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The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective
by Kate Summerscale  
Powells.com Staff Pick At once a mystery and a history of early mystery novels, The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher is a page-turner. Summerscale picks apart a famous Victorian murder, the murder that sparked "detective fever" and inspired Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins to...
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Saxons, Vikings, and Celts: The Genetic Roots of Britain and Ireland
by Bryan Sykes Publisher Comments From the best-selling author of The Seven Daughters of Eve, an illuminating guide to the genetic history of the British Isles. One of the world's leading geneticists, Bryan Sykes has helped thousands find their ancestry in the British Isles. Saxons...
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Year 1000 : What Life Was Like At the Turn of the First Millennium (99 Edition)
by Robert Lacey
Synopsis How did people make sense of the end of one era and the start of another?"The Year 1000" plunges readers into the past in colorful detail and provides them with a historically accurate portrait of life on the cusp of the first millennium....
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Hubbub: Filth, Noise, and Stench in England, 1600-1770
by Emily Cockayne Publisher Comments Modern city-dwellers suffer their share of unpleasant experiences—traffic jams, noisy neighbors, pollution, food scares—but urban nuisances of the past existed on a different scale entirely, this book explains in vivid detail. Focusing on...
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Her Majesty's Spymaster: Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Walsingham, and the Birth of Modern Espionage
by Stephen Budiansky Publisher Comments Queen Elizabeth I and Englands First Spymaster Sir Francis Walsinghams official title was principal secretary to Queen Elizabeth I, but in fact this pious, tight-lipped Puritan was Englands first spymaster. A ruthless, fiercely loyal civil servant...
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What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist-The Facts of Daily...
by Daniel Pool Publisher Comments For every frustrated reader of the great nineteenth-century English novels of Austen, Trollope, Dickens, or the Brontës who has ever wondered whether a duke outranked an earl, when to yell "Tally Ho!" at a fox hunt, or how one landed in "debtor's...
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Austerity Britain, 1945-1951
by David Kynaston Publisher Comments A majestic people’s history of England in the years immediately following the end of World War II, and a surprise bestseller in the UK. As much as any country, England bore the brunt of Germany’s aggression in World War II , and was ravaged...
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On the Trail of Scotland's History (On the Trail of)
by David R. Ross Synopsis The latest edition to the popular "On the Trail of" series covers the most important events in Scottish history from the volcanic origins of Edinburgh Castle to the final resting place of King Arthur....
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Six Wives of Henry VIII (91 Edition)
by Alison Weir Publisher Comments The tempestuous, bloody, and splendid reign of Henry VIII of England (1509-1547) is one of the most fascinating in all history, not least for his marriage to six extraordinary women. In this accessible work of brilliant scholarship, Alison Weir draws on...
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The Glorious Revolution: 1688: Britain's Fight for Liberty
by Edward Vallance Publisher Comments A radical and illuminating account of Britain's "bloodless" revolution of 1688. 1688: Heeding the call of England's ruling class, the Dutch Prince William of Orange landed with a massive invasion force and within six weeks expelled the Catholic King...
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The Scandal of Empire: India and the Creation of Imperial Britain
by Nicholas B Dirks Publisher Comments Many have told of the East India Companyandrsquo;s extraordinary excesses in eighteenth-century India, of the plunder that made its directors fabulously wealthy and able to buy British land and titles, but this is only a fraction of the story. When one...
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The Heads of Religious Houses: England and Wales, III. 1377-1540
by David M. (edt) Smith Publisher Comments This final volume of Heads of Religious Houses: England and Wales takes the lists of monastic superiors from 1377 to the dissolution of the monastic houses ending in 1540 and so concludes a reference work covering six hundred years of monastic history...
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The History of the Kings of Britain
by Geoffrey Of Monmouth Synopsis An epic work spanning 2000 years, from the founding of Britain by Brutus to the coming of the Saxons....
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Thunderstruck
by Erik Larson
Powells.com Staff Pick In this remarkable follow-up to his hit thriller Devil in the White City, Erik Larson applies his considerable skill to craft a story of invention and murder. A tightly written page-turner. Recommended by Michal, Powells.com...
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New Lives for Old: The Story of Britain??'s Child Migrants
by Roger Kershaw Publisher Comments Over 100,000 children were sent across the seas to Canada between 1869 and the late 1930s. Thousands of others were dispatched to Australia - as well as to New Zealand, South Africa and Rhodesia - up to and even after the Second World War. These young...
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Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat: The Dire Warning: Churchill's First Speech as Prime Minister
by John Lukacs Publisher Comments On May 13, 1940, Winston Churchill stood before the House of Commons to deliver his first speech as Prime Minister. Europe was in crisis: Three days earlier, Germany had invaded France and the Low Countries. Facing only feeble resistance, Hitler’s...
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Tribes of Britain
by David Miles Publisher Comments Who are the English, Scots, Welsh, and Irish? New scientific techniques can be used to explore this complex genetic jigsaw—ancient Britons and Saxons, Celts and Romans, Vikings and Normans, and more recent migrations. Drawing on the latest...
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The Children of Henry VIII
by B. Alison Weir Publisher Comments "Fascinating . . . Alison Weir does full justice to the subject." --The Philadelphia Inquirer At his death in 1547, King Henry VIII left four heirs to the English throne: his only son, the nine-year-old Prince Edward; the Lady Mary, the adult daughter of...
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The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain: Volume 2, 1100-1400 (Cambridge History of the Book in Britain)
by Nigel Morgan Publisher Comments This is the first history of the book in Britain from the Norman Conquest until the early fifteenth century. The twenty-six expert contributors to this volume discuss the manuscript book from a variety of angles: as physical object (manufacture, format...
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Ecclesiastical History of the English People (Rev 90 Edition)
by Bartolome Bede Synopsis Written in AD 731, this title is the first account of Anglo-Saxon England ever written, and remains our single most valuable source for this period. This revised edition includes a new introduction, Bede's letter to Egbert, the account of Bede's death...
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