Social & Cultural History
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Queen of Our Times: The Life of Elizabeth II, 1926-2022
Robert HardmanCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50A Sunday Times Book of the YearQueen Of Our Times is the definitive biography of Queen Elizabeth II by one of Britains leading royal authorities, R...
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The Great White Bard: How to Love Shakespeare While Talking About Race
Farah Karim-CooperCurrent price €25.65Original price €28.50SHAKESPEARE: increasingly irrelevant or lone literary genius of the Western canon? 'Powerful and illuminating' James Shapiro, author of 1599: A...
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The Mystical Year: Folklore, Magic and Nature
Alison DaviesCurrent price €16.10Original price €18.50Celebrate spring and summer as a time of renewal with Flora the Roman Goddess of flowers and learn about balance in Litha.As the nights get longer,...
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The Cultural Revolution: A Very Short Introduction
Richard Curt KrausCurrent price €14.39Original price €15.99China's decade-long Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution shook the politics of China and the world. Even as we approach its fiftieth anniversary, ...
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Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown
Anne GlenconnerCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50**DAILY MAIL'S 'BEST NON-FICTION BOOKS TO HELP YOU THROUGH LOCKDOWN'**'Beautifully written . . . very entertaining, very funny' RICHARD & JUDY'...
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Between East and West: Across the Borderlands of Europe
Anne ApplebaumCurrent price €15.73Original price €18.50A vivid and human glimpse into Europe's borderlands as they emerged from Soviet rule - back in print after nearly 20 years'In this superb book, in ...
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SPQR: A Roman Miscellany
Anthony EverittCurrent price €14.39Original price €15.99SPQR: Senatus Populusque Romanus. A moreishly entertaining and richly informative miscellany of facts about Rome and the Roman world. Do you kn...
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The Urge: our history of addiction
Carl Erik FisherCurrent price €18.25Original price €21.99As a psychiatrist-in-training fresh from medical school, Carl Erik Fisher came face to face with his own addiction crisis, one that nearly cost him...
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The Voynich Manuscript
Yale University PressCurrent price €40.49Original price €44.99The first authorized copy of this mysterious, much-speculated-upon, one-of-a-kind, centuries-old puzzleFor the first time, a complete reproduction ...
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Herbs: A Global History
Gary AllenCurrent price €16.10Original price €18.50From ancient medicines to the savoury dishes of today, there is hardly a culture in the world that does not know and make use of herbs. Despite oft...
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A Ukrainian Christmas
Nadiyka GerbishCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99'A wonderful little book of recipes and stories' - NIGELLA LAWSON'History, stories, recipes and beautiful illustrations' - OLIA HERCULES'Christmas ...
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The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World
Malcolm GaskillCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE**A TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES AND BBC HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR*'A bona fide histor...
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Letters to the Midwife: Correspondence with Jennifer Worth, the Author of Call the Midwife
Jennifer WorthCurrent price €14.10Original price €16.99Letters to the Midwife is a wonderful collection of correspondence received by Jennifer Worth, offering a fascinating glimpse into a long-lost worl...
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Pearl Harbor: From Infamy to Greatness
Craig NelsonCurrent price €15.29Original price €16.99On 7 December 1941, an armada of 354 Japanese warplanes launched a surprise attack on the United States, killing 2,403 people and forcing America''...
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Evil Roman Emperors: The Shocking History of Ancient Rome''s Most Wicked Rulers from Caligula to Nero and More
Phillip BarlagCurrent price €16.59Original price €19.99Nero fiddled while Rome burned. As catchy as that aphorism is, its sadly untrue, even if it has a nice ring to it. The one thing Nero is well-known...
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The Queen
Matthew DennisonCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50Matthew Dennison's elegant and magisterial biography of Her late Majesty, updated following the death of Elizabeth II and the accession of King Cha...
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House Plants
Mike MaunderCurrent price €21.59Original price €23.99Our penchant for keeping house plants is an ancient practice dating back to the Pharaohs. House Plants explores the stories behind the plants we br...
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The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans
David AbulafiaCurrent price €21.59Original price €23.99WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2020A SUNDAY TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, THE TIMES AND BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEARFor most of human histo...
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The Untold History of Ramen: How Political Crisis in Japan Spawned a Global Food Craze
George SoltCurrent price €35.99Original price €39.99A rich, salty, and steaming bowl of ramen noodle soup climbed its way onto the international culinary scene and, from Tokyo to New York, is now a s...
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Living and Loving in the Age of AIDS: A memoir
Derek FrostCurrent price €15.36Original price €18.50This is the tale of a devastating pandemic, of lives cut painfully short its also a love story. Derek, a distinguished designer, and J, a pionee...
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The Cambridge History of Communism 3 Volume Paperback Set
Cambridge University PressCurrent price €89.99Original price €99.19The Cambridge History of Communism is an unprecedented global history of communism in the twentieth century. With contributions from a team of lead...
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Scotland: A Literary Guide for Travellers
Garry MacKenzieCurrent price €18.69Original price €21.99With its vibrant cities and breathtaking landscapes, Scotland has captivated writers and visitors for centuries and inspired a diverse range of lit...
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Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture
Johan HuizingaCurrent price €20.69Original price €22.99In Homo Ludens, Johan Huizinga defines play as the central activity in flourishing societies. He identifies five characteristics of play: it is fre...
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Antigone Rising: The Subversive Power of the Ancient Myths
Helen MoralesCurrent price €15.73Original price €18.50A witty, inspiring reckoning with the ancient Greek and Roman myths and their legacy, from what they can illuminate about #MeToo to the radical ima...
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The National Trust Book of Scones: 50 delicious recipes and some curious crumbs of history
Sarah ClellandCurrent price €15.55Original price €15.99Sarah Merker brings you 50 scone recipes from the National Trust. History is best enjoyed with a scone, as everyone whos visited a National Trust ...
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Dead Famous: An Unexpected History of Celebrity from Bronze Age to Silver Screen
Greg JennerCurrent price €13.59Original price €15.99''Fizzes with clever vignettes and juicy tidbits... [a] joyous romp of a book.'' Guardian''A fascinating, rollicking book in search of why, where a...
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Who Are We Now?: Stories of Modern England
Jason CowleyCurrent price €22.05Original price €24.50A Daily Telegraph Book of the Year 2022''I cant tell you how refreshing it is in these polarised times to read a book on politics that doesnt have ...
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The Bookseller of Florence: Vespasiano da Bisticci and the Manuscripts that Illuminated the Renaissance
Dr Ross KingCurrent price €15.35Original price €15.99'A marvel of storytelling and a masterclass in the history of the book' WALL STREET JOURNALThe Renaissance in Florence conjures images of beautiful...
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Timecode of a Face
Ruth OzekiCurrent price €14.39Original price €15.99What did your face look like before your parents were born? Who are you? What is your true self? These are the questions in Ruth Ozeki's mind as sh...
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The Square and the Tower: Networks, Hierarchies and the Struggle for Global Power
Niall FergusonCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Silicon Valley needed a history lesson and Ferguson has provided it' Eric SchmidtMost history is about the people at...
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Sicily: A Cultural History
Joseph FarrellCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99Long before it became an Italian offshore island, Sicily was the land in the centre of the Mediterranean where the great civilizations of Europe an...
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Vanity Fair 100 Years: From the Jazz Age to Our Age
Graydon CarterCurrent price €57.71Original price €73.99Vanity Fair 100 Years showcases a century of personality and power, art and commerce, crisis and cultureboth highbrow and low. In the sumptuous 384...
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Great Designs: The World''s Best Design Explored and Explained
DKCurrent price €22.61Original price €25.99A lavishly illustrated guide to the history of design, this book showcases more than 100 of the most groundbreaking and important design classics e...
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Studies on the Civilization of Islam
Hamilton Alexander Rosskeen GibbCurrent price €43.78Original price €51.50Ranging from studies on Sufism and the Koran to discussion of nineteenth and twentieth-century Arabic literature, these essays on the law and liter...
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Glossy: The inside story of Vogue
Nina-Sophia MirallesCurrent price €12.91Original price €16.99''Dame Anna Wintour might be one of the best-known and most successful journalists on the planet. But it wasn''t always like that. When she started...
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The Cultural Revolution: A People''s History, 1962-1976
Frank DikoetterCurrent price €14.39Original price €15.99Acclaimed by the Daily Mail as ''definitive and harrowing'', this is the final volume of ''The People''s Trilogy'', begun by the Samuel Johnson pri...
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