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(Paperback)
By: Dan Cruickshank
ISBN: 9780099559092
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2017
UK Publication Date: 15th June 2017
Publisher: Cornerstone
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Starting in Roman times and continuing right up to the present day, this book explains how Spitalfields' streets evolved, what people have lived there, and what lives they have led.
(Hardback)
By: Dr. Joshua Bennett
ISBN: 9781529110487
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2023
UK Publication Date: 16th March 2023
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: Michael Downing
ISBN: 9781582434957
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2009
Publisher: Counterpoint
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Downing is obsessed with Daylight Saving, the loopy idea that became the most persistent political controversy in American history. "Spring Forward" is his portrait of public policy in the 20th century, a perennially boiling cauldron of unsubstantiated science, profiteering masked as piety, and mysteriously shifting time-zone boundaries.
(Paperback)
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2024
Publisher: Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers Ltd
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A new, beautifully illustrated, official history of St Catharines College, Cambridge the first since 1997, and published in celebration of the Colleges 550th anniversary.
(Paperback)
By: Jonathan Miles
ISBN: 9780099592792
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2018
UK Publication Date: 5th April 2018
Publisher: Cornerstone
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(Paperback)
By: Dominic Sandbrook
ISBN: 9780141032153
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2011
UK Publication Date: 26th May 2011
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The early 1970s were the age of gloom and glam. Under Edward Heath, the optimism of the Sixties had become a distant memory. Now the headlines were dominated by social unrest, fuel shortages, unemployment and inflation. This book tells the history of the gaudy, schizophrenic atmosphere of the early Seventies.
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By: Joyce Marlow
ISBN: 9780349007748
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2015
UK Publication Date: 3rd September 2015
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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* A comprehensive anthology of the long and bloody history of women's struggle to get the vote. Here is the story in the voices of the women themselves.
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By: Andrea Stuart
ISBN: 9781846270727
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2013
UK Publication Date: 6th June 2013
Publisher: Granta Books
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An epic and intimate story of the crop that created nations, enriched empires, enslaved peoples -- and determined the destiny of one family over four centuries.
(Paperback)
By: Georgina Sturge
ISBN: 9780349129013
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2025
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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A history of the UK told through statistics
(Hardback)
By: Georgina Sturge
ISBN: 9780349129020
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2025
UK Publication Date: 10th April 2025
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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A history of the UK told through how we have collected statistics about ourselves - and how we decide what (and who) counts
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By: Edward Glaeser
ISBN: 9781529364330
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2021
Publisher: John Murray Press
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Survival of the City is an essential guide to the past and future of our cities
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By: Edward Glaeser
ISBN: 9781529364323
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2021
UK Publication Date: 2nd September 2021
Publisher: John Murray Press
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Survival of the City is an essential guide to the past and future of our cities
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By: Edward Glaeser
ISBN: 9781529364347
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2022
UK Publication Date: 1st September 2022
Publisher: John Murray Press
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Survival of the City is an essential guide to the past and future of our cities
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By: Elizabeth Rosner
ISBN: 9781640091078
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2018
Publisher: Counterpoint
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(Hardback)
By: Hannah Durkin
ISBN: 9780008446512
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2024
UK Publication Date: 18th January 2024
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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This is an immersive and revelatory history of the survivors of the Clotilda, the last ship of the Atlantic slave trade, whose lives diverged and intersected in profound ways.
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By: Rossi Anastopoulo
ISBN: 9781419754883
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2025
Publisher: Abrams
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A delicious and delightful narrative history of pie in America, from the colonial era through the civil rights movement and beyond
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By: Mike Thomson
ISBN: 9781474605922
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2020
UK Publication Date: 9th July 2020
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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The extraordinary story of how the besieged Syrian town of Daraya found hope and inspiration in a secret underground library
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By: Living Cities
ISBN: 9781507216491
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2022
Publisher: Adams Media Corporation
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Discover how Black, Indigenous, and people of color in America experience societal, economic, and infrastructural inequality throughout history.
(Hardback)
By: Katerina Gordeeva
ISBN: 9780753560594
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2024
UK Publication Date: 6th June 2024
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: Ysenda Maxtone Graham
ISBN: 9780349143064
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2017
UK Publication Date: 2nd November 2017
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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In Terms & Conditions Ysenda speaks to members of a lost tribe - the Boarding-school Women, grandmothers now and the backbone of the nation, who look back on their experiences with a mixture of horror and humour.
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By: Leon Trotsky
ISBN: 9781786633439
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2017
Publisher: Verso Books
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Written in the white heat of revolutionary Russia's Civil War, Trotsky's Terrorism and Communism is one of the most potent defenses of revolutionary dictatorship. In his provocative commentary to this new edition the philosopher Slavoj AiAek argues that Trotsky's attack on the illusions of liberal democracy has a vital relevance today.
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By: Jason Sandy
ISBN: 9781784424329
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2021
UK Publication Date: 18th February 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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How archaeologists and mudlarks have uncovered the history of London through objects dug up from the mud of the River Thames.
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By: Deirdre Mask
ISBN: 9781781259016
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2021
UK Publication Date: 1st April 2021
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
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An exuberant work of popular history: why something as seemingly mundane as an address can save lives or serve the powerful.
(Paperback)
By: Simon Heffer
ISBN: 9780099592242
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2018
UK Publication Date: 20th September 2018
Publisher: Cornerstone
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