Women writing history
The Unwomanly Face of War
The long-awaited translation of the classic oral history of Soviet women's experiences in the Second World War - from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.Why, having stood up for and held their own place in a...
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1947: Where Now Begins
As the clock strikes the end of the war, the time begins to turn towards a new age - the one we call now.
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Queens of the Conquest: England’s Medieval Queens
Five of England's medieval queens come to life in the first volume of an epic new series from the bestselling historian.
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The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
Putin's bestselling biographer reveals how, in the space of a generation, Russia surrendered to a more virulent and invincible new strain of autocracy.
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Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine
Anne Applebaum's books have explained the history of Russia and Eastern Europe as compellingly as any other historian. Based on a mass of previous untranslated documents and hundreds of testimonies, Anne Applebaum's...
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Black Tudors: The Untold Story
A transformative history - in Tudor times there were Africans living and working in Britain, and they were free
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Dancing with Strangers: Text Classics
Dancing with Strangers is Inga Clendinnen's seminal account of the moment in January 1788 when the First Fleet arrived in Sydney Harbour and a thousand British men and women, some of them convicts and some of them free,...
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The Catch: The Story of Fishing in Australia
In every coastal town in Australia, there's a bait shop and a boat ramp, and, in garages around the country, fishing rods are strung up waiting for their next outing. Many of us have a special fishing spot, and families pass on...
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The Celts
The Celts are one of the world's most mysterious ancient people. In this compelling account, Alice Roberts takes us on a journey across Europe, uncovering the truth about this engimatic tribe: their origins, their treasure and...
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A Bold and Dangerous Family: The Rossellis and the Fight Against Mussolini
Mussolini was not only ruthless: he was subtle and manipulative. But the tide turned in 1924 when his assassins went too far, horror spread across Italy and twenty years of struggle began. Among those whose disgust hardened into...
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The Glass Universe: The Hidden History of the Women Who Took the Measure of the Stars
`A biographical orrery - intricate, complex and fascinating' The Observer `A peerless intellectual biography. The Glass Universe shines and twinkles as brightly as the stars themselves' The...
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The Merchant of Prato: Daily Life in a Medieval Italian City
This extraordinary re-creation of the life of a medieval Italian merchant, Francesco di Marco Datini, is one of the greatest historical portraits written in the twentieth century.Drawing on an astonishing cache...
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The Ancient Greeks: Ten Ways They Shaped the Modern World
They gave us democracy, philosophy, poetry, rational science, the joke. They built the Parthenon and the Library of Alexandria. But who were the ancient Greeks? And what was it that enabled them to achieve so much? This title...
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The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister’s Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
The spellbinding story of a visionary British surgeon who changed medicine forever.
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A Revolution of Feeling: The Decade that Forged the Modern Mind
A Revolution of Feeling is a vivid and absorbing account of the dramatic end of the Enlightenment, the beginning of an emotional landscape preoccupied by guilt, sin, failure, resignation and repression, and the origins of our...
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The Vikings
Far from being just 'wild, barbaric, axe-wielding pirates', the Vikings created complex social institutions, oversaw the coming of Christianity to Scandinavia and made a major impact on European history through trade, travel and...
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Lenin on the Train
A gripping account of how Lenin's 1917 train ride to Petrograd ignited the Russian Revolution.
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Victoria: The Queen
The extraordinary story of the world's most influential, intriguing and surprising ruler, Queen Victoria.
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Paradise in Chains: The Bounty Mutiny and the Founding of Australia
Celebrated historian Diana Preston presents betrayals, escapes, and survival at sea in her account of the mutiny of the Bounty and the flight of convicts from the Australian penal colony.
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The Witches: Salem, 1692
A Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling historian explores one of the great mysteries of American history: the Salem witch trials
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The Story of Egypt
Ancient Egypt brought vividly to life by TV historian and one of the world's leading Egyptologists, Professor Joann Fletcher
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Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
In this magnificent requiem to a civilization in ruins, the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate reinvents a singular, polyphonic literary form, bringing together the voices of dozens of witnesses to the collapse of the USSR in...
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SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
A sweeping, revisionist history of the Roman Empire from one of our foremost classicists.
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The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka
Ten years in the research and writing, inimitably bold, entertaining and irreverent in style, Clare Wright's The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka is a fitting tribute to the unbiddable women of Ballarat-women who made Eureka a story for...
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Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town
An extraordinary and involving portrait of an ancient town, its life and its continuing re-discovery, by Britain's favourite classicist.
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Longitude
The tenth anniversary edition of the dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest: the search for the solution of how to calculate longitude and the unlikely triumph of an English genius. With a new Foreword by the celebrated...
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Beautiful Balts: From displaced persons to new Australians
170,000 Displaced Persons arrived in Australia between 1947 and 1952 - the first non-Anglo-Celtic mass migrants. Australia's first immigration minister, Arthur Calwell.....
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Sideshow Alley: Infamy, the Macabre & the Portrait
Featuring a sometimes disquieting selection of portraits, Sideshow Alley combines history, biography and the art of portraiture with true crime, scandal and sensation.National Portrait Gallery Curator Joanna Gilmour...
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