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Killing Thatcher
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The Sunday Times Bestseller and Waterstones Paperback of the Year 2024

A Sunday Times History Book of the Year

A Spe...
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Messalina
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This is the story of Messalina – third wife of Emperor Claudius and one of the most notorious women to have inhabited the Roman world. The image of the Empress Messalina as a sexually insatia...
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Medieval horizons
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We tend to think about the Middle Ages as a dark, backward and unchanging time characterised by violence, ignorance and superstition. By contrast we believe progress is the consequence of science a...
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1923
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The astonishing story of the critical year 1923 – the year when the French illegally and brutally occupied Germany’s economic heartland, the Ruhr; when hyperinflation wrought havoc with...
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Bad Bridget
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Ireland in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was not a good place to be a woman. Among the wave of emigrants from Ireland to North America were many, many young women who travelled on th...
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Stolen history
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Most people have heard the word ’empire’ before. Perhaps because of the Roman Empire. Or maybe even the Star Wars films. But what about the British Empire? This work will answer all the...
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The Aerial Atlas of Ancient Britain
£30.00

This breathtaking collection of aerial images reveals ancient monuments from all around the British Isles, as they have never been seen before: Neolithic enclosures, cairns and stone circles; Bronz...
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Ancestors
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An extraordinary exploration of the ancestry of Britain through seven burial sites. By using new advances in genetics and taking us through important archaeological discoveries, Professor Alice Rob...
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Empireland
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In his brilliantly illuminating book, Sathnam Sanghera demonstrates how so much of what we consider to be modern Britain is actually rooted in our imperial past. In prose that is, at once, both cle...
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Up in the air
£6.99

Discover all the foul facts about the history of flight in this brand new Horrible Histories book. From the prisoners who were sent up on kites and the brave but foolish failures who jump...
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D Day The Battle For Normandy
£12.99

Making use of overlooked and new material from over 30 archives in half a dozen countries, ‘D-Day’ is a vivid and well-researched account yet of the battle of Normandy.
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A line in the sand
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The untold story of how British-French rivalry drew the battle-lines of the modern Middle East
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The Plimsoll sensation
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The story of a Victorian philanthropist who reformed shipping laws, saved thousands of sailors’ lives and became a national hero.
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White Gold
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In the summer of 1716, a Cornish cabin boy named Thomas Pellow and 52 of his comrades were captured at sea by the Barbary corsairs. Thousands of Europeans had been snatched from their homes and tak...
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