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The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English
Author: Hana Videen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'Delightful ... a pleasure' - Guardian Old English is the language you think you know until you hear or see it....
Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A lasting work of social history' THE TIMES'A genuinely new history of our nation' DAN JONES'This celebration of women is a triumph of popular history' SPECTATOR...
Normal Women: Making history for 900 years
The bestselling, critically acclaimed new women's history book from Philippa Gregory for 2025 - adapted for teen and YA readers! Today, when we think of women of the past, we...
The Excellence of the Arabs
A spirited defense of Arab identity from a time of political unrest In ninth-century Abbasid Baghdad, the social prestige attached to claims of Arab identity had begun to decline. In...
Soldiers: Great Stories of War and Peace
'A gripping new collection from Max Hastings that puts you at the heart of the battle ... Compelling' Daily Mail 'An unmissable read' Sunday Times Soldiers is a very personal...
Ancient Dynasties: The Families that Ruled the Classical World, circa 1000 BC to AD 750
Ancient Dynasties is a unique study of the ruling families of the ancient world known to the Greeks and Romans. The book is in two parts. The first offers analysis...
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
A fascinating description of the beginning of the modern world For nineteenth-century Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt, the Italian Renaissance was nothing less than the beginning of the modern world -...
The Bone Chests: Unlocking the Secrets of the Anglo-Saxons
A TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A diligent historian and a superb writer' THE TIMES A gripping new history of the making of England as a nation. In December...
Join the Vikings: The Raid
Join the Vikings - On Raid contains 16 fascinating accounts of Viking exploits during the early Viking Age. Here you can read about the Viking chieftain Ragnar's raid on Paris,...
Fighting for the Faith: the Many Fronts of Crusade and Jihad 1000-1500ad
Fighting between Christians and Muslims in the medieval period is often seen in the narrow context of the battle for the Holy Land. Other points of conflict tend to be...