Ancestors in the Attic: Including My Great-Grandmother's Book of Ferns and My Aunt's Book of Silent Actors
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Michael Holroyd, perhaps the most distinguished of contemporary biographers, has in recent years...
Jerusalem: The Biography
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The epic story of Jerusalem told through the lives of the men and women who created, ruled and...
This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America
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From one of the fiercest critics writing today, Morgan Jerkins’ highly-anticipated collection of...
The Lifeboat Service in England: The North West and the Isle of Man: Station by Station
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The Royal National Lifeboat Institution was established in 1824 and has a long and proud tradition...
Lost Girls: The Invention of the Flapper
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In the glorious, boozy party after the First World War, a new being burst defiantly onto the world...
Scandalize My Name: Black Feminist Practice and the Making of Black Social Life
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From sapphire, mammy, and jezebel, to the angry black woman, baby mama, and nappy-headed ho, black...
The Islamic Enlightenment
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The Islamic Enlightenment: a contradiction in terms? The Muslim world has often been accused of a...
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De Valera: Long Fellow, Long Shadow
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The history of Ireland for much of the Twentieth century is the history of Eamon De Valera. From the...
God's Doodle: The Life and Times of the Penis
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Throughout history man has revered his penis as his 'most precious ornament'. Yet, ambivalently, his...
Mrs. Tsenhor: A Female Entrepreneur in Ancient Egypt
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Tsenhor was born about 550 bce in the city of Thebes (Karnak). She died some sixty years later,...