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Strongmen: How They Rise, Why They Succeed, How They Fall
Author: Ruth Ben-Ghiat (Professor of Italian and History) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'A gripping and illuminating picture of how strongmen have deployed violence, seduction, and corruption' - Daniel...
The Gravediggers: 1932, The Last Winter of the Weimar Republic
Author: Hauke Friederichs Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 November 1932. With the German economy in ruins and street battles raging between political factions, the Weimar Republic is in its...
The Kidnapping Club: Wall Street, Slavery, and Resistance on the Eve of the Civil War
Author: Jonathan D Wells Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Winner of a 2020-2021 New York City Book AwardIn a rapidly changing New York, two forces battled for the city's...
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...
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...
The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History
Author: Kassia St Clair Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'Fascinating . . . The history of the world through the eye of a needle . . . I recommend...
Anatomy of a Nation: A History of British Identity in 50 Documents
Author: Dominic Selwood Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 672 From an obscure, misty archipelago on the fringes of the Roman world to history's largest empire and originator of the world's...
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...
A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks
Author: David Gibbins Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 AN ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF 2024 'Masterful and entrancing - this is big history at its best.' Professor Alice Roberts, author...
Suburbia: A Far from Ordinary Place
Author: David Randall Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 0 You don't get to choose where you grow up, and for more than 80 per cent of the population, the boring,...
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....
The Last Honest Man: The CIA, the FBI, the Mafia, and the Kennedys-and One Senator's Fight to Save Democracy
Author: James Risen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 For decades now, America's national security state has grown ever bigger, ever more secretive and powerful, and ever more abusive. Only...
Agents of Chaos: Thomas King Forcade, High Times, and the Paranoid End of the 1970s
Author: Sean Howe Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 At the end of the 1960s, the mysterious Tom For ade suddenly appeared, insinuating himself into the top echelons of countercultural...
Strange Antics: A History of Seduction
Author: Clement Knox Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 When is seduction about more than just sex? In this brilliantly original history, Clement Knox explores these questions as well as...
The Little Book of Scotland: Wit, Whisky and Wisdom
Author: Orange Hippo! Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Land of spectacular landscapes, rich history and fabulous legends. With its jaw-dropping beauty, magnificent architecture, superb art and culture, and friendly,...
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...
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...
Bad Girls: A History of Rebels and Renegades
Author: Caitlin Davies Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Society has never known what to do with its rebellious women. Those who defied expectations about feminine behaviour have long been...
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....
Hardcover History Treasure Trove
Hardcover History Treasure Trove Explore pivotal moments and gripping narratives from history in this exceptional collection of historical hardcover books. Each volume offers insights into extraordinary events, influential figures, and...
Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey: The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle
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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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Wordy
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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,...
Lena Horne: Goddess Reclaimed
Author: Donald BogleFormat: Hardback, 214mm x 256mm, 1380g, 272 pagesPublished: Running Press,U.S., United States, 2023From Donald Bogle, the award-winning author of Hollywood Black and leading authority on Black cinema history,...
American Sirens: The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America's First Paramedics
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Author: Kevin HazzardFormat: Paperback, 138mm x 208mm, 300g, 352 pagesPublished: Hachette Books, United States, 2024Until the 1970s, if you suffered a medical crisis, your chances of survival were minimal. A...
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 Prince and the Assassin: Australia's First Royal Tour and Portent of World Terror
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Military Atlas of World War II
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The Legend Of Napoleon
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Aboriginal Victorians: A history since 1800
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Underworld: Flooded Kingdoms of the Ice Age
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Sweet Violence: The Idea of the Tragic
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Daniel Solander
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Love and Freedom: Professional Women and the Reshaping of Personal Life
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Sir Francis Drake: The Queen's Pirate
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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...
The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison
Author: Hugh Ryan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 The Women's House of Detention, a landmark that ushered in the modern era of women's imprisonment, is now largely forgotten. But...