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Like most of those who study
history, he (Napoleon III) learned
from the mistakes of the past how
to make new ones.
- A. J. P Taylor
| BRYAN KEENE Book Number: 92012 |
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A rare import from the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, where the author is a curatorial assistant and an instructor in art history. His research interests include Italian and French manuscript ...
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| MARY BEARD Book Number: 92016 |
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Sub-titled 'The Body, The Divine, and The Question of Civilisation', the popular TV historian Mary Beard takes a look beyond the familiar canon of Western imagery. She offers an expansive survey o...
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| ROSIE SERDIVILLE & JOHN SADLER Book Number: 92020 |
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Feudalism, war and life in medieval times condensed into one short and accessible book. Originally warriors mounted on horseback, knights became associated with the concept of chivalry as populari...
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| ROBERT STEDALL Book Number: 92027 |
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Sub-titled 'The Life and Murder of Henry, Lord Darnley' this engaging and well researched biography re-examines the famous murder and brings new light and compelling confusions to a story surrounde...
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| BARRY MARSDEN Book Number: 92032 |
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A series of pen portraits of some 40 individuals who helped shape the foundations of English prehistoric study including army officers, reverends, country squires and gentry, bankrupts, suicides, a...
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| THOMAS FORREST KELLY Book Number: 92034 |
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Scrolls from the Middle Ages is a beautifully illustrated, full-colour guide which celebrates the paper phenomenon, highlights the most interesting items in the period and represent the people who ...
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| SIMON ELLIOTT Book Number: 92035 |
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Step back in time to experience the might of the Romans. This short history is an accessible and authoritative introduction to how Rome's legions were a force to be reckoned with as they conquered,...
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| NIALL FERGUSON Book Number: 92039 |
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Sub-titled 'Networks and Power, From the Freemasons to Facebook', this is a brilliant recasting of the turning points in world history including the one we are living through, as the struggle betwe...
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| HELEN DOE Book Number: 92040 |
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Sub-titled 'Brunel's Ship, Her Voyages, Passengers and Crew' the celebrated Liverpool to Australia steamship weighed 3209 tons and had 500 horsepower and with Charles Chapman as commander was appoi...
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| CORNELIUS TACITUS Book Number: 92041 |
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Publius Gaius Cornelius Tacitus (AD56-AD117) was a senator and a historian of the Roman Empire. The surviving portions of his two major works, the Annals and the Histories, examine the reigns of t...
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| ANDREW MCCONNELL STOTT Book Number: 92044 |
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In the mid-18th century the actor, dramatist, theatre manager - and shameless self-promotor - David Garrick was the most famous man in Britain after the king. Garrick had built his career around th...
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| DAVID OLUSOGA Book Number: 92125 |
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Professor David Olusoga is a British-Nigerian historian and BAFTA winning broadcaster who presented a TV series Civilisations on which this book is based. Told with great fluency and clarity of st...
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| WILLIAM BEAVER Book Number: 92147 |
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Sub-titled 'How Britain Played the Greater Game From Afghanistan To Africa', much has been written about espionage, secret agents and MI6 missions abroad, but what of the origins of British Intelli...
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| W. B. MARSH Book Number: 92148 |
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A treasure trove for history buffs, Marsh fleshes out the context behind famous quotations associated with each day of the year, sending us back and forth in history from the time of the Ancient Eg...
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| MARGARET MACMILLAN Book Number: 92150 |
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University of Oxford and Professor of History, University of Toronto, Margaret Macmillan's book is based on her 2018 Reith Lectures, The Mark of Cain. Despite the 'long peace' enjoyed by much of t...
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| JOHN DICKIE Book Number: 91471 |
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'Though more sober than most lodge meetings, it is, like its subject, ingenious and frequently bizarre...' - Spectator. Insiders call it 'The Craft'. To the rest of us, Freemasonry is mysterious ...
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| EDWARD GIBBON Book Number: 25261 |
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Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published between 1776 and 1788, is the undisputed masterpiece of English historical writing which can only perish with the languag...
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| SABINE FRANKE Book Number: 92153 |
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'When the gods were human' is the beginning of an Old Babylonian tale which refers to a mythical period of time before mankind and the gods had to 'do all chores themselves'. It is just one story i...
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| GARY DOBBS Book Number: 92156 |
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For more than a millennium, criminals in the British Isles were beheaded, garrotted, hung, drawn and quartered for crimes as varied as serial murder to impersonating a Chelsea Pensioner. Certain f...
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| TIM NEWARK Book Number: 92160 |
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It is the rule of unforeseen circumstances that says that the best intentions can lead to the worst results, and never was this more succinctly played out than when, in attempting to take the moral...
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| HELEN HOLLACK Book Number: 92165 |
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A smuggler was 'a wretch who, in defiance of justice and the laws, imports or exports goods as either contraband or without payment of the customs,' according to Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the ...
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| BRUNO MUGNAI Book Number: 92172 |
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Volume 2 - The Imperial Army 1657-1687. The 17th century saw almost continuous warfare in Europe, and this beautifully produced book is the second in the series "Century of the Soldier" covering th...
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| RICHARD SMYTH Book Number: 92193 |
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Crowns, children and coronations, love, marriage and family, war, murder and peril, royal characters, religion, politics and money, mistresses, bastards and pretenders, the king is dead - long live...
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| NEIL BURDESS Book Number: 92203 |
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'The Remarkable Story of Personal Names' is the sub-title of this book that covers not just given names to a child but family names or surnames and social titles Mr, Mrs, Miss and Ms and a quick pe...
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| CHUCK WILLS Book Number: 92207 |
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Honest Abe changed American history. The Black Hawk War unfolded as a typically squalid and confused frontier conflict between white settlers and Native Americans. Abraham Lincoln enlisted in Apr...
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| HUGH KOLB Book Number: 92334 |
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Many histories of inns, taverns and the English public house have been written over the past 150 years, but the name the Seven Stars stands out as a special case. Compared to many other images use...
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| CHARLOTTE BOLLAND Book Number: 92337 |
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Written by the Senior Curator, Research and 16th Century Collections at the National Portrait Gallery, London, Charlotte Bolland includes an essay on the development of portraiture in England and S...
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| MARY ANNE EVANS & ROSE BARTON Book Number: 92352 |
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Beautiful reprint of the pioneering 1904 colour book Familiar London with Rose Barton's original paintings enlarged and placed in contemporary context with related images from period maps and postc...
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| CAPTAIN CHARLES JOHNSON Book Number: 92144 |
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In 1724 'A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pyrates' went on sale in Charles Rivington's shop near St Paul's Cathedral and was an immediate success. By 1726 it ha...
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| PHILIP WILKINSON Book Number: 92502 |
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Abbey Road Studios, The Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden in St. Ives, Tate Modern at Bankside, the Lloyds Building, Rochdale Pioneers' Shop, Farfield Meeting House near Addingham, a bea...
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