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Viking Britain
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The Shortest History of Germany
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Living with the Gods
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The Story of the British Isles in 100 Places
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Neil Oliver
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Who Built Scotland
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God
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The Darkening Age
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Agent Jack: The True Story of MI5's Secret Nazi Hunter
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Robert Hutton
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The British in India
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David Gilmour
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Arnhem
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Big Week
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John Hirst
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Lords of the Desert
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Thomas Cromwell
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Dominion
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Battles that Changed History
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The Colour of Time: A New History of the World, 1850-1960
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The Colour of Time: A New History of the World, 1850-1960
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Rival Queens
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Lucy Worsley
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Our Boys
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Our Boys
Helen Parr
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Bloody Brilliant Women
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Cathy Newman
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Nein!
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Paddy Ashdown
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Written in History
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Written in History
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Behind the Throne
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Adrian Tinniswood
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The Invisible Emperor
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Wounds
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The Age of Decadence
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Simon Heffer
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The Unwomanly Face of War
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Svetlana Alexievich
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The Paras
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Max Arthur
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Queen Victoria's Matchmaking
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Deborah Cadbury
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Victorious Century
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Victorious Century
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Black Tudors
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Miranda Kaufmann
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Lorenz
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Jerry Roberts
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Chris Bryant
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Who Built Scotland
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Who Built Scotland
Kathleen Jamie
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Rome: A History in Seven Sackings
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Rome: A History in Seven Sackings
Matthew Kneale
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Belonging
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Belonging
Simon Schama
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To Catch A King
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To Catch A King
Charles Spencer
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Beneath Another Sky
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Beneath Another Sky
Norman Davies
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The Future of War
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The Future of War
Sir Lawrence Freedman
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Auntie's War
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Auntie's War
Edward Stourton
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A Short History of the Crimean War
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Trudi Tate
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Viking Britain
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Thomas Williams
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Queen Victoria
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Lucy Worsley
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Who Built Scotland
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Who Built Scotland
Kathleen Jamie
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Queens of the Conquest
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Alison Weir
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Big Week
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James Holland
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Spitfire
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John Nichol
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The British in India
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David Gilmour
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Arnhem
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Antony Beevor
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Dominion
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Peter Ackroyd
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Victorious Century
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SAS Ghost Patrol
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Agent Jack: The True Story of MI5's Secret Nazi Hunter
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Robert Hutton
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First Light
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Geoffrey Wellum
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Lords of the Desert
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Lords of the Desert
James Barr
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Black Tudors
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Miranda Kaufmann
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A History of Britain in 21 Women
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A History of Britain in 21 Women
Jenni Murray
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Six Minutes in May
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Nicholas Shakespeare
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The Peterloo Massacre
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Robert Reid
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The Century Girls
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Tessa Dunlop
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Rise Up Women!
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Rise Up Women!
Diane Atkinson
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Deeds Not Words
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Deeds Not Words
Helen Pankhurst
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Votes For Women!
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Votes For Women!
Jenni Murray
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A Lab of One's Own
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A Lab of One's Own
Patricia Fara
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Hearts And Minds
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Hearts And Minds
Jane Robinson
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The Suffragettes
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Suffragettes
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Joyce Marlow
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My Own Story
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My Own Story
Emmeline Pankhurst
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The Shortest History of Germany
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James Hawes
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Vietnam
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Sir Max Hastings
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The Spy and the Traitor
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Ben Macintyre
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The Templars
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Dan Jones
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Spitfire
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John Nichol
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Arnhem
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Antony Beevor
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Agent Jack: The True Story of MI5's Secret Nazi Hunter
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Robert Hutton
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Big Week
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James Holland
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SAS Ghost Patrol
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Damien Lewis
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The Phoney Victory
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Peter Hitchens
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Hue 1968
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Hue 1968
Mark Bowden
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Vietnam
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Sir Max Hastings
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The Unwomanly Face of War
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Svetlana Alexievich
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The Spy and the Traitor
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Ben Macintyre
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Frankenstein in Baghdad
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Ahmed Saadawi
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First Light
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Geoffrey Wellum
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Our Boys
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Our Boys
Helen Parr
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Six Minutes in May
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Nicholas Shakespeare
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Travellers in the Third Reich
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Julia Boyd
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Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts
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Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts
Christopher de Hamel
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Red Famine
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Red Famine
Anne Applebaum
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East West Street
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East West Street
Philippe Sands
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The Shortest History of Europe
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The Shortest History of Europe
John Hirst
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The Imperial Tea Party
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The Imperial Tea Party
Frances Welch
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A Certain Idea of France
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A Certain Idea of France
Julian Jackson
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France
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France
John Julius Norwich
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The Race to Save the Romanovs
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The Race to Save the Romanovs
Helen Rappaport
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October
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October
China Mieville
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Les Parisiennes
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Les Parisiennes
Anne Sebba
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The Templars
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The Templars
Dan Jones
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1000 Years of Annoying the French
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1000 Years of Annoying the French
Stephen Clarke
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Chernobyl
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Serhii Plokhy
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Blitzed
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Blitzed
Norman Ohler
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Istanbul
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Istanbul
Bettany Hughes
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City of Light
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City of Light
Rupert Christiansen
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The Years
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The Years
Annie Ernaux
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Ancient History

SPQR
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Mary Beard
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The Darkening Age
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The Darkening Age
Catherine Nixey
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The Great Empires of Asia
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The Great Empires of Asia
Jim Masselos
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The Odyssey
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The Odyssey
Homer
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Legionary
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Philip Matyszak
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Pax Romana
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Pax Romana
Adrian Goldsworthy
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Rubicon
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Rubicon
Tom Holland
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Civilisations: First Contact / The Cult of Progress
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Civilisations: First Contact / The Cult of Progress
David Olusoga
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The Classical World
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The Classical World
Robin Lane Fox
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Meditations
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Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
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The Story of Egypt
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The Story of Egypt
Joann Fletcher
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The Mighty Dead
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The Mighty Dead
Adam Nicolson
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The Spartans
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The Spartans
Paul Cartledge
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Babylon
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Babylon
Paul Kriwaczek
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The Ancient Paths
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Graham Robb
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The Twelve Caesars
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Matthew Dennison
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Prisoners of Geography
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Tim Marshall
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The Best of Times, The Worst of Times
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Michael Burleigh
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The Square and the Tower
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The Square and the Tower
Niall Ferguson
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The Book Smugglers of Timbuktu
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The Book Smugglers of Timbuktu
Charlie English
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The Silk Roads
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The Silk Roads
Peter Frankopan
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A Little History of the World
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A Little History of the World
Ernst H. Gombrich
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Koh-I-Noor
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Koh-I-Noor
William Dalrymple
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Histories of Nations
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Histories of Nations
Peter Furtado
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Pale Rider
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Pale Rider
Laura Spinney
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The Earth is Weeping
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The Earth is Weeping
Peter Cozzens
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The Secret World
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The Secret World
Christopher Andrew
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A Line in the Sand
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A Line in the Sand
James Barr
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The Cold War
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The Cold War
Odd Arne Westad
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Money
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Money
Yuval Noah Harari
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Jerusalem
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Jerusalem
Simon Sebag Montefiore
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The Islamic Enlightenment
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The Islamic Enlightenment
Christopher de Bellaigue
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On Tyranny
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On Tyranny
Timothy Snyder
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A History of the World in 100 Objects
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A History of the World in 100 Objects
Neil MacGregor
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Introducing The Story of the British Isles in 100 Places

Introducing The Story of the British Isles in 100 Places

Archaeologist, presenter and writer Neil Oliver introduces his intensely personal eulogy to the nation's past.

Truth and Spies

Truth and Spies

David Hoffman introduces The Billion Dollar Spy and recommends some of the best further reading on spying.

Red Famine: Anne Applebaum on Why She Wrote Her Russian Trilogy

Red Famine: Anne Applebaum on Why She Wrote Her Russian Trilogy

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Anne Applebaum has been grappling with the complex questions of Soviet history since she published the first book in her Eastern European trilogy, Gulag in 2003. Having chronicled the rise of Communist regimes of Eastern Europe in The Iron Curtain, her latest volume, Red Famine, turns her attention to Stalin’s bloody war on Ukraine. In an exclusive article for Waterstones, as she looks back on a quarter century of research, she considers why these stories are more relevant now than ever.