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People's Party: The History of the Labour Party
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Twilight at the World of Tomorrow: Genius, Madness, Murder, and the 1939 World's Fair on the Brink of War
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The Age of Revolutions: And the Generations Who Made It
A panoramic new history of the revolutionary decades between 1760 and 1825, from North America and Europe to Haiti and Spanish America, showing how progress and reaction went hand in...
All the Rage: Power, Pain, Pleasure: Stories from the Frontline of Beauty 1860-1960
'No one else makes history this fun' AMANDA FOREMAN'All the Rage sits you at the dressing table of history: a place of dreams, doubts, self-harm and hopes' SARAH DITUM, SUNDAY...
Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century
From the bestselling author of Chums comes an explorer's tale of a naif getting to understand a complex, glittering, beautiful and often cruel city.Simon Kuper has experienced Paris both as...
Finding Home: A Windrush Story
On 24 May 1948, the Empire Windrush sailed from Kingston, Jamaica, to harbour at Tilbury Docks. It carried 1,027 passengers and some stowaways, and more than two thirds of them...
Ira Hayes: The Akimel O'odham Warrior, World War II, and the [...]
The gripping, forgotten tale of Ira Hayes-a Native American icon and World War II legend that spent the latter half of his life haunted by being a war hero. IRA...
Migrants: The Story of Us All
Migrants cuts through the toxic debates to tell the rich and collective stories of humankind's urge to move<'Fascinating... Miller's perspective may be just what we need' Daily Telegraph'Enjoyable, provocative and...
Racers of the Deep: The Yankee Clippers and Bluenose Clippers on the Australian Run 1852-1869
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Seistan. A Memoir on the History, Topography, Ruins and People of the Country
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Author: G. P. TateBinding: HardbackPublished: Gosha-e-adab, Quetta, 1977Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerThis memoir explores the rich history, diverse topography, and significant ruins of Seistan, shedding light...
Reflections
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Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America's Journey [...]
A shattering narrative of how a nation embraced "separation" and its pernicious consequences. Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court case synonymous with "separate but equal," drew remarkably little attention when...
Fractured Times: Culture and Society in the Twentieth Century
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Eric Hobsbawm, who passed away in 2012, was one of the most brilliant and original historians of our age. Through his work, he observed the great twentieth-century confrontation between bourgeois...
A Voyage Around the Queen
From one of the funniest writers of our time, the award-winning and Sunday Times bestselling author of One Two Three Four and Ma'am Darling turns his attention to Queen Elizabeth...
Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade
SHORTLISTED FOR THE NONFICTION CROWN AWARD 2024GUARDIAN: BOOKS TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2024'GRIPPING' THE TIMES This is an immersive and revelatory history of the survivors of the Clotilda, the...
Queens of a Fallen World: The Lost Women of Augustine's Confessions
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Author: Kate Cooper Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 FINALIST: THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2023 The vibrant and surprising lives of the women in Augustine's Confessions While many know of...
A Short History Of The University Of Melbourne, A
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Tobacco: The Story of How Tobacco Seduced the World
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Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
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How to Fit All of Ancient Greece in an Elevator
'Irresistibly fascinating' MARIE CLAIRE GREECE'Essential' VICTORIA HISLOP'Brilliantly conceived' PAUL CARTLEDGEAn enormous bestseller in Greece, this is a bold, witty retelling of the story of Ancient Greece by a rising star...
Ship Decoration 1630-1780
This book is a detailed comparative study of the decorative work - figurehead, topside ornamentation and stern gallery design - carried by the ships of the major maritime states of...
Islam: A Thousand Years of Faith and Power, Pub: TV Books, 1619 Broadway, 9th Floor, New York NY 10019
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A Soldier's View of Empire: The Reminiscences of James Bodell 1831-92
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Author: Keith SinclairBinding: HardbackPublished: The Bodley Head, 1982Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tearPages: Aging or markingMarkings: No markingsThis book is a collection of reminiscences from James Bodell, covering his experiences...
They Dreamt of a School - Methodist Ladies' College Kew 1882-1982
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Author: Ailsa G. Thomson ZainuddinBinding: HardbackPublished: Hyland House, 1982Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: UnblemishedPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book provides a centenary history of the Methodist Ladies' College in Kew, detailing its establishment,...
THE SCIENCE MUSEUM OF VICTORIA: A History of Its First Hundred Years
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Author: Warren PerryBinding: HardbackPublished: Science Museum of Victoria, 1972Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book chronicles the first hundred years of the Science Museum of Victoria, detailing...
Once Is Enough
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Author: Miles SmeetonBinding: HardbackPublished: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1959, First EditionCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Aging or markingMarkings: No markingsOnce Is Enough is an account of Miles Smeeton's experiences aboard the...
Travelling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell
Time Must-Read Books of 2024Independent Best Non-Fiction Books 2024Mojo Books of the Year 2024"A vibrant, multifaceted portrait of a music enigma" Guardian"A powerful portrait" Irish Independent"Displays a bracing rigour and...
True Facts That Sound Like Bull$#*t: World History: 500 Preposterous Facts They Definitely Didn't Teach You in School
Turkeys used to be worshipped as gods? Bull$#*t! Prove you are the smartest schmuck in the room with 500 world history facts that sound too absurd to be true.Knowledge is...
How The World Ran Out Of Everything
By the New York Times's Global Economics Correspondent, an extraordinary journey to understand the worldwide supply chain-exposing both the fascinating pathways of manufacturing and transportation that bring products to your...
The Perfect Tonic: The Remarkable Medicinal History of Beer, Wine, Spirits and Cocktails
Shortlisted for the Andre Simon Food & Drink Book AwardAn intoxicating interconnected history of booze and medicine, from one of the world's foremost cocktail writers. Consider the Negroni. The bittersweet...
You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays
'One of the greatest writers of our time.' Toni Morrison'You Don't Know Us Negroes adds immeasurably to our understanding of Hurston ... her words make it impossible for readers to...
Everest: Fifty Years of Conquest
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Flinders: The fascinating life, loves & great adventures of the man who put Australia on the map
The extraordinary life, loves and voyages of the man who put Australia on the map, now with a foreword from Flinders' great-great-great-grand-daughters on the 250th anniversary of his birth...
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...
That Disreputable Firm
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Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade
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Boy Soldiers: A Personal Story of Nazi Elite Schooling and its Legacy of Trauma
Shining a light on the largely untold story of elite-schooled child and youth soldiers under the Nazi regime. Schooled by Barbarians documents the untold story of how the Nazis abused...
Stalingrad: The Vital 7 Days
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Endgame
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Meghan Misunderstood
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Question of Loyalty Gen Billy Mitchell
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Envoys to the Arab World: v. 2: Mecas Memoirs, 1944-2009
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A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War Torn Skies of World War II
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Roma: From Prison to Paradise
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A Brief History of the Human Race
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The Cultivation of Hatred: The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud
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The Few: The American "Knights of the Air" Who Risked Everything to Save Britain in the Summer of 1940
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Penguin Atlas of Recent History: Europe Since 1815
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