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Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age: Longlisted for the 2025 Women's Prize for Non-Fiction

Embers of the Hands

Hidden Histories of the Viking Age:...

Eleanor Barraclough

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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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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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Moneta: A History of Ancient Rome in Twelve Coins

Moneta

A History of Ancient Rome in Twelve...

Gareth Harney

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

A Simpler Life

A Guide to Greater Serenity, Ease...

The School of Life

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Loot: An epic historical novel of plundered treasure and lasting love

Loot

An epic historical novel of plundered...

Tania James

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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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Tutankhamun's Trumpet: The Story of Ancient Egypt in 100 Objects

Tutankhamun's Trumpet

The Story of Ancient Egypt in 100...

Toby Wilkinson

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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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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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Scotland Yard's History of Crime in 100 Objects

Scotland Yard's History of Crime...

Alan Moss

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Mummified: The Stories Behind Egyptian Mummies in Museums

Mummified

The Stories Behind Egyptian Mummies...

Angela Stienne

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Murakami T: The T-Shirts I Love

Murakami T

The T-Shirts I Love

Haruki Murakami

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Notes on Camp

Notes on Camp

Susan Sontag

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

Artefacts of Encounter

Cook's Voyages, Colonial Collecting...

Thomas Nicholas

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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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Mummified: The Stories Behind Egyptian Mummies in Museums

Mummified

The Stories Behind Egyptian Mummies...

Angela Stienne

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Butrint: At the Crossroads of the Mediterranean

Butrint

At the Crossroads of the Mediterranean...

Dr Richard Hodges (The American...

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

Less

Stop Buying So Much Rubbish: How...

Patrick Grant

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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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Handmade: A Scientist’s Search for Meaning through Making

Handmade

A Scientist’s Search for Meaning...

Anna Ploszajski

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Material Lives: Women Makers and Consumer Culture in the 18th Century

Material Lives

Women Makers and Consumer Culture...

Serena Dyer (De Montfort University,...

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Brick: A Social History

Brick

A Social History

Carolyne Haynes

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An Alternative History of Bicycles and Motorcycles: Two-Wheeled Transportation and Material Culture

An Alternative History of Bicycles...

Two-Wheeled Transportation and Material...

Steven E. Alford

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Engaging the Senses: Object-Based Learning in Higher Education

Engaging the Senses

Object-Based Learning in Higher...

Helen J. Chatterjee

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

Less

Stop Buying So Much Rubbish: How...

Patrick Grant

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$29.99 

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Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age: Longlisted for the 2025 Women's Prize for Non-Fiction

Embers of the Hands

Hidden Histories of the Viking Age:...

Eleanor Barraclough

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