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Our Land in Colour

Our Land in Colour

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A breathtaking collection of 200 photographs expertly colourised by Aotearoa New Zealand's premier colourist, Brendan Graham, with commentary from award-winning historian Jock Phillips ONZM Our Land in Colour celebrates the...
Fifty Mysterious Postcards: Pitman Shorthand Messages from the Golden

Fifty Mysterious Postcards: Pitman Shorthand Messages from the Golden

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Mysterious messages from over a hundred years ago, written in the dying art of Pitman Shorthand. Pitman Shorthand was developed by Sir Isaac Pitman from 1837 and became the most...
Glasgow at War 1939 - 1945

Glasgow at War 1939 - 1945

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Scotland was of grave strategic importance during the war because of its geographical position and Glasgow was the location of a significant number of important military and civil organisations as...
90s TV Quizpedia: The ultimate book of trivia

90s TV Quizpedia: The ultimate book of trivia

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Sunnydale High School was attended by which stake-wielding teen? Edwina and Patsy are the champagne-guzzling duo from which hit TV show? Which bible verse does Samuel L Jackson quote in...
Cars We Loved in the 1990s

Cars We Loved in the 1990s

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The 1980s car era had been brash and loud but the 1990s that followed was markedly more sober, stylish and sophisticated. A period when safety and durability improved... even though...
Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940

Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940

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The "monumental" ( Washington Post ), field-defining history of gay life in New York City in the early to mid-20th century Gay New York brilliantly shatters the myth that before...
Storm's Edge: Life, Death and Magic in the Islands of Orkney

Storm's Edge: Life, Death and Magic in the Islands of Orkney

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'A surprising page-turner, full of humour and startling details' THE TIMES ' If I read a better history this year, I will be lucky' TOM HOLLAND 'An astonishing tour de...
The Midwife's Here!: The Enchanting True Story of One of Britain's Longest Serving Midwives

The Midwife's Here!: The Enchanting True Story of One of Britain's Longest Serving Midwives

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The Sunday Times bestseller 'Delivering my first baby is a memory that will stay with me forever. Just feeling the warmth of a newborn head in your hands, that new...
A Small Town in Ukraine: The place we came from, the place we went back to

A Small Town in Ukraine: The place we came from, the place we went

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The revelatory history of Krakowiec - 'a little place you've never heard of ' - through which we see life in Eastern Europe as never before Decades ago, the historian...
The Hare With Amber Eyes: The #1 Sunday Times Bestseller

The Hare With Amber Eyes: The #1 Sunday Times Bestseller

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The history of a family through 264 objects - set against a turbulent century - from an acclaimed writer and potter **THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** **WINNER OF THE...
Anatomy of a Nation: A History of British Identity in 50 Documents

Anatomy of a Nation: A History of British Identity in 50 Documents

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From an obscure, misty archipelago on the fringes of the Roman world to history's largest empire and originator of the world's mongrel, magpie language - this is Britain's past. But,...
What's Tha Up To Nah?

What's Tha Up To Nah?

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'Many times I heard people say that you'll have no friends if you're a policeman. How wrong they were. If you were right with them, they were right with you.'PC...
A Really Strange and Wonderful Time: The Chapel Hill Music Scene: 1989-1999

A Really Strange and Wonderful Time: The Chapel Hill Music Scene:

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The first biography of the thriving and influential rock scene in Chapel Hill, which gave the world artists like Ben Folds Five, Superchunk, and Squirrel Nut ZippersNorth Carolina has always...
Suburbia: A Far from Ordinary Place

Suburbia: A Far from Ordinary Place

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You don't get to choose where you grow up, and for more than 80 per cent of the population, the boring, unadventurous and thoroughly unfashionable suburbs serve as their childhood...