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By: Natalie Haynes
ISBN: 9781529089493
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2023
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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The scintillating follow-up to Pandora's Jar from bestselling author Natalie Haynes.
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By: Michela Wrong
ISBN: 9780008238902
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2022
UK Publication Date: 31st March 2022
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2022 Superb The Times Engrossing and revelatory' Observer Powerful, compelling and meticulously researched New Statesman
(Hardback)
By: Robert Bowker
ISBN: 9781742236643
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2021
Publisher: NewSouth Publishing
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(Hardback)
By: John Wukovits
ISBN: 9780306922053
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2019
Publisher: Hachette Books
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From an expert in the Pacific theater of World War II comes the tragic story of the pilots who fought the last fight of the war during the first hour of peace
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By: Kathleen Walker-Meikle
ISBN: 9780712353021
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2021
UK Publication Date: 22nd October 2020
Publisher: British Library Publishing
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Featuring stunning illustrations from the British Library's rich medieval collection, Dogs in Medieval Manuscripts provides - through discussion of dogs both real and imaginary - an astonishing picture of the relationship of dogs to humans in the medieval world.
(Hardback)
By: Caroline Cheung
ISBN: 9780691243009
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2024
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Hardback)
By: Margaret Willes
ISBN: 9781851245130
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2020
Publisher: Bodleian Library
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This book shows how various plants were used for cooking and brewing, medicines and cosmetics, in the making and care of clothes, and finally to keep rooms fresh, fragrant and decorated during the seventeenth-century. Richly illustrated, it provides an intriguing and original focus on the domestic history of Stuart England.
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By: Peter Ackroyd
ISBN: 9781509881321
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2019
UK Publication Date: 19th September 2019
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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The fifth instalment in Peter Ackroyd's acclaimed and bestselling six-volume History of England.
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By: Peter Ackroyd
ISBN: 9781509880027
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2018
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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The fifth instalment in Peter Ackroyd's acclaimed and bestselling six-volume History of England.
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By: Tom Holland
ISBN: 9780349141206
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2020
UK Publication Date: 6th August 2020
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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'If great books encourage you to look at the world in an entirely new way, then Dominion is a very great book indeed . . . Written with terrific learning, enthusiasm and good humour, Holland's book is not just supremely provocative, but often very funny' Sunday Times
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By: Ben Macintyre
ISBN: 9781526682659
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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From Ben Macintyre, Number One bestselling author of Agent Zigzag and Operation Mincemeat, comes a new true story of Second World War deception
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By: Richard Minear
ISBN: 9781565847040
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2001
Publisher: The New Press
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This volume contains a treasure trove of World War II era political cartoons by the creator of "The Cat in the Hat", as political cartoonist for the New York daily newspaper. His remarkable and arresting cartoons exhort readers to give full support to the war effort, put up with shortages, buy US savings bonds, and help control inflation.
(Paperback)
By: Eleanor Parker
ISBN: 9781350165359
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Tim Benson
ISBN: 9781912600151
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2025
UK Publication Date: 28th November 2024
Publisher: Halban Publishers
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Sharp wits and sharper pencils capture the twists and turns of British, Palestinian and Jewish history in the twentieth century.
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By: Frank Bongiorno
ISBN: 9781760640095
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2022
Publisher: Black Inc.
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(Paperback)
By: James Meek
ISBN: 9781788737753
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2021
UK Publication Date: 23rd February 2021
Publisher: Verso Books
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The anatomy of a nation: the search for the soul of post-Brexit Britain
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By: Sinclair McKay
ISBN: 9780241986011
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2020
UK Publication Date: 3rd September 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: Verity Wilson
ISBN: 9781789145298
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2022
UK Publication Date: 15th August 2022
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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The colourful story of fancy dress in Britain.
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By: Kris Butler
ISBN: 9781851245789
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2024
Publisher: Bodleian Library
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A fascinating exploration of the history of alcohol in Victorian Britain via the drink maps that were produced by the temperance movement to promote sobriety.
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By: Stephen Snelders
ISBN: 9781526167224
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2023
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Drug smuggler nation shows how and why the Netherlands developed into a central hub of international illegal drug trade in the 20th century. The book develops a model of 'criminal anarchy' that is historically, socially, and culturally embedded in Dutch society to explain the failures of the state's regulatory policies and law enforcement.
(Paperback, Volume 1)
By: Carol Bunyan
ISBN: 9781925495492
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2018
Publisher: Monash University Publishing
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(Paperback, Volume 2)
By: Ken Inglis
ISBN: 9781925835656
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2020
Publisher: Monash University Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: Lucy Noakes
ISBN: 9781526163912
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2022
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Drawing on a range of material, the book demonstrates just how much death matters in wartime - not just to the individual, threatened with their own death, or the death of loved ones, but to the state, tasked with managing the deaths of its citizens in conflict. -- .
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By: Tom Holland
ISBN: 9780349123837
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2016
UK Publication Date: 2nd June 2016
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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A masterful history of Rome's first imperial dynasty by the award-winning author of Rubicon, Persian Fire and In the Shadow of the Sword.
