The Idea of Italy
£40.00A unique portrait of nineteenth-century Italy as seen through the eyes of the first generation of British photographers
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Bletchley Park and D-Day
£10.99Since the secret of Bletchley Park was revealed in the 1970s, the work of its codebreakers has become one of the most famous stories of the Second World War. But cracking the Nazis’ codes was only the start of the process. Thousands of secret intelligence workers were then involved in making crucial information available to the Allied leaders and commanders who desperately needed it. Using previously classified documents, David Kenyon casts the work of Bletchley Park in a new light, as not just a codebreaking establishment, but as a fully developed intelligence agency. He shows how preparations for the war’s turning point – the Normandy Landings in 1944 – had started at Bletchley years earlier, in 1942, with the careful collation of information extracted from enemy signals traffic.
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Mission France
£10.99Looks at the full story of the thirty-nine female agents of SOE F section who went undercover in France, revealing for the first time how their fates contrasted and overlapped as the war progressed.
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The Newspaper Axis
£25.00How six conservative media moguls hindered America and Britain from entering World War II
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The Invention of China
£11.99A provocative account showing that “China”-and its 5,000 years of unified history-is a national myth, created only a century ago with a political agenda that persists to this day -
Critical Revolutionaries
£20.00Terry Eagleton looks back across sixty years to an extraordinary critical milieu that transformed the study of literature
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Blooming Flowers
£9.99The bright yellow of a marigold and the cheerful red of a geranium, the evocative fragrance of a lotus or a saffron-infused paella – there is no end of reasons to love flowers. Ranging through the centuries and across the globe, Kasia Boddy looks at the wealth of floral associations that has been passed down in perfumes, poems, and paintings; in the design of buildings, clothes, and jewelry; in songs, TV shows, and children’s names; and in nearly every religious, social, and political ritual.
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The Women Who Saved the English Countryside
£20.00A vibrant history of English landscape preservation over the last 150 years, told through the lives of four remarkable women
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A Little History of Art
£16.99A thrilling journey through 100,000 years of art, from the first artworks ever made to art’s central role in culture today.Â
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The Castle
£18.99A vibrant history of the castle in England, from the early Middle Ages to the present day
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In the Shadow of St. Paul’s Cathedral
£25.00The extraordinary story of St. Paul’s Churchyard-the area of London that was a center of social and intellectual life for more than a millennium
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London and the Seventeenth Century
£12.99The Gunpowder Plot, the Civil Wars, Charles I’s execution, the Plague, the Great Fire, the Restoration, and then the Glorious Revolution: the 17th century was one of the most momentous times in the history of Britain, and Londoners took centre stage. In this fascinating account, Margarette Lincoln charts the impact of national events on an ever-growing citizenry with its love of pageantry, spectacle, and enterprise. Lincoln looks at how religious, political, and financial tensions were fomented by commercial ambition, expansion, and hardship. In addition to events at court and parliament, she evokes the remarkable figures of the period, including Shakespeare, Bacon, Pepys, and Newton, and draws on diaries, letters, and wills to trace the untold stories of ordinary Londoners.