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Pub. Date
2011
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English
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If in the year 1411 you had been able to circumnavigate the globe, you would have been most impressed by the civilizations of the Orient. The Forbidden City was under construction and the Ottomans were closing in on Constantinople. The idea that the West would have come to dominate the rest would have struck you as wildly fanciful.
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Publisher
Vintage Digital
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
In the latest volume of his celebrated series of Time Traveller's Guides, Ian Mortimer turns to what is arguably the most-loved period in British history - the Regency, or Georgian England. A time of exuberance, thrills, frills and unchecked bad behaviour, it was perhaps the last age of true freedom before the arrival of the stifling world of Victorian morality. At the same time, it was a period of transition that reflected unprecedented social, economic...
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Publisher
John Blake
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
From the Sunday Times bestselling author, Carl Chinn The Peaky Blinders as we know them, thanks to the hit TV series, are infused with drama and dread. Fashionably dressed, the charismatic but deeply flawed Shelby family have become cult anti-heroes. Well-known social historian, broadcaster and author, Carl Chinn, revealed the true story of the notorious gang in his bestselling Peaky Blinders: The Real Story and now in this follow-up book, he explores...
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English
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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER The Peaky Blinders as we know them, thanks to the hit TV series, are infused with drama and dread. Fashionably dressed, the charismatic but deeply flawed Shelby family blind enemies by slashing them with the disposable safety razor blades stitched in to the peaks of their flat caps, as they fight bloody gangland wars involving Irish terrorists and the authorities led by a devious Home Secretary, Winston Churchill. But who...
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Publisher
Blink Publishing
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
In this incredible companion to the second and third seasons of Netflix's acclaimed series The Crown, renowned biographer and the show's historical consultant Robert Lacey takes us through the real history that inspired the drama. Covering two tumultuous decades in the reign of Elizabeth II, Lacey looks at the key social, political and personal moments and the effect they had not only on the royal family, but also on the world around them. From the...
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Publisher
Allen Lane
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The Enlightenment did not begin in Europe. Its true origins lie thousands of miles away on the island of Madagascar, in the late seventeenth century, when it was home to several thousand pirates. This was the Golden Age of Piracy, a period of violent buccaneering and rollicking legends - but it was also, argues anthropologist David Graeber, a brief window of radical democracy, as the pirate settlers attempted to apply the egalitarian principles of...
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
From one of the best-loved and bestselling authors of all time comes and irresistible tale of swashbuckling pirates in the New World - a classic story of adventure and betrayal. Jamaica, in 1665 a lone outpost of British power amid Spanish waters in the sunbaked Caribbean. Its capital, Port Royal, a cuthroat town of taverns, grog shops and bawdy houses - the last place imaginable from which to launch an unthinkable attack on a nearby Spanish stronghold....
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Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Make room Herodotus, stand down Bede, pipe down Pepys . . . There's a new history book in town. Pre-order your copy now. From the chart-topping podcast The Rest is History, a whistle-stop tour through the past - from Alexander the Great to Tolkien, the Wars of the Roses to Watergate. The nation's favourite historians Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook take on the most curious moments in history, answering the questions we didn't even think to ask:...
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Publisher
September Publishing
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
AN EXTRAORDINARY LIFETIME, TOLD IN THE WORDS OF THOSE WHO WERE THERE Lieutenant Commander Michael Parker, equerry-in-waiting to Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh, speaking about the death of King George VI: 'The Queen was really bowled over. Forlorn. Fully conscious of the fact that she was Queen, and that she must tend to affairs immediately, but at the same time carrying the load of this new, awful news. A brave person. Gosh! If I loved...
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Publisher
Virgin Digital
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
*A Radio 4 Book of the Week* Brought to you by Penguin. We tend to imagine Western Civilisation as a golden thread, leading through the centuries from classical antiquity to the countries of the modern West - a cultural genealogy that connects Plato to NATO. It is an idea often invoked in the speeches of politicians and the rhetoric of journalists, and which remains deeply embedded in popular culture. But what if it is wrong? In an epic sweep through...
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Publisher
Blink Publishing
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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THE OFFICIAL STORY OF A MUSICAL ICON - TOLD IN FULL FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HIS OWN WORDS 'I went to a lot of trouble to create Boy George and then I went through a whole battle for years about not wanting to be him. But now I enjoy and embrace it in a way that I wasn't able to as a young person.... I'm finally learning to be George Alan O'Dowd from Eltham.' Karma is the definitive autobiography from the incomparable Grammy, Brit and Ivor Novello award-winning...
14) Daily mail
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories. Includes The Mail on Sunday.
15) Sunday express
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The Sunday Express is the Sunday sister paper of the Daily Express. Includes Sunday magazine supplement.
17) The Independent
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The world's most free-thinking newspaper.
18) I newspaper
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Aimed at "readers and lapsed readers" of all ages and commuters with limited time, and was originally launched in 2010 as a sister paper to The Independent.
19) Daily express
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The Daily Express is a daily national middle-market tabloid newspaper in the United Kingdom. Latest news, showbiz, sport, comment, lifestyle, city, video and pictures from the Daily Express newspaper and Express.co.uk. Includes The Daily Express Saturday Magazine released with Saturday edition.
20) OK!
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
OK! is one of the UK's premier women's lifestyle magazines. A leading source for celebrity interviews, fashion, beauty and all the latest and juiciest gossip. This glossy mag is absolutely packed with great features on the most famous of famous names - anything celeb makes it in. Alongside the latest news from the world of showbusiness.
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