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Wednesday 30 August 2023
The World's Deadliest Book, by Matthew Wainwright
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Throughout history there have been many dangerous books. Sometimes books are labelled as ‘dangerous’ because they contain ideas that the aut...
Wednesday 23 August 2023
The Memory of Stones by Barbara Henderson
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Give me a stone castle and I’m happy! When I moved to Scotland in 1991, I was smitten with stone. It stirred something in me – the hulk...
Tuesday 11 July 2023
Far from Home: Civilian Internment in the First World War by Ally Sherrick
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Tuesday 4 July 2023
Britain's Brown Babies: The True Story Behind Fablehouse by E. L. Norry
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Although Fablehouse is a book for 8 to 13-year-olds in the genre of magical adventure, with elements of Arthurian myth and legend, much of t...
Thursday 29 June 2023
The History of soap - from Mesopotamia to Port Sunlight by Susan Brownrigg
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Who discovered soap and when isn’t known, but 3,000 years ago the Sumerians in southern Mesopotamia (now Iraq) were using a soap solution ma...
Wednesday 21 June 2023
Operation Banana by Tony Bradman: a very personal view of the Second World War
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The story of how a book comes into existence is often deeply rooted in its author’s life. For me that is particularly true of my book Operat...
Tuesday 13 June 2023
The History of Holidays by Catherine Randall
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The first holidays were religious festivals or holy days, which is of course where the word ‘holiday’ comes from. In Britain, these were tr...
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