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How to Be a Victorian

Step into the skin of your ancestors . . .

We know what life was like for Victoria and Albert, but what was it like for a commoner? How did it feel to cook with coal and wash with tea leaves? Drink bee…

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The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England

The first Plantagenet king inherited a blood-soaked kingdom from the Normans and transformed it into an empire stretched at its peak from Scotland to Jerusalem. In this epic history, Dan Jones vividly…

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Thomas Cromwell: The Untold Story of Henry VIII's Most Faithful Servant

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The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens' London

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The Eagle and the Hart: The Tragedy of Richard II and Henry IV

From an acclaimed historian and author comes an epic the dual biography of Richard II and Henry IV, two cousins whose lives played out in extraordinary parallel, until Henry deposed the tyrant Richar…

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Martin Chuzzlewit

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Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King

Henry V reigned over England for only nine years and four months and died at the age of just thirty-five, but he looms over the landscape of the late Middle Ages and beyond. The victor of Agincourt, h…

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Life in a Medieval Castle

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The Heir Apparent: A Life of Edward VII, the Playboy Prince

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Inside the Victorian Home: A Portrait of Domestic Life in Victorian England

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The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine

In The Butchering Art, the historian Lindsey Fitzharris reveals the shocking world of nineteenth-century surgery on the eve of profound transformation. She conjures up early operating theaters--no pla…

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Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling

In 1508, despite strong advice to the contrary, the powerful Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the newly restored Sistine Chapel. With little experience as a painter (th…

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The Last Duel: A True Story of Crime, Scandal, and Trial by Combat in Medieval France

The gripping true story of the “duel to end all duels” in medieval France as a resolute knight defends his wife's honor against the squire she accuses of a heinous crime.

In the midst of the devastatin…

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The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)

With The Mirror & the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with her peerless, Booker Prize-winning novels, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. She traces the final ye…

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The Greatest Knight: The Remarkable Life of William Marshal, The Power Behind Five English Thrones

A thrillingly intimate portrait of one of history's most illustrious knights - William Marshal - that vividly evokes the grandeur and barbarity of the Middle Ages

William Marshal was the true Lancelot …

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The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society

What makes for the ideal woman? How should she look, love, and be? In this vibrant, high-spirited history, medievalist Eleanor Janega turns to the Middle Ages, the era that bridged the ancient world a…

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The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime

In this fascinating exploration of murder in nineteenth century England, Judith Flanders examines some of the most gripping cases that captivated the Victorians and gave rise to the first detective fi…

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The Covent Garden Ladies: Pimp General Jack & The Extraordinary Story of Harris' List

The Covent Garden Ladies tells the story of Samuel Derrick, Jack Harris, and Charlotte Hayes, whose complicated and colorful lives were brought together by the publication of Harris' List, an infamous…

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Young and Damned and Fair: The Life of Catherine Howard, Fifth Wife of King Henry VIII

Written with an exciting combination of narrative flair and historical authority, this interpretation of the tragic life of Catherine Howard, fifth wife of Henry VIII, breaks new ground in our underst…

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