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By: Thomas Foster
ISBN: 9780807050392
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2018
Publisher: Beacon Press
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By: Eleanor Herman
ISBN: 9780060585440
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2005
UK Publication Date: 17th March 2005
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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From the dawn of time, power has been an aphrodisiac. The royal mistress, having conquered a king, often ran his kingdom, wielding her sexuality as a sceptre. This book explores the position of royal mistress at European Courts, and the fascinating women who filled it.
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By: Eleanor Herman
ISBN: 9780063028951
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2021
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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By: Eleanor Herman
ISBN: 9780060846749
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2007
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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A follow-up to "Sex with Kings", this book helps you discover the truth about what goes on behind the closed door of the Queen's boudoir. It combines research while accessibly telling these fascinating stories, which entertain and educate.
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By: Fern Riddell
ISBN: 9781473666290
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2022
UK Publication Date: 17th February 2022
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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a powerful new cultural history of sex written by one of the UK's most prominent historians
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By: Fern Riddell
ISBN: 9781473666252
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2021
UK Publication Date: 3rd June 2021
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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a powerful new cultural history of sex written by one of the UK's most prominent historians
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By: Karl Jacoby
ISBN: 9780143116219
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2009
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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A masterful reconstruction of one of the worst Indian massacres in American history.
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By: Angus Konstam
ISBN: 9781472808691
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2014
UK Publication Date: 20th November 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Since the days of the Ancient Greeks, naval ships of all sizes have revolutionized warfare. This guide provides essential information on 40 iconic ships, using detailed profile artwork to illustrate and aid recognition, as well as specification boxes to provide all the technical details.
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By: Christopher Somerville
ISBN: 9780857523655
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2020
UK Publication Date: 19th March 2020
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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By: Sam Willis
ISBN: 9781848664333
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2014
UK Publication Date: 5th December 2013
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
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The drama and tragedy behind history's most infamous shipwrecks.
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By: Dr Pamela Cox
ISBN: 9780099594680
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2015
Publisher: Cornerstone
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Tells true stories of life behind the counter. In this history, we join shopgirl Chili Bouchier on her journey from the small ladies' department at Harrods to star of the silver screen, and experience the raw courage of John Lewis' Miss Austin during the Blitz in the West End.
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By: Jake Hall
ISBN: 9781398718609
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2025
UK Publication Date: 6th February 2025
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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A love letter to the pioneers of solidarity and coalition, Shoulder to Shoulder by author and journalist Jake Hall sheds light on the astounding untold lives of marginalised activists across the world.
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By: Andy Letcher
ISBN: 9780571227716
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2007
UK Publication Date: 5th April 2007
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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A unique and engaging study of this most extraordinary of psychedelic drugs.
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By: Charles Rangeley-Wilson
ISBN: 9781784703653
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2019
UK Publication Date: 1st August 2019
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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(Hardback)
By: Caroline Alexander
ISBN: 9781804189870
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2025
UK Publication Date: 13th February 2025
Publisher: Bonnier Books Ltd
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THE LITTLE-KNOWN STORY OF THE ALLIES' FIGHT IN WWII'S CHAOTIC AND LETHAL CHINA BURMA-INDIA THEATER.
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By: David Alan Richards
ISBN: 9781681775173
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2017
Publisher: Pegasus Books
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The mysterious, highly influential hidden world of Yale's secret societies is revealed in a definitive and scholarly history.
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By: Mary Frances Berry
ISBN: 9780807007839
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2025
Publisher: Beacon Press
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"An acclaimed historian narrates the stories of newly emancipated children who were re-enslaved by white masters through apprenticeships and their parents fights to free them"--
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By: Herb Frazier
ISBN: 9780306829673
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2025
Publisher: Hachette Books
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The personal account of one man's groundbreaking project to sleep overnight in the countless oft-overlooked former slave dwellings that still stand across the country, the fascinating history behind those sites, and how he has used the experiences to shed light on larger issues of race in America.
(Hardback)
By: Herb Frazier
ISBN: 9780306829666
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2023
UK Publication Date: 22nd June 2023
Publisher: Hachette Books
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In this enlightening personal account, one man tells the story of his groundbreaking project to sleep overnight in former slave dwellings that still stand across the country-revealing the fascinating history behind these sites and shedding light on larger issues of race in America.
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By: Professor Selina Todd
ISBN: 9781784703479
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Dec 2022
UK Publication Date: 10th November 2022
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Politicians claim social mobility is real a just reward for ambition and hard work.
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By: Fran Abrams
ISBN: 9781843548966
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2012
Publisher: Atlantic Books
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From the children of Victoria's reign to the kids of the new millennium, Songs of Innocence explores the seismic shift in attitudes to our formative years and reveals what has made successive generations young.
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By: Henry Hitchings
ISBN: 9781848546677
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2013
UK Publication Date: 4th July 2013
Publisher: John Murray Press
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Manners: the quintessential business of being English.
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By: Alice L. Baumgartner
ISBN: 9781541617766
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2023
Publisher: Basic Books
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A "gripping and poignant" account of the coming of the American Civil War, showing the crucial role of slaves who escaped to Mexico (Wall Street Journal).
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By: Philip Hoare
ISBN: 9781841152943
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2002
UK Publication Date: 26th March 2010
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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The story of Netley in Southampton its hospital, its people and the secret history of the 20th-century. Now with a new afterword uncovering astonishing evidence of Netley's links with Porton Down & experiments with LSD in the 1950s.
