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  • The Curious World of Dickens
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    The Curious World of Dickens

    Published to mark the 200th anniversary of Dickens's birth, this book celebrates the greatest of English novelists by illustrating some of his abiding preoccupations. Prompted by quotations from the novels and other writings, each themed chapter explores...
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  • Chapter of Kings
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    Chapter of Kings

    This entertaining little book veers from savage satire to idealized adoration, and offers a refreshingly irreverent overview of British rulers all the way from Caesar to George, Prince of Wales, the future king.Henry Eighth from 1509 to 1547 - in his...
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  • How to Live Like a Lord without Really Trying
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    How to Live Like a Lord without Really Trying

    Shepherd Mead, bestselling author of How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying, came to live in England with his family in 1958. Six years later he published a satirical handbook for fellow Americans to guide them through the nuances of British...
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    Ralph Ayres' Cookery Book
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    Ralph Ayres' Cookery Book

    Ralph Ayres was head cook at New College in the 1770s. This book is a fascinating insight into the eighteenth-century kitchen, a period of great interest to social and culinary historians, and includes recipes for famous dishes such as Quaking Pudding,...
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    Iceland's 1100 Years
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    Iceland's 1100 Years

    'Iceland's 1100 Years' recounts the history of a society on the margin of Europe as well as on the margin of reaching the size and wealth of a proper state. Iceland is unique among the European societies in being founded as late as the Viking Age, and in...
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    Latvia
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    Latvia

    The history of the Latvian people begins some four and a half millennia ago with the arrival of the proto-Baltic Indo-Europeans to northern Europe. One branch of these migrants coalesced into a community which evolved a distinctive and remarkably robust...
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    Black Vinyl White Powder
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    Black Vinyl White Powder

    Black Vinyl White Powder is the definitive story of five decades of British Pop - now in paperbackWhether penning hits for Dusty Springfield, discovering Marc Bolan or managing a series of stellar acts ranging from the Yardbirds to Wham! - Simon...
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    Unfortunate Ends
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    Unfortunate Ends

    From the author of Twitter's Medieval Death Bot comes Unfortunate Ends: On Murder and Misadventure in Medieval England, an illuminating collection of in-depth looks at the most interesting cases from medieval coroners' rolls.Thomas, son of Henry...
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    Fires of Lust
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    Fires of Lust

    An illuminating exploration of the surprisingly familiar sex lives of ordinary medieval people.The medieval humoral system of medicine suggested that it was possible to die from having too much - or too little - sex, while the Roman Catholic Church...
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    Cloven Country
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    Cloven Country

    According to legend, the English landscape - so calm on the surface - is really the Devil's work. Cloven Country tells of rocks hurled into place and valleys carved out by infernal labour. The Devil's hideous strength laid down great...
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    The Middle Ages and the Movies
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    The Middle Ages and the Movies

    In The Middle Ages and the Movies, eminent historian Robert Bartlett takes a fresh, cogent look at how our view of medieval history has been shaped by eight significant films of the twentieth century. The book ranges from the concoction of sex and...
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    Tycho Brahe and the Measure of the Heavens
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    Tycho Brahe and the Measure of the Heavens

    A new interpretation of Tycho Brahe's pivotal role in the emergence of empirical science.The Danish aristocrat and astronomer Tycho Brahe personified the inventive vitality of Renaissance life in the sixteenth century. Brahe lost his nose in a student...
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    Patterns of Russia
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    Patterns of Russia

    This book provides a remarkable overview of significant themes in Russian history and culture, in each case starting well before the eighteenth century, while frequently following them up into the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Robin...
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    Heroes and Marvels of the Middle Ages
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    Heroes and Marvels of the Middle Ages

    Heroes and Marvels of the Middle Ages is a history like no other: it is a history of the imagination, presented through two celebrated groups of the period. One group consists of heroes: Charlemagne, El Cid, King Arthur, Orlando, Pope Joan, Melusine,...
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    Donatello and the Dawn of Renaissance Art
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    Donatello and the Dawn of Renaissance Art

    A beautifully illustrated monograph on the innovative and at times controversial sculptor Donatello.The Italian sculptor known as Donatello helped to forge a new kind of art - one that defines the Renaissance. His work was progressive, innovative,...
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    Prague
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    Prague

    Thirty years ago Prague was a closed book to most Westerners. Today it is the continent's fifth most-visited city, surpassed only by London, Paris, Istanbul and Rome. With a stunning natural location on the Vltava river and a spectacular potpourri of...
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    Ambedkar in London
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    Ambedkar in London

    Dr Bhimrao R. Ambedkar (1891-1956) was one of India's greatest intellectuals and social reformers; his political ideas continue to inspire and mobilise some of the world's poorest and most socially disadvantaged, in India and the global...
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    The Tyne Bridge
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    The Tyne Bridge

    The Tyne Bridge, opened in 1928 by King George V, is one of Britain's most iconic structures, a Grade II* listed building. Linking Newcastle and Gateshead, this symbol of Tyneside and the region is also a monument to the Tyne's industrial past. Paul...
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    In Search of Romania
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    In Search of Romania

    The imposition of Communist ideology was a misfortune for millions in Eastern Europe, but never for Dennis Deletant. Instead, it drew him to Romania. The renowned historian's association with the country and its people dates back to 1965, when...
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    Edge of England
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    Edge of England

    The untold story of a great English county and its people, from The Vikings to Brexit.Lincolnshire is England's second-largest county - and one of the least well-known. Yet its understated chronicles, unfashionable towns and undervalued...
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    An African in Imperial London
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    An African in Imperial London

    Winner of The High Plains Book Award for Non-FictionA vivid biography of an African Edwardian chronicler of London, in a time of social upheaval.In a world dominated by the British Empire, and at a time when many Europeans considered black people...
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    Ionian Vision
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    Ionian Vision

    In this volume, Michael Llewellyn-Smith sets the Greek occupation of Smyrna and the war in Anatolia against the background of Greece's 'Great Idea' and of great power rivalries in the Near East.Michael Llewellyn-Smith sets the...
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    Estonia
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    Estonia

    With only 1.3 million inhabitants, Estonia is one of Europe's least populous nations -- yet it boasts one of the continent's fastest growing economies. In the first serious English-language history of this small Baltic state, Neil Taylor charts Estonia's...
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    Anglo-India and the End of Empire
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    Anglo-India and the End of Empire

    This refreshing account looks at the dramatic end of British rule in India through Anglo-Indian eyes, a perspective that is neither colonial apologia nor nationalist polemic. The standard image of the Raj is of an aloof, pampered and prejudiced British...
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    Wicked City
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    Wicked City

    Marseille is a thoroughly ambiguous place. France's second city and its major sea-port, its impact on the national imagination is unparalleled. Yet it is also a frontier city, arguably capital of the Mediterranean, and with a traditionally suspect...
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  • Kensington Palace
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    Kensington Palace

    For more than 200 years the younger members of the British royal family - including future monarchs - have lived at Kensington Palace, alongside royal aunts and uncles, distant cousins and assorted aristocratic eccentrics. Kensington Palace has...
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    The Life and Death of States
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    The Life and Death of States

    An intellectual history of sovereignty that reveals how the Habsburg Empire became a crucible for our contemporary world order.Sprawled across the heartlands of Europe, the Habsburg Empire resisted all the standard theories of singular sovereignty. The...
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    The Invention of International Order
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    The Invention of International Order

    The story of the women, financiers, and other unsung figures who helped to shape the post-Napoleonic global orderIn 1814, after decades of continental conflict, an alliance of European empires captured Paris and exiled Napoleon Bonaparte, defeating...
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    Martha Lloyd's Household Book
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    Martha Lloyd's Household Book

    This is the first facsimile publication of 'Martha Lloyd's Household Book', the manuscript cookbook of Jane Austen's closest friend. Martha's notebook is reproduced in a colour facsimile section with complete...
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    Many Black Women of this Fortress
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    Many Black Women of this Fortress

    This book presents rare evidence about the lives of three African women in the sixteenth century--the very period from which we can trace the origins of global empires, slavery, capitalism, modern religious dogma and anti-Black violence. These features...
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    A Bittersweet Heritage
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    A Bittersweet Heritage

    A Bittersweet Heritage unearths the slavery-tainted history of Britain's manors, ports, roads and countryside, and powerfully explains what this legacy means today.The 2020 toppling of slave-trader Edward Colston's statue by Black Lives...
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    Hungarians
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    Hungarians

    This is a comprehensive history of a legendarily proud and passionate but lonely people. Much of Europe once knew them as 'child-devouring cannibals' and 'bloodthirsty Huns', but it was not long before the Hungarians became steadfast defenders of...
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    North Sea Crossings
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    North Sea Crossings

    This richly illustrated book tells the story of cultural exchange between the people of the Low Countries and England in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period, and reveals how Anglo-Dutch connections changed the literary landscape on both sides of...
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    Napoleon at Peace
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    Napoleon at Peace

    The French Revolution facilitated the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte, but after gaining power he knew that his first task was to end it. In this book William Doyle describes how he did so, beginning with the three large issues that had destabilized...
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    States of Liberation
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    States of Liberation

    States of Liberation examines gay persecution and liberation in both East and West Germany during the Cold War.States of Liberation traces the paths of gay men in East and West Germany from the violent aftermath of the Second World War to the thundering...
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    Robespierre
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    Robespierre

    How Robespierre's career and legacy embody the dangerous contradictions of democracy.Maximilien Robespierre (17581794) is arguably the most controversial and contradictory figure of the French Revolution, inspiring passionate debate like no other...
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    Dividing Paris
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    Dividing Paris

    A groundbreaking work of scholarship that sheds critical new light on the urban renewal of Paris under Napoleon IIIIn the mid-nineteenth century, Napoleon III and his prefect, Georges-Eugne Haussmann, adapted Paris to the requirements of industrial...
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    Islands of the Evening
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    Islands of the Evening

    Fourteen centuries ago, Irish saints journeyed to the Hebrides and Scotland's Atlantic shore. They sought spiritual solitude in remote places, but their mission was also to spread the word of God to the peoples of Scotland. Columba was the most...
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    Boatlines
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    Boatlines

    People are drawn to the harbours and boats of Scotland whether they have a seafaring background or not. Why do boats take on different shapes as you follow the complex shorelines of islands and mainland? And why do the sails they carry appear to be so...
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    A Taste for Treason
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    A Taste for Treason

    A gripping true story of wartime espionage.Dundee, 1937. When housewife Mary Curran became suspicious of hairdresser Jessie Jordan's frequent trips to Nazi Germany, she had no idea that she was about to be drawn into an international web of...
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  • The Coffin Roads
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    The Coffin Roads

    'Coffin roads' along which bodies were carried for burial are a marked feature of the landscape of the Scottish Highlands and islands - many are now popular walking and cycling routes. This book journeys along eight coffin roads to...
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    The Placenames of Scotland
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    The Placenames of Scotland

    Scotland is a land of many languages including Gaelic, Pictish, Brythonic, Norse, Anglo-Saxon and Modern English among them. The result is an often bewildering series of overlapping layers of place-names, difficult at times to understand and even...
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  • The Appin Murder
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    The Appin Murder

    On a hillside near Ballachulish in the Scottish Highlands in May 1752 a rider is assassinated by a gunman. The murdered man is Colin Campbell, a government agent travelling to nearby Duror where he's evicting farm tenants to make way for his relatives...
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    Vienna
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    Vienna

    Vienna is unique amongst world capitals in its consistent international importance over the centuries. From the ascent of the Habsburgs as Europe's leading dynasty to the Congress of Vienna, which reordered Europe after Napoleon, to bridge- building...
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    Under the Hammer
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    Under the Hammer

    Few aspects of Scottish history inspire as fervent an interest as the wars with England. The exploits of not one, but two, national heroes William Wallace and Robert Bruce have excited the attention of a host of novelists, filmmakers, artists and...
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    The Rise and Fall of the City of Money
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    The Rise and Fall of the City of Money

    It started and ended with a financial catastrophe. The Darien disaster of 1700 drove Scotland into union with England, but spawned the institutions which transformed Edinburgh into a global financial centre. The crash of 2008 wrecked the city's two...
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    The Wars of the Bruces
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    The Wars of the Bruces

    The Bruces of fourteenth-century Scotland were formidable and enthusiastic warriors. Whilst much has been written about events as they happened in Scotland during the chaotic years of the first part of the fourteenth century, England's war with...
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European history