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Medieval Monsters Damien Kempf 9780712357906
RRP: £10.00£6.80From satyrs and sea creatures to griffins and dragons, monsters lay at the heart of the medieval world. Believed to dwell in exotic, remote areas, these inexplicable parts of God's creation aroused fear, curiosity and wonder in equal measure. Powerfully... -
Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism by Michael Parenti
RRP: £12.99£8.63Blackshirts & Reds explores some of the big issues of our time: fascism, capitalism, communism, revolution, democracy, and ecology--terms often bandied about but seldom explored in the original and exciting way that has become Michael Parenti's trademark... -
Thebes: The Forgotten City of Ancient Greece by Paul Cartledge
RRP: £12.99£8.78'An incisive, inspiring and vitally illuminating account of a city which changed the ancient world and which deserves to be remembered by the modern. A masterful book written by a master historian.' - Bettany Hughes, bestselling author of Istanbul and... -
To Stand with the Nations of the World: Japan's Meiji Restoration in World History by Mark Ravina 9780190088378
RRP: £25.99£19.16The samurai radicals who overthrew the last shogun in 1868 promised to restore ancient and pure Japanese ways. Foreign observers were terrified that Japan would lapse into violent xenophobia. But the new Meiji government took an opposite course. It... -
Ultra by Tobias Jones
RRP: £9.99£7.11Winner of the Daily Telegraph Football Book of the Year Ultras are often compared to punks, Hell's Angels, hooligans or the South American Barras Bravas. But in truth, they are a thoroughly Italian phenomenon... From the author of The Dark Heart of... -
English Food: A People’s History by Diane Purkiss 9780007255573
RRP: £12.99£8.48'An absolute gem' Sunday Times 'A mouthwatering history' The Guardian In this delicious history of Britain's food traditions, Diane Purkiss invites readers on a unique journey through the centuries, exploring the... -
Harlem 69: The Future of Soul by Stuart Cosgrove 9781846974748
RRP: £9.99£6.70In 1969, among Harlem's Rabelaisian cast of characters are bandleader King Curtis, soul singers Aretha Franklin and Donny Hathaway, and drug peddler Jimmy 'Goldfinger' Terrell. In February a raid on tenements across New York leads to the arrest of 21... -
The Idea of North by Peter Davidson
RRP: £11.99£8.43As with the compass needle, so people have always been most powerfully attracted northwards; everyone carries within them their own concept of north. "The Idea of North" is a study, ranging widely in time and place, of some of the ways in which these... -
Modern Britain Third Edition: A Social History 1750-2011 Prof. Edward Royle (Emeritus Professor of History, The University of York) 9781849665308
RRP: £31.99£27.02Praise for the first edition: 'Royle calls on an impressive range of materials (supported by an excellent bibliography) to offer a judicious review of most of the issues currently confronted by social historians. His agenda contains both traditional and... -
Following Franco: Spanish Culture and Politics in Transition by Duncan Wheeler 9781526105189
RRP: £30.00£26.95The transition to democracy that followed the death of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco in 1975 was once hailed as a model of political transformation. But since the 2008 financial crisis it has come under intense scrutiny. Today, a growing divide... -
From Sylhet to Spitalfields: Bengali Squatters in 1970s East London by Shabna Begum
RRP: £16.00£15.24With the support of the Race Today collective, squatters formed the Bengali Housing Action Group (BHAG), which organised support and vigilante groups to keep the community safe. Using oral history interviews and archival research, this book looks at the... -
Bricks of Victorian London: A social and economic history by Peter Hounsell
RRP: £18.99£16.98Many of London's Victorian buildings are built of coarse-textured yellow bricks. These are 'London stocks', produced in very large quantities all through the nineteenth century and notable for their ability to withstand the airborne pollutants of the... -
A People's History of the World: From the Stone Age to the New Millennium by Chris Harman
RRP: £12.99£11.41In this monumental book, Chris Harman achieves the impossible-a gripping history of the planet from the perspective of the struggling people throughout the ages.From earliest human society to the Holy Roman Empire, from the Middle Ages to the... -
The NHS: Britain's National Health Service, 1948–2020 by Susan Cohen
RRP: £8.99£6.96A beautifully illustrated history of Britain's most revered and valued institution: the NHS. In March 2020 the UK went into lockdown to help contain the spread of COVID-19 and protect the NHS from one of the greatest threats that it has faced in its... -
Edible Economics: A Hungry Economist Explains the World by Ha-Joon Chang
RRP: £20.00£14.29RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK Economic thinking - about globalisation, climate change, immigration, austerity, automation and much more - in its most digestible formFor decades, a single free market philosophy has dominated global economics. But this is bland... -
The Brother Gardeners: Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obsession by Andrea Wulf
RRP: £10.99£7.77One January morning in 1734, cloth merchant Peter Collinson hurried down to the docks at London's Custom House to collect cargo just arrived from John Bartram in the American colonies. But it was not bales of cotton that awaited him, but plants and seeds... -
Entitled: A Critical History of the British Aristocracy by Chris Bryant
RRP: £12.99£9.09"A proudly partisan history of the British aristocracy - which scores some shrewd hits against the upper class themselves, and the nostalgia of the rest of us for their less endearing eccentricities. A great antidote to Downton Abbey." (Mary... -
Domesday Book: A Complete Translation by Geoffrey Martin
RRP: £40.00£29.39Domesday Book has been described as 'the most valuable piece of antiquity possessed by any nation.' (David Hume) But a complete translation has never been available before at an affordable price. Penguin's edition will change that. Compiled in a matter... -
Hollow Places: An Unusual History of Land and Legend by Christopher Hadley 9780008319526
RRP: £12.99£8.48'Impossible to summarise and delightfully absorbing, Hadley's book is comfortably the most unexpected history book of the year' Sunday Times A luminous journey through a thousand years of folklore and... -
The Europeans: Three Lives and the Making of a Cosmopolitan Culture by Orlando Figes
RRP: £14.99£10.95'Magnificent. Beautifully written, immaculately researched and thoroughly absorbing from start to finish. A tour de force that explains how Europe's cultural life transformed during the course of the 19th century - and so much more' Peter Frankopan From... -
Before European Hegemony: The World System AD 1250-1350 by Janet L. Abu Lughod 9780195067743
RRP: £37.99£30.15In this important study, Janet Abu-Lughod presents a groundbreaking reinterpretation of global economic evolution and provides a new paradigm for understanding the evolution of world systems by tracing the rise of a system that, at its peak in the... -
The White Road: a pilgrimage of sorts by Edmund de Waal
RRP: £12.99£9.09The gripping story of the lure of porcelain, or 'white gold', from the Number One bestselling author of The Hare with Amber Eyes.** A Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller ** "Other things in the world are white but for me porcelain comes first" A handful of... -
American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis by Adam Hochschild 9780063278523
RRP: £12.99£8.48National Bestseller * One of the year's most acclaimed works of nonfictionA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: New York Times, Washington Post, New Yorker, Chicago Tribune, Kirkus, New York Post, Fast CompanyFrom legendary historian Adam Hochschild, a "masterly"... -
A Very British Family: The Trevelyans and Their World by Laura Trevelyan 9781350154537
RRP: £18.99£18.55"It is a rule that no Trevelyan ever sucks up either to the press, or the chiefs, or the "right people". The world has given us money enough to enable us to do what we think is right. We thank it for that and ask no more of it, but to be allowed to serve... -
The Rose by Jennifer Potter 9781848878341 [USED COPY]
RRP: £27.50£2.80This vividly written and lavishly illustrated book challenges many cherished beliefs about the rose. It looks set to establish itself as the definitive history of the Queen of Flowers.Ever since Sappho planted roses at the shrine of Aphrodite, no flower... -
The Rose by Jennifer Potter
RRP: £27.50£19.75This vividly written and lavishly illustrated book challenges many cherished beliefs about the rose. It looks set to establish itself as the definitive history of the Queen of Flowers.Ever since Sappho planted roses at the shrine of Aphrodite, no flower... -
Inheritance: The Story of Knole and the Sackvilles Robert Sackville-West 9781408809686
RRP: £14.99£10.95Since its purchase in 1604 by Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, the house at Knole, Kent, has been inhabited by thirteen generations of a single aristocratic family, the Sackvilles. Here, drawing on a wealth of unpublished letters, archives and... -
The Blackest Streets: The Life and Death of a Victorian Slum Sarah Wise 9781844133314
RRP: £10.99£7.77'An excellent and intelligent investigation of the realities of urban living that respond to no design or directive... This is a book about the nature of London itself' Peter Ackroyd, The TimesA powerful exploration of the seedy side of Victorian London... -
The Britannias: An Island Quest by Alice Albinia 9780241669631
RRP: £25.00£18.02SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR'A dazzlingly brilliant book' Hannah Dawson'Fascinating, often exhilarating ... Albinia is an intrepid, imaginative guide' TLSThe Britannias tells the story of Britain's islands and how they are... -
The Littlehampton Libels: A Miscarriage of Justice and a Mystery about Words in 1920s England by Christopher Hilliard 9780198799658
RRP: £45.99£45.62The Littlehampton Libels tells the story of a poison-pen mystery that led to a miscarriage of justice in the years following the First World War. There would be four criminal trials before the real culprit was finally punished, with the case challenging... -
This Is Your Mind On Plants: Opium-Caffeine-Mescaline by Michael Pollan
RRP: £10.99£7.12THE INSPIRATION FOR THE MAJOR NEW NETFLIX SERIES, HOW TO CHANGE YOUR MIND'It's a trip - engrossing, eye-opening, mind altering' New Statesman 'Fascinating. Pollan is the perfect guide ... curious, careful, open minded' The Guardian Of all the many... -
One on One by Craig Brown
RRP: £12.99£8.48101 chance meetings, juxtaposing the famous and the infamous, the artistic and the philistine, the pompous and the comical, the snobbish and the vulgar, told by Britain's funniest writer. Life is made up of humans meeting one another. They... -
An Utterly Impartial History of Britain: (or 2000 Years Of Upper Class Idiots In Charge) by John O'Farrell
RRP: £10.99£7.77Many of us were put off history by the dry and dreary way it was taught at school. Back then 'The Origins of the Industrial Revolution' somehow seemed less compelling than the chance to test the bold claim on Timothy Johnson's 'Shatterproof' ruler.But... -
Women of the Durham Coalfield in the 20th Century: Hannah's Daughter by Margaret Hedley 9780750995047
RRP: £14.99£11.55Life in the early twentieth-century coalmining communities changed very little for the women who dedicated their lives to their miner husbands. The women's working days were much longer than the miners, who typically worked an 8-hour shift. Their living... -
The Autists: women on the spectrum by Clara Törnvall
RRP: £12.99£8.56An incisive and deeply candid account that explores autistic women in culture, myth, and society through the prism of the author's own diagnosis. Until the 1980s, autism was regarded as a condition found mostly in boys. Even in our time, autistic girls... -
The Basque History Of The World by Mark Kurlansky
RRP: £12.99£9.09The Basques are Europe's oldest people, their origins a mystery, their language related to no other on Earth, and even though few in population and from a remote and rugged corner of Spain and France, they have had a profound impact on the world. Whilst... -
The Long Weekend: Life in the English Country House Between the Wars by Adrian Tinniswood
RRP: £20.00£16.59'A masterpiece of social history' Daily MailThere is nothing quite as beautiful as an English country house in summer. And there has never been a summer quite like that Indian summer between the two world wars, a period of gentle decline in which the sun... -
Gladius: Living, Fighting and Dying in the Roman Army by Guy de la Bedoyere
RRP: £14.99£9.80The Roman army was the greatest fighting machine the ancient world produced. The Roman Empire depended on soldiers not just to win its wars, defend its frontiers and control the seas but also to act as the engine of the state. Roman legionaries and... -
Black Victorians: Hidden in History by John Woolf
RRP: £20.00£14.61Beyond the patrician vision of Victorian Britain traditionally advanced in our textbooks, there always existed another, more diverse Britain, populated by people of colour marking achievements both ordinary and extraordinary. In this deeply researched... -
Madness: A Brief History Roy Porter (, Former Professor of the Social History of Medicine, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London) 9780192802675
RRP: £13.99£9.75This fascinating story of madness reveals the radically different perceptions of madness and approaches to its treatment, from antiquity to the present day. Roy Porter explores what we really mean by 'madness', covering an enormous range of topics...