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Siena: The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval City
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The Making of England: From Rome to Reformation
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La Serenissima: The Story of Venice
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Heritage: A History of How We Conserve Our Past
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Mummified: The Stories Behind Egyptian Mummies in Museums
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Adriatic: A Two Thousand-Year History of the Sea, Lands and Peoples
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Second City: Birmingham and the Forging of Modern Britain
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The House of Dudley: A New History of Tudor England
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The Museum of the Wood Age
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This Mortal Coil: A History of Death
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Tutankhamun's Trumpet: Ancient Egypt in 100 Objects from the Boy-King's Tomb
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Insulin - The Crooked Timber: A History from Thick Brown Muck to Wall Street Gold
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The Mercenary River: Private Greed, Public Good: A History of London's Water
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The Sasanian Empire at War: Persia, Rome, and the Rise of Islam, 224–651
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Fowl Play: A History of the Chicken from Dinosaur to Dinner Plate
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Shrimp to Whale: South Korea from the Forgotten War to K-Pop
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Nomads: The Wanderers Who Shaped Our World
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Adriatic: A Concert of Civilizations at the End of the Modern Age
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History of the Adriatic: A Sea and Its Civilization
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Shifting Currents: A World History of Swimming
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Heaven on Earth: The Lives and Legacies of the World's Greatest Cathedrals
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Budapest: Between East and West
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Vitamin C: A 500-Year Scientific Biography from Scurvy to Pseudoscience
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A Bittersweet Heritage: Slavery, Architecture and the British Landscape
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A Short History of Beijing
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Making Medicine: Surprising Stories from the History of Drug Discovery
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The Black Joke: The True Story of One Ship's Battle Against the Slave Trade
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The Grove: A Nature Odyssey in 19 ½ Front Gardens
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Scent: A Natural History of Fragrance
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Ten Cities that Led the World: From Ancient Metropolis to Modern Megacity
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Distilled: A Natural History of Spirits
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Empires of the Normans: Conquerors of Europe
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Pharaohs of the Sun: How Egypt's Despots and Dreamers Drove the Rise and Fall of Tutankhamun's Dynasty
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Rogues, Rebels and Mavericks of the Medieval Ages
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Edward III's Faithful Knight: Walter Mauny and His Legacy
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Men Without Country: The true story of exploration and rebellion in the South Seas
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Egypt's Golden Couple: When Akhenaten and Nefertiti Were Gods on Earth
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Tutankhamun - Pharaoh, Icon, Enigma: Ten Tales of Egypt's Enduring King
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Glass House - The Arab World 1922-2022
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Walking Among Pharaohs: George Reisner and the Dawn of Modern Egyptology
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All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopaedia
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El infinito en un junco: La invención de los libros en el mundo antiguo
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The Book of Phobias and Manias
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Two Houses, Two Kingdoms: A History of France and England, 1100–1300
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Adventurers: The Improbable Rise of the East India Company
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London, A Fourteenth-Century City and its People
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Command: How the Allies Learned to Win the Second World War
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Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement
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Amber: From Antiquity to Eternity
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The Mongol Storm: Making and Breaking Empires in the Medieval Near East
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The Scythian Empire: Central Eurasia and the Birth of the Classical Age from Persia to China
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Jerusalem Falls: Seven Centuries of War and Peace
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Scotland: The Global History: 1603 to the Present
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Peace and Friendship: An Alternative History of the American West
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Dinner in Rome: A History of the World in One Meal
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Sinkable: Obsession, the Deep Sea and the Shipwreck of the Titanic
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De la Pole, Father and Son: The Duke, the Earl and the Struggle for Power
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A People's History of Catalonia
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Lost Realms: Histories of Britain from the Romans to the Vikings
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Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America
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Orchid Muse: A History of Obsession in Fifteen Flowers
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Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk
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Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
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Gregor Mendel: His Life and Legacy
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Persia Triumphant in Greece: Xerxes' Invasion; Thermopylae, Artemisium and the Destruction of Athens
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These Bodies of Water: Notes on the British Empire, the Middle East and Where We All Meet
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Opium’s Orphans: The 200-Year History of the War on Drugs
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Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past
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The Edge of the Plain: How Borders Make and Break Our World
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The Queen and the Mistress: The Women of Edward III
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English Food: A People's History
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Kings & Queens: The Real Lives of the English Monarchs
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The Rise and Fall of the Danish Empire
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Blitzkrieg!: A History of the Nazis' Lightning War
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Try Not to Be Strange: The Curious History of the Kingdom of Redonda
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