Christmas 2024: History
Selected by the Bookshop
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In Disputing Disaster, Perry Anderson picks out from the highly charged historiography on the First World War one leading historian from each of the major powers that survived the conflagration: Fritz Fischer, famous historian of German war…
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'Once more, Kate Summerscale shatters our preconceptions of a classic crime' Val McDermid'Remarkable . . . Gripping . . . Its shocking truths are necessary ones' Erica Wagner, Financial Times'Every bit the gripping, page-turning…
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A human history told through clay, from the critically acclaimed author of The Foghorn's Lament.'Clay contains infinite possibilities in its transmutations, evidenced on the shelves of our homes, our galleries and museums. Every time…
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A scintilating new history of Britain told through eighteen figures of British history – and what they achieved at eighteen years-old. From Alice Loxton, bestselling author and social media sensation.'Utterly, utterly brilliant.…
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A detailed guide to parish life in England from medieval to Victorian times, based on a wide range of churchwardens’ accounts and other records and revealing the parish and church that our ancestors knew – a world of…
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Translated by Gesche IpsenA fascinating look at the medieval precedents for modern sustainable livingWINNER OF THE 2021 NDR BOOK PRIZE IN GERMANY'A must-read' Lyndal Roper, Regius Professor of History at Oriel College, OxfordFishing…
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The running joke in Europe for centuries was that anyone in a hurry to die should call the doctor. As far back as ancient Greece, physicians were notorious for administering painful and often fatal treatments – and charging for the…
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The author of She-Wolves chronicles the lives and reigns of Richard II and Henry IV, two cousins whose rivalry brought their nation to the brink of disintegration - and back again'A dazzling tour de force of epic royal history: a…
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Translated by Jefferson ChaseA gripping new approach to the Nuremberg Trial, told through the stories of the many great writers who came to witness itNuremberg, 1945. As the trials of Nazi war criminals begin, some of the world's most…
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A people's history of the high street'A rich, lively and nostalgia-provoking sensory experience ... this is history in its messiest, most bustling human essence' THE TIMES'The queen of food historians' LUCY WORSLEY'Annie Gray's…
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Putting the Women Back into Roman HistoryRome as you’ve never seen it before – brazenly unconventional, badly behaved and ever so feminine.‘Hugely entertaining and illuminating’ —Elodie Harper, author…
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A gripping untold story of the world's most valuable seed bank, the siege of Leningrad and a terrible choiceFrom the winner of the 2023 Wingate Literary Prize comes a fascinating and moving untold story of the Leningrad scientists who…
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FROM THE AWARD-WINNING, BESTSELLING AUTHOR AND CO-HOST OF THE CHART-TOPPING EMPIRE PODCAST – A REVOLUTIONARY NEW HISTORY OF THE DIFFUSION OF INDIAN IDEAS'A master storyteller' Sunday Times'Richly woven, highly readable…
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A major new history of medieval monasticism, from the fourth to the sixteenth centuryFrom the late Roman Empire onwards, monasteries and convents were a common sight throughout Europe. But who were monasteries for? What kind of people…
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From renowned historian and #1 Sunday Times bestselling author Yuval Noah Harari comes the story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our worldStories brought us together.Books spread our ideas – and…
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A fascinating exploration of Europe’s medieval architectural wonders—and the Muslim master-builders behind them.Who really built Europe’s finest Romanesque monuments? Clergymen presiding over holy sites are credited…
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An adventurous, dazzling and original continent-sized history that brings South America’s untold past and fascinating present to lifeAn adventurous, dazzling and original history that brings South America’s epic past and…
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