The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English
By: Hana Videen
4.26
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
An entertaining and illuminating collection of weird, wonderful, and downright baffling words from …
Want to Read $ 9.99"For some reason, the ball-biting beaver doesn't live on in modern fiction like Aslan the lion or Fawkes the phoenix."-Hana Videen, The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English
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1. The Watchers: A Secret History of the Reign of Elizabeth I
By: Stephen Alford
3.66
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
In a Europe aflame with wars of religion and dynastic conflicts, Elizabeth I came to the throne of … read more
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2. The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language
By: Mark Forsyth
4.48
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
The Etymologicon springs from Mark Forsyth's Inky Fool blog on the strange connections between word… read more
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3. The Death of King Arthur: A New Verse Translation
By: Unknown , Simon Armitage
4.25
Format: 159 pages, Hardcover
First appearing around 1400, The Alliterative Morte Arthure, or, The Death of King Arthur,is one of… read more
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4. Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times
By: Elizabeth Wayland Barber
2.83
Format: 124 pages, Paperback
New discoveries about the textile arts reveal women's unexpectedly influential role in ancient soci… read more
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5. Beowulf
By: Unknown , Seamus Heaney
3.49
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures… read more
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"Fate goes ever as fate must."-Unknown, Beowulf
"Fate will unwind as it must!"-Unknown, Beowulf
"Let whoever can win glory before death."-Unknown, Beowulf
"We all know a boy can't daddy until his daddy's dead."-Unknown, Beowulf
6. The King in the North: The Life and Times of Oswald of Northumbria
By: Max Adams
3.68
Format: 528 pages, Kindle Edition
Oswald Whiteblade lived one of the most influential and colourful lives in early English history. B… read more
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7. Blood Royal: A True Tale of Crime and Detection in Medieval Paris
By: Eric Jager
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A riveting true story of murder and detection in 15th-century Paris, by one of the most brilliant m… read more
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8. Single & Single
By: John Le Carré
3.86
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
A lawyer from the London finance house of Single & Singleis shot dead on a Turkish hillside by peop… read more
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9. Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words
By: Jenni Nuttall
3.82
Format: 292 pages, Hardcover
An enlightening linguistic journey through a thousand years of feminist language--and what we can l… read more
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10. The Anglo-Saxons A History of the Beginnings of England: 400–1066
By: Marc Morris
4.34
Format: 508 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping and original history of the Anglo-Saxons by national bestselling author Marc Morris. … read more
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11. River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Road
By: Cat Jarman
4.06
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant new history that dramatically reassesses how far the Viking world extended. Dr Cat Ja… read more
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12. Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
By: Jonathan Kennedy
3.94
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An account of how the major transformations in history—from the rise of Homo sapiens to the birth o… read more
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"Pathogens thrive on inequality and injustice."-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
"Across the whole of the Americas, the introduction of infectious diseases from Europe resulted in a 90 percent fall in the population, from about 60.5 million in 1500 to 6 million a century later."-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
"There is one universally incorrect choice: do nothing. This didn't work when humans thought that plagues were a punishment sent by angry gods. Nor does a laissez-faire approach help stop disease when…"-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
13. Botanical Curses and Poisons: The Shadow-Lives of Plants
By: Fez Inkwright
4.28
Format: 257 pages, Hardcover
Discover the folklore and history of our most toxic plants through this beautifully produced, gorge… read more
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14. Cleopatra's Daughter: From Roman Prisoner to African Queen
By: Jane Draycott
3.77
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The first modern biography of one of the most influential yet long-neglected rulers of the ancient … read more
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15. After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations
By: Eric H. Cline
3.84
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In this gripping sequel to his bestselling 1177 B.C., Eric Cline tells the story of what happened a… read more
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16. Winters in the World: A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year
By: Eleanor Parker
4.17
Format: 268 pages, Hardcover
Interweaving literature, history, and religion, an exquisite meditation on the turning of the seaso… read more
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"A man cannot grow wise before he has had his share of winters in the world."-Eleanor Parker, Winters in the World: A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year
"Whatever one thing we give to God's needy for the sake of his love, he will repay us for it a hundredfold in the life to come."-Eleanor Parker, Winters in the World: A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year
"In a time of ecological crisis, Anglo-Saxon poems which recognize how fundamentally we are connected to the rhythms of nature - how dependent we are on the well-being of the earth, how grateful we sh…"-Eleanor Parker, Winters in the World: A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year
"The cycle of the seasons, to which poets have so often turned as a reminder that nothing in this world is stable, is in fact one of the great constants in life. In some ways, the thousand years or mo…"-Eleanor Parker, Winters in the World: A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year
17. A Rome of One's Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire
By: Emma Southon
4.23
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum comes a wildly entertai… read more
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18. Wild: Tales from Early Medieval Britain
By: Amy Jeffs
3.89
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
By the bestselling author of Storyland.Sheer cliffs, salt spray, explosive sea spume, thunderous cl… read more
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19. The Time Traveller's Guide to Regency Britain: The Immersive and Brilliant Historical Guide to Regency Britain
By: Ian Mortimer
4.23
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
'Ian Mortimer's Time Traveller's Guide to Regency Britain tells you all you need to know about crim… read more
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20. Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America
By: Pekka Hämäläinen
4.05
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
There is an old, deeply rooted story about America that goes like this: Columbus “discovers” a stra… read more
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21. Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Empire
By: Eckart Frahm
4.11
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
A new history of Assyria, the ancient civilization that set the model for future empires At its … read more
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22. The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
By: Bettany Hughes
4.02
Format: 416 pages, ebook
Their names still echo down the ages: The Great Pyramid at Giza. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon. Th… read more
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23. Storyland: A New Mythology of Britain
By: Amy Jeffs
3.85
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Soaked in mist and old magic, Storyland is a new illustrated mythology of Britain, set in its wilde… read more
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24. Nomads: The Wanderers Who Shaped Our World
By: Anthony Sattin
3.96
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The remarkable story of how nomads have fostered and refreshed civilization throughout our history.… read more
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25. The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English
By: Hana Videen
4.26
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
An entertaining and illuminating collection of weird, wonderful, and downright baffling words from … read more
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"For some reason, the ball-biting beaver doesn't live on in modern fiction like Aslan the lion or Fawkes the phoenix."-Hana Videen, The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English
26. The Wolf Age: The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire
By: Tore Skeie
4.25
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The first major book on Vikings by a Scandinavian author to be published in English reframes the st… read more
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27. Domestic Revolution
By: Ruth Goodman
4.17
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
‘Ruth is the queen of living history – long may she reign.’Lucy WorsleyA large black cast iron rang… read more
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28. Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life
By: Jason Roberts
4.25
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of A Sense of the World comes this dramatic, globe-spanning and meticul… read more
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29. Pox Romana: The Plague That Shook the Roman World (Turning Points in Ancient History)
By: Colin Elliott
3.76
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
A wide-ranging and dramatic account of the Antonine plague, the mysterious disease that struck the … read more
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30. Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic
By: Tabitha Stanmore
3.87
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A spritely and deeply researched history of magical problem-solving in a distant, unsettled, and st… read more
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