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Embers of the Hands: Shortlisted for the 2025 Wolfson History Prize and Longlisted for the 2025 Women's Prize for Non-Fiction

Embers of the Hands

Shortlisted for the 2025 Wolfson...

Eleanor Barraclough

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Versailles Mirrored: The Power of Luxury, Louis XIV to Donald Trump

Versailles Mirrored

The Power of Luxury, Louis XIV to...

Robert Wellington (Australian National...

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Moneta: Ancient Rome in Twelve Coins

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Ancient Rome in Twelve Coins

Gareth Harney

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Butrint: At the Crossroads of the Mediterranean

Butrint

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Dr Richard Hodges (The American...

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Craftland: A Journey Through Britain’s Lost Arts and Vanishing Trades

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A Journey Through Britain’s Lost...

James Fox

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Tania James

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Professor Philip Howell (University...

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Forgotten: Searching for Palestine’s Hidden Places and Lost Memorials

Forgotten

Searching for Palestine’s Hidden...

Raja Shehadeh

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Faithful Unto Death: Pet cemeteries, animal graves and eternal devotion

Faithful Unto Death

Pet cemeteries, animal graves and...

Paul Koudounaris

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Less: Stop Buying So Much Rubbish: How Having Fewer, Better Things Can Make Us Happier

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Patrick Grant

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Te Ata o Tū The Shadow of Tumatauenga: The New Zealand Wars Collections of Te Papa

Te Ata o Tū The Shadow of Tumatauenga...

The New Zealand Wars Collections...

Matiu Baker

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Scotland Yard's History of Crime in 100 Objects

Scotland Yard's History of Crime...

Alan Moss

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National Treasures: Saving The Nation's Art in World War II

National Treasures

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Caroline Shenton

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Mummified: The Stories Behind Egyptian Mummies in Museums

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The Stories Behind Egyptian Mummies...

Angela Stienne

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A History of Polar Exploration in 50 Objects: From Cook’s Circumnavigations to the Aviation Age

A History of Polar Exploration in...

From Cook’s Circumnavigations to...

Anne Strathie

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A Cultural History of the Medieval Sword: Power, Piety and Play

A Cultural History of the Medieval...

Power, Piety and Play

Dr Robert W Jones

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RMS Titanic in 50 Objects

RMS Titanic in 50 Objects

Bruce Beveridge

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Back to the Shops: The High Street in History and the Future

Back to the Shops

The High Street in History and the...

Rachel Bowlby (Professor of Comparative...

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A Simpler Life: A Guide to Greater Serenity, Ease and Clarity

A Simpler Life

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The School of Life

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Notes on Camp

Notes on Camp

Susan Sontag

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The Hellenistic World: Using Coins as Sources

The Hellenistic World

Using Coins as Sources

Peter Thonemann (University of Oxford)...

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Artefacts of Encounter: Cook's Voyages, Colonial Collecting and Museum Histories

Artefacts of Encounter

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Thomas Nicholas

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Waterloo in 100 Objects

Waterloo in 100 Objects

Gareth Glover

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Writing on the Wall: Graffiti and Rebellion in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Writing on the Wall

Graffiti and Rebellion in Eighteenth-Century...

Madeleine Pelling

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Mummified: The Stories Behind Egyptian Mummies in Museums

Mummified

The Stories Behind Egyptian Mummies...

Angela Stienne

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SOE in 100 Objects

SOE in 100 Objects

Belinda Curwen

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Less: Stop Buying So Much Rubbish: How Having Fewer, Better Things Can Make Us Happier

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Patrick Grant

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The Spanish Civil War in 100 Objects: A Material History of the Conflict and its Legacy

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A Material History of the Conflict...

Professor Antonio Cazorla-Sanchez...

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At Home with the Poor: Consumer Behaviour and Material Culture in England, C.1650-1850

At Home with the Poor

Consumer Behaviour and Material...

Joseph Harley

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Writing on the Wall: Graffiti and Rebellion in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Writing on the Wall

Graffiti and Rebellion in Eighteenth-Century...

Madeleine Pelling

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Handmade: A Scientist’s Search for Meaning through Making

Handmade

A Scientist’s Search for Meaning...

Anna Ploszajski

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Fragile Cargo: China’s Wartime Race to Save the Treasures of the Forbidden City

Fragile Cargo

China’s Wartime Race to Save the...

Adam Brookes

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