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Make room Herodotus, stand down Bede, pipe down Pepys – there’s a new history book in town. From the chart-topping podcast The Rest is History, a whistle-stop tour through the past – from Alexander the Great to Tolkien, the Wars of the Roses to Watergate. The nation’s favourite historians Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook take on the most curious moments in history, answering the questions we didn’t even think to ask: Did the Trojan War actually happen? What was the most disastrous party in history? Was Richard Nixon more like Caligula or Claudius? How did a hair appointment almost blow Churchill’s cover? Why did the Nazis believe they were descended from Atlantis?
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When Helen Molesworth joined the gem and jewellery industry she began her own love affair with one of humanity’s oldest and richest fascinations. For as long as people have known about gemstones they have treasured them. Born of violent geological events and the chance meetings of minerals, their stories are an extraordinary journey through time, and are significant to the human narrative in as many ways as they boast sparkling facets. Selecting ten of nature’s most dazzling jewels, Helen Molesworth makes journeys across the world to trace stones from their discovery to the moment a glimmering cut and polished masterpiece is traded, and then fought over, adorns oligarchs and kings, falls out of favour, and then raises eye-watering sums in another age.
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Otto English dives into the hidden lives of some of history’s biggest names. Separating the myth-builders from the fraudsters and celebrating some of the genuine unsung heroes from our history, Fake Heroes exposes the truth of the past and helps us understand why that matters today.
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An intricate and personal history of watches and time, told by an extraordinary watchmaker and historian.
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£28.00
The Astronomers’ Library is a dynamic collection of the best astronomy books from across the past eight centuries.
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‘A delightful compendium of the kind of facts you immediately want to share with anyone you encounter’ New York Times
‘An ebullient, irrepressible spirit invests this book. It is erudite and sprightly’Sunday Times
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£20.00
A lively, page-turning history of Italy and its wines, from the Roman Empire to climate change.
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Humans did not make history – we played host. This humbling and revelatory book shows how infectious disease has shaped humanity at every stage, from the first success of Homo sapiens over the equally intelligent Neanderthals to the fall of Rome and the rise of Islam.
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It is generally accepted that Queen Victoria reigned but did not rule. This couldn’t be more wrong.
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When did Hannibal cross the Alps? What caused the war of Jenkins’ Ear? Who was Rosa Parks? How did the Arab Spring unfold? Discover history’s most decisive moments as and when they happened. Taking a chronological approach, ‘History Year by Year’ invites you to explore momentous discoveries, ingenious inventions, and important events from around the world in the context of their time. Along the way you’ll meet charismatic leaders, brutal dictators, influential thinkers, and innovative scientists from every corner of the globe.
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A new book from the critically acclaimed author of Lonely Courage: The true story of the SOE heroines who fought to free German-occupied France
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In ‘Little Englanders’, Alwyn Turner reconsiders the Edwardian era as a time of profound social change, with the rise of women’s suffrage and the labour movement, unrest in Ireland and the Boer republics, scandals in parliament and culture wars at home. He tells the story of the Edwardians through music halls and male beauty contests, the real Peaky Blinders and the 1908 Summer Olympics. In this colourful, detailed and hugely entertaining social history, Turner shows that, though the golden Victorian age was in the past, the birth of modern Britain was only just beginning.
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