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A Cold Spell : A Human History of Ice by Max Leonard
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The Americans - Beautiful Machines : The Most Iconic Us Cars and Their Era
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Believe Nothing Until it is Officially Denied : Claud Cockburn and the Invention of Guerrilla Journalism by Patrick Cockburn
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House of Lilies : The Dynasty that Made Medieval France by Justine Firnhaber-Baker
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A History of the World in 500 Maps by Christian Grataloup
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The Console Chronicles by Lost in Cult
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The New India : The Unmaking of the World's Largest Democracy by Rahul Bhatia
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On This Day in Politics : Britain's Political History in 365 Days by Iain Dale
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This is Europe : The Way We Live Now by Ben Judah
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War & Peace & War : Twenty years in Afghanistan by Andrew North
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Wonders in the Deep : Extraordinary Shipwreck Discoveries from Spanish Gold to Shackleton's Bible by Mensun Bound & Mark Frary
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The Power Broker : Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A Caro
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City of Echoes : A New History of Rome, its Popes and its People by Jessica Warnberg
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Making the Weather : Six Politicians Who Changed Modern Britain by Vernon Bogdanor
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Son of Prophecy : The Rise of Henry Tudor by Nathen Amin
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The Golden Road : How Ancient India Transformed the World by William Dalrymple
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Mystery Cults in the Ancient World by Hugh Bowden
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The Medieval Scriptorium : Making Books in the Middle Ages by Sara J. Charles
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Iconicon : A Journey Around the Landmark Buildings of Contemporary Britain by John Grindrod
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Gathering of Strangers : Why Museums Matter by Maria Balshaw
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Empires of the Steppes : The Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilisation by Kenneth W. Harl
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The Emperors of Byzantium by Kevin Lygo
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The Discovery of France by Graham Robb
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A Brutal Reckoning : The Creek Indians and the Epic War for the American South by Peter Cozzens
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Billy Waters is Dancing : Or, How a Black Sailor Found Fame in Regency Britain by Mary L. Shannon
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Adventurers : The Improbable Rise of the East India Company: 1550-1650 by David Howarth
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Korea : A New History of South and North by Victor Cha &Ramon Pacheco Pardo
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Technofeudalism : What Killed Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis
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Well Beings : How the Seventies Lost Its Mind and Taught Us to Find Ourselves by James Riley
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The Iliad by Homer
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Spycraft : Tricks and Tools of the Dangerous Trade from Elizabeth I to the Restoration by Nadine Akkerman & Pete Langman
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The New Breadline : Hunger and Hope in the 21st Century by Jean-Martin Bauer
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Eve Bites Back : An Alternative History of English Literature by Anna Beer
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The Words of My Father : Love and Pain in Palestine by Yousef Bashir
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Once Upon a Prime : The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature by Sarah Hart
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The Fall : The End of the Murdoch Empire by Michael Wolff
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No Way Out : Brexit: from the Backstop to Boris by Tim Shipman
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Human Rights : The Case for the Defence by Shami Chakrabarti
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Unruly by David Mitchell
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Nostalgia : A History of a Dangerous Emotion by Agnes Arnold-Forster
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No Way Out : Brexit: from the Backstop to Boris by Tim Shipman
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Democracy : Eleven writers and leaders on what it is – and why it matters
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Great Britain? : How We Get Our Future Back by Torsten Bell
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Politics On the Edge by Rory Stewart
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Operation Biting by Max Hastings
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The Restless Republic : Britain without a Crown by Anna Keay
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Spice : The 16th-Century Contest that Shaped the Modern World by Roger Crowley
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Potholes and Pavements : A Bumpy Ride on Britain’s National Cycle Network by Laura Laker
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City of Oranges by Adam LeBor
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The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World by Bettany Hughes (18/01/24)
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Empireworld by Sathnam Sanghera (25/01/24)
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Spies : The epic intelligence war between East and West by Calder Walton
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The Princes in the Tower by Philippa Langley
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The Globemakers : The Curious Story of an Ancient Craft by Peter Bellerby
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Northern Lights : The Arctic Scots by Edward J. Cowan
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Stuffed : A History of Good Food and Hard Times in Britain by Pen Vogler
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Emperor of Rome by Professor Mary Beard
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Mudlarking by Lara Maiklem
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Surfacing by Kathleen Jamie
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Footprints by David Farrier
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Hidden Hands : The Lives of Manuscripts and Their Makers by Mary Wellesley
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A Northern Wind : Britain 1962-65 by David Kynaston
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About Time : A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks by David Rooney
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Great-Uncle Harry : A Tale of War and Empire by Michael Palin
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The Palace by Gareth Russell
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The Lion and the Dragon : Britain and China: A History of Conflict by Lawrence James
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The Ruin of All Witches : Life and Death in the New World by Malcolm Gaskill
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Messalina : A Story of Empire, Slander and Adultery by Honor Cargill-Martin
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The Facemaker : One Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I by Lindsey Fitzharris
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Viking Britain : A History by Thomas Williams
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A Short History of Queer Women by Kirsty Loehr
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Femina by Janina Ramirez
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Buried : An alternative history of the first millennium in Britain by Alice Roberts
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Kindred : Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art by Rebecca Wragg Sykes
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Lost Realms : Histories of Britain from the Romans to the Vikings by Thomas Williams
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Divine Might by Natalie Haynes
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A Taste for Purity : An Entangled History of Vegetarianism by Julia Hauser
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Right This Way : A History of the Audience by Robert Viagas (17/12/23)
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Crypt by Alice Roberts
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UKRAINE The Forging of a Nation by Yaroslav Hrytsak
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The London Mini and Midi Bus Types by David Beddall
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Transport For Humans : Are We Nearly There Yet? by Pete Dyson and Rory Sutherland
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An African History of Africa : From the Dawn of Civilization to Independence by Zeinab Badawi
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Catland : Feline Enchantment and the Making of the Modern World by Kathryn Hughes
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How They Broke Britain by James O'Brien
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Dance Your Way Home : A Journey Through the Dancefloor by Emma Warren
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Cypria : A Journey to the Heart of the Mediterranean by Alex Christofi
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Divine Might : Goddesses in Greek Myth by Natalie Haynes
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Pompeii : The Life of a Roman Town by Professor Mary Beard
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The Complete Pompeii by Joanne Berry
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Pompeii : The Life of a Roman Town by Professor Mary Beard
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The Wager by David Grann (Copy)
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The Assault on the State : How the Global Attack on Modern Government Endangers Our Future by Stephen E. Hanson and Jeffrey S. Kopstein
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Silk : A History in Three Metamorphoses by Aarathi Prasad
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Emperor of Rome : The Sunday Times Bestseller by Professor Mary Beard
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Pax : War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age by Tom Hollan
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Templars : The Knights Who Made Britain by Steve Tibble
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Nelson's Pathfinders : A Forgotten Story in the Triumph of British Sea Power by Michael Barritt
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The World the Plague Made : The Black Death and the Rise of Europe by James Belich
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The Chinese Phantom : the hunt for the world’s most dangerous arms dealer by Christoph Giesen , Philipp Grull , Frederik Obermaier, Bastian Obermayer
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The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective by Sara Lodge
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The Golden Road : How Ancient India Transformed the World by William Dalrymple
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Nexus : A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari
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Lost Decade : The US Pivot to Asia by Robert Blackwill, Richard Fontaine
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The Bookshop, The Draper, The Candlestick Maker : A History of the High Street by Annie Gray
£22.00
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Normal Women : 900 Years of Making History by Philippa Gregory
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