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Guide to British Military History: The Subject and the Sources
What exactly is military history? Forty years ago it meant battles, campaigns, great commanders, drums and trumpets. It was largely the preserve of military professionals and was used to support...
Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took on a World at
'Effervescent' New Yorker Best Books Of 2022 So Far'Bursts with colour and incident' FT Best Books of Summer Read this prize-winning historian's "immersive" ( New York Times) account of the...
Frankly, We Did Win This Election: The Inside Story of How Trump Lost
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!Michael C. Bender, senior White House reporter for the Wall Street Journal, presents a deeply reported account of the 2020 presidential campaign that details how...
Florence and the Medici: The Pattern of Control
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Flapper: A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who Made America Modern
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The Abolitionist Legacy: From Reconstruction to the NAACP
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The Rush That Never Ended: a History of Australian Mining
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Cote d'Azur: Inventing the French Riviera
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The Dancer Defects: The Struggle for Cultural Supremacy during the Cold War
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Wigging Out: Fake Hair That Made Real History
Wigging Out is a stunning visual journey through the fascinating history of wigs and hairpieces, covering thousands of years of hair worn by everyone from Cleopatra and Louis XIV to...
The Stolen Child: The most heartwrenching and heartwarming saga you'll
'One of the nation's favourite saga writers' Lancashire PostA powerful new saga from Jennie Felton in the grand tradition of Josephine Cox, Dilly Court, Maggie Hope and Rosie Goodwin of...
The Secret Library: A Book Lover's Journey Through Curiosities of
How much do you know about the Victorian novelist who outsold Dickens? Or the woman who became the first published poet in America? Do you know what connects Homer's Iliad...
Exposed: The Greek and Roman Body - Shortlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic
WINNER OF THE LONDON HELLENIC PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE ANGLO-HELLENIC RUNICMAN AWARD A SUNDAY TIMES AND SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR'A gloriously intimate tour of the body in antiquity' Gavin Francis'A...
All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life
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Ghosts of the British Museum: A True Story of Colonial Loot and
'An absorbingly creepy travelogue through the corridors, tunnels and basements of our most famous cultural repository. With Noah Angell as our guide, the British Museum becomes a haunted prison filled...
Underground, Overground: A Passenger's History of the Tube
Why is the Victoria Line so hot? What is an Electrical Multiple Unit? Is it really possible to ride from King's Cross to King's Cross on the Circle line? The...
The Secret Life of the Savoy: and the D'Oyly Carte family
In 1889, Victorian impresario Richard D'Oyly Carte opened The Savoy, Britain's first luxury hotel. Allowing the rich to live like royalty, it attracted glamour, scandal and a cast of eccentric...
The Green Ages: Medieval Innovations in Sustainability
WINNER OF THE 2021 NDR BOOK PRIZE IN GERMANY 'A must-read' Lyndal Roper, Regius Professor of History at Oriel College, OxfordFishing quotas on Lake Constance. Common lands in the UK....
The Oldest Cure in the World: Adventures in the Art and Science of
A journalist takes readers into the science and history of intermittent fasting, an ancient practice in the middle of a red-hot resurgence, exploring the body's power to heal itselfOne in...
Bad Girls: A History of Rebels and Renegades
Society has never known what to do with its rebellious women. Those who defied expectations about feminine behaviour have long been considered dangerous and unnatural, and ever since the Victorian...
Rivets, Trivets and Galvanised Buckets: Life in the village hardware (SIGNED)
'A hymn to hardware, charming, lyrical' - The Sunday Times, BOOK OF THE WEEK'A paean to DIY' - The Times'Strung together very agreeably, with dry wit and, dare I say...
How to be a Renaissance Woman: The Untold History of Beauty and Female (SIGNED)
Can the pressures women feel to look good be traced to the 16th century?As the Renaissance visual world became populated by female nudes by the likes of Michelangelo and Titian,...
Little Englanders: Britain in the Edwardian Era (SIGNED)
'The very best sort of panoramic portrait' David Kynaston'The Edwardians have long been the lost decade of British history, yet they are that history at its climax. Alwyn Turner sets...
Conspiracy: A History of Boll*cks Theories, and How Not to Fall for
'Uproarious . . . [Phillips and Elledge] pair the abundant good humour of this book with a warning about the corrosive effects of conspiracy theories' The Times From the Satanic...
This is Why I Resist: Don't Define My Black Identity
This book is the hard conversation we must have.In 2020 we have seen clearer than ever that Black people are still fighting for the right to be judged by the...
Sweet Land of Liberty: A History of America in 11 Pies
A delicious and delightful narrative history of pie in America, from the colonial era through the civil rights movement and beyondFrom the pumpkin pie gracing the Thanksgiving table to the...
Populus: Living and Dying in the Wealth, Smoke and Din of Ancient Rome
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Fidelity's World
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Exposed: The Greek and Roman Body - Shortlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic
WINNER OF THE LONDON HELLENIC PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE ANGLO-HELLENIC RUNICMAN AWARD A SUNDAY TIMES AND SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR'A gloriously intimate tour of the body in antiquity' Gavin Francis'A...
Behind the Gloss: Disco, divas and dressing up. Welcome to the wild
Dressing up. Partying all night. This is the world of 1970s fashion, and this book is your backstage pass.Featuring over 25 exclusive interviews with the movers and shakers of the...
This is Why I Resist: Don't Define My Black Identity
'With This Is Why I Resist, Dr Shola is shaking a nation out of its slumber.' Annie Lennox OBE'Smart and courageous, this book should be on everyone's must-read list.' Naomi...
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 Crimean War and Irish society
The purpose of this book is to produce what is essentially a 'home front' study of Ireland during the Crimean War, or more specifically Irish society's responses to that conflict....
Rome and Rhetoric: Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
Renaissance plays and poetry in England were saturated with the formal rhetorical twists that Latin education made familiar to audiences and readers. Yet a formally educated man like Ben Jonson...
Cotton Capitalists: American Jewish Entrepreneurship in the
Honorable Mention, 2019 Saul Viener Book Prize, given by the American Jewish Historical Society A vivid history of the American Jewish merchants who concentrated in the nation's most important economic...
The Burr Conspiracy: Uncovering the Story of an Early American Crisis
A multifaceted portrait of the early American republic as seen through the lens of the Burr Conspiracy In 1805 and 1806, Aaron Burr, former vice president of the newly formed...
Land Travel and Communications in Tudor and Stuart England: Achieving
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Focused on the period between 1500 and 1700, Land Travel and Communications in Tudor and Stuart England documents the unprecedented growth that occurred in road travel by all sections of...
The Golden Thread: The Story of Writing
The Golden Thread is an enthralling and accessible history of the cultural miracle that is the written word. It is an invention that has been used to share ideas in...
Radical Reparations: Healing the Soul of a Nation
A timely groundbreaking book in the vein of Derrick Bell's Faces at the Bottom of the Well, one of the country's foremost voices on reparations, offers a radical and vital...
The Little Book of the 1960s: Peace, Love and Revolution
Make love, not war.At the heart of the 1960s was a desire for change, a yearning for a new way of living and a rejection of the old order. From...
No Right to an Honest Living (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): The
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORYA "sensitive, immersive, and exhaustive" portrait of Black workers and white hypocrisy in nineteenth-century Boston, from "a gifted practitioner of labor history and urban...
The Gold Machine: Tracking the Ancestors from Highlands to Coffee Colony
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The Passion of Mademoiselle S.
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Neither Snow Nor Rain: A History of the United States Postal Service
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The United States Postal Service is a wondrous American creation. Seven days a week, its army of 300,000 letter carriers delivers 513 million pieces of mail, forty percent of the...
A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Ingenious Young Women Whose Secret
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As heard on the New Yorker Radio Hour: The triumphant and "engaging history" (The New Yorker) of the young women who devised a winning strategy that defeated Nazi U-boats and...
The Crimean War and Irish society
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Victorians in Camera
'The making of a lifelike picture was something to be wondered at. It was an adventure, it was an expense, and it was often something of an ordeal...' 'Victorians in...
The Making of Medieval History
Essays on the discipline of medieval history and its practitioners, from the late eighteenth century onwards. A hugely interesting set of essays, reflecting on a variety of ways in which...