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Esther Simpson: The True Story of her Mission to Save Scholars from
The thousands of academic refugees Esther Simpson helped rescue are well remembered. But who was she and why has history forgotten her?This is the story of Esther Simpson, a remarkable...
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
From SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING author Bettany Hughes'A wondrous wonderful achievement' Stephen Fry 'Fascinating' Observer 'Thrilling' GuardianTheir names still echo down the ages: The Great Pyramid at Giza. The Hanging Gardens...
Ruskin Park: Sylvia, Me and the BBC
Can we ever really know the truth about our parents? From the popular journalist, podcaster and tweeter about his rescue dog #SophiefromRomania comes a moving memoir in search of the...
The Slow Train: A Railway Miscellany
As the world speeds up, as technology takes over, it is worth remembering how we used to live. This three-book series is a nostalgic hymn to an era when life...
Mutiny on the Bounty: A saga of sex, sedition, mayhem and mutiny, and
The mutiny on HMS Bounty, in the South Pacific on 28 April 1789, is one of history's great epics - and in the hands of Peter FitzSimons it comes to...
One Bloody Thing After Another: The World's Gruesome History
A grisly and gruesome guide to history's most shocking and macabre moments... Horrible, spine-chilling and deeply fascinating, this book details the vile history of bloodthirsty kings and queens, savage battles,...
Pride: The Unlikely Story of the True Heroes of the Miner's Strike
Pride tells the inspiring true story of how two very different communities found common cause against overwhelming odds.In 1984, a small group of metropolitan gay mean and lesbian women stepped...
Anatomy of a Nation: A History of British Identity in 50 Documents
From an obscure, misty archipelago on the fringes of the Roman world to history's largest empire and originator of the world's mongrel, magpie language - this is Britain's past. But,...
The Quarantine Atlas: Mapping Global Life Under COVID-19
In April 2020, Bloomberg CityLab journalists Laura Bliss and Jessica Martin asked readers to submit homemade maps of their lives during the coronavirus pandemic. The response was illuminating and inspiring....
Elegy for Mary Turner: An Illustrated Account of a Lynching
In late May 1918 in Valdosta, Georgia, ten black men and one black woman, Mary Turner, eight months pregnant at the time, were lynched and tortured by mobs of white...
The Odditorium: The tricksters, eccentrics, deviants and inventors whose obsessions changed the world
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Farts Aren't Invisible: Mind-Blowing Facts From Science, History, Sport and The Universe
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Food: The History of Taste
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Darebin Parklands: Escaping the Claws of the Machine
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On This Day in History
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The Journey to the Mayflower: God's Outlaws and the Invention of Freedom
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A Mother's Sacrifice: The most moving and page-turning saga you'll read this year
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The Day the Nazis Came Here: The Astonishing True Story of a Childhood Journey from Nazi-Occupied Guernsey to the Dark Heart of a German Prison Camp
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White Butterflies
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The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America
An award-winning historian's "searing" (Wall Street Journal) account of America's internal slave trade-and its role in the making of AmericaSlave traders are peripheral figures in most histories of American slavery....
The Invention of Miracles: language, power, and Alexander Graham Bell's quest to end deafness
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The Jerusalem I Love
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Author: John ComayBinding: HardbackPublished: Steimatzky's Agency, 1976Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThe Jerusalem I Love is a heartfelt exploration of the city of Jerusalem, capturing its rich...
The Test of Time: The History of the Kingston Heath Golf Club
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Author: Stewart H. WilliamsBinding: HardbackPublished: Macmillan Company of Australia, 1981Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book chronicles the history of Kingston Heath Golf Club from its beginnings...
Victorian Shipwrecks: All Wrecks in Victorian Waters and Bass Strait, including King Island and The Kent Group
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Author: Loney, J.K.Binding: HardbackPublished: Melbourne; Hawthorn Press, 1971, First EditionCondition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tearPages: Aging or markingMarkings: Previous ownerThis book provides a comprehensive account of shipwrecks that occurred in...
The Wire Curtain School: The Earliest Years of Maribyrnong High
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Author: Barbara PertzelBinding: SoftbackPublished: HistorySmiths, 2023Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book chronicles the formative years of Maribyrnong High School, exploring its historical context and the...
The Story of P&O The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company
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Author: David Howarth & Stephen HowarthBinding: SoftbackPublished: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1994Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book chronicles the history and impact of the Peninsular and Oriental...
The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America
An award-winning historian's "searing" (Wall Street Journal) account of America's internal slave trade-and its role in the making of AmericaSlave traders are peripheral figures in most histories of American slavery....
Estates: An Intimate History
Lynsey Hanley was born and raised just outside of Birmingham on what was then the largest council estate in Europe, and she has lived for years on an estate in...
British Summer Time Begins: The School Summer Holidays 1930-1980
British Summer Time Begins is about summer holidays of the mid-twentieth century and how they were spent, as recounted to Ysenda Maxtone-Graham in vividly remembered detail by people who were...
Freedom's Dominion (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): A Saga of White
American freedom is typically associated with the fight of the oppressed for a better world. But for centuries, whenever the federal government intervened on behalf of nonwhite people, many white...
The Limits of Genius: The Surprising Stupidity of the World's Greatest
A hilarious look at how the line between 'genius' and 'extremely lucky idiot' is finer than we'd like to admit.The more you delve into the stories behind history's greatest names,...
The Secret Library: A Book Lover's Journey Through Curiosities of
How much do you know about the Victorian novelist who outsold Dickens? Or the woman who became the first published poet in America? Do you know what connects Homer's Iliad...
Ode to Hip-Hop: 50 Albums That Define 50 Years of Trailblazing Music
Celebrate the music that has shaped the culture and given us some of the greatest hits of all time with this vibrantly illustrated anthology, featuring 50 of the most lauded,...
A Brief History of Fighting Ships
This introduction to the years of the Napoleonic wars (1793 to 1815) tells the story of one of the keys to that great conflict, the Ship of the Line -...
Revolution: The History of England from the Battle of the Boyne to the
The fourth volume of Peter Ackroyd's enthralling History of England, beginning in 1688 with a revolution and ending in 1815 with a famous victory. In Revolution, Peter Ackroyd takes readers...
The History Hit Miscellany of Facts, Figures and Fascinating Finds
'History is a bottomless reservoir of all the bonkers, heroic, awful and weird things we eccentric humans have ever done. We can't help generating extraordinary stories... Most importantly, like all...
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Calendar of the state papers relating to Ireland preserved in the
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Marcel Caux: A Life Unravelled
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Bad History: How We Got the Past Wrong
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Tsukiji: The Fish Market at the Center of the World
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Promises, Promises: Essays on Literature and Psychoanalysis
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In Ruins
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150 Years of Photojournalism: v. 2
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The Story of Britain: From the Romans to the Present
'A triumph' INDEPENDENT'A thought-provoking and indispensable book' DAILY MAIL'An instant classic ... I have been reading it with unalloyed admiration and delight' EVENING STANDARDRoy Strong has written an exemplary introduction...
Clay: A Human History
'Clay contains infinite possibilities in its transmutations, evidenced on the shelves of our homes, our galleries and museums. Every time we make something with clay, we engage with the timelines...
A Force To Be Reckoned With: A History of the Women's Institute
Everyone knows three things about the Women's Institute: that they spent the war making jam; the sensational Calendar Girls were WI; and, more recently, that slow-handclapping of Tony Blair.But there's...
The Secret Mind of Bertha Pappenheim: The Woman Who Invented Freud's
The extraordinary life of a brilliant woman whose contributions to science have been lied about and misused-the Henrietta Lacks of psychoanalysis-and whose mental health struggles look different in light of...
The Butcher, the Baker, the Candlestick-Maker: The story of Britain
At the beginning of each decade for 200 years the national census has presented a self-portrait of the British Isles.The census has surveyed Britain from the Napoleonic wars to the...