Woman's Lore: 4,000 Years of Sirens, Serpents and Succubi by Sarah Clegg
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Category: HISTORY
The history of a demonic tradition that was stolen from women and then won back again.Demonic temptresses from siren-mermaids to Lilith are well known today, and their mythology focuses around the seductive danger they pose to men. But the root of these figures can be traced back 4,000 years and in thei ...Show more
The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England by Jonathan Healey
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Category: HISTORY
At the beginning of the seventeenth century, English politics centred on the king and the royal court. Ninety per cent of the population lived in the countryside, the vast majority was illiterate and famine and plague were regular scourges. However, by the turn of the eighteenth century, a new world had ...Show more
The Last Secret of the Secret Annex by Joop van Wijk-Voskuijl; Jeroen De Bruyn
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Category: HISTORY | Reading Level: very good
Much has been written about Anne Frank's life, but the story of Bep Voskuijl has remained untold - until now.As the youngest of the five Dutch people who hid the Frank family, Bep Voskuijl was Anne's closest confidante during the 761 excruciating days she spent hidden in the Secret Annex. In those cramp ...Show more
The Craft: How the Freemasons Made the Modern World by John Dickie
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Category: HISTORY
Insiders call it the Craft. Discover the fascinating true story of one of the most influential and misunderstood secret brotherhoods in modern society.Founded in London in 1717 as a way of binding men in fellowship, Freemasonry proved so addictive that within two decades it had spread across the globe. ...Show more
THE LISLE LETTERS : AN ABRIDGEMENT by MURIEL ST. CLARE BYRNE (ed)
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A HISTORY OF ENGLAND IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY by THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY
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Rivals in Power : Lives and Letters of the Great Tudor Dynasties by David Starkey
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Produced and illustrated in the same style as The Paston Letters, this tells the story of the 16th century through the private letters of five leading noble families.
The Irish Difference - The Story of Ireland's 400-Year Journey to Independence by Fergal Tobin
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Category: HISTORY
A fascinating and entertaining investigation into what makes Ireland so different from its neighbors, by a respected Irish historian. For hundreds of years, the islands and their constituent tribes that make up the British Isles have lived next door to each other in a manner that, over time, sugges ...Show more
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher - Or the Murder at Road Hill House by Kate Summerscale
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_______________A beautiful new limited edition paperback of The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher, published as part of the Bloomsbury Modern Classics list_______________WINNER OF THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONTHE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLERA RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK_______________'A remarkable achie ...Show more
The Ambiguity of Virtue: Gertrude Van Tijn and the Fate of the Dutch Jews by Bernard Wasserstein
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In May 1941, Gertrude van Tijn arrived in Lisbon on a mission of mercy from German occupied Amsterdam. She came with Nazi approval to the capital of neutral Portugal to negotiate the departure from Hitler's Europe of thousands of German and Dutch Jews. Was this middle aged Jewish woman, burdened with su ...Show more