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On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
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All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopaedia by the bestselling author of JUST MY TYPE
Author: Simon Garfield Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'Witty and geekily eclectic' The Times An erudite and amusing exploration' Financial Times 'Full of jawdropping facts' Mail on Sunday 'Remarkable...
Connected Women: Inspiring women who have shaped the world and each other
Author: Kate Hodges Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Behind every great woman... is another great woman. Here, the extraordinary achievements, relationships and secret histories of 84 pioneering women are...
Where Are You From? No, Where are You Really From?
Author: Audrey Osler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 A story of migration, identity and belonging, drawing on the stories of people from Audrey Osler's mixed-heritage family, over three centuries....
Jerusalem in the 20th Century
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The Nature of History Reader
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Time and the Shape of History
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I Wish I'd Been There: Twenty Historians Revisit Key Moments in History
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Historiography: An Introductory Guide
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Contesting Australian History: Essays in Honour of Marilyn Lake
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The Premonitions Bureau: A Sunday Times bestseller
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Author: Sam KnightFormat: Hardback, 135mm x 216mm, 366g, 256 pagesPublished: Faber & Faber, United Kingdom, 2022**A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**** Chosen as a Book of the Year in the Times, Observer,...
The Book of Phobias and Manias: A History of the World in 99 Obsessions
Author: Kate SummerscaleFormat: Paperback, 128mm x 196mm, 200g, 256 pagesPublished: Profile Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2023THE PERFECT GIFT FOR ALL BIBLIOMANIACSA BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES,...
The Limits of Genius: The Surprising Stupidity of the World's Greatest Minds
Author: Katie SpaldingFormat: Paperback, 126mm x 196mm, 250g, 352 pagesPublished: Headline Publishing Group, United Kingdom, 2023A hilarious look at how the line between 'genius' and 'extremely lucky idiot' is finer...
Military Atlas of World War II
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Underworld: Flooded Kingdoms of the Ice Age
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Love and Freedom: Professional Women and the Reshaping of Personal Life
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A Short History of Seafaring
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Crescendo: Melbourne Symphony Orchestra - Celebrating 100 Years
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Whispering City: Rome and Its Histories
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Astonish Me!: First Nights That Changed the World
Author: Dominic Dromgoole Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 A SUNDAY TIMES BEST FILM AND THEATRE BOOK OF 2022 'Anyone in love with the arts will fall in love with...
Facing Armageddon: The First World War Experienced
Author: Hugh Cecil Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 938 'Facing Armageddon' is a major collection of scholarly work on the 1914-18 war that explores, on a worldwide basis, the real...
O Sing unto the Lord: A History of English Church Music
Author: Andrew Gant Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 Andrew Gant's compelling account traces English church music from Anglo-Saxon origins to the present. It is a history of the music...
On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
Author: Caroline Dodds Pennock Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 A New Statesman Best Book of the Year 2023. A Waterstones Book of the Year 2023. An Economist Book of...
Making History: The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past
Author: Richard Cohen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 784 'A huge, fizzing omnium-gatherum of a book . . . marvellous' Daily Telegraph 'Witty, wise and elegant . . . a...
High Caucasus: A Mountain Quest in Russia's Haunted Hinterland
Author: Tom Parfitt Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 'A thrilling and beautiful book' Philip Marsden 'Tom Parfitt has re-invented travel writing for the 21st century' Oliver Bullough On 1...
Yorkshire: There and Back
Author: Andrew Martin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 In Yorkshire: There and Back, Andrew Martin celebrates Britain's most charismatic county, looking back at the Yorkshire of his 1970s childhood...
American Sirens: The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America's First Paramedics
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Author: Kevin Hazzard Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Until the 1970s, if you suffered a medical crisis, your chances of survival were minimal. A 9-1-1 call might bring police...
Black Apollo of Science: The Life of Ernest Everett Just
Author: Kenneth R. Manning (Professor of the History of Science, Professor of the History of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 This biography illuminates the...
Fake Heroes: Ten False Icons and How they Altered the Course of History
Author: Otto English Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 From the author of Fake History, Otto English, comes a shocking yet hilarious look at ten of the greatest liars from...
30-Second Twentieth Century: The 50 most significant ideas and events, each explained in half a minute
Author: Jonathan T. Reynolds Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 You probably know, or think you know, quite a bit about what happened in the 20th century - chances are,...
One Fine Day: Britain's Empire on the Brink
Author: Matthew Parker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 608 'Breathtaking... vital and important. A wonderful read' PETER FRANKOPAN 'Marvellous... escapes the inane, balance-sheet view of Empire and sees its full...
Oath and Honor: the explosive inside story from the most senior Republican to stand up to Donald Trump
Author: Liz Cheney Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 A gripping first-hand account from inside the halls of Congress as Donald Trump and his enablers betrayed the American people and...
Engineers of Human Souls: Four Writers Who Changed Twentieth-Century Minds
Author: Simon Ings Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Four writers. Four dictators. One world, changed out of all recognition. ENGINEERS OF HUMAN SOULS is an intimate and shocking shadow...
A Concise History of the World Since 1945: States and Peoples
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The Edwardians
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The Confession of Katherine Howard
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Letters of Love
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Six Men Out of the Ordinary
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The Soul: A History of the Human Mind
Author: Paul HamFormat: Hardback, 164mm x 241mm, 1098g, 800 pagesPublished: Random House Australia, Australia, 2024The Soul is a history of the human mind, from the earliest expression of self-consciousness to...
On Every Tide: The making and remaking of the Irish world
Author: Sean Connolly Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 An immensely impressive, authoritative history of the Irish diaspora 'A richly detailed, scholarly and challenging history' Sunday Times 'Impressive, provocative and...
Forgotten Women
Author: Zing Tsjeng Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 592 'To say this [book] is "empowering" doesn't do it justice. Buy a copy for your daughters, sisters, mums, aunts and nieces...
TUTANKHAMUN: 100 years after the discovery of his tomb leading Egyptologist Joyce Tyldesley unpicks the misunderstandings around the boy king's life, death and legacy
Author: Joyce Tyldesley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Pharaoh. Icon. Enigma. Lost for three thousand years, misunderstood for a century. A hundred years ago, a team of archaeologists in...
All Against All: The long Winter of 1933 and the Origins of the Second World War
Author: Paul Jankowski Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 During a single winter, between November 1932 and April 1933, so much went wrong: Hitler came to power; Japan invaded Jehol...
Age of Heretics: Heroes, Outlaws and the Forerunners of Corporate Change
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