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Ancient history
Confronting the Classics
By Mary Beard
Hardback
Published 07-Mar-2013
| RRP: | £25.00 |
| Our price: | £20.00 |
| You save: | £5.00 |
Mary Bear explores our rich classical heritage in a series of essays - from Greek drama to Roman jokes, introducing some larger-than-life characters of classical history, such as Alexander the Great, Nero and Boudicca.
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Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England
By Ian Mortimer
Paperback
Published 01-Oct-2009
| RRP: | £8.99 |
| Our price: | £7.19 |
| You save: | £1.80 |
Explains what life was like in the most immediate way, through taking readers, to the middle ages, and showing various things from the horrors of leprosy and war to the ridiculous excesses of roasted larks and haute couture.
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Brief History of the Roman Empire
By Stephen Kershaw
Paperback
Published 21-Mar-2013
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Tells the history of the Roman Empire from its establishment in 27 BC to the barbarian incursions and the fall of Rome in AD 476. This title draws on a range of evidence, from Juvenal's "Satires" to archaeological finds. It concludes with a brief look at how Rome lives on in the contemporary world, in politics, architecture, art and literature.
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Invisible Romans
By Robert Knapp
Paperback
Published 07-Feb-2013
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Shows how everyday Romans sought to survive and thrive under the afflictions of disease, war, and violence, and to control their fates under powers that both oppressed and ignored them. In this book, the author seeks out the ordinary people who formed the fabric of everyday life in ancient Rome and the outlaws and pirates who lay beyond it.
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Britain Begins
By Barry Cunliffe
Hardback
Published 25-Oct-2012
| RRP: | £30.00 |
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Impressive in every way this hugely ambitious and assured book takes as its subject the entire history of the British Isles from their physical emergence as islands at the end of the last Ice Age all the way down to the Norman Conquest.
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In the Shadow of the Sword
By Tom Holland
Paperback
Published 04-Apr-2013
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Swerve
By Stephen Greenblatt
Paperback
Published 06-Sep-2012
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Almost six hundred years ago, a short, genial man took a very old manuscript off a library shelf. With excitement, he saw what he had discovered and ordered it copied. This book details how one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, made possible the world as we know it.
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London: A History in Maps
By Peter Barber
Hardback
Published 18-Sep-2012
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Over the past 2000 years London has developed from a small town, fitting snugly within its walls, into one of the world's largest and most dynamic cities. This book illustrates and helps to explain the transformation.
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Black Death
By John Hatcher
Paperback
Published 09-Jul-2009
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How the people of a typical English village lived and died in the worst epidemic in history.
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Norman Conquest
By Marc Morris
Paperback
Published 07-Mar-2013
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An upstart French duke who sets out to conquer the most powerful and unified kingdom in Christendom. It is an invasion force on a scale not seen since the days of the Romans. One of the bloodiest and most decisive battles ever fought. This book explains why the Norman Conquest was the single most important event in English history.
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