New History Titles

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Hardback:After the Black Death, Economy, Society, and the Law in Fourteenth-Century England. The Ford Lectures for 2019:2021 Hardback
Author: Bailey, Mark
Year: 2021
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Resource type: Physical
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Hardback:Untied kingdom, a global history of the end of Britain:2023 Hardback
Author: Ward, Stuart
Year: 2023
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Resource type: Physical
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Hardback:The Windsors at war, the Nazis threat to the crown:2023 Hardback
Author: Larman, Alexander
Year: 2023
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Resource type: Physical
Note: At the outbreak of WW2, the British monarchy was in a state of turmoil. The previous king, Edward VIII, had abdicated the throne, leaving his unprepared and terrified brother Bertie to become George VI. Meanwhile, as the now-Duke of Windsor awaited the decree that would allow him to marry his mistress Wallis Simpson, he took an increasing interest in the expansionist plans of the Fuhrer of Germany.
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Hardback:Medieval horizons, why the Middle Ages matter:2023 Hardback
Author: Mortimer, Ian
Year: 2023
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: The Bodley Head
Resource type: Physical
Note: We tend to think about the Middle Ages as a dark, backward and unchanging time characterised by violence, ignorance and superstition. By contrast we believe progress is the consequence of science and technological innovation, and that it was the inventions of recent centuries which created the modern world. We couldn't be more wrong.
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Hardback:Britain's Industrial Revolution in 100 objects:2023 Hardback
Author: Broom, John
Year: 2023
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Pen & Sword History
Resource type: Physical
Note: The period of Britain's Industrial Revolution was perhaps the most transformative era in the nation's history. Between about 1750 and 1914, life and work, home and school, church and community changed irreversibly for Britain's rapidly expanding population. Lives were transformed, some for the better, but many endured abysmal domestic and workplace
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Hardback:The families of Eleanor of Aquitaine, a female network of power in the Middle Ages:2023 Hardback
Author: Andrews, J.F
Year: 2023
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: The History Press
Resource type: Physical
Note: The lives of the sons of Eleanor of Aquitaine are the stuff of legend. Her daughters, however, are less well known, and the fascinating personalities of her daughters-in-law have been almost entirely overlooked, as have those of the daughters she bore Louis VII of France. This book redresses this balance and showcases the lives, travels and careers
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Paperback:Arnhem, ten days in the cauldron:2023 Paperback
Author: Ballantyne, Iain
Year: 2023
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Canelo History
Resource type: Physical
Note: 17 September 1944: 30,000 airborne soldiers prepare to drop behind enemy lines into Nazi-occupied Holland; tens of thousands of ground troops race to link up with them. The goal: to secure eight bridges across the Rhine and end the war by Christmas. Ten days later, over 15,000 of these soldiers have died, are wounded, or missing.
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Hardback:The redcoats of Wellington's Light Division, unpublished & rare memoirs of the 52nd (Oxfordshire) regiment of foot:2023 Hardback
Author: Glover, Gareth
Year: 2023
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Frontline Books
Resource type: Physical
Note: The Light Division is rightly regarded as the most famous force within Wellington's army in the Peninsular War. Often the first into every battle and the last to withdraw, the men of the Light Division were trained to act independently and think for themselves as well as operating in their battalion formations. The regiments which comprised the Light Division were present at almost every battle throughout the Peninsular War.
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Hardback:Tally-ho, RAF tactical leadership in the Battle of Britain, July 1940:2023 Hardback
Author: Eriksson, Patrick G.
Year: 2023
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Amberley Publishing
Resource type: Physical
Note: Patrick G. Eriksson examines the tactical abilities of small unit leaders that were critical in winning the Battle of Britain and the many innovations and even experiments which they tried out during the active fighting.
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Hardback:Mines, bombs, bullets and bridges, memoirs of a frontline Second World War sapper:2023 Hardback
Author: Moss, Brian J
Author: Moss, Michael A
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Pen & Sword Military
Resource type: Physical
Note: Soldiers' first-hand accounts of Second World War active service invariably make inspiring and exciting reading but 'Mines, Bombs, Bullets and Bridges' is exceptional for several reasons. First, Brian Moss's role as a bomb disposal specialist was especially hazardous.
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Hardback:A small town in Ukraine, the place we cam from, the place we went back to:2023 Hardback
Author: Wasserstein, Bernard
Year: 2023
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Allen Lane
Resource type: Physical
Note: Decades ago, the historian Bernard Wasserstein set out to uncover the hidden past of the town 40 miles west of Lviv where his family originated: Krakowiec (Krah-KOV-yets). In this work he recounts its dramatic and traumatic history. 'I want to observe and understand how some of the great forces that determined the shape of our times affected ordinary people.
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Hardback:The dress diary of Mrs Anne Sykes, secrets from a Victorian woman's wardrobe:2023 Hardback
Author: Strasdin, Kate
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Resource type: Physical
Note: The hidden fabric of a Victorian woman's life - from family and friends to industry and Empire - told through her unique textile scrapbook.
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Paperback:Never give an inch, fighting for the America I love:2023 Paperback
Author: Pompeo, Mike
Year: 2023
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Broadside Books
Resource type: Physical
Note: Former Secretary of State and CIA Director Mike Pompeo spearheaded the Trump Administration's most significant foreign policy breakthroughs. Now, he reveals how he did it, and how it could happen again.
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Hardback:Rebellion against Henry VIII, the rise and fall of a dynasty:2022 Hardback
Author: Carradice, Phil
Year: 2022
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Pen & Sword History
Resource type: Physical
Note: Even the most beloved of sovereigns faced moments of disorder and disruption at some stage during their reign. How they responded to those periods is what made them a great or a weak monarch. More importantly, it is what continues to make their reigns fascinating for historians and story tellers. In this, Henry VIII, arguably England's most famous - or infamous - ruler was no different from the rest.
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Paperback:Killer in the Kremlin, the explosive account of Putin's reign of terror:2023 Paperback
Author: Sweeney, John
Year: 2023
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Resource type: Physical
Note: Journalist John Sweeney takes readers from the heart of Putin's Russia to the killing fields of Chechnya, to the embattled cities of an invaded Ukraine. In a disturbing expose of Putin's sinister ambition, Sweeney draws on thirty years of his own reporting - from the Moscow apartment bombings to the atrocities committed by the Russian Army in Chechnya.
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Hardback:The Plantagenet socialite:2023 Hardback
Author: Knights, Jan-Marie
Year: 2023
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Amberley Publishing
Resource type: Physical
Note: Jan-Marie Knights documents the social calendar of Plantagenet high society in a series of bite-sized chunks. The book covers weddings, feasts, funerals and more - allowing the reader to immerse themselves in the glamour, affluence and human drama of a gilded world.
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Hardback:An inside story of modern Syria, the unauthorised biography of a Damascene Reformer:2023 Hardback
Author: Imady, Omar
Year: 2023
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Pen & Sword History
Resource type: Physical
Note: The Syrian Arab Republic has rarely been out of the headlines following the rise to power of Hafiz al-Asad in 1970 and Bashar al-Asad in 2000 and has been at the heart of the popular protests which have come to be known as the Arab Spring. This is a political biography of the author's father, Dr Muhammad Imady, the longest-serving minister of economy in modern Syria.
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Paperback:Brittle with relics, a history of Wales 1962-97:2022 Paperback
Author: King, Richard
Year: 2022
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Resource type: Physical
Note: 'Brittle with Relics' is a landmark history of the people of Wales during a period of great national change. In the closing third of the 20th century, Wales experienced the simultaneous effects of deindustrialisation, the subsequent loss of employment and community cohesion, and the struggle for its language and identity.
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Paperback:The Desert Air Force in World War II, air power in the Western Desert 1940-1942:2022 Paperback
Author: Delve, Ken
Year: 2022
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Pen & Sword Aviation
Resource type: Physical
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Paperback:The war of the motor gun boats, one man's personal war a sea with the coastal forces, 1943-1945:2023 Paperback
Author: Chapman, Tony
Year: 2023
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Pen & Sword Maritime
Resource type: Physical
Note: Tony Chapman was born in Southampton in 1924. Aged 16 he watched with horror as the historic High Street of Southampton burnt to the ground in a firestorm caused by a heavy German bombing raid on the night of 30 November 1940. He vowed to join up and fight back. Tony joined the Navy. Within hours of being posted to his first Motor Gun Boat, Telegraphist Tony Chapman was involved in an epic Coastal Forcers engagement when his flotilla took on a force of thirty E-bouts.
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