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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 18 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It by Janina Ramirez (Author)
    Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It - by Janina Ramirez (Author)

    £10.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780753558263 | ISBN 10: 0753558262

    'Beautifully written, wonderfully free-ranging and gloriously original, Femina makes us look into the mists of history in new, exciting and provocative ways. A joyous read' - Peter Frankopan, bestselling author of The Silk Roads   'This is bravura ... more

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  • Cover image of book Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia by David Graeber
    Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia - by David Graeber

    £18.99   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780241611401 | ISBN 10: 0241611407

    'A characteristically radical re-reading of history that places the social and political experiments of pirates at the heart of the European Enlightenment. A brilliant companion volume to the best-selling Dawn of Everything' ~ Amitav Ghosh  The E ... more

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  • Cover image of book What Is History, Now? How the Past and the Present Speak to Each Other by Helen Carr and Suzannah Lipscomb
    What Is History, Now? How the Past and the Present Speak to Each Other - by Helen Carr and Suzannah Lipscomb

    £10.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781474622479 | ISBN 10: 147462247x

    This groundbreaking new collection addresses the burning issue of how we interpret history today. What stories are told, and by whom, who should be celebrated, and what rewritten, are questions that have been asked recently not just within the histor ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow
    The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity - by David Graeber and David Wengrow

    £12.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780141991061 | ISBN 10: 0141991062

    For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike - either free and equal, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrificing those original freedoms or, alternatively, by taming ... more

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  • Cover image of book Past Mistakes: How We Misinterpret History and Why it Matters by David Mountain
    Past Mistakes: How We Misinterpret History and Why it Matters - by David Mountain

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781785786907 | ISBN 10: 1785786903

    From the fall of Rome to the rise of the Wild West, David Mountain brings colour and perspective to historical mythmaking.   The stories we tell about our past matter. But those stories have been shaped by prejudice, hoaxes and misinterpret ... more

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  • Cover image of book Burning the Books: A History of Knowledge Under Attack by Richard Ovenden
    Burning the Books: A History of Knowledge Under Attack - by Richard Ovenden

    £10.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781529378771 | ISBN 10: 152937877x

    An unforgettable 3,000-year-old journey - from Mesopotamian clay tablets trying to predict the future, to Tudor book-hunters and Nazi bonfires, and on into the dangers of our increasingly digital existence, Burning the Books shows how the preservatio ... more

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  • Cover image of book Sapiens: A Graphic History - The Birth of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari, David Vandermeulen and David Casanave
    Sapiens: A Graphic History - The Birth of Humankind - by Yuval Noah Harari, David Vandermeulen and David Casanave

    £18.99   hardback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781787332812 | ISBN 10: 1787332810

    The first volume of the graphic adaptation of Yuval Noah Harari's global phenomenon and smash Sunday Times #1 bestseller, with gorgeous full-colour illustrations and a beautiful package - the perfect gift for the curious beings in your life.   ... more

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  • Cover image of book Figuring by Maria Popova
    Figuring - by Maria Popova

    £14.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781786897268 | ISBN 10: 1786897261

    Figuring explores the complexities of love and the human search for truth and meaning through the interconnected lives of several historical figures across four centuries - beginning with the astronomer Johannes Kepler, who discovered the laws of pla ... more

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  • Cover image of book Civilisations: First Contact / The Cult of Progress by David Olusoga
    Civilisations: First Contact / The Cult of Progress - by David Olusoga

    £15.00   hardback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781781259979 | ISBN 10: 1781259976

    A companion to the major new BBC documentary series CIVILISATIONS, presented by Mary Beard, David Olusoga and Simon Schama   Oscar Wilde said 'Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life.' Was he right? In Civilisations, David Olusoga tr ... more

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  • Cover image of book Stranger Than We Can Imagine: Making Sense of the Twentieth Century by John Higgs
    Stranger Than We Can Imagine: Making Sense of the Twentieth Century - by John Higgs

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781780226576 | ISBN 10: 1780226578

    The twentieth century should make sense. It's the period of history that we know the most about, an epic geo-political narrative that runs through World War One, the great depression, World War Two, the American century and the fall of the Berlin Wal ... more

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  • Cover image of book Fractured Times: Culture and Society in the Twentieth Century by Eric Hobsbawm
    Fractured Times: Culture and Society in the Twentieth Century - by Eric Hobsbawm

    £10.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780349139098 | ISBN 10: 0349139091

    An engaging and provocative look at culture, from one of our best-known historians.  Born at the turn of the 20th century and raised in Vienna, Eric Hobsbawm, who was to become one of the most brilliant and original historians of our age, was unique ... more

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  • Cover image of book A History of the World in 100 Objects by Neil MacGregor
    A History of the World in 100 Objects - by Neil MacGregor

    £10.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780241951774 | ISBN 10: 0241951771

    Neil MacGregor's A History of the World in 100 Objects takes a bold, original approach to human history, exploring past civilizations through the objects that defined them.   Encompassing a grand sweep of human history, "A History of the Worl ... more

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  • Cover image of book A History of the World Since 9/11 by Dominic Streatfeild
    A History of the World Since 9/11 - by Dominic Streatfeild

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781843547617 | ISBN 10: 1843547619

    From Samuel Johnson Prize Shortlisted author Dominic Streatfeild comes a brilliantly original and stunningly readable work of investigative history which paints an revealing picture of the world since the attacks on the World Trade Centre. Essential ... more

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  • Cover image of book Speechless: World History Without Words by Polyp
    Speechless: World History Without Words - by Polyp

    £12.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781906523190 | ISBN 10: 1906523193

    Through this very simple, yet intriguing, concept the reader will experience the intensely real but often ignored political and environmental truths of our era. It's funny, poignant and painfully true.  Tracking everything from the very beginnin ... more

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  • Cover image of book There
    There's a Riot Going On: Revolutionaries, Rock Stars, and the Rise and Fall of 60s Counter-culture - by Peter Doggett

    £14.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781847671141 | ISBN 10: 1847671144

    Between 1965 and 1972, political activists around the globe prepared to mount a revolution, from the Black Panthers to the Gay Liberation Front, from the Yippies to the IRA. Rock and soul music supplied the revolutionary tide with anthems and iconic ... more

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  • Cover image of book Non-Violence: The History of a Dangerous Idea by Mark Kurlansky
    Non-Violence: The History of a Dangerous Idea - by Mark Kurlansky

    £9.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780099494126 | ISBN 10: 0099494124

    The conventional history of nations, even continents, is a history of warfare. According to this view, all the important ideas and significant changes of humankind occured as part of an effort to win one violent, bloody conflict or another. This appr ... more

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  • Cover image of book Behind the Lines: Revealing and Uncensored Letters from Our War-Torn World by Andrew Carroll
    Behind the Lines: Revealing and Uncensored Letters from Our War-Torn World - by Andrew Carroll

    £7.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780091903404 | ISBN 10: 0091903408

    For three exhausting years Andrew Carroll travelled the world, zealously collecting unpublished letters and emails from soldiers and civilians from over 35 different countries. The letters covered a staggering range of events, from World Wars I and I ... more

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  • Cover image of book Heroes by John Pilger
    Heroes - by John Pilger

    £12.99   paperback   (2001) - ISBN 13: 9780099266112 | ISBN 10: 0099266113

    The heroes of Pilger's narrative are the many ordinary people he has witnessed coping with their lives in difficult and often brutal conditions: dissidents in the Soviet Union; those struggling for universal freedoms in Vietnam, Cambodia, Africa, Ind ... more

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