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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 8 books in this booklist
£9.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781398510050 | ISBN 10: 139851005x
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ‘Tender, fascinating... Lucid and illuminating’ Robert Macfarlane Funerary rituals show us what people thought about mortality; how they felt about loss; what they believed came next. From Roman cremati ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781780264448 | ISBN 10: 1780264445
An old union rep, Joe, and his granddaughter, Arushi, spend a few pleasant days together going over the history of the labour movement. Over tea and sandwiches in his studio they consider the whole wide sweep and points of connection throughout histo ... more
View book details£16.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781910636169 | ISBN 10: 1910636169
Wild Ruins B.C. reveals Britain’s extraordinary ancient history, from 10,000 years ago to the birth of Christ. Exploring over 400 wild sites, discover the lost remains and mysterious stones that lie hidden in some of the most beautiful landscapes o ... more
View book details£16.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780745338309 | ISBN 10: 0745338305
Staying Power is a panoramic history of black Britons. Stretching back to the Roman conquest, encompassing the court of Henry VIII, and following a host of characters from Mary Seacole to the abolitionist Olaudah Equiano, Peter Fryer paints a picture ... more
View book details£11.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781629631073 | ISBN 10: 1629631078
“May Day is about affirmation, the love of life, and the start of spring, so it has to be about the beginning of the end of the capitalist system of exploitation, oppression, war, and overall misery, toil, and moil.” So writes celebrated historian Pe ... more
View book details£2.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780099542285 | ISBN 10: 0099542285
Produced as part of the 2010 Quick Reads Series, Alison Weir's Traitors of the Tower is a wonderful introduction to this brilliant historian. More than four hundred years ago, seven people – five of them women – were beheaded in the Tower of ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781845294823 | ISBN 10: 1845294823
Stephen Oppenheimer’s extraordinary scientific detective story combining genetics, linguistics, archaeology and historical record shatters the myths we have come to live by. It demonstrates that the Anglo-Saxon invasions contributed just a tiny fract ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780413776341 | ISBN 10: 0413776344
A lively historical exploration of the lives of English sailors in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries when England dominated the world in commerce and naval power. Drawing on primary documents and diaries, Peter Earle explores every a ... more
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