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The English and their History
2024 || Paperback || Robert Tombs || Penguin Books Ltd
Tells us the history of the English people, and of how the stories they have told about themselves have shaped them, from the prehistoric dreamtime. This book describes their history and its meanings from their beginnings in the monasteries of Northumbria and the wetlands of Wessex to the cosmopolitan energy of England.
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The House of Dudley
A New History of Tudor England. A TIMES Book of the Year 2022
2024 || Paperback || Dr Joanne Paul || Penguin Books Ltd
The Light of Asia
A History of Western Fascination with the East
2025 || Paperback || Christopher Harding || Penguin Books Ltd
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All His Spies
The Secret World of Robert Cecil
2024 || Hardcover || Stephen Alford || Penguin Books Ltd
History of Histories
2009 || Paperback || John Burrow || Penguin Books Ltd
This unprecedented book, by one of Britain's leading intellectual historians, describes the intellectual impact that the study and consideration of the past has had in the western world over the past 2500 years, treating the practise of history not as an isolated pursuit but as an aspect of human society and an essential part of the cultural history of Europe and America. It magnificently brings to life the work of historians from the Greeks to the present, explaining their distinctive qualit...
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The Revolutionary Temper
Paris, 1748–1789
2024 || Hardcover || Robert Darnton || Penguin Books Ltd
The Darkling gently folded me in his arms. He pressed a kiss to the top of my hair. "I will strip away all that you know, all that you love, until you have no other shelter but me." For Alina, time is running out. To destroy the Darkling, she needs to find the elusive firebird, and she needs to find it soon. The Darkling's power is growing. And so is his connection to Alina. Can Alina escape the hold he has over her? Does she want to? Mal is the one person Alina can rely on in an increasin...
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Seneca
A Life
2024 || Paperback || Emily Wilson || Penguin Books Ltd
Philosopher, dramatist, rhetorician, Stoic and pragmatist, Seneca was one of the most contradictory figures in ancient Rome, embracing a stern ascetic morality while amassing a fortune under Nero and eventually committing suicide. This definitive biography reveals a life lived perilously in the gap between ideals and reality.
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Haywire
A Political History of Britain since 2000
2024 || Hardcover || Andrew Hindmoor || Penguin Books Ltd
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Global Discontents
Conversations on the Rising Threats to Democracy
2024 || Paperback || Noam Chomsky e.a. || Penguin Books Ltd
Global Discontents is an essential guide to geopolitics and how to fight back, from the world's leading public intellectual
What kind of world are we leaving to our grandchildren? How are the discontents kindled today likely to blaze and explode tomorrow?
From escalating climate change to the devastation in Syria, pandemic state surveillance to looming nuclear war, Noam Chomsky takes stock of the world today. Over the course of ten conversations with long-time collaborator D...