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Evokes the world of Renaissance medicine to tell the tale of surgeon Leonardo Fioravanti.

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This book is an up-to-date analysis and review of the trends and events which marked the slow and uncertain progress of Britain towards representative parliamentary democracy from 1830 to 1918.

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This introduction to England's past by Christopher Hibbert goes from the first encounter with England's Neolithic inhabitants, through the entire course of the country's political, economic and cultural history, to an expression of faith in the qualities of the English today.

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'I remember standing on top of our local glen with a block of wood, expecting thousands of Germans coming down from the sky.

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Objects found on the banks of the Thames tell the stories of Londoners through the centuries.

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Here Timothy Tackett tests some of the diverse explanations of the origins of the French Revolution by examining the psychological itineraries of the individuals who launched it--the deputies of the Estates General and the National Assembly. Based on a wide variety of sources, notably the letters and diaries of over a hundred deputies, the book ass

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Christopher Hitchens' iconclastic collection is the perfect companion to US-UK relations by the greatest Anglo-American writer of his generation.

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The first full biography of the five remarkable daughters of Edward I.

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The first full biography of the five remarkable daughters of Edward I.

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Marion Meade portrays Eleanor of Aquitaine as a woman of enormous intelligence and titanic energy who lived in a passionate and creative age.

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Scenes from the turbulent life of the rich, glamorous and beautiful Nancy Cunard

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Every day told seven ways: a unique collaborative novel by seven of the most exciting talents in YA.

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A book about the story behind the historic meeting between Franklin D Roosevelt and King George VI on the eve of the Second World War, now the subject of a major Hollywood movie, Hyde Park on Hudson, starring Bill Murray as FDR.

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Acclaimed biographer Linda Porter on Henry VIII's last queen, showing her to have been a more human, complex and modern figure than has hitherto been realized.

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* Tom Holland, author of RUBICON and PERSIAN FIRE, gives a thrilling panoramic account of the birth of the new Western Europe in the year 1000

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Chronicling 200 years of glamour, hedonism and crime, this rich and vivid history of the French Riviera features a vast cast of famous characters.

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Early historic Scotland was home to a variety of diverse peoples and cultures, all competing for land and supremacy. Yet by the eleventh century it had become a single, unified kingdom, known as Alba, under a stable and successful monarchy. How did this happen, and when A new and revised edition of a highly regarded book.

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An acclaimed history of the biggest, brashest and most tumultuous decade in recent British history.

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In 1950, Ian Robertson Hamilton, a law student, took the Stone of Destiny from beneath the Coronation Chair in Westminster Abbey, leading to the outrage of the English establishment. This book sets down the chain of events which led to his decision to go to London, remove the Stone and a minute-by-minute account of the act and the aftermath.

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A gripping tour d'horizon of the state of the world as it is in 2017 from an acclaimed historian.

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Volume 2 of The Campbells of the Ark

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"Elegant, entertaining and occasionally brilliant... As this book powerfully demonstrates, French history is nothing if not built on paradox and contradiction. Most importantly, Robb reminds us why France still matters." Observer

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A magnificent new study of the political crisis that produced the overthrow of King Charles I, and came to engulf all three Stuart kingdoms - England, Scotland, and Ireland - in war during the 1640s.

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An original and compelling history of the northern European medieval renaissance in art, science and philosophy, which rivalled its Italian counterpart, by the author of The Florentines and The Borgias.