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Julia Cooke’s entertaining, sexism-skewering history shows how female flight attendants were also flag-flying diplomats
Ambrogio A Caiani tells of the dramatic encounter with Pius VII and the clash of principles they embodied that changed Catholicism and the modern world
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From factory walkouts to genital mutilation, Hannah Dawson offers a multiplicity of writings on this divisive discourse
The myth-busting historian offers a provocative revisionist take on the second world war
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A historian delves into the documents that helped to forge the modern world
Cat Jarman’s thrilling archaeological detective work unearths the wealth, trading and slaving history of medieval Scandinavians
Digging up the past can help to realign our notions of the present
Juliet Nicolson’s book seeks to link the big freeze of 1962-63 to the decade’s emerging social upheaval
A mighty river and nationalist myths loom large in these two fascinating history books by Janet M Hartley and Mark Galeotti
Yang Jisheng’s formidable investigation of the Cultural Revolution is a work of breathtaking courage
Influential Republican cabinet official helped steer US policy through the end of the Cold War
Katherine Zubovich offers a richly illustrated account of a masterplan for proclaiming the Soviet Union’s greatness to the world
Born out of war, the empire forged by Bismarck struggled to find peace with itself
Prix Goncourt laureate Éric Vuillard channels today’s unrest into a tale of 16th-century uprising
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Dominique Reill and Paul Betts enhance our understanding of the era with books on postwar life and the Fiume crisis
A chronicle of how the ruthless Selim the Grim expanded the Ottoman Empire — and disrupted medieval world trade
Marina Wheeler charts her mother’s journey from the final days of the Raj to the early days of Indian independence
Two books explore the battle to overcome opposition to abolition, the role of the establishment and the impact of changing consumer behaviour
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