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A 1930s Childhood: From Conker Fights to Coal Fires
Nostalgic book takes you back to a different age, remembering what life was like for those growing up in the 1930s. Do you remember collecting birds' eggs and cigarette cards?...
The Illustrated Guide to Viking Martial Arts
A profusely illustrated guide to hand-to-hand combat written by a martial arts expert. The Viking shield wall is a famed battle strategy, but what are less well known are the...
Surviving Rome: The Economic Lives of the Ninety Percent
The story of ancient Rome is predominantly one of great men with great fortunes. Surviving Rome unearths another history, one of ordinary Romans, who worked with their hands and survived...
Arabia and the Arabs: From the Bronze Age to the Coming of Islam
Long before Muhammed preached the religion of Islam, the inhabitants of his native Arabia had played an important role in world history as both merchants and warriors. Arabia and the...
The Captured: A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas
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"A carefully written, well-researched contribution to Western history -- and to a promising new genre: the anthropology of the stolen." - Kirkus Reviews On New Year's Day in 1870, ten-year-old...
The World That Never Was: A True Story of Dreamers, Schemers,
* The last third of the nineteenth century saw the world in flux. Science vied with religion to represent the soul of man, and technological advances opened the possibility of...
Gentlemen and Barristers: The Inns of Court and the English Bar
This is the first detailed analysis of English barristers and the Inns of Court in the period 1680-1730. The four Inns of Court have constituted the principal institutional home of...
I Believe In Yesterday: A 2000 year Tour through the Filth and Fury of
'Hailed as the new Bill Bryson, he in fact a writer of considerably more substance' - Irish Times In 1989, Tim Moore moved into the last house in Chiswick with...
Before the Deluge
A fascinating portrait of the turbulent political, social, and cultural life of the city of Berlin in the 1920s.
The Book of Sea Monsters: Leviathans of Literature
A fascinating and beautifully illustrated journey across the world and through the centuries in search of the sea monster. 'They rave for food with unceasing frenzy, being always ahungered and...
Killing the Dead: Vampire Epidemics from Mesopotamia to the New World
A riveting history of vampire panics across cultures and down through the millennia - and why killing the dead is better than killing the living. Killing the Dead provides the...
Women's Letters in Wartime, 1450-1945
This is an anthology of women's letters written during times of conflict in Britain from the Wars of the Roses in the 15th century to the end of World War...
Cold War Britain: Fifty years in the shadow of the bomb
'A powerful and timely book' PETER KENNARD 'Really good read' DERMOT O'LEARY 'Tremendous...it strikes me it fills a gap somehow' AL MURRAY 'Fantastic' DOMINIC SANDBROOK Delve into the history, politics,...
The Revelation of Ireland: 1995-2020
Ireland is a strikingly different country now to the one it was in the mid-1990s. Dramatic economic, social and cultural changes, including the Celtic Tiger boom and increasingly secular debate...
The Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of
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The "remarkable...inspiring" ( The Wall Street Journal ) true story of Dr. Josephine Janina Mehlberg--a Jewish mathematician who saved thousands of lives during the Holocaust in Nazi-occupied Poland by masquerading...
1947: when now begins
A Metro book of the year Interweaving the social, political, and personal, in 1947 Elisabeth Asbrink chronicles the year that 'now' began. In 1947, production begins of the Kalashnikov, Christian...
The Wonderbox: Curious histories of how to live
There are many ways to try to improve our lives -we can turn to the wisdom of philosophers, the teachings of religions or the latest experiments of psychologists. But we...
Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum - The New York Times
In the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks , a page-turning 93-year history of Crownsville Hospital, one of the United States' last segregated asylums. On a cold day...
Sparta: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Superpower
Sparta - its legendary warriors and steadfast resilience are famous throughout the world as a model for toughness, justice and masculinity. The Spartans' reputation as fighters is matched only by...
Murderous Contagion: A Human History of Disease
Disease is the true serial killer of human history: the horrors of bubonic plague, cholera, syphilis, smallpox, tuberculosis and the like have claimed more lives and caused more misery than...
The Red Widow: The Scandal that Shook Paris and the Woman Behind it
Sex, scandal, and the real-life femme fatale of Paris Sex, corruption, and power: the rise and fall of the Red Widow of Paris Paris, 1889: Margeurite Steinheil is a woman...
Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother
A historian of gender explores the complicated relationship between womanhood and motherhood In an era of falling births, it's often said that millennials invented the idea of not having kids....
Freedom's Dominion (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): A Saga of White
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY! An "important, deeply affecting-and regrettably relevant" ( New York Times Book Review ) chronicle of a sinister idea of freedom: white Americans' freedom...
Milk: An Intimate History of Breastfeeding
- 'Illuminating . . . an important book' Sunday Times - 'A fascinating journey through the social, cultural and historical meanings of breastfeeding. A sublime book' Elinor Cleghorn, author of...
The Cuckoo (The UNDER THE NORTHERN SKY Series, Book 3): The dramatic
Leo Carew's much-lauded UNDER THE NORTHERN SKY trilogy draws to its spellbinding conclusion... Albion continues to be divided by revolt and bloodshed, as alliances collapse and are made anew. Driven...
Wallis in Love: The Untold Life of the Duchess of Windsor, the Woman
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For fans of the Netflix series The Crown and from the author of the New York Times bestseller 17 Carnations comes a captivating biography of Wallis Simpson, the notorious woman...
Populus: Living and Dying in the Wealth, Smoke and Din of Ancient Rome
A Time Travellers Guide to Ancient Rome - by one of the best historians of the ancient world Living in ancient Rome was superbly and vividly recorded by Rome's historians,...
Letters to Camondo
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A tragic family history told in a collection of imaginary letters to a famed collector, Moise de Camondo. 63 rue de Monceau, Paris Dear friend, As you may have guessed...
Courtiers: Intrigue, Ambition, and the Power Players Behind the House
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The gripping account of how the Royal family really operates, from the journalist who has spent years studying them. Who really runs the show and, as Charles III begins his...
Young Workers of the Industrial Age: Child Labour in the 18th and 19th
The industrial revolution was forged with the lives of our ancestors' children. All over Britain, children and young people toiled for hours every day. Their workplaces were pitch-dark mines, fiery...
Call The Midwife: A True Story Of The East End In The 1950s
Jennifer Worth came from a sheltered background when she became a midwife in the Docklands in the 1950s. The conditions in which many women gave birth just half a century...
The Butcher, the Baker, the Candlestick-Maker: The story of Britain
At the beginning of each decade for 200 years the national census has presented a self-portrait of the British Isles. The census has surveyed Britain from the Napoleonic wars to...
Fenwomen: A Portrait of Women in an English Village (Virago Modern
50th ANNIVERSARY EDITION - now a Virago Modern Classic with a new introduction by Alexandra Harris 'Full of dignity, courage and humour, and as fresh and insightful as the day...
In the Pines: A Lynching, a Lie, a Reckoning
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In this powerful book, an award-winning scholar of white supremacy tackles her toughest research assignment yet: the unsolved murder of a Black man in rural Mississippi while her grandfather was...
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't
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Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers , offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers--and why they...
Tin Mosques and Ghantowns
Apart from the Chinese, the Afghans were the earliest non-European immigrants to Australia. This study traces their arrival in Australia and examines their early struggle.
Orderly Britain: How Britain has resolved everyday problems, from dog
How do British pavements remain free of dog mess? Why are paths not littered with cigarette butts or roads not lined with abandoned cars? What does the decline of the...
The City of London: v. 2: Golden Years, 1890-1914
Between 1890 and 1914 the city of London was all dominant, as Britain's legendary gold-standard reigned supreme across the globe. The author shows how this was possible, anatomizes an elite...
Lordship, Knighthood and Locality: A Study in English Society,
This book is a study in the evolution of English society between c. 1180 and c. 1280. The argument proceeds by means of a detailed analysis of the honour and...
Prosecution and Punishment: Petty Crime and the Law in London and
The law was one of the most potent sources of authority and stability in early modern England. Historians however, have argued over whether the discretion and flexibility embodied in the...
The Making of Modern Tourism: The Cultural History of the British
At the end of the 20th century, tourism is the world's largest single industry. Tourism, however, is not only an economic and social phenomenon but can be "read" in semiotic...
Marriage, Divorce and Children in Ancient Rome
The family has played a central role in most societies and the complexity, and variety of that role has engaged the minds of many froma wide range of disciplines. There...
Homeland: The War on Terror in American Life
To see America through the lens of Homeland is to understand the country like never before. For years after 9/11, the war on terror was simultaneously everywhere and nowhere. Americans...
The Granite Kingdom: A Cornish Journey
Shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel Book of the Year Award 2024 Tim Hannigan undertakes an epic east-west journey on foot through his own homeland, from the woodlands of the...
Double Cross: The True Story of The D-Day Spies
D-Day, 6 June 1944, the turning point of the Second World War, was a victory of arms. But it was also a triumph for a different kind of operation: one...
The Blood in Winter: The thrilling story of England's descent into
A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: THE TIMES / SUNDAY TIMES , TELEGRAPH AND HISTORY TODAY A nation on the cusp of war. A king ousted from his capital by...
Letters for the Ages Behind Bars: Letters from History's Most Famous
Letters for the Ages Behind Bars is a history of imprisonment told through the letters of people incarcerated over many centuries, for crimes committed or sometimes even for no reason...