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By: Andrew Edwards
ISBN: 9781838603885
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Murder, music and the mafia in Sicily's Grand Hotel.
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By: Richard Lloyd Parry
ISBN: 9781784704889
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2018
UK Publication Date: 17th May 2018
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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A remarkable and deeply moving book Henry Marsh, bestselling author of Do No Harm
A breathtaking, extraordinary work of non-fiction Times Literary Supplement
On 11 March 2011, a massive earthquake sent a 120-foot-high tsunami smashing into the coast of north-east Japan.
(Paperback)
By: Charles Pellegrino
ISBN: 9780060751005
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2005
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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A fascinating look at Pompeii, Herculaneum and the Vesuvius eruption in comparison with other historically significant volcanic eruptions, including the World Trade Centre disaster.
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By: Lesley Adkins
ISBN: 9780349142395
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2019
UK Publication Date: 7th March 2019
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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An epic page-turner filled with tales of courage, desperation, endurance and intrigue, brought to life by eyewitness accounts and expert research.
(Hardback)
By: Andrew Gimson
ISBN: 9781910931431
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2018
UK Publication Date: 15th March 2018
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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(Hardback)
By: Andrew Gimson
ISBN: 9780224101196
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2015
UK Publication Date: 20th August 2015
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Taking the reader through the lives of our monarchs, this book tells a tale of bastardy, courage, conquest, brutality, vanity, vulgarity, corruption, anarchy, absenteeism, piety, nobility, divorce, execution, civil war, madness, magnificence, profligacy, frugality, philately, abdication, dutifulness, family breakdown and family recovery.
(Hardback)
By: Dr Moses Jenkins
ISBN: 9781784423438
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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An accessible and colorful illustrated narrative of the manufacturing and social history of a favorite British tipple.
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By: Rosalind Miles
ISBN: 9780349006086
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2021
UK Publication Date: 1st March 2021
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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All you ever wanted to know about women's history from the bestselling author. How far we have come! How far we - and men too- have yet to go. Exhilarating and inspiring for readers of all ages. Formerly published as Rebel Women
(Paperback)
By: Franois Gilbert
ISBN: 9781472850928
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2022
UK Publication Date: 18th August 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This new study lifts the veil on the high-profile but often misunderstood gladiators of ancient Rome, from their origins to the dawn of the Principate.
(Hardback)
By: Michael Fry
ISBN: 9781784975821
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A one volume history of the great city of Glasgow from the Celts to Celtic by the controversial Scottish historian and biographer of Edinburgh.
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By: John Prebble
ISBN: 9780140028973
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 1973
UK Publication Date: 25th January 1973
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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'You are hereby ordered to fall upon the rebels, the MacDonalds of Glencoe, and to put all to the sword under seventy.' This was the treacherous and cold-blooded order ruthlessly carried out on 13 February 1692, when the Campbells slaughtered their hosts the MacDonalds at the Massacre of Glencoe. This book describes the terrible events at Glencoe.
(Paperback)
By: A G Hopkins
ISBN: 9780712677400
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2002
UK Publication Date: 3rd January 2002
Publisher: Vintage
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A second view holds that globalisation has a long history that can be traced back to the nineteenth century, if not earlier. First, it offers a categorisation of types and stages of globalisation that existed before the late twentieth century, No such taxonomy exists at present.
(Paperback)
By: Catharine Arnold
ISBN: 9781471125706
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2016
UK Publication Date: 7th April 2016
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: James Peill
ISBN: 9781472128256
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2021
UK Publication Date: 25th June 2020
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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The history of Goodwood, England's greatest sporting estate
(Paperback)
By: Colin Brown
ISBN: 9781851689927
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2013
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
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Discover the secret, intimate stories that animate the watershed events of British history, plus a new chapter on the defining event of twenty-first century Britain Brexit!
(Paperback)
By: Lawrence Wright
ISBN: 9780141987002
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2019
UK Publication Date: 31st January 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: Rosie Brooks
ISBN: 9781399809917
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2023
UK Publication Date: 13th April 2023
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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The guide to our National Anthem, with fascinating facts and the words to learn our most famous song, God Save the King is a beautiful souvenir gift!
(Paperback, Main)
By: Dr Michel Siochr
ISBN: 9780571218462
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2009
UK Publication Date: 4th June 2009
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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A compelling insight into one of the most controversial figures in Anglo-Irish history.
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By: Michael Braddick
ISBN: 9780141008974
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2009
UK Publication Date: 29th January 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The sequence of civil wars that ripped England apart in the seventeenth century was one of the most devastating conflicts in its history. This book illuminates what it was like to live through a time of terrifying violence, religious fervor and radical politics.
(Paperback)
By: Michael Medved
ISBN: 9780451497437
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2021
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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Originally published in hardcover in 2019 by Crown Forum.
(Paperback)
By: Charles Allen
ISBN: 9780349118796
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2007
UK Publication Date: 18th January 2007
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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A fascinating history of the religious fanatics that would come to be known as the founding fathers of Islamic terrorism and who set down the intellectual roots of Al Queda.
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By: Christopher Tyerman
ISBN: 9780140269802
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2007
UK Publication Date: 4th October 2007
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A story of how a group of warriors, driven by faith, greed and wanderlust, carved out new Christian-ruled states in the Middle East. The crusaders' stunning initial success started a sequence of great Crusades, each with its own story, that shaped the Christian and Muslim worlds for centuries, until the Crusader castles were finally expunged.
(Paperback, Main)
By: Jeffrey Lee
ISBN: 9781782399285
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2017
UK Publication Date: 4th May 2017
Publisher: Atlantic Books
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The sweeping story of one of the most notorious crusader knights, Reynald de Chatillon - a great Christian hero of the Second Crusade and one of the most hated figures in Islamic history.
(Paperback)
By: Reza Aslan
ISBN: 9780552174992
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2018
UK Publication Date: 9th August 2018
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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