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David Woodman
The First King of England

From one of today's leading historians of the early medieval period, an enthralling chronicle of Æthelstan, England's founder king whose achievements of 927 rival the Norman Conquest of 1066 in shaping Br…

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Ren Pepitone
Brotherhood of Barristers

Brotherhood of Barristers critically investigates masculinity, the creation of the gentlemanly professional, and the exclusionary culture of the British legal profession. It examines the cultural history …

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Peter Oborne
Complicit

From one of Britain's most celebrated political journalists, a fearless and forensic indictment of British complicity in the destruction of Gaza.In a gripping narrative informed by original reporting, Pet…

lieferbar ab 28.10.2025.

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David Cowan
Politics of the Past

"The inter-war period (1918-1939) is still remembered as a period of mass deprivation - the 'hungry thirties'. But how did this impression emerge? Politics of the Past explains how stories about the …

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Fabiola Creed
The Rise and Fall of the Sunbed in Britain

This open access book explores tanning culture: how the desire for tanned white skin led to the phenomenal growth in sunbed use and how the practice spread through Britain. By analysing the role of the me…

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Rebekah Higgitt, Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin, Noah Moxham
Metropolitan Science

Exploring distinctive practices in the artisanal, mercantile, and governmental sites of London, Metropolitan Science offers a new perspective on the development of a scientific culture between the years 1…

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Alistair Moffat
Scotland's Forgotten Past

A charming, lively and often amusing tour of thirty-six forgotten episodes and overlooked people and places of Scottish history.

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Henry J Miller
A Nation of Petitioners

Between 1780 and 1918, over one million petitions from across the four nations were sent to the House of Commons. This first study of the nineteenth-century heyday of petitioning explores the central role…

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Bernard Mees
King Arthur and the Languages of Britain

Medievalists have denied the historical existence of King Arthur for over 50 years . Arthur and the Languages of Britain demonstrates how linguistic evidence can be employed to see if the earliest histori…

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John Wyver
Magic Rays of Light

Popular memory holds that television in Britain began with the 1953 Coronation. But as Magic Rays of Light reveals, extensive programming throughout the 1930s was creatively rich, complex and excitingly i…

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John Wyver
Magic Rays of Light

Magic Rays of Light is an original and ambitious history of the largely unknown early years of television in Britain. A detailed cultural study of the first demonstrations, of the extensive experimental b…

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Ruramisai Charumbira
Legacies of British Colonialism in Southern Africa

From the mid-19th to the mid-20th century, British Southern Africa saw hosts of Europeans arriving in the region to transform their lives and participate in colonial life in different ways. Their narrativ…

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Caroline Elkins
Imperial Reckoning

A major work of history that for the first time reveals the violence and terror at the heart of Britain's civilizing mission in KenyaAs part of the Allied forces, thousands of Kenyans fought alongside the…

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Vanessa Morgan
The Little History of Birmingham

From a small Saxon hamlet to a large sprawling city, Birmingham has quite a story to tell. And within the pages of this handy and compact book, these stories are told.

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Duncan Gager
Slow Train to Arcadia

The rise of commuting by rail transformed the urban landscape of Victorian London. Slow Train to Arcadia charts the relationship between the three main actors in the formation of the suburban railway - th…

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Laura Flannigan
Royal Justice and the Making of the Tudor Commonwealth, 1485-1547

The dawn of the Tudor regime is one of most recognisable periods of English history. This book sheds new light on the relationship between Crown and society by exploring the untouched archives for the Tud…

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Peter Hart
Chain of Fire

The dramatic story of the siege of Khartoum and Britain's extraordinarily violent 1882 campaign in Egypt and Sudan.In the 1880s, British control over northeastern Africa was a political minefield that Pri…

lieferbar ab 7.10.2025.

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Anna Groves
Ghosts

Discover the stories of Britain's greatest ghosts and ghouls with this spooky supernatural page turner, the perfect gift this Halloween.Supported by the National Trust, who look after many of the haunted …

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Claire Hubbard-Hall
Her Secret Service

'Groundbreaking' Sunday Times'Beautifully written and elegiac . . . a masterpiece' Damien Lewis, Sunday Times bestselling authorSince the inception of the Secret Service Bureau back in 1909, women have wo…

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Jon Stokes
Trees of Britain and Ireland

A comprehensive photographic identification guide to all of the native trees and shrubs of Great Britain and Ireland and many of the common non-native speciesTrees of Britain and Ireland is packed with pr…

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