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By: Erik Peterson
ISBN: 9781891011887
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2024
UK Publication Date: 3rd January 2025
Publisher: The Experiment LLC
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A harrowing history of a grim chapter in politics and science, in which groups of influential thinkers shaped global policy with the aim of determining who had the right to have children-and who was worthy of life.
(Hardback)
By: Preeti Dhillon
ISBN: 9780349702827
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2023
UK Publication Date: 14th September 2023
Publisher: John Murray Press
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The forgotten history of the UK's anti-racist campaigners are finally brought to life in this comprehensive account of modern British history, told through ten moments
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By: Marcus Rediker
ISBN: 9780719563034
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2008
UK Publication Date: 18th September 2008
Publisher: John Murray Press
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The human drama of the slave trade told from a new perspective, from the decks of the slave ship
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By: Hugh Thomas
ISBN: 9780753820568
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2006
UK Publication Date: 5th January 2006
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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The rise and fall of the business of slave trading - by a bestselling historian
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By: Jonathan Lyons
ISBN: 9781608195725
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A spellbinding, rich history of the American Enlightenment--think "1776" meets "The Metaphysical Club." Benjamin Franklin and his contemporaries brought the Enlightenment to AmericaNan intellectual revolution that laid the foundation for the political one that followed.
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By: W.E.B. Du Bois
ISBN: 9781598530544
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2009
Publisher: The Library of America
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Originally published: Chicago: A.C. McClurg, 1903.
(Hardback)
By: Sam Willis
ISBN: 9780718188573
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2018
UK Publication Date: 14th June 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Alasdair Cross
ISBN: 9781472281999
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2022
UK Publication Date: 26th May 2022
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
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A bestselling BBC World Service ten-part series and podcast that celebrates the men and women who built and flew the Second World War's most famous fighter plane - the Spitfire.
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By: Gilbert Seldes
ISBN: 9781590175804
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2012
UK Publication Date: 20th December 2012
Publisher: The New York Review of Books, Inc
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The Stammering Century is a model of exposition and a straight-out delight to read.
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By: Philip Oltermann
ISBN: 9780571331192
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2022
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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The extraordinary true story of the Stasi's poetry club: The Lives of Others crossed with Dead Poets Society.
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By: Nigel Cawthorne
ISBN: 9780749954154
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2013
UK Publication Date: 2nd May 2013
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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An entertaining tour of the wilder shores of the British legal system
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By: Christian Wolmar
ISBN: 9781786498649
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2021
UK Publication Date: 5th November 2020
Publisher: Atlantic Books
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Reissued in a new paperback package to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the London Underground.
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By: Duncan Barrett
ISBN: 9781471148170
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2024
UK Publication Date: 25th April 2024
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
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A warm and nostalgic social history of the women who worked at the Tate & Lyle factory on Love Lane in Liverpool
(Hardback)
By: Josef Lewkowicz
ISBN: 9781787636293
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2023
UK Publication Date: 30th March 2023
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Kent Alexander
ISBN: 9781529365870
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2020
UK Publication Date: 9th January 2020
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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The masterful true-crime account of the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing that captured the world's attention, and Richard Jewell, the heroic security guard-turned-suspect at the heart of it all.
(Hardback)
By: Karen Valby
ISBN: 9781786582492
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2024
UK Publication Date: 30th April 2024
Publisher: Bonnier Books Ltd
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The story of the groundbreaking Dance Theatre of Harlem, established by the first Black principal of the NYC Ballet, Arthur Mitchell, and five Black ballerinas who excelled despite the odds.
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By: Lizzie Collingham
ISBN: 9780141028972
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2012
UK Publication Date: 26th January 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Shows how food - and its lack - was central to the war's causes and continuation. This title explores how starvation was often a deliberate governmental policy, and reveals how the necessity of feeding whole countries leads to Pearl Harbour, Germany's invasion of Russia, and the Holocaust itself.
(Paperback)
By: William Rosen
ISBN: 9780143127147
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2015
UK Publication Date: 14th May 2015
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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(Hardback)
By: Peniel E Joseph
ISBN: 9781541600744
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2022
UK Publication Date: 29th September 2022
Publisher: Basic Books
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One of our preeminent historians of race and democracy argues that the period since 2008 has marked nothing less than America's Third Reconstruction
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By: Professor James Walvin
ISBN: 9780712667630
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2008
UK Publication Date: 7th February 2008
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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James Walvin offers a new and an original interpretation of the barbaric world of slavery and of the historic end to the slave trade in April 1807.
John Newton (1725-1807), author of 'Amazing Grace', was a slave captain who marshalled his human cargoes with a brutality that he looked back on with shame and contrition.
(Paperback)
By: Clare Bucknell
ISBN: 9781800241459
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2024
UK Publication Date: 1st February 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Greg Mitchell
ISBN: 9780552172042
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2017
UK Publication Date: 19th October 2017
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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In the summer of 1962, one year after the rise of the Berlin Wall, a group of daring young West Germans risked prison, Stasi torture and even death to liberate friends, lovers, and strangers in East Berlin by digging tunnels under the Wall. This book tells their story.
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By: Katy Kelleher
ISBN: 9781982179366
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2024
UK Publication Date: 6th June 2024
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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Paris Review columnist Katy Kelleher explores our obsession with gorgeous things, unveiling the fraught histories of makeup, flowers, perfume, silk, and other beautiful objects.
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By: John Berger
ISBN: 9781805302995
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2024
UK Publication Date: 29th February 2024
Publisher: Canongate Books
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A succinct, urgent and never-before seen collection of Berger's writing on mineworkers and miners' strikes celebrating both his acclaimed writing and deep-rooted politics
