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 | History of the Black Death in Ireland.
Drawing on a wide range of sources, both Irish and European, the author traces the progress of the plague throughout Ireland and examines how people reacted to this invisible killer.Author: Maria Kelly. Publisher: Tempus. Paperback. 160pp. 17cm by 25cm. ISBN-10: 0752419870. ISBN-13: 9780752419879. Original Price £15.99.
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3D Expo 1862.
Rare stereoscopic photographs of the London International Exhibition of 1862 have been arranged into a guided tour of this spectacular event, and as you look through the special stereo viewer your eyes will merge the images into one 3D image.Author: Michael Tongue. Publisher: Discovery Books. Hardback. 112pp. 17cm by 25cm. ISBN 9197211826. Original Price £20.00.
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 | Capital Disasters.
London has suffered disasters such as earthquakes, flood, fire, plagues, war and disease that have bruised and battered this capital city, but London and its people have refused to be overcome.Author: John Withington. Publisher: Sutton. Hardback. 220pp. 16cm by 24cm. ISBN 0750933178. Original Price £25.00.
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Italian Boy.
A fascinating historical investigation that brilliantly illuminates a macabre episode of murder and grave-robbery in 1830's London and brings the capital's underclass roaring back to life.Author: Sarah Wise. Publisher: Jonathan Cape. HB. 347pp. 15cm by 24cm. ISBN 0224071769. Original Price £17.99
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 | Blizzard.
The BBC's reconstruction of the race to the South Pole is a fascinating attempt to make polar history live again, and to test the theories tossed about in so many books against the cold hard reality of practice.Author: Jasper Rees. Publisher: BBC Books. Hardback. 288pp. 16cm by 24cm. ISBN 0563493267. Original Price £16.99.
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Heraldry.
Ubiquitous in the fabric of our ancient churches, castles and houses, in documents, and on monuments and stained glass, heraldry represents a treasure house of information for both the historian and the genealogist. Author: Stephen Friar. Publisher: Sutton. Paperback. 276pp. 17cm by 24cm. ISBN 0750934751.
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 | Mr. Henry Care.
Henry Care was a publicist in Restoration London, a celebrity in the seventeenth century who has deservedly earned himself the title as London's first 'Spin Doctor'.Author: Lois G. Schwoerer. Publisher: Tempus. Paperback. 383pp. 13cm by 20cm. ISBN 0752428837. Original Price £12.99.
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Pox Americana.
A chilling portrait of the first contact between the New World and the virus that surely reshaped America as much as the War of Independance.Author: Elizabeth A Fenn. Publisher: Sutton. Paperback. 302pp. 13cm by 20cm. ISBN 0750935448. Original Price £9.99.
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 | Chloroform.
The fascinating story of an extraordinary substance, used and abused since its first discovery. It includes previously unpublished research and is essential reading for anyone intrigued by true crime and medical history.Author: Linda Stratmann. Publisher: Sutton. Paperback. 273pp. 13cm by 19cm. ISBN 0750930993. Original Price £8.99.
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Edison and the Electric Chair.
This history of the dawn of the electrical age sheds further light on Thomas Edison himself who championed the development of the electric chair for reasons that remain controversial to this day.Author: Mark Essig. Publisher: Sutton. Hardback. 358pp. 15cm by 22cm. ISBN 0750936436. Original Price £20.00.
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 | Crowns in a Changing World.
This book uses previously unpublished material from the Royal Archives at Windsor to provide an exciting account of the royal families of Europe at the beginning of the Twentieth Century.Author: John Van Der Kiste. Publisher: Sutton. Paperback. 224pp. 13cm by 20cm. ISBN 075093431X. Original Price £8.99.
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Childhood At Court 1819-1914.
A well-researched study of life as a prince or princess in Victorian and Edwardian times, contrasts are also drawn between life in the English court and the European capitals.Author: John Van Der Kiste. Publisher: Sutton. Paperback. 195pp. 13cm by 20cm. ISBN 0750934379. Original Price £8.99.
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 | In Search of the Red Slave.
A compelling real-life adventure story that follows the author through his search for the journal of one Robert Drury who was shipwrecked off Madagascar in the early 1700's, and lived there for 14 years as a slave.Author: Mike Parker Pearson & Karen Godden. Publisher: Sutton. Hardback. 217pp. 14cm by 22cm. ISBN 0750929383. Original Price £14.99.
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Nuts and Bolts of Life.
The grim determination and ingenuity of one man, Willem Kolff, to invent the first artificial kidney amid the turmoil of war-torn Holland, is one of the great untold stories of medical endeavour.Author: Paul Heiney. Publisher: Sutton. Paperback. 194pp. 13cm by 20cm. ISBN 0750928964. Original Price £7.99.
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 | Bolt of Fate.
This book is the story of the Kite-Flying incident which led Benjamin Franklin to identify lightning with electricity and will interest those keen on the history not only of science and inventors but also the American Revolution.Author: Tom Tucker. Publisher: Sutton. Hardback. 297pp. 14cm by 22cm. ISBN 0750936800. Original Price £20.00.
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Greatest Storm.
The Great Storm of 26/27th November 1703 caused unimaginable devastation, widespread flooding, over 8,000 deaths and immense losses of property and shipping.Author: Martin Brayne. Publisher: Sutton. Hardback. 240pp. 14cm by 22cm. ISBN 0750928042. Original Price £14.99.
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 | Man Behind the Iron Mask.
This masterful account of the mystery presents all the known facts of the prisoner's existence, together with all the myths that have flourished around the man with his face encased in iron.Author: John Noone. Publisher: Sutton. Paperback. 343pp. 13cm by 19cm. ISBN 0750936517. Original Price £7.99.
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Across the Great Divide.
Robert Stuart's trailblazing discovery of the Oregon Trail opened up the west of America to settlers, changing the face of the country forever.Author: Laton McCartney. Publisher: Sutton. Hardback. 305pp. 16cm by 24cm. ISBN 0750937408. Original Price £20.00.
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 | Great Shakespeare Fraud.
William Henry Ireland, only nineteen, perpetrated the greatest Shakespeare forgery ever attempted, and the ensuing furore when the documents were finally discovered to be forgeries became a national scandal. Author: Patricia Pierce. Publisher: Sutton. Hardback. 273pp. 14cm by 22cm. ISBN 0750933933. Original Price £16.99.
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Eugenie.
From 1853 to 1870 Eugenie de Montijo was the world's most powerful woman, Empress of the French, she shared the Second Empire with her husband, Napoleon III. This new biography charts this fascinating woman at the heart of the Second Empire.Author: Desmond Seward. Publisher: Sutton. Hardback. 321pp. 16cm by 24cm. ISBN 0750929790. Original Price £20.00.
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 | Monarchy.
Tracing the origins and development of monarchy from ancient cultures such as Mesopotamia, Egypt, China and Japan through to modern times. An essential read for all historians and royalists.Author: Brenda Lewis. Publisher: Sutton. Hardback. 200pp. 16cm by 24cm. ISBN 0750929731. Original Price £20.00.
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Annals of a Fortress.
The life story of a fictional castle that charts the development of fortification and the art of the siege and covers twenty-two centuries of European warfare.Author: E. Viollet-Le-Duc. Publisher: Greenhill. Paperback. 390pp. 14cm by 21cm. ISBN 185367429X.
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