Ask A Historian: 50 Surprising Answers to Things You Always Wanted to Know

Ask A Historian

50 Surprising Answers to Things You Always Wanted to Know

By
Greg Jenner
Greg Jenner
2021 • 331 pages

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9 books

Podcast Crossover

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The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design
American Kingpin
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing
The Data Detective: Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics
The Anthropocene Reviewed
Ask A Historian: 50 Surprising Answers to Things You Always Wanted to Know

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2,182 books

Ebook

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Susan Weissman
16 Lighthouse Road
A borrowing of bones
A dangerous inheritance
A Fine Balance
A Gentleman in Moscow
A Killer's Mind

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1,864 books

Kindle

SueWise
Susan Weissman
Just One Evil Act
16 Lighthouse Road
A borrowing of bones
A dangerous inheritance
A Fine Balance
A Gentleman in Moscow

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571 books

Audio Book

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Churchill's Secret Warriors: The Explosive True Story of The Special Forces Desperadoes of WWII
Churchill's Hellraisers: The Secret Mission to Storm a Forbidden Nazi Fortress
Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions That Changed the World, 1940-1941
To Hell and Back: Europe 1914-1949
Roller-Coaster: Europe, 1950-2017
All hell let loose
The Battle for the Falklands

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516 books

History

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PB
European History for Dummies
Secret Victory: The Intelligence War that beat the IRA
Mossad
One Minute to Midnight - Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War
In Search of the Dark Ages
To Hell and Back: Europe, 1914-1949

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423 books

Format Audiobook

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A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire
Amongst Our Weapons
Howl's Moving Castle
A Strange Hymn

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56 books

Type Non Fiction

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Kirstie / Roo
Bad Science
Everyday Sexism: The Project that Inspired a Worldwide Movement
How to Argue With a Racist: History, Science, Race and Reality
How To Be a Tudor: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Tudor Life
John Stuart Mill: On Liberty

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15 books

Subject History

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How To Be a Tudor: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Tudor Life
The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
God
A Curious History of Sex
The Royal Art of Poison
The Battered Body Beneath the Flagstones, and Other Victorian Scandals
Humans: A Brief History of How We F**ked It All Up

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183 books

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Charlotte
The Christmas Tree Farm
Norse Mythology
Serendipity: Ten Romantic Tropes, Transformed
Greek Mythology: The Gods, Goddesses, and Heroes Handbook: From Aphrodite to Zeus, a Profile of Who's Who in Greek Mythology

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46 books

2023

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Charlotte
Norse Mythology
The Hating Game
A Very British Murder
Gwen and Art Are Not in Love
Marple: Twelve New Mysteries
Nimona

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Sapphire Blue
The Familiars
A Discovery of Witches
Northanger Abbey
Pride and Prejudice
Emerald Green
Classic Horror Tales and Other Disturbing Stories