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The Dark Island: Leprosy in New Zealand and the Quail Island Colony
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From 1906 to 1925 Quail Island was the site of New Zealand's leprosy colony. The colony began by accident, as it were, after the discovery of a leprosy sufferer in...
The Rest is History: The official book from the makers of the hit
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Make room Herodotus, stand down Bede, pipe down Pepys - t here's a new history book in town. From the chart-topping podcast The Rest is History...
In Bed with the Tudors: The Sex Lives of a Dynasty from Elizabeth of
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Learn what went on behind closed doors in the Tudor court. Illegitimate children, adulterous queens, impotent kings, and a whole dynasty resting on their shoulders. Sex and childbirth were quite...
A Short History of Drunkenness
A comic history of humankind's love affair with booze, from the Sunday Times No. 1 bestselling author of The Etymologicon Almost every culture on earth has drink, and where there's...
War Like a Wasp: The Lost Decade of the Forties
World War II stung Britain like a wasp. It was a stimulus and an endurance. The Blitz concentrated the mind wonderfully. The arts flowered - poetry and painting, cinema and...
Parallel Lives: A Love Story from a Lost Continent
This is the simplest tale in the world. Two people meet and fall in love. But the route which brought Larissa Salmina and Francis Haskell to a backstreet Venetian restaurant...
To The City: Along the Ancient Walls of Istanbul
'An enthralling guide to one of the world's great cities - that blends history and insights into the present day from one of the most astute commentators on the politics...
Mapping Shakespeare: An exploration of Shakespeare's worlds through
William Shakespeare's lifetime (1564-1616) spanned the reigns of the last of the Tudors, Elizabeth I and the first of the Stuart kings, James I and the changing times and political...
A Thousand Years of the English Parish: Medieval Patterns and Modern
This book unravels the secrets and workings of the English parish and its effect on English society. There are 13,000 parishes in England, each with its parish church, covering the...
A Short History of the World According to Sheep
'This book deserves a place in your bookcase next to Harari's Sapiens . It's every bit as fascinating and is surely destined to be just as successful' Julian Norton From...
The Story of the Jamaican People
A history of the Jamaican people from an Afro-Caribbean rather than a European perspective. Africa is at the centre of the story; for by claiming Africa as homeland, Jamaicans gain...
The Invisible College: The Royal Society, Freemasonry and the Birth of
In 1660, within a few months of the restoration of Charles II, a group of twelve men, including Robert Boyle and Christopher Wren, met in London to set up a...
Born in 1942?: What Else Happened?
ABOUT THESE SERIES ....But after that, I realised that I knew very little about these parents of mine. They had been born about the start of the Twentieth Century, and...
On Antisemitism: A Word in History
What do we mean when we talk about antisemitism? For most of history, antisemitism has been understood as a menace from Europe's political Right, the province of blood-and-soil ethno-nativists who...
Moscow Underground
'A gripping thriller and Belkin is a character many readers will want to encounter again' THE SUNDAY TIMES 'Remarkable ... If only all first novels were as enthralling as this'...
This Land of Promise: A History of Refugees and Exiles in Britain
'Important, comprehensive, and superbly researched. All the more urgent at the present time' BART VAN ES 'A terrific, clear-eyed and balanced history that cuts through today's toxic debates' DAILY TELEGRAPH...
The Convict Theatres of Early Australia, 1788-1840
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The first theatrical performance in Australia, the 1788 performance of George Farquhar's play, "The Recruiting Officer", by the convicts at Sydney Cove on the birthday of King George III was...
Of The People, By The People: A New History of Democracy
A fascinating and erudite history of the world's democracies - past and present - and the people who fought to bring democracy about. 'Democracy is the worst form of government,...
Loach on Loach: Updated edition
'A master of world cinema.' Cililan Murphy Since the original publication of Loach on Loach in 1998, Ken Loach has completed fourteen full-length feature films. This substantial body of work...
The Oxford Companion to Local and Family History
Whether you are curious to know what your village, town, or county was like many years ago, or have an overiding desire to uncover the everyday lives of your ancestors...
Love Game: A History of Tennis, from Victorian Pastime to Global
Tennis's gladiatorial beauty, its stylish duelling and fashionable court-wear make it a romantic's dream. Ever since young men and women first came together to play on vicarage lawns, this most...
Cathedral: The English Cathedrals and the World That Made Them
The English medieval cathedrals are one of the wonders of the world. But who made them, and why? This fascinating new history of England's cathedrals explores a previously unconsidered view...
The Bicycle: A Miscellany on Two Wheels
As the world speeds up, as technology takes over, it is worth remembering how we used to live. This three-book series is a nostalgic hymn to an era when life...
Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish
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In Indiana, one million people lose their healthcare, food stamps, and cash benefits in three years-because a new computer system interprets any application mistake as "failure to cooperate." In Los...
Vintage New York City Subway Signs: 1920s-1980s
Photographic chronicle of the history and evolution of New York subway signage, covering porcelain, wood, tin, and mosaic signs from the 1920s to the 1980s. Vintage New York City Subway...
Animal Kingdom: A Natural History in 100 Objects
500 million years of animal life in 100 objects. Life on earth has existed for 500 million years. In that time, the evolution and natural selection of species has formed...
The Illustrated Chronicles of Matthew Paris: Observations of
A monk's chronicle offers a record of life and events in 13th-century England and further afield. Colour reproductions of the original manuscript decorations add to the detail.
Celts:Art and Identity: Art and Identity
The real and imagined legacy of the ancient Celts has shaped modern identities across the British Isles and retains a powerful hold over the popular imagination. Furthermore, Celtic art is...
Artificial Sunshine: A History of Country House Lighting
Why artificial sunshine? Today we can light our homes at the flick of a switch, turning night into day. Only when things go wrong, like a power cut, can we...
How The Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic
Ireland played the central role in maintaining European culture when the dark ages settled on Europe in the fifth century: as Rome was sacked by Visigoths and its empire collapsed,...
Gardens and Gardening in Early Modern England and Wales
The extravagant gardens of the 16th- and 17th-century British aristocracy are well-documented and celebrated, but the more modest gardens of the rural county gentry have rarely been examined. Jill Francis...
The Jewel House: Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution
Not just a few elite scientists, but Londoners from all walks of life--lawyers, prisoners, midwives, merchants--participated in the scientific community of Elizabethan times Bestselling author Deborah Harkness ( A Discovery...
The Breath of the Gods: The History and Future of the Wind
Sunday Times bestselling author Simon Winchester returns with a thought-provoking history of the wind, written in his edifying and entertaining style. What is going on with our atmosphere? The headlines...
Venice, the Jews, and Europe: 1516-2016
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The history of the Venice Ghetto, how it developed, its architecture, the concrete life of its inhabitants and their relations with the whole city form the subject of this book....
The Day Peace Broke Out: The VE-Day Experience
The day peace broke out. At 3 p.m. on 8 May 1945, Prime Minister Winston Churchill made a long-awaited speech in which he officially declared the war in Europe to...
Palestinians and Israelis: A Short History of Conflict
Newly updated, this accessible history explores the origins and development of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. What are the origins of the Israeli Palestinian conflict? Why has it proved so intractable, and...
Ways of Life: Jim Ede and the Kettle's Yard Artists
This first biography of the Kettle's Yard artists reveals the life of a visionary who helped shape twentieth-century British art and explores a thrilling moment in the history of modernism...
The Box with the Sunflower Clasp: Uncovering a Jewish Family's Flight
Rachel Meller was never close to her aunt Lisbeth, a cool, unemotional woman with a drawling Viennese-Californian accent, a cigarette in her hand. But when Lisbeth died, she left Rachel...
Shirts Powdered Red: Haudenosaunee Gender, Trade, and Exchange Across
Beginning with a purchased shirt and ending with a handmade dress, Shirts Powdered Red shows how Haudenosaunee women and their work shaped their nations from the sixteenth century through the...
London's Royal Parks: Buildings and Monuments
London's Royal Parks are among its most beautiful and beloved spaces: just as much as the Houses of Parliament, Buckingham Palace or St Pancras Station, the mere mention of Hyde...
The Factory House at Oporto: Account of the Port Wine Trade
An insight into the trade of the port wine merchants whose lives revolved around their meeting house in Oporto. Factories were trading houses set up in the 17th century by...
The Arts of Intimacy: Christians, Jews, and Muslims in the Making of
This splendidly illustrated book is a history of medieval Castile from the 11th to 14th centuries, told from a largely cultural standpoint. Whilst the political narrative of these centuries may...
Bring on United: Ferguson's Golden Generation in their Own Words
How Manchester United conquered all, by the players who won everything ______________________________________________________________ With a foreword by Ruud van Nistelrooy An Irish Times Bestseller The Champions League, the Club World Cup,...
Unprofitable Servants: Crown Slaves in Berbice, Guyana, 1803-1831
In 1803, during the Napoleonic Wars, the British imperial government conquered the Dutch colony of Berbice and took over the management of presumed governmental slaves. These consisted of persons on...
Fitzrovia: London's Bohemia
This text is part of the Character Sketches series, a fully illustrated historical guide to literary and artistic groups of the past. The book provides an introduction to London's bohemia...
Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History
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A "sharp and entertaining" ( The Wall Street Journal ) exploration of fashion through the ages that asks what our clothing reveals about ourselves and our society. Dress codes are...