Nonfiction
The Impostress: The Dishonest Adventures of Sarah Wilson
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“The greatest impostress of the present age” was the mysterious Sarah Wilson who, from her late teens, wandered alone across 18th-century England duping ...Read Review
American Dream Deferred: Black Federal Workers in Washington, D.C., 1941-1981
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Contrary to the myth that black employees were welcomed in the federal sector in the latter half of the 20th century, Frederick W. ...Read Review
The Victorians: Twelve Titans Who Forged Britain
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Much of the criticism of The Victorians is based on a misapprehension. Serious historians have reviewed it as if it were a serious ...Read Review
Henry VIII: And the Men Who Made Him
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In this biography, Tracy Borman delivers an exhaustive study not only of Henry VIII, but of the men who shaped him as a ...Read Review
The Dark Side of Isaac Newton: Science’s Greatest Fraud?
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This book is not about Newton’s alchemy or his religious beliefs but about his science. Nick Kollestrom is a maths teacher, so, ...Read Review
She-Merchants, Buccaneers and Gentlewomen: British Women in India 1600-1900
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Were the memsahibs (British women living in India) responsible for the deteriorating relationships between British and Indians in the Subcontinent over the 19th ...Read Review
A History of Women in Medicine: From Physicians to Witches?
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This is not a book about women in the medical profession. It goes much further back to the pagan Anglo-Saxons and beyond. The ...Read Review
Exploring the Lives of Women, 1558-1837
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The Women’s Studies Group 1558-1837 was formed thirty years ago, and this collection of thirteen essays celebrates the anniversary. The Group brings ...Read Review
Indecent Advances: A Hidden History of True Crime and Prejudice Before Stonewall
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Compact and powerful, Polchin’s social history of crimes against queer men in the first half of the 20th century coincides with the 50...Read Review
All Ships Follow Me: A Family Memoir of War Across Three Continents
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A war memoir that reads as hauntingly and movingly as a novel, Mieke Eeerkens’ All Ships Follow Me is told not by the ...Read Review
