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(Hardback)
By: Kevin Bales
ISBN: 9780812995763
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2016
UK Publication Date: 5th April 2016
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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(Paperback, 2nd edition)
By: Greg Campbell
ISBN: 9780465029914
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2012
Publisher: Basic Books
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First discovered in 1930, the diamonds of Sierra Leone have funded one of the most savage rebel campaigns in modern history. These blood diamonds are smuggled out of West Africa and sold to legitimate diamond merchants in London, Antwerp, and New York. This title presents a portrait of the global network of blood diamonds.
(Paperback)
By: Bryan Sykes
ISBN: 9780552154659
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2007
UK Publication Date: 3rd September 2007
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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Bryan Sykes, the world's first genetic archaeologist, takes us on a journey around the family tree of Britain and Ireland, to reveal how our tribal history still colours the country today.
In 54BC Julius Caesar launched the first Roman invasion of Britain.
(Paperback)
By: Robert Winder
ISBN: 9780349138800
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2013
UK Publication Date: 30th May 2013
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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The story of immigration to Britain from the Romans to asylum seekers - a moving and inspiring history which chronicles the remarkable stories of immigration that founded and defined a nation
(Hardback)
By: Keith Thomson
ISBN: 9780316703611
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2022
UK Publication Date: 2nd June 2022
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
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Discover the "fascinating and outrageously readable" account of the roguish acts of the first pirates to raid the Pacific in a crusade that ended in a sensational trial back in England-perfect for readers of Nathaniel Philbrick and David McCullough (Douglas Preston, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Lost City of the Monkey God)
(Paperback)
By: Mark Riddaway
ISBN: 9781529349733
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2023
UK Publication Date: 10th November 2022
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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A short history of Britain's favourite food and drink; from strawberries to spaghetti, tomatoes to tea, and how we have enjoyed them over the centuries
(Paperback)
By: Chris Renwick
ISBN: 9780141980355
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2018
UK Publication Date: 2nd August 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: D J Taylor
ISBN: 9780099474470
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2008
UK Publication Date: 2nd October 2008
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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The Bright Young People were one of the most extraordinary youth cults in British history. A pleasure-seeking band of bohemian party-givers and blue-blooded socialites, they romped through the 1920s gossip columns. This book chronicles England's 'lost generation' of the Jazz Age.
(Paperback)
By: Richard Gott
ISBN: 9781839764226
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2022
Publisher: Verso Books
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A magisterial history of the foundation of the British Empire, and the forgotten story of native resistance.
(Hardback)
By: Susan Kingsley Kent
ISBN: 9781350291676
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2025
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A survey of settler colonialism across the British Empire from 1530 to the present, centering indigenous peoples and cultures in the global history of empire.
(Paperback, Main)
By: Mr Richard King
ISBN: 9780571295654
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2023
UK Publication Date: 16th February 2023
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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Brittle with Relics is a landmark history of the people ofWales during a period of great national change.
(Paperback)
By: Bonnie Suchman
ISBN: 9781098392062
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2022
Publisher: BookBaby
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(Hardback)
By: Alistair Fair
ISBN: 9781350401709
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2025
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Courtney Hargrave
ISBN: 9781408892619
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Mary M. McGlone
ISBN: 9781098320225
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2021
Publisher: BookBaby
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(Paperback)
By: Jeff Chang
ISBN: 9780091912215
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2007
UK Publication Date: 2nd August 2007
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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He not only provides a history of the music, but a fascinating insight into the social background of young black America.
Stretching from the early 70s through to the present day, this is the definitive history of hip-hop.
(Paperback)
By: Helen Rappaport
ISBN: 9780099592426
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2017
UK Publication Date: 9th February 2017
Publisher: Cornerstone
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Between the first revolution in February 1917, and Lenin's Bolshevik coup in October, Petrograd was in turmoil. Foreign visitors who filled hotels, bars and embassies were acutely aware of the chaos breaking out on their doorsteps. Among them were journalists, diplomats, businessmen, governesses and volunteer nurses.
(Paperback)
By: Liza Picard
ISBN: 9781780228907
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2018
UK Publication Date: 18th October 2018
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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A fascinating exploration of the Middle Ages through the lives of Geoffrey Chaucer's pilgrims in The Canterbury Tales.
(Paperback)
By: Giles Milton
ISBN: 9781529393163
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2021
Publisher: John Murray Press
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A compulsive page-turner about the battle for Berlin and control of the Western world in the aftermath of the Second World War from 'the master of narrative history'.
(Hardback, Main)
By: Gavin Weightman
ISBN: 9781848871175
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2011
Publisher: Atlantic Books
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Vivid in its execution and original in its argument, this book tells the story of how the discovery of electricity changed Britain forever.
(Paperback)
By: David Hanson
ISBN: 9781472220431
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2015
UK Publication Date: 2nd July 2015
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
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Focusing on the lives of the apprentices at Quarry Bank Mill, David Hanson's book uses a wealth of first-person source material including letters, diaries, mill records, to tell the stories of the children who lived and worked at Quarry Bank throughout the nineteenth century.
(Hardback)
By: Joe Duffy
ISBN: 9781473697355
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2019
Publisher: Hachette Books Ireland
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Based on original interviews with almost 100 families, as well as extensive archival research, this unique book includes children who have never been publicly acknowledged as victims of the Troubles, and draws a compelling social and cultural picture of the era.
(Hardback)
By: Liang Hong
ISBN: 9781839761775
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2021
Publisher: Verso Books
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An unforgettable portrait of the tectonic shifts happening in rural China-told through the microcosm of one small town
(Hardback)
By: Dr Maris Boyd Gillette
ISBN: 9781474259415
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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