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The Edwardians by Roy Hattersley
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Edwardian Britain is the quintessential age of nostalgia, often seen as the last long summer afternoon before the cataclysmic changes of the twentieth century began to take form. The class system... -
In Search Of England by Roy Hattersley
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Passionate, affectionate and indefatigably curious, In Search of England makes a journey around the English countryside and character. England is the most various of countries; within its borders,... -
Campbell-Bannerman by Roy Hattersley 9781904950561
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Roy Hattersley brings the politician's to this concise history of the life of Henry Campbell-Bannerman, widely considered to be an ineffective Prime Minister; he was in fact the liberal of the 20th... -
Buster's Diaries by Roy Hattersley 9780751533316
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Devonshires: The Story of a Family and a Nation by Roy Hattersley
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.74William Cavendish, the father of the first Earl, dissolved monasteries for Henry VIII. Bess, his second wife, was gaoler-companion to Mary Queen of Scots during her long imprisonment in England... -
David Lloyd George: The Great Outsider by Roy Hattersley
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.56A Welshman among the English, a nonconformist among Anglicans and a self-made man in the patrician corridors of power, David Lloyd George, the last Liberal Prime Minister of Great Britain, was the... -
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A Yorkshire Boyhood by Roy Hattersley 9780349116556 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £4.13It was not until he was dead and I was forty that I realised my father was once in Holy Orders,' Roy Hattersley tells us in the opening pages of A YORKSHIRE BOYHOOD; so setting the tone for an... -
Borrowed Time: The Story of Britain Between the Wars by Roy Hattersley
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Called an uneasy peace, the twenty years between the wars were a time of turmoil - Britain saw a general strike and the worst economic crisis in its history, armed rebellion in Ireland and open... -
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The Devonshires: The Story of a Family and a Nation by Roy Hattersley 9780099554394 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £2.41William Cavendish, the father of the first Earl, dissolved monasteries for Henry VIII. Bess, his second wife, was gaoler-companion to Mary Queen of Scots during her long imprisonment in England... -
Who Goes Home?: Scenes from a Political Life by Roy Hattersley 9780349116921
Booksplease Price: £20.70Each night when the House of Commons rises, throughout the Palace of Westminster policemen shout, 'Who goes home?', a relic of the days when Members of Parliament were escorted safely to their beds... -
50 Years On: A Prejudiced History of Britain Since the War by Roy Hattersley 9780349110592
Booksplease Price: £21.69In FIFTY YEARS ON, Roy Hattersley explores and explains the events which have shaped modern Britain. Combining acute analysis of domestic politics with a brilliant eye for the bigger picture, his... -
John Wesley: A Brand From The Burning: The Life of John Wesley by Roy Hattersley
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50John Wesley led the Second English Reformation. His Methodist 'Connexion' was divided from the Church of England, not by dogma and doctrine but by the new relationship which it created between... -
Blood and Fire: William and Catherine Booth and the Salvation Army by Roy Hattersley 9780349112817
Booksplease Price: £23.66An uneducated youth, William Booth left home in 1849 at the age of twenty to preach the gospel for the New Methodist Connexion. Six years later he founded a new religious movement which succeeded to... -
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50 Years On: A Prejudiced History of Britain Since the War by Roy Hattersley 9780349110592 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £2.33In FIFTY YEARS ON, Roy Hattersley explores and explains the events which have shaped modern Britain. Combining acute analysis of domestic politics with a brilliant eye for the bigger picture, his... -
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Blood and Fire: William and Catherine Booth and the Salvation Army by Roy Hattersley 9780349112817 [USED COPY]
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £2.33An uneducated youth, William Booth left home in 1849 at the age of twenty to preach the gospel for the New Methodist Connexion. Six years later he founded a new religious movement which succeeded to... -
The Catholics: The Church and its People in Britain and Ireland, from the Reformation to the Present Day by Roy Hattersley
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.74The story of Catholicism in Britain from the Reformation to the present day, from a master of popular history - 'A first-class storyteller' The TimesThroughout the three hundred years that followed... -
Martin Luther: Catholic Dissident Peter Stanford 9781473621671
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.28'A compelling biography of one of the greatest men of the modern age. Stanford is particularly brilliant on the tensions inside Luther's private and spiritual life. This is a very fine book, written... -
Popular Newspapers, the Labour Party and British Politics James Thomas 9780415850070
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £45.23'IT'S THE SUN WOT WON IT', was the famous headline claim of Britain's most popular newspaper following the Conservative party's victory over Labour in the 1992 general election. The headline referred... -
Neil Kinnock: Saving the Labour Party? Kevin Hickson (University of Liverpool, UK) 9781032184135
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £36.99The book reappraises Neil Kinnock's policies, impact, legacy and leadership of the Labour Party 30 years on from his defeat in the 1992 general election. It offers comprehensively fresh perspectives... -
Alternatives to Freedom: Arguments and Opinions by William L. Miller 9780582251304
Booksplease Price: £45.21This authoritative text concerns itself with freedom and `alternatives to freedom', based on original survey research of public attitudes to civil and political rights. It combines and connects... -
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Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 2002: 2002 by Graeme Wright 9780947766702 [USED COPY]
Booksplease Price: £2.69The 139th edition of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack features various articles reflecting on the life of Sir Donald Bradman, who died in 2001. Other articles include Roy Hattersley on Yorkshire's 2001... -
The King and the Catholics: The Fight for Rights 1829 Lady Antonia Fraser 9781474601948
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02The story of Catholic Emancipation begins with the violent Anti-Catholic Gordon Riots in 1780, fuelled by the reduction in Penal Laws against the Roman Catholics harking back to the sixteenth century... -
Education and the Good Society by Fred Inglis 9780333802342
Booksplease Price: £90.56The many public debates launched by governments on education, such as Tony Blair's emphasis on "education, education, education" have nonetheless failed to consider the place of the good society in... -
Eden: The Life and Times of Anthony Eden First Earl of Avon, 1897-1977 by D R Thorpe 9780712665056
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.84Anthony Eden, who served as both Foreign Secretary and Prime Minister, was one of the central political figures of the twentieth century. He had good looks, charm, a Military Cross from the Great... -
A Century of Premiers: Salisbury to Blair by D. Leonard 9780333918395
Booksplease Price: £90.86During the course of the Twentieth Century, nineteen men and one woman - from Robert Cecil, Third Marquis of Salisbury to Tony Blair - have occupied the post of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom... -
The Vote: How It Was Won and How It Was Undermined by Paul Foot 9781804294697
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.54The culmination of a lifetime's work by the celebrated journalist and historian Paul Foot, The Vote tells the thrilling story of how the universal franchise was secured in Britain, and the slow... -
A Century of Premiers: Salisbury to Blair by D. Leonard 9781403939906
Booksplease Price: £90.56During the course of the Twentieth Century, nineteen men and one woman - from Robert Cecil, Third Marquis of Salisbury to Tony Blair - have occupied the post of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom... -
A Son of War by Melvyn Bragg
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.06Longlisted for the Booker Prize After the upheavals of the Second World War, the Richardson family - Sam, Ellen and their young son Joe - settle back to working-class life in the Cumbrian town of... -
No Discouragement: An Autobiography by A. H. Halsey 9780333677100
Booksplease Price: £45.31This is the autobiography of a working-class boy who became an Oxford professor. A.H. Halsey was born in Kentish Town, London, in 1923 - a railway child in a large clan. The family moved in 1926 to... -
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Servants of the People: The Inside Story of New Labour by Andrew Rawnsley 9780140278507 [USED COPY]
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £2.34Andrew Rawnsley's Servants of the People is a timely and fascinating look at New Labour.Every new government promises to represent a new dawn, but for New Labour it was the Covenant that Tony Blair... -
Editor: An Inside Story of Newspapers Max Hastings 9781035057344
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'Much excellent gossip, some of it wildly indiscreet . . . Hastings is a brilliant reporter' - Sunday Telegraph'The acuity of his insights make this book a wholly compelling read' - ObserverIn... -
Westminster's World: Understanding Political Roles by Donald D. Searing 9780674950726
Booksplease Price: £86.55From Policy Advocates to Whips to Ministers, the many roles within the British Parliament are shaped not only by institutional rules but also by the individuals who fill them, yet few observers have... -
The Rivals: The Intimate Story of a Political Marriage by James Naughtie 9781841154749
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.42A penetrating insider's view of the most important relationship in modern politics, the one on which the recent reinvention of Britain is founded: Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. By the celebrated Radio... -
Austerity Britain, 1945-1951 by David Kynaston 9780747599234
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.99For the first time, the Sunday Times bestseller Austerity Britain is available in one complete paperback volume. Coursing through Austerity Britain is an astonishing variety of voices - vivid,... -
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Remember Me... by Melvyn Bragg 9780340951217 [USED COPY]
Booksplease Price: £2.80A passionate but ultimately tragic love affair starts when two students - one French, one English - meet at university at the beginning of the sixties. From its tentative, unpromising early stages,... -
Michael Foot: A Life by Kenneth O. Morgan 9780007178278
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.26The authorised - but not uncritical - life of one of the great parliamentarians and orators of our times, the former Labour Party leader, now in his nineties, who is also an eminent man of letters. ... -
Why Social Justice Matters by Brian Barry
Booksplease Price: £24.63In the past twenty years, social injustice has increased enormously in Britain and the United States, regardless of the party in power. At the same time, the idea of social justice itself has been... -
Cruel Britannia: Reports on the Sinister and the Preposterous by Nick Cohen 9781859842881
Booksplease Price: £21.69While the rest of the media lounge in the warm glow of New Labour's rosy dawn, one journalist in Britain has been a consistently sharp and witty scourge of Tony Blair and his bandwagon babes. Step... -
Family Britain, 1951-1957 by David Kynaston
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.84As in Austerity Britain, an astonishing array of vivid, intimate and unselfconscious voices drive this narrative. The keen-eyed Nella Last shops assiduously at Barrow Market as austerity and... -
Fenian Fire: The British Government Plot to Assassinate Queen Victoria by Christy Campbell 9780007104826
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.44A historical investigation into one of the most serpentine attempts on Queen Victoria's life that reveals for the first time the true instigator at the heart of government. There were...