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Mothers, Mystics & Martyrs
Women and the Reformations: A Global History
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Anne Perkins
Driven to Distraction
Precipice
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Donald Rayfield
Clerics & Crooks
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John Keay
Krishna Goes to Sea
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Bad Investment
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Richard Ovenden
Blessed are the Copyists
History in Flames: The Destruction and Survival of Medieval Manuscripts
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Richard Vinen
Tories on the Home Front
Blue Jerusalem: British Conservatism, Winston Churchill, and the Second World War
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Thomas Shippey
At Home With Odin
Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age
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I, Algorithm
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Tim Stanley
Kindred Spirits
American Bloods: The Untamed Dynasty That Shaped a Nation
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Off with His Fez
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Diana Darke
Syria Ablaze
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By Eugene Rogan
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Bijan Omrani
Playground of the Gods
Land Between the Rivers: A 5,000-Year History of Iraq
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Fortune Favours the Flexible
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Tea & Antipathy
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Richard Carwardine
The Blood-Spattered Banner
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Ambassadors Behaving Badly
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Between the Sultan & the Tsar
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Marc Mulholland
Pity the Poor Peasant
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Munro Price
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