Cocoa at Midnight: The Real Life Story of My Time as a Housekeeper
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Kathleen Clifford was born in 1909. Her family lived in a tiny flat near Paddington Station and her...
Eleanor of Castile: The Shadow Queen
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Eleanor of Castile, the remarkable woman behind England's greatest medieval king, Edward I, has been...
Elizabeth of York: The Forgotten Tudor Queen
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As Tudors go, Elizabeth of York is relatively unknown. Yet she was the mother of the dynasty, with...
Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
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This is from the bestselling author of Wild Swans and Mao: The Unknown Story. In this groundbreaking...
John Hawkwood: An English Mercenary in Fourteenth-Century Italy
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This book is the winner, 2008 Otto Grundler Book Prize, The Medieval Institute Notorious for his...
Julian of Norwich, Theologian
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For centuries readers have comfortably accepted Julian of Norwich as simply a mystic. In this astute...
Minister of Money: Henry Duncan, Saving Banks, Poetry and the Kirk
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Henry Duncan was a man of many parts: parish minister, savings bank founder, political lobbyist,...
Large Databases in Economic History: Research Methods and Case Studies
Mark Casson and Nigar Hashimzade
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'Big data' is now readily available to economic historians, thanks to the digitisation of primary...
Early Islam and the Birth of Capitalism
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Early Islam and the Birth of Capitalism proposes a strikingly original thesis-that capitalism first...
Ethnobotany in the New Europe: People, Health and Wild Plant Resources
Manuel Pardo de Santayana, Andrea Pieroni and Rajindra K. Puri
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The study of European wild food plants and herbal medicines is an old discipline that has been...