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The Lost Voices of Pompeii

Life and Death on Pompeii’s Final Day

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Award-winning ancient historian, archaeologist, and social media sensation Dr. Jess Venner re-creates Pompeii’s final day before Mount Vesuvius’s eruption, revealing not just how its people died but how they lived.While today the ruins of Pompeii stand silent and preserved in ash and stone, they were once home to a vibrant, bustling community made up of thousands of people whose lives were forever ... Read more

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Award-winning ancient historian, archaeologist, and social media sensation Dr. Jess Venner re-creates Pompeii’s final day before Mount Vesuvius’s eruption, revealing not just how its people died but how they lived.While today the ruins of Pompeii stand silent and preserved in ash and stone, they were once home to a vibrant, bustling community made up of thousands of people whose lives were forever
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Explore the Ancient Roman Empire with the acclaimed anthropologist and Sunday Times bestselling author of Domination, Professor Alice Roberts.'Great series. Has inspired me to look at a train tour to trace your steps. The book will be a helpful companion.''A fascinating series. My favourite of all the series you've presented.''Beautiful series really interesting and informative.'Join Professor ... Read more

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Explore the Ancient Roman Empire with the acclaimed anthropologist and Sunday Times bestselling author of Domination, Professor Alice Roberts.'Great series. Has inspired me to look at a train tour to trace your steps. The book will be a helpful companion.''A fascinating series. My favourite of all the series you've presented.''Beautiful series really interesting and informative.'Join Professor
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Cleopatra

Histories, Dreams and Distortions

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'Brilliant and discursive' Antonia Fraser, Sunday Times'Hughes-Hallett's exemplary reappraisal … throws a searching light on two thousand years of male erotic fantasy' Joan Smith, New StatesmanWinner of the FAWCETT PRIZE and EMILY TOTH AWARDIn the 2,000 years since her death, Cleopatra has been recreated over and over again by poets, artists and filmmakers, each time in a form that... ... Read more

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'Brilliant and discursive' Antonia Fraser, Sunday Times'Hughes-Hallett's exemplary reappraisal … throws a searching light on two thousand years of male erotic fantasy' Joan Smith, New StatesmanWinner of the FAWCETT PRIZE and EMILY TOTH AWARDIn the 2,000 years since her death, Cleopatra has been recreated over and over again by poets, artists and filmmakers, each time in a form that...
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Enchanting and fascinating, discover the extraordinary world of Britain's ordinary garden birds, related.In the late 1930s, Len Howard packed up her life in London, bought a plot of land in Sussex and built herself a little house there. This was to be Bird Cottage, a place where the doors of the house were open to the birds of the garden – great tits, blue tits, robins, blackbirds, willow warblers ... Read more

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Enchanting and fascinating, discover the extraordinary world of Britain's ordinary garden birds, related.In the late 1930s, Len Howard packed up her life in London, bought a plot of land in Sussex and built herself a little house there. This was to be Bird Cottage, a place where the doors of the house were open to the birds of the garden – great tits, blue tits, robins, blackbirds, willow warblers
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The English House

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This is the story of the superbly elegant early eighteenth-century Pallant House in Chichester. It’s the story of 19 Princelet Street in Spitafields, built for a Huguenot silk-weaver, ultimately a synagogue. It’s also the story of – among others – a row of two-up, two-downs in Toxteth, a block of flats in London’s East End, and what Ideal Home’s magazine described in 1926 as Britain’s ‘first ... Read more

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