major development occurrred... -
High Wycombe A Pictorial History by Ivan G Sparkes 9780850337518 [USED COPY]
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £2.72High Wycombe is probably best known as the furniture town and the industry has greatly influenced its prosperity over the past 250 years. However, its history goes back to the Middle Ages and the... -
Swanage Past by David Lewer 9781860773112 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £2.43Swanage was already an old settlement when, in AD 877, a Viking fleet was wrecked there; chased by King Alfred, as recorded in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. The Romans knew the place and quarried its... -
Archer-Shee V. the King by Phillimore 9781241136932
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £11.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241136932Author PhillimoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint -
The Middle & Lower Thames: From Sonning to Teddington by Josephine Jeremiah 9781860775833
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16Rising in the Gloucestershire Cotswolds, the River Thames flows in a generally easterly direction for 215 miles to the sea. It passes Cricklade, Lechlade and Eynsham before reaching Oxford, after... -
William Roxburgh by T.F. Robinson
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781860774348Author Tim RobinsonFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint -
Ashridge: A Living History by Kay N. Sanecki 9781860770203 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £2.96Ashridge began its seven centuries of history as a monastery, first established by Edmund of Cornwall, nephew of Henry III, as the College of Bonhommes in 1283. As such, it became a place of... -
Genealogy for Beginners by Karin Proudfoot 9781860772689 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £2.86Ancestry-tracing is fun; it brings history to life and it gives a greater sense of personal identity. Our ancestors become real people; they may have been ordinary, blue-blooded or famous, but... -
House Histories for Beginners by Colin Style
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £13.92Popular television programmes highlight the satisfaction that can be gained from investigating the history of houses, and there is always plenty of interest in the subject, with archives becoming... -
River Nene by Josephine Jeremiah 9781860772573 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £3.00The River Nene rises in Northamptonshire and flows through the counties of Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire before reaching its outfall at the Wash. It passes Northampton, Wellingborough, Thrapston,... -
Living Back-to-Back by Chris Upton 9781860773211 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £2.73Back-to-backs were once the commonest form of housing in England. Built in rows or courts or blocks, the back-to-back was home to the majority of working people in our Victorian cities. There were... -
The Lady of Phillimore Walk by Allan Warren 9780955563157
Booksplease Price: £12.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955563157Format PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Bunnywar BooksPublisher -
Stevenage Past by Margaret Ashby 9780850339703 [USED COPY]
RRP: £6.95Booksplease Price: £2.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780850339703Author Margaret AshbyFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint -
Havering Village to Harold Wood: A Pictorial History by Chris Saltmarsh 9780850339567 [USED COPY]
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £2.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780850339567Author Chris SaltmarshFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint -
Manorial Records by Denis Stuart 9781860772993
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.50The manor was for centuries the main unit of local government and virtually the only source of written local records. Once the local or family historian has taken his researches back beyond the... -
South Benfleet: A History by Robert Hallmann
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.18A history of South Benfleet.Book InformationISBN 9781860773594Author Robert HallmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint -
Hatchments in Britain 1: Northamptonshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire by Peter Summers 9780850330854
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.34Diamond-shaped funeral hatchments first came into vogue in the early 17th century, but are rarely used today. They are objects of considerable artistic merit, besides being of great interest and... -
A History of Southend by Ian Yearsley 9781860776458
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.24SOUTHEND has a complex and surprisingly interesting history. From 18th-century origins as the `South End' of Prittlewell Parish, it has grown over 300 years to swallow up six separate parishes:... -
The Industrial Revolution in Shropshire by Barrie Trinder 9780750967877
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.98The first edition (1973) was acclaimed and it firmly established the Shropshire Coalfield as the cradle of the Industrial Revolution. After several reprints a new edition appeared in 1981, but since... -
R. P. Phillimore's East Lothian by Jan Bondeson
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £12.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840338812Author Jan BondesonFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint -
Judgment Delivered ... in the Cases of Martin V. Mackonochie and Flamank V. Simpson, Ed. by W.G.F. Phillimore by Walter George F. Phillimore 9780371199817
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £12.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780371199817Author Walter George F. PhillimoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 136 -
Friendly Invasion: Memories of Operation Bolero, The American Occupation of Britain 1942-1945 by Henry Buckton 9781860774331
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.61Between 1942 and 1945, tens of thousands of young American servicemen arrived in Britain. This book is an examination of the way their presence affected them and the local people during the Second... -
Northumbria: History and Identity 547-2000 by Robert Colls 9780750990431
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.56The North East is probably England's most distinctive region. A place of strong character with a very special sense of its past, it is, as William Hutchinson remarked in 1778, 'truly historical... -
Cotswold Arts and Crafts Architecture by Catherine Gordon 9780750992992
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.24Between 1890 and 1930, Arts and Crafts architecture proliferated within the Cotswolds. The range and quality of the buildings was exceptional as the region provided the perfect environment for the... -
Case of the Seizure of the Southern Envoys by John George Phillimore 9780371613979
RRP: £11.95Booksplease Price: £10.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780371613979Author John George PhillimoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 40 -
Capability Brown and the Eighteenth-century English Landscape by Roger Turner
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.48Today he is credited with laying out every piece of parkland in Britain, while others accuse him of single-handedly sweeping away all the formal gardens that preceded the Landscape Movement. If he... -
The Rhythm of the Tide: Tales through the Ages of Chichester Harbour by Jeremy Thomas 9781860774836
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £3.53Written by a man who has lived and sailed a great part of his life in the waters around Chichester Harbour, this book aims to capture the beauties and excitement of the place. It tells the history of...