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When Queen Elizabeth II was crowned in 1953, many proclaimed the start of a new Elizabethan Age. Few had any inkling, however, of the stupendous changes that would take place...
Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America: A Recent History
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * When did America give up on fairness? The author of Fantasyland tells the epic history of how America decided that big business gets whatever it...
The Lost Paths: A History of How We Walk From Here To There
A journey across Britain's millennia-old network of pathways, revealing key moments throughout our history Hundreds of thousands of miles of paths reach into, and connect, communities across England and Wales....
The Soul: A History of the Human Mind
The Soul is a history of the human mind, from the earliest expression of self-consciousness to its unshakeable belief in the great religions and political systems. 'Wonderfully entertaining' - Michael...
The Hong Kong Diaries
The diaries of the last British Governor, five weeks on the Sunday Times best-seller list In June 1992 Chris Patten went to Hong Kong as the last British governor, to...
The Making of the English Working Class
The revolutionary account of working-class culture and ideals, reissued as a Penguin Modern Classic to mark the 50th anniversary of its publication This brilliant account of working-class society in its...
London: Immigrant City
TRANSLATED BY ALISON McCULLOUGH 'One of the best books on the many diverse migrations to London . . . revealing the extent to which the diversity of immigrant origins has...
American Slavery, 1619-1897
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A concise, engaging overview of American slavery from the beginning of the colonial era to emancipation and its aftermath. Kolchin takes a broad geographical perspective, putting American slavery in the...
Idiots, Follies and Misadventures
The history books are full of heroes and villains ... but what about all the idiots? Comedian and armchair historian Mikey Robins tells the astonishing story of human stupidity, one...
Tecumseh
' A heroic work of research and scholarship. . . The most complete and reliable account of the events that made the great Shawnee Indian a giant figure on the...
Uniforms: Why We Are What We Wear
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According to the renowned social critic and historian Paul Fussell, we are what we wear, and it doesn't look good. Uniforms parses the hidden meanings of our apparel -- from...
Sweet Land of Liberty?: The African-American Struggle for Civil Rights
A powerful and moving account of the campaign for civil rights in modern America. Robert Cook is concerned less with charismatic leaders like Martin Luther King, and more with the...
Fanny and Stella: The Young Men Who Shocked Victorian England
28th April 1870. The flamboyantly dressed Miss Fanny Park and Miss Stella Boulton are causing a stir in the Strand Theatre. All eyes are riveted upon their lascivious oglings of...
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...
Wonder Drug: The Hidden Victims of America's Secret Thalidomide
Longlisted for the Andrew 2024 Carnegie Medal for Non-Fiction The shocking, never-before-told story of America's thalidomide victims In Germany on Christmas Day 1956 a baby girl was born without ears....
Freedom at Midnight: Inspiration for the major motion picture
Inspiration for the major film starring Hugh Bonneville, Gillian Anderson, Manish Dayal and Huma Qureshi and directed by Gurinder Chadha. Seventy years ago, at midnight on 14 August 1947, the...
Missing Persons, Or My Grandmother's Secrets
A history of unmarried motherhood through three generations of an Irish family, and the secrets we conceal How far would you go for the missing? When Clair Wills was in...
Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic
Opens a fascinating new window onto medieval and early modern life - a world where it's possible to meet the devil on the road, control the future through stars, and...
Attack Warning Red!: How Britain Prepared for Nuclear War
A fascinating, frightening and sometimes funny window into an all-too recent world - everyday life in Britain in the shadow of the mushroom cloud The first book to tell the...
When McKinsey Comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World's Most
The explosive expose of the billion-dollar company that has often made our world more unequal, more corrupt and more dangerous. **A TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR...
A Short History of British Architecture: From Stonehenge to the Shard
The untold story of why our country looks like it does, from the bestselling champion of national heritage, Simon Jenkins The story of Britain is revealed through its buildings, and...
The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World
The dark, compelling history of a colonial witch-hunt, from the author of Witchfinders In the frontier town of Springfield in 1651, peculiar things begin to happen. Precious food spoils, livestock...
The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian
'The next Bill Bryson.' New York Times Winner of the Best Narrative Travel Book Award from the British Guild of Travel Writers The Danes are the happiest people in the...
The National Trust Research Manual
This guide to researching Australian history, designed to be easy to follow and informative, shows the beginner how to research and trace the history of houses, public buildings, industrial sites,...
Courage in a Hostile World: The Story of FamilyVoice Australia
David Phillips' account of the rise and reach of FamilyVoice Australia is a compelling history of a 40 year-long battle for the heart and soul of Australian society. "Courage in...
Who's Looking Out for You?
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From the mega-bestselling author of The O'Reilly Factor and The No Spin Zone , a no-holds-barred expose of the people and institutions who are letting Americans down - and what...
Letters to the Midwife: Correspondence with Jennifer Worth, the Author
When the CALL THE MIDWIFE books became bestsellers, Jennifer Worth was inundated with correspondence. People felt moved to write to her because the books had touched them, and because they...
The Lore of the Land: A Guide to England's Legends, from Spring-heeled
Stop off at any English village or town or wander through the countryside and you will almost certainly brush up against some deep-rooted local legend - whether it's the pub...
It's Not the Money it's the Land
As a result of the 1965 Equal Wages Case, Aboriginal people in Australia's north were forced into unemployment and off their country into refugee camps on the fringes of the...
Tugs and Towing: A Worldwide Survey of the Vessels, Techniques and
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Tugs and their development over the past 150 years are described in this book and it particularly looks at the past 20 years with emphasis on the use of tugs...
What the Grown-ups Were Doing: An odyssey through 1950s suburbia
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Michele Hanson grew up an 'oddball tomboy disappointment' in a Jewish family in Ruislip in the 1950s - a suburban Metroland idyll of neat lawns, bridge parties and Martini socials....
Writing Black Beauty: Anna Sewell and the Story of Animal Rights
This is the story of a remarkable woman who wrote a phenomenal book. Born in 1829 to a young Quaker couple, Anna Sewell grew up in poverty in London. She...
Fighting on the Home Front: The Legacy of Women in World War One
In 1914 the world changed forever. When World War One broke out and a generation of men went off to fight, bestselling author Kate Adie shows how women emerged from...
Out of Love for My Kin: Aristocratic Family Life in the Lands of the
In Out of Love for My Kin, Amy Livingstone examines the personal dimensions of the lives of aristocrats in the Loire region of France during the eleventh and twelfth centuries....
800 Years of Women's Letters
This inspiring and fascinating book is the first truly comprehensive study of women's letters ever published. Organised by subject matter, and covering a wide range of topics from politics, work...
The Dictionary Of Terrible Ideas: The very funny new book from one of
A compendium of crapulous concepts from absinthe to zorbing From the tiniest nanoparticle to the vast span of the Large Hadron Collider, humans have invented many remarkable things. But not...
The Crooked Scythe: An Anthology of Oral History
George Ewart Evans, who wrote the classic Ask the Fellows Who Cut the Hay , was one of the pioneers of oral history. This anthology is drawn from his writings...
An Island Out Of Time: A Memoir of Smith Island in the Chesapeake
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Smith Island is a marshy archipelago in mid-Chesapeake Bay, nine miles from the mainland, home to 150 watermen and their families. This book is a portrait of a people who...
Chosen Few HB
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In A Chosen Few, Mark Kurlansky explores the many reasons why Jews have returned to Germany and Poland, and why Jews remain in Europe, how they have managed not only...
The Paranormal Ranger: A Navajo Investigator's Search for the
*A NEW YORK TIMES PICK FOR TOP 22 NONFICTION BOOKS TO READ THIS FALL!* A Navajo Ranger's chilling and clear-eyed memoir of his investigations into bizarre cases of the paranormal...
Lawbreaking Ladies: 50 Tales of Daring, Defiant, and Dangerous Women
Discover 50 fascinating tales of female pirates, fraudsters, gamblers, bootleggers, serial killers, madams, and outlaws in this illustrated book of lawbreaking and legendary women throughout the ages. Many of us...