Social & Cultural History
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Britain Post Brexit: A Practical Guide to Moving On
Peter McGarrickCurrent price €14.39Original price €15.99WHAT WILL HAPPEN WHEN THE TIES ARE CUT? Whatever view you take on Brexit, innovative ideas are needed to thrive. The UK needs to get itself into sh...
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How Hitler Hijacked World Sport: The World Cup, the Olympics, the Heavyweight Championship and the Grand Prix
Christopher HiltonCurrent price €19.54Original price €22.99Adolf Hitler understood the importance of sport, and exercised his malign and dangerous influence to try to co-opt it for the Nazi cause. He intend...
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Political Football: The Life and Death of Belfast Celtic
Barry FlynnCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99On 27 December 1948, rioting broke out during a match between Belfast Celtic and Linfield. Jimmy Jones, a prolific goalscorer for Belfast Celtic, w...
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Lumberjills: Britain''s Forgotten Army
Joanna FoatCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99When war was declared in 1939, Britain was almost completely dependent on imported timber but only had seven months of it stockpiled. Timber was c...
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Dwellbeing: Finding Home in the City
Claire BradburyCurrent price €22.00Original price €26.50In recent times, we have all questioned whether we feel truly nurtured by where we live. With 68 per cent of the worlds population predicted to liv...
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Coconut: How the Shy Fruit Shaped our World
Robin LauranceCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99Coconuts have been around for longer than Homo sapiens; they have been turned into art, taken part in religious rituals and been a sign of wealth a...
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Protest: Britain on the March
MirrorpixCurrent price €14.43Original price €18.50Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. Margaret Mead B...
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Murray''s Cabaret Club: Discovering Soho''s Secret
Benjamin LevyCurrent price €28.28Original price €32.50Today, 1618 Beak Street is a burger bar, but dont let the muddy grey of the whitewashed oak walls deceive you. This building was once filled with d...
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The Violence of Empire: The Tragedy of the Congo-Océan Railroad
J. P. DaughtonCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50'Masterful' The Economist The Congo-Océan railroad stands as one of the deadliest construction projects in history. It was completed in 1934, when...
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London''s Docklands: An Illustrated History
Geoff MarshallCurrent price €20.94Original price €26.50London has always been a bustling place of trade; once the docks teemed with men, ships and goods from all over the world. Now all has been transfo...
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Windrush: A Ship Through Time
Paul ArnottCurrent price €15.73Original price €18.50Hamburg, 1930: The German-Jewish shipbuilders Blohm & Voss build a transatlantic ocean cruiser that they christen the Monte Rosa.Norway, 1940: ...
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Christmas Comes to Liverpool
Kipper WilliamsCurrent price €10.19Original price €11.99Kipper Williams is one of the UKs favourite cartoonists. This collection of festive favourites highlights the best and the worst of Christmas. Fro...
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1966: From Good Vibrations to World Cup Victory
Paul FeeneyCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.991966 was an iconic year in an incredible decade. The Beatles were at the height of their fame, programmes such as Ready Steady Go! and Top of the P...
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1968: Those Were the Days
Brian WilliamsCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.501968 was the year when humans first glimpsed the far side of the Moon, but also the year the world was shocked by assassination, by the crushing of...
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Antisemitism: A World History of Prejudice
Dan Cohn-SherbokCurrent price €20.69Original price €22.99Dan Cohn-Sherbok has provided us with a magisterial overview of antisemitism . . . Whatever your religion, or your politics, Cohn-Sherboks Antisemi...
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Boy Soldiers: A Personal Story of Nazi Elite Schooling and its Legacy of Trauma
Helene MunsonCurrent price €22.53Original price €26.50At the end of the Second World War, hundreds of thousands of German children were sent to the front lines in the largest mobilisation of underage c...
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How the Pershore Plum Won the Great War
Jenni WaughCurrent price €13.42Original price €16.99The First World War was won not just on the battlefields but on the Home Front, by the men, women and children left behind. This book explores the ...
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The Dolls'' Hospital Diaries
Christabel ScaifeCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99The Dolls Hospital Diaries is a collection of poignant and inspiring stories from the history of the Dolls Hospital in Dublin, which has become one...
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Christmas Comes to Edinburgh
Kipper WilliamsCurrent price €10.19Original price €11.99Kipper Williams is one of the UKs favourite cartoonists. This collection of festive favourites highlights the best and the worst of Christmas. Fro...
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London''s Docklands: A History of the Lost Quarter
Fiona RuleCurrent price €15.79Original price €19.99Do you remember the docks? In its heyday, the Port of London was the biggest in the world. It was a sprawling network of quays, wharves, canals and...
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A New History of England
Jeremy BlackCurrent price €15.29Original price €16.99In his New History of England, leading historian Jeremy Black takes a cool and dispassionate look at the vicissitudes of over two millennia of Engl...
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A Handbook on Hanging: Being a Short Introduction to the Fine Art of Execution
Charles DuffCurrent price €14.39Original price €15.99A Handbook on Hanging is a satiric tribute to that unappreciated mainstay of civilisation: the hangman. With barbed wit, Charles Duff not only writ...
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Kitted Out: Style and Youth Culture in the Second World War
Caroline YoungCurrent price €20.45Original price €23.50When war was declared in September 1939, young people around the world were expected to put on a uniform and fight in a conflict not of their makin...
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The Perilous Catch: A History of Commercial Fishing
Mike SmylieCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99For centuries Britains commercial fishermen have ventured out into the ravages of the surrounding seas to bring fish back both to supply a home mar...
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