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The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World before the War, 1890-1914
The Swerve
Queen of the Conqueror: The Life of Matilda, Wife of William I
The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome
Why the West Rules-for Now: The Patterns of History & What They Reveal About the Future
Clash of Crowns: William the Conqueror, Richard Lionheart, and Eleanor of Aquitaine―A Story of Bloodshed, Betrayal, and Revenge
Europe
The Isles: A History
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The Maid and the Queen

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The Wilder Life

An Edible History of Humanity
The Story of English in 100 Words
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Becoming Queen Victoria

Mrs. Robinson's Disgrace: The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady
The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell
The Guardian of All Things: The Epic Story of Human Memory
The Secret Lives of Buildings: From the Ruins of the Parthenon to the Vegas Strip in Thirteen Stories
Leonardo and the Last Supper
A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years
Foundation: The History of England Volume I
The Dawn of Innovation: The First American Industrial Revolution
Medusa's Gaze and Vampire's Bite: The Science of Monsters
Before Galileo: The Birth of Modern Science in the Middle Ages
Mankind
The First Thousand Years
Shakespeare's tremor and Orwell's cough
Ad Infinitum
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Blood Will Tell

Mad science
To marry an English Lord
Life Below Stairs: True Lives of Edwardian Servants
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What’s in a Word?

The Birth of the West: Rome, Germany, France, and the Creation of Europe in the Tenth Century
Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage: The Titanic's First-Class Passengers and Their World
Unsinkable: The Full Story of the RMS Titanic
On the Map: A Mind-Expanding Exploration of the Way the World Looks
The Universe Within: Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People
Your Travel Guide to Ancient Rome
Bogus Science: Or, Some People Really Believe These Things
Panati's extraordinary origins of everyday things.
Angels and Ages: Lincoln, Darwin, and the Birth of the Modern Age
Blood Sisters: The Women Behind the Wars of the Roses
Holy bones, holy dust
The Creation of Anne Boleyn
Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us about Sex, Diet, and How We Live
The Year Without Summer
Holy Sh*t
The Lady and Her Monsters
The Real Jane Austen : A Life in Small Things
A History of the World in 6 Glasses
The Deadly Sisterhood: A Story of Women and Power in Renaissance Italy
Consider the Fork: How Technology Transforms the Way We Cook and Eat
And Man Created God: A History of the World at the Time of Jesus
Who Was Dracula?
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The Children of Henry VIII

The Prince of Medicine: Galen in the Roman Empire
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The Tragedy of the Templars

The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
The twelve caesars
How Art Made the World: A Journey to the Origins of Human Creativity
Jane Austen's England
The History of the Renaissance World
Shakespeare's Restless World
Heretics and Heroes
History Decoded: The 10 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time
Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World
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Between Man and Beast

Tudors
The Smithsonian's History of America in 101 Objects
The Infographic History of the World
Writing on the Wall: Social Media - The First 2,000 Years
Servants
Elizabeth of York: A Tudor Queen and Her World
The Neanderthals Rediscovered: How Modern Science is Rewriting Their Story
A History of the World in 12 Maps
America The Story of Us: An Illustrated History
A Short History of Christianity
The World of Downton Abbey
Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History—Without the Fairy-Tale Endings
The chronicles of Downton Abbey
Lady Almina and the real Downton Abbey the lost legacy of Highclere Castle
A History of the World in 100 Objects
Archduke Franz Ferdinand Lives!: A World without World War I
Holy Holidays!: The Catholic Origins of Celebration
This Saint's for You!: 300 Heavenly Allies Who Will Change Your Life
The Etymologicon
The Woodvilles: The Wars of the Roses and England's Most Infamous Family
Terry Jones' Barbarians
Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language
The Queen's Bed: An Intimate History of Elizabeth's Court
The Rise of the Tudors: The Family That Changed English History
Terry Jones' Medieval Lives
The Memory Palace: A Book of Lost Interiors
Star Wars and History
Tudor: Passion. Manipulation. Murder. The Story of England's Most Notorious Royal Family
Gods of Olympus a History
THE PANDA'S THUMB: More Refelctions in Natural History
Ever Since Darwin: Reflections on Natural History
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The Last White Rose

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