Silk - A History in Three Metamorphoses by Aarathi Prasad
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Category: History
There is not just one story of silk. In silk is science, history and mythology. In silk is the future. Aarathi Prasad's Silk is a gorgeous new history weaving together the story of a unique material that has fascinated the world for millennia. Through the scientists who have studied silk, and the ...Show more
Bad Girls of Ancient Greece by Lizzy Tiffin
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Category: History
THE guide to the baddies that started it all... Bad Girls of Ancient Greece contains profiles of wayward wives, mad mothers, scandalous sisters and damsels, that quite frankly, caused others A LOT of stress in the ancient world. With the ever-growing popularity of mythological retellings, Lizzy Tiff ...Show more
The Dictionary Of Terrible Ideas by Dominic Knight
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Category: History
A compendium of crapulous concepts from absinthe to zorbing From the tiniest nanoparticle to the vast span of the Large Hadron Collider, humans have invented many remarkable things. But not every idea is a winner - just ask 'Friday' singer Rebecca Black.This wonderfully eclectic yet uniformly awful com ...Show more
The Battle of the Beams - The Secret Science of Radar That Turned the Tide of the Second World War by Tom Whipple
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Category: History
'Deeply researched and engagingly written' The Times 'Has the pace and style of a well-crafted thriller' Mail on Sunday 'Chock full of memorable characters and written with all the drama and pace of a Robert Harris thriller' Rowland White, author of Mosquito Summer 1939. War is coming. The British beli ...Show more
Space by Tim Peake
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Category: History
The first human history of space travel - from the Apollo missions to our journey to Mars - by Britain's beloved astronaut From bestselling author and British astronaut Tim Peake, an inspirational human history of space travel, from the Apollo missions to our future forays to Mars. The Right Stuff for ...Show more
Cunning Folk - Life in the Era of Practical Magic by Tabitha Stanmore
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Category: History
A vibrant look at an unsettled and strangely familiar time that overturns our assumptions about the history of magic. Imagine: it's the year 1600 and you've lost your precious silver spoons, or maybe they've been stolen. Perhaps your child has a fever. Or you're facing a trial. Maybe you're looking for ...Show more
The Dictionary People - The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary by Sarah Ogilvie
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Category: History
**LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024** 'Unmissable' Stephen Fry 'Enthralling' Jeanette Winterson 'Illuminating' Susie Dent What do three murderers, Karl Marx's daughter and a vegetarian vicar have in common? They all helped create the Oxford English Dictionary. The Oxford English D ...Show more
The Savage Storm by James Holland
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Category: History
The most pivotal, brutal and shattering campaign the Allies faced in World War II by bestselling historian James Holland. 'Holland knows his stuff when it comes to military matters' Daily Mail 'James Holland is the best of the new generation of WW2 historians' Sebastian Faulks With the invasion of Fra ...Show more
Take My Grief Away: Voices from the War in Ukraine by Katerina Gordeeva
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Category: History
'Read this book. Don't put it off until you'll supposedly be strong enough and ready for the reading. If you put it off, you'll find yourself defenseless in the face of evil.' - Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of Chernobyl Prayer In the darkest of times, in the m ...Show more
The Roads To Rome: A History by Catherine Fletcher
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Category: History
'All roads lead to Rome.' It's a medieval proverb, but it's also true- today's European roads still follow the networks of the ancient empire, as Rome's extraordinary legacy continues to grip our imaginations.Over the two thousand years since they were first built, the roads have been walked by crusader ...Show more
Arnhem: Black Tuesday by Al Murray
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Category: History
The Battle of Arnhem is one of the best-known stories in British military history: a daring but thwarted attempt to secure a vital bridgehead across the Rhine in order to end the war before Christmas. It is always written about, with the benefit of unerring 20/20 hindsight, as being doomed to fail, but ...Show more
The Greatest Nobodies of History: Minor Characters from Major Moments by Adrian Bliss
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Category: History
History belongs to the heroes. But to get the full story, sometimes you have to ask the side characters. The lives of Leonardo da Vinci, Henry VIII and Queen Victoria fill bookshelves and fascinate scholars all over the world. But little attention is given to the ferret who posed for the renaissance ma ...Show more