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(Paperback)
By: Paul Kennedy
ISBN: 9780141983820
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2016
UK Publication Date: 26th January 2017
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback, Main)
By: Alexandra Harris
ISBN: 9780571350537
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2025
UK Publication Date: 13th March 2025
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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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.
(Paperback)
By: Prof. Tim Blanning
ISBN: 9780753828656
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2011
UK Publication Date: 27th October 2011
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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A compelling and persuasive account of how the Romantic Movement permanently changed the way we see things and express ourselves.
(Hardback)
By: Brian Lavery
ISBN: 9781472834089
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2018
UK Publication Date: 11th January 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Edward Dolnick
ISBN: 9780316175685
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
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A riveting portrait of the Gold Rush, by the award winning author of Down the Great Unknown and The Forger's Spell.
(Hardback)
By: Frances Welch
ISBN: 9781906021788
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2011
Publisher: Octopus Publishing Group
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The story of the surviving Russian Imperial Family as they head into a life of exile aboard the HMS Marlborough.
(Hardback)
By: Victor Sebestyen
ISBN: 9781800244719
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2023
UK Publication Date: 8th June 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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An illustrated account of one of the most pivotal events in modern history the Russian revolution of 1917.
(Paperback)
By: Billy Kay
ISBN: 9781845963170
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 2008
UK Publication Date: 7th August 2008
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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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.
(Paperback)
By: Benedict Gummer
ISBN: 9780099548836
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2010
UK Publication Date: 1st July 2010
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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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.
(Hardback, 2nd edition)
By: John Blake
ISBN: 9781844863143
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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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.
(Paperback)
By: Dan Cruickshank
ISBN: 9780099527961
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2010
UK Publication Date: 2nd September 2010
Publisher: Cornerstone
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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.
(Paperback, 4th Edition, New Edition of The Hell-Fire Clubs)
By: Geoffrey Ashe
ISBN: 9781591433484
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2019
Publisher: Inner Traditions Bear and Company
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An exploration of the origins, influences, and legacy of the scandalous Hell-Fire Clubs of the 18th century and beyond
(Hardback)
By: Kate Felus
ISBN: 9781784535728
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Published to coincide with the 2016 tercentenary of the birth of Lancelot 'Capability' Brown, arguably Britain's greatest ever landscape gardener, this book is uniquely positioned to put Brown's work into its social context.
(Paperback)
By: Tilar J Mazzeo
ISBN: 9780061791031
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2011
UK Publication Date: 5th October 2011
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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Reverently known among fragrance industry insiders as "le monstre" - the monster - Chanel Number 5 is arguably the most coveted consumer luxury product of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This title uncovers the story of Number 5's creation, iconic status, and extraordinary success.
(Paperback)
By: Catherine Bailey
ISBN: 9780141035673
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2013
UK Publication Date: 2nd May 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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At 6 am on 21 April 1940 John the 9th Duke of Rutland, and one of Britain's wealthiest men, ended his days, virtually alone, lying on a makeshift bed in a dank cramped suite of rooms in the servants' quarters of his own home, Belvoir Castle, in Leicestershire.
(Hardback)
By: Meg Clothier
ISBN: 9781785949265
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2024
UK Publication Date: 24th October 2024
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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(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
(Paperback)
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
(Paperback)
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
(Paperback)
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.
(Paperback)
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: Primary and Secondary Educational
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.
(Paperback, Main)
By: Gilbert Seldes
ISBN: 9781590175804
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2012
UK Publication Date: 20th December 2012
Publisher: New York Review Books
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The Stammering Century is a model of exposition and a straight-out delight to read.
