The History Hit Miscellany: Facts, Figures and Fascinating Finds
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The Rest is History: The Official Book from the Makers of the Hit Podcast
Make room Herodotus, stand down Bede, pipe down Pepys... there's a new history book in town.
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From the chart-topping podcast The Rest is History, a whistle-stop tour through the past - from Alexander th… -
The Theory of Everything Else: A Voyage Into the World of the Weird
Why are we here? Do ghosts exist? Will we ever travel back in time? Are we being visited by extraterrestrials? Will we ever talk to animals? Are we being told the truth? Are mysterious creatures roami…
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A History of Britain in Ten Enemies
Ah, Britain. So special. The greatest nation on earth, some say. And we did it all on our own. Didn’t we?
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A Curious History of Sex
This is not a comprehensive study of every sexual quirk, kink and ritual across all cultures throughout time, as that would entail writing an encyclopaedia. Rather, this is a drop in the ocean, a padd…
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Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive beheadings, middle-management insurrection, uncivil wars, and more, from award-winning British actor and …
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Fake History: 101 Things that Never Happened
Fake news about the past is fake history. Did Hugo Boss design the Nazi uniforms? Did medieval people think the world was flat? Did Napoleon shoot the nose off the Sphinx?
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Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of it
"I am the fiery life of divine substance, I blaze above the beauty of the fields, I shine in the waters, I burn in sun, moon and stars" - Hildegard of Bingen (1098 - 1179)
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The Art of Explanation
Explanation - conveying meaning - is an art. And the BBC presenter and journalist Ros Atkins, creator of the viral 'Ros Atkins on...' explainer videos, is something of a master of the form. In this bo…
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A Short History of Queer Women
Queer women have always existed – let’s put them back in the history books
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No, they weren’t ‘just friends’!
Queer women have been written out of history since, well, forever. ‘But historians famously ca… -
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The White Ship: Conquest, Anarchy and the Wrecking of Henry I’s Dream
The sinking of the White Ship is one of the greatest disasters in English history. Here, Sunday Times bestselling author Charles Spencer tells the real story behind the legend to show how one cataclys…
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Stormcrow (Stormcrow, #1)
On the east coast of Ireland thirteen-year old Finn finds the sword of a slain Norseman, and with Odin's raven watching, is given the name Stormcrow. When Finn's family is torn apart by a random act o…
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Carry On, Jeeves (Jeeves, #3)
The titles of the first story in this collection—'Jeeves Takes Charge'— and the last—'Bertie Changes His Mind'—sum up the relationship of twentieth-century fiction's most famous comic characters. In b…
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