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A new history of Hodder & Stoughton, published to celebrate the publisher's 150th birthday.

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*As read on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week*

'A genius for a certain kind of social history that, in shining a light on one small place, illuminates a huge amount' Sunday Telegraph

A toy train.

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The dramatic debates at the heart of the English Revolution

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This engaging and insightful history of the Qing dynasty (16361912) offers a systematic discussion of topics such as language, philosophy, religion, art, literature, and social customs. Nuanced and wide-ranging, noted historian Richard J. Smiths authoritative book provides an essential introduction to late imperial Chinese culture and society.

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The Quarantine Atlas is a poignant collection of more than 65 homemade maps created by people around the globe that reveal how the coronavirus pandemic has transformed our world, in ways both universal and unique. Along with eight original essays, it's a celebration of wayfinding through a crisis that altered the way we experience our environment.

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The Rainborowes bridges two generations and two worlds, weaving together the lives of the Rainborowe clan as they struggle to forge a better life for themselves and a better future for humankind in the New World.

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Yasmin Khan presents the overlooked history of India at war, and shows how mobilisation for the war unleashed seismic processes of economic, cultural and social change decisively shaping the international war effort, the unravelling of the empire and Indias own political trajectory.

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A book about a terrible photograph an exceptionally rare image documenting the horrific final moment of the murder of a family in Ukraine, 1941. By concentrating carefully on a single image the larger horror of the genocide is brought into sharp focus.

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Colin MacFarlane was born in Gorbals in the 1950s, 20 years after the publication of "No Mean City", the novel about pre-war life in what was once Glasgow's deprived district. The author witnessed the last days of old Gorbals as street boy as a regeneration programme was implemented. He reveals what it was really like to live in old Gorbals.

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Japan: The "other", lesser-known 1968

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All That Matters about the Renaissance. All That Matters books are a fast way to get right to the heart of key issues.

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A luminous feat of time travel chronicling lives in a Sussex landscape from the prize-winning author of Romantic Moderns and Weatherland.

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A compelling and persuasive account of how the Romantic Movement permanently changed the way we see things and express ourselves.

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The story of the surviving Russian Imperial Family as they head into a life of exile aboard the HMS Marlborough.

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The renowned Pan-Africanist and socialist analyses the Russian Revolution

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'Thaim wi a guid Scots tongue in their heid are fit tae gang ower the warld'

In The Scottish World, renowned broadcaster Billy Kay takes us on a global journey of discovery, highlighting the extraordinary influence the Scots have had on communities and cultures on almost every continent.

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Nothing experienced in human history, before or since, eclipses the terror, tragedy and scale of the Black Death, the disease which killed millions of people in Medieval Europe. By the time it completed its pestilential journey through the British Isles in 1350, the Black Death had left half the population dead.

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This work considers the history and development of the sea chart and the related nautical map, in both scientific and aesthetic terms.

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Georgian London evokes images of elegant buildings and fine art, but it was also a city where prostitution was rife, houses of ill repute widespread, and many tens of thousands of people dependent in some way or other on the wages of sin.

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(Paperback, 4th Edition, New Edition of The Hell-Fire Clubs)

An exploration of the origins, influences, and legacy of the scandalous Hell-Fire Clubs of the 18th century and beyond