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Defiant Voices: How Australia's Female Convicts Challenged Authority 17881853
Author: Babette Smith Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Between 1788 and 1868, approximately 25,000 women were transported to Australia. For nearly 200 years, there has been a chorus of...
The Secret of Emu Field: Britain's forgotten atomic tests in Australia
Author: Elizabeth Tynan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Emu Field is overshadowed by Maralinga, the larger and much more prominent British atomic test site about 193 kilometres to the...
The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper: A New Statesman and Spectator Book of the Year
Author: Roland Allen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 The Notebook has shaped the world for eight hundred years. In medieval Italy, the blank ledger transformed international trade, and enabled...
Blood, Sweat and Earth: The Struggle for Control over the World's Diamonds Throughout History
Author: Tijl Vanneste Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Blood, Sweat and Earth is a hard-hitting historical expos of the diamond industry, focusing on the exploitation of workers and the...
Those They Called Idiots: The Idea of the Disabled Mind from 1700 to the Present Day
Author: Simon Jarrett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Traces the little-known lives of people with learning disabilities over 300 years The Idiot traces the little-known lives of people with...
Fighting Fit: The Wartime Battle for Britain's Health
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Red Memory: Living, Remembering and Forgetting China's Cultural Revolution -- Shortlisted for the Bailie Gifford prize for Non-Fiction
Author: Tania Branigan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'Took my breath away.' BARBARA DEMICK'Haunting.' OLIVER BURKEMAN 'A masterpiece.' JULIA LOVELL A 13-year-old Red Guard revels in the great adventure,...
Landscape as Weapon: Cultures of Exhaustion and Refusal
Author: John Beck Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 Once the playgrounds and raw material for the avant garde, abandoned places and things - decommissioned military sites, postindustrial spaces, contested...
Plague, Pestilence and Pandemic: Voices from History
Author: Peter Furtado Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Humanity has always been struck by pestilence and pandemics, from the plagues of ancient Egypt to the pox that ravaged Europe...
Authenticity: Reclaiming Reality in a Counterfeit Culture
Author: Alice Sherwood Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 'Wide-ranging, witty and fresh ... a stimulating read. Authentic fun' Tim Harford, Financial Times Best Summer Books 2022 'Brilliantly witty, profoundly...
Milk: An Intimate History of Breastfeeding
Author: Joanna Wolfarth Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 - 'Illuminating . . . an important book' Sunday Times - 'A fascinating journey through the social, cultural and historical meanings...
In the Blink of an Eye: A Cultural History of Spectacles
Author: Stefana Sabin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 112 This book examines those who wore glasses through history, art and literature, from the green emerald through which Emperor Nero watched...
How to be a Renaissance Woman: The Untold History of Beauty and Female Creativity
Author: Jill Burke Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Can the pressures women feel to look good be traced to the 16th century? As the Renaissance visual world became populated...
Tribes: A Search for Belonging in a Divided Society
Author: David Lammy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'A superb book about the tribalism gripping British politics. Tribes is measured, searching, pitilessly self-scrutinising and would probably amaze anyone who...
Drinking for England: The Great English Drinkers and Their Times
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Strange Bright Blooms: A History of Cut Flowers
Author: Randy Malamud Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 324 Virginia Woolf's novel famously begins - 'Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.' Of course she would: why would...
Breathing: An Inspired History
Author: Edgar Williams Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Our knowledge of breathing has shaped our social history, and philosophical beliefs since prehistory. Breathing occupied a spiritual status to the...
A Woman's Place: 50 Women Who Made History in the Kitchen
Author: Deepi Ahluwalia Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 For centuries, professional cooking was a job exclusively for men. As a result, most histories of food and cooking, even today,...
The Renaissance: All That Matters
Author: Michael Halvorson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 Was the Renaissance just a period of extraordinary art and architecture? The Renaissance: All That Matters examines the major developments of...
Margot at War: Love and Betrayal in Downing Street, 1912-1916
Author: Anne de Courcy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Margot Asquith was perhaps the most daring and unconventional Prime Minister's wife in British history. Known for her wit, style...
The Wrath to Come: Gone with the Wind and the Lies America Tells
Author: Sarah Churchwell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 Gone With the Wind, the myth of the Lost Cause and what they can tell us about American history and culture...
Wedded Wife: A Feminist History of Marriage
Author: Ms. Rachael Lennon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 In this fascinating and insightful book, feminist curator Rachael Lennon provides an intimate and accessible examination of the history of...
How to be a Renaissance Woman: The Untold History of Beauty and Female Creativity
Author: Jill Burke Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Can the pressures women feel to look good be traced to the 16th century? As the Renaissance visual world became populated...
Margot at War: Love and Betrayal in Downing Street, 1912-1916
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Generation Exodus: The Fate of Young Jewish Refugees from Nazi Germany
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The Museum of the Wood Age
Author: Max Adams Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 A passionate and imaginative exploration of wood - the material that shaped human history. As a material, wood has no equal...
Operation Babylift: The incredible story of the inspiring Australian women who rescued hundreds of orphans at the end of the Vietnam War
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Little Englanders: Britain in the Edwardian Era
Author: Alwyn Turner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 'The very best sort of panoramic portrait' David Kynaston 'The Edwardians have long been the lost decade of British history, yet...
The Conspiracy Files
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Artisans of Empire: Crafts and Craftspeople Under the Ottomans
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The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
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A Girl Stands at the Door: The Generation of Young Women Who Desegregated America's Schools
Author: Rachel Devlin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 A new history of school desegregation in America, revealing how girls and women led the fight for interracial education The struggle...
Labouring Men
Author: Prof Eric Hobsbawm Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 The topics covered in this book can be divided into four broad groups: studies of labour conditions up to the...
Fear: A Cultural History
Author: Professor Joanna Bourke Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 Fear is one of the most basic and most powerful of all the human emotions. Sometimes it is hauntingly specific:...
Loving Animals: On Bestiality, Zoophilia and Post-Human Love
Author: Joanna Bourke Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 184 Renowned historian Joanna Bourke explores the modern history of bestiality Sex with animals is one of the last taboos but, for...
The Renaissance: All That Matters
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Bush Tucker Man : Tarnished Heroes
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The Bush
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Cult Moments: Events Etched in Our Memories
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Sustaining a National Celebrating: 100 Years of Agriculture in Australia: Celebrating 100 Years of Agriculture in Australia Product Code 11648
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The New Book of Snobs: A Definitive Guide to Modern Snobbery
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Physicians and their Images
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The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in the Gilded Age
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Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
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Author: Ibram X Kendi Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 736 The National Book Award-winning history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society. Some Americans...
Idiots, Follies and Misadventures
Author: Mikey Robins Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 The history books are full of heroes and villains ... but what about all the idiots? Comedian and armchair historian Mikey...
Sleeping with the Ancestors: How I Followed the Footprints of Slavery
Author: Herb Frazier Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Joseph McGill Jr., a historic preservationist and Civil War reenactor, founded the Slave Dwelling Project in 2010 based on an idea...
Murray's Cabaret Club: Discovering Soho's Secret
Author: Benjamin Levy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 0 Step below the pavemants of Soho's Beak Street, and discover the untold tale of the exotic - and scandalous - Murray's...
London: Immigrant City
Author: Nazneen Khan-Ostrem Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 TRANSLATED BY ALISON McCULLOUGH 'One of the best books on the many diverse migrations to London . . . revealing the...