Social & Cultural History
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The Book of Christmas: The Hidden Stories Behind Our Festive Traditions
Christopher WinnCurrent price €15.29Original price €16.99In The Book of Christmas, best-selling author and acclaimed historian, Christopher Winn, casts a revealing eye over the stories, myths and legends ...
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Mountain Republic: A Lake District Parish - Eighteen Men, The Lake Poets and the National Trust
Philippa HarrisonCurrent price €14.85Original price €16.50An affectionate but meticulously researched history of one of the most beautiful and best-loved corners of England Crosthwaite Parish, nestling de...
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Thrust: A Spasmodic Pictorial History of the Codpiece
Michael GloverCurrent price €13.59Original price €15.99A laugh-out-loud visual history of the strangest piece of mens clothing ever created: the codpiece.The codpiece was fashioned in the Middle Ages to...
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A Revolutionary for Our Time: The Walter Rodney Story
Leo ZeiligCurrent price €40.49Original price €44.99Walter Rodney was a scholar, working class militant, and revolutionary from Guyana. Strongly influenced by Marxist ideas, he remains central to rad...
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Neighbours and Strangers: Local Societies in Early Medieval Europe
Bernhard ZellerCurrent price €30.59Original price €33.99This book explores social cohesion in rural settlements in western Europe from 7001050, asking to what extent settlements, or districts, constitute...
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250 Years of Convention and Contention: A History of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, 1760-2010
Raphael LanghamCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50Current price €29.25Original price €32.50Save 10% -
Revolutionary Lives of the Red and Black Atlantic Since 1917
Manchester University PressCurrent price €93.59Original price €103.99Revolutionary lives of the Red and Black Atlantic brings to light the life histories of a wide range of radical figures whose political activity in...
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Down Along with That Devil''s Bones: A Reckoning with Monuments, Memory, and the Legacy of White Supremacy
Connor Towne O'NeillCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99We can no longer see ourselves as minor spectators or weary watchers of history after finishing this astonishing work of nonfiction. Kiese Laymon,...
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Queen of Our Times: The Life of Elizabeth II
Robert HardmanCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99The definitive new biography of Her Majesty The Queen by one of Britain''s leading royal authorities.With original insights from those who know her...
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Millstone Grit
Glyn HughesCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99Millstone Grit takes the form of a fifty mile walk through the West Riding and East Lancashire, exploring the industrial towns and moors. Glyn Hugh...
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West of Eden: Communes and Utopia in Northern California
PM PressCurrent price €26.99Original price €29.99Current price €26.99Original price €29.99Save 10% -
Snow Widows: Scotts Fatal Antarctic Expedition Through the Eyes of the Women They Left Behind
Katherine MacInnesCurrent price €27.63Original price €32.50An elegant, densely textured work, like a tapestry A welcome contribution to polar studies. Sara Wheeler, Spectator [MacInness] handles ...
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Wartime Industry
Neil R. StoreyCurrent price €14.39Original price €15.99An illustrated introduction to how British industries, supported by thousands of newly recruited women, strove to meet the nations wartime need for...
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Alice BirchCurrent price €20.69Original price €22.99She cant stay awake. She sold drugs. Shes good at interrogations. She drinks in the mornings. She ate a rabbit. She smashed up a shop. She stabbed ...
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Illustrated Tales of Warwickshire
S. C. SkillmanCurrent price €15.60Original price €19.75Warwickshire, often known as Shakespeares County, has a host of strange and mysterious tales ranging from ancient legends and stories of the supern...
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Only Yesterday: Collected Pieces on the Jews of Toronto
Benjamin KayfetzCurrent price €21.59Original price €23.99Current price €21.59Original price €23.99Save 10% -
Newton and the Counterfeiter
Thomas LevensonCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50Already famous throughout Europe for his theories of planetary motion and gravity, Isaac Newton decided to take on the job of running the Royal Min...
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Indigo: In Search of the Colour that Seduced the World
Catherine E. McKinleyCurrent price €14.39Original price €15.99____________________ 'An eye-opening account of the controversial role this gorgeous, coveted pigment has played through the millennia' - Elle '[...
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CCCP Cook Book: True Stories of Soviet Cuisine
Damon MurrayCurrent price €20.39Original price €23.99Current price €20.39Original price €23.99Save 15% -
A Short History Of Myth
Karen ArmstrongCurrent price €15.29Original price €16.99As long as we have been human, we have been mythmakers. In A Short History of Myth, Karen Armstrong holds up the mirror of mythology to show us the...
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The Art of Dining: The History of Cooking and Eating
Sara Paston-WilliamsCurrent price €35.25Original price €42.99....a brilliant marriage of historical picture research, well-chosen recipes, and historical narrative... Taste ...the best single treatment ...
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Wicked Company: Freethinkers and Friendship in pre-Revolutionary Paris
Philipp BlomCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99Dazzling recreation of the world of radical free-thinkers in 18th-century FranceFrom the 1750s to the 1770s, the Paris salon of Baron d'Holbach was...
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Korea: The Impossible Country: South Korea''s Amazing Rise from the Ashes: The Inside Story of an Economic, Political and Cultural Phenomenon
D. TudorCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99Daniel Tudor covers all the important issues, yet does not simply tell the more familiar stories, but looks deeper and wider to give the full story...
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Brigadier General Robert L. McCook and Colonel Daniel McCook, Jr.: A Union Army Dual Biography
Wayne FanebustCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50The dramatic battlefield deaths of brother Union Army commanders Robert L. McCook and Daniel McCook, Jr.--members of a prominent Ohio family kno...
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