History wishes
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Dec 21st: The Monopolists by Mary Pilon
“The Monopolists reveals the unknown story of how Monopoly came into existence, the reinvention of its…
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Dec 20th – Queen Anne: the politics of passion by Anne Somerset
“She ascended the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland in 1702, at age thirty-seven, Britain’s last…
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Dec 19th: The Women who flew for Hitler by Clare Mulley
“Hanna Reitsch and Melitta von Stauffenberg were talented, courageous, and strikingly attractive women who fought convention…
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Dec 18th: Fly Girls by Keith O’Brien
“Between the world wars, no sport was more popular, or more dangerous, than airplane racing. Thousands…
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Dec 16th: Behind the Throne – a domestic history of the British Royal Household by Adrian Tinniswood
Monarchs: they’re just like us. They entertain their friends and eat and worry about money. Henry…
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Dec 15th: Daughters of the Winter Queen by Nancy Goldstone
“From the great courts, glittering palaces, and war-ravaged battlefields of the seventeenth century comes the story…
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All I want for Christmas is… books!
Here’s the first 14 days of my Christmas advent book calendar wish list. I’m having a…
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Dec 13th: Richard III, Loyalty Binds Me by Matthew Lewis
“King Richard III remains one of the most controversial figures in British history. Matthew Lewis’s new…
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Dec 12th: The Butchering Art by Lindsay Fitzharris
“In The Butchering Art, the historian Lindsey Fitzharris reveals the shocking world of nineteenth-century surgery and…
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Dec 11th: The Suffragents by Brooke Kroeger
“The story of how and why a group of prominent and influential men in New York…
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