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Tasting the Past: Recipes from the Middle Ages to the Civil War
The many influences of the past on our diet today make the concept of 'British food' very hard to define. The Celts, Romans, Saxons, Vikings and Normans all brought ingredients...
The Private Life of Thomas Cromwell
Thomas Cromwell was King Henry VIII's most faithful servant, the only man the king ever openly regretted executing. But Thomas Cromwell came to royal prominence late in life, and had...
House of Tudor: A Grisly History
Gruesome but not gratuitous, this decidedly darker take on the Tudors, from 1485 to 1603, covers some forty-five 'events' from the Tudor reign, taking in everything from the death of...
The Forging of the Modern State: Early Industrial Britain, 1783-1870
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In this history of Britain, Eric Evans surveys every aspect of the period in which the country was transformed into the world's first industrial power. It was an era of...
A History of British Art
Although its painters and sculptors have mostly been overshadowed by their contemporaries in mainland Europe, Britain has produced many outstanding artists, who are often overlooked in European studies. This phenomenon...
Lady of the House: 19th Century Women and their Role in the English
This book tells the true stories of three gentile women who were born, raised, lived and died within the world of England's Country Houses. This is not the story of...
The Normans are Landing!: Hastings - 1066
There, at about forty meters high and on a tray of some hundred meters wide, extends a fortress even more formidable than those of Pevensey and Hastings. It is the...
The Pure Heart
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A stunning classic horror story - perfect for fans of Mary Shelley! '[A] wonderful twisted gothic novel ... [an] evocation of a weird and wonderful world with compulsive characters and...
The Lion and the Dragon: Britain and China: A History of Conflict
Napoleon warned 'Let China sleep; when she wakes, she will shake the world'. Lawrence James's magisterial history analyses the relationship between Britain and China between the beginning of the Opium...
Mary I: Queen of Sorrows
'A must for Tudor fans everywhere' Tracy Borman 'Thrilling, captivating . . . unforgettable' Kate Williams 'A gripping story that's underpinned by a wealth of research . . . this...
Blood, Fire and Gold: The story of Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici
A thrilling and highly-acclaimed joint biography of Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici, uncovering how their complex 30-year relationship shaped their dynasties, perfect for fans of Alison Weir and Tracy...
The Devil In The White City
Chicago, 1893. One man built a heaven on earth. Another built hell beside it... 'An irresistible page-turner that reads like the most compelling, sleep defying fiction' TIME OUT One was...
Capitalism and Slavery
The paradigm-shifting classic that connected the dots between transatlantic slavery, capitalism and racism 'If one criterion of a classic is its ability to reorient our most basic way of viewing...
Adventures in Time: The Six Wives of Henry VIII
Journey back to the world of the Tudors, with the celebrated children's history series 'Winter has come; and in a far distant land, a warrior queen is expecting a child...'...
Thorns, Lust and Glory: The betrayal of Anne Boleyn
An exciting new telling of the life of Anne Boleyn, using new archival research to reveal the woman behind the myth, from the acclaimed historian Dr Estelle Paranque. A queen...
Would You Rather? Tudors (Would You Rather?, Book 5)
Would you rather wipe Henry VIII's bottom for him or be one of his wives? Would you rather act in a Tudor play or take part in a jousting match?...
1835: The Founding of Melbourne & the Conquest of Australia
Winner of the Tasmanian Book Prize, The Age Book of the Year 'James Boyce tells the true history of this country with rare clarity and an eye for the essential...
The Burning Earth: An Environmental History of the Last 500 Years
A brilliant, paradigm-shifting global survey of how human history has reshaped the planet, and vice versa over the last 500 years In this paradigm-shifting global history of how humanity has...
The Knowledge Machine: How an Unreasonable Idea Created Modern Science
Rich with tales of discovery from Galileo to general relativity, a stimulating and timely analysis of how science works and why we need it It is only in the last...
The Penguin History of Modern China: The Fall and Rise of a Great
The crucial book for understanding modern China, now updated to include the rule of Xi Jinping In 1850, China was the 'sick man of Asia'. Now it is set to...
The Arabs: A History - Revised and Updated Edition
The extraordinary story of the Arab world, from defeat and colonization to independence and astonishing wealth. Eugene Rogan has written an authoritative new history of the Arabs in the modern...
Beneath Another Sky: A Global Journey into History
Where have the people in any particular place actually come from? What are the historical complexities in any particular place? This evocative historical journey around the world shows us. After...
Belonging: The Story of the Jews 1492-1900
A passionate history of a world unfolding across many continents and five centuries by one of our greatest and internationally bestselling historians. A passionate history of Judaism; a world unfolding...
Thomas Cromwell: A Life
'This is the biography we have been awaiting for 400 years' - Hilary Mantel Born in obscurity in Putney, Thomas Cromwell became a fixer for Cardinal Wolsey. After Wolsey's fall,...
Conquistadores
A riveting new history of Spanish imperialism, and the men who laid its foundations The 'conquistadores', the early explorers and settlers of Spanish America, have become the stuff of legends...
Humanly Possible: The great humanist experiment in living
Seven hundred years of heroic humanists (and their enemies), from the acclaimed author of How to Live and At The Existentialist Cafe The bestselling, prizewinning author of How to Live...
Islamic Empires: Fifteen Cities that Define a Civilization
An epic history of Islam and the Middle East through the cities which best epitomized it Islamic civilization was once the envy of the world. From a succession of glittering,...
London
A wonderful, epic story that tells the history of the greatest city in the world, from Roman times to the present day. A grand, epic story that tells the history...
The Six Wives of Henry VIII: Find out the truth about Henry VIII's
Thoroughly researched and with a real understanding of the times these six fascinating women lived through, Alison Weir's book reveals a Tudor England where personal needs and private emotion could,...
Adventures in Time: The Fall of the Aztecs
Travel back to a vanished world with the celebrated children's history series The Aztec Empire had been blessed by the gods. Its pyramid temples were warmed by the sun, its...
Crime and Punishment
Young law student Rodion Raskolnikov lives in poverty in St. Petersburg. Indesperation, he sells the last of his valuables, a watch, to an elderly pawnbroker. Butwhat the pawnbroker doesn't know...
Terrifying Tudors
Discover all the foul facts about the Terrifying Tudors with history's most horrible headlines. All the foul facts about the Terrifying Tudors are ready to uncover, including: who invited Queen...
Paradise of the Damned: The True Story of an Obsessive Quest for El
A "rollicking," "vividly re-created," and "enticing romp" that tells the true story of an obsessive quest to find El Dorado, set against the backdrop of Elizabethan political intrigue and a...
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...
Six Tudor Queens: Katheryn Howard, The Tainted Queen: Six Tudor Queens
'This six-book series looks likely to become a landmark in historical fiction' The TimesAlison Weir, historian and author of the Sunday Times-bestselling SIX TUDOR QUEENS series, relates one of the...
Six Tudor Queens: Katheryn Howard, The Tainted Queen: Six Tudor Queens
'This six-book series looks likely to become a landmark in historical fiction' The Times Alison Weir, historian and author of the Sunday Times-bestselling Six Tudor Queens series, relates one of...
Mary I: Queen of Sorrows (SIGNED)
'A must for Tudor fans everywhere' Tracy Borman'Thrilling, captivating . . . unforgettable' Kate Williams'A gripping story that's underpinned by a wealth of research . . . this is Alison...
The Badia of Florence: Art and Observance in a Renaissance Monastery
The Santa Maria di Firenze, an ancient, venerable Benedictine abbey (called the Badia) located in the heart of Florence, is the subject of Anne Leader's new book. In 1418, 17...
The Invention of the Italian Renaissance Printmaker
Before the age of multi-media, how did the invention of a new technology affect the careers of Renaissance artists? In this groundbreaking book, Evelyn Lincoln examines the formation of the...
The Lost Story of the Ocean Monarch
The ship was almost instantly in flames . . . Some jumped overboard immediately, and all was in indescribable confusion. The masts began to fall one after another, and it...
Forgotten Fortress: Fort Millard Fillmore and Antebellum New Mexico
Fort Millard Fillmore, named for the thirteenth President of the United States, was the first U.S. Army fort established in southern New Mexico Territory. Its primary purpose was to control...
The Merchant Murderers
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"Superb. . .a fast-moving and gripping plot"- Publishers Weekly Starred ReviewAugust, 1556. Jack Blackjack is on a simple mission: make it back home to his beloved London. It should be...
Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A lasting work of social history' THE TIMES'A genuinely new history of our nation' DAN JONES'This celebration of women is a triumph of popular history' SPECTATOR...
Insurrection: Henry VIII, Thomas Cromwell and the Pilgrimage of Grace
Autumn 1536. Both Katherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn are dead. Henry VIII has married Jane Seymour, and still awaits his longed-for male heir. Disaffected conservatives in England may have...
Young Elizabeth: Princess. Prisoner. Queen.
Elizabeth I is renowned for the hugely successful reign that has led her to be considered one of the most celebrated monarchs in English history. But what of the trials...
China's Philological Turn: Scholars, Textualism, and the Dao in the
In eighteenth-century China, a remarkable intellectual transformation took place, centered on the ascendance of philology. Its practitioners were preoccupied with the reliability of sources as evidence for restoring ancient texts...
Representations of Islam in United States Comics, 1880-1922
Representations of Islam in United States Comics, 1880-1922 examines the depiction of Islam, Muslims, and the Islamic world in U.S. popular culture, particularly comics and related artifacts, between 1880 and...
The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor
'Written in a lively, accessible style, The Waiting Game is full of insight' Suzannah Lipscomb, Literary ReviewEvery Tudor Queen had ladies-in-waiting. They were her confidantes and her chaperones. Only the...