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  • Histories of the Unexpected: The Romans

    by James Daybell, Sam Willis ...
    Series series Histories of the Unexpected
    The Histories of the Unexpected series not only presents a new way of thinking about the past, but also reveals the world around us as never before. Traditionally, the Romans have been understood in a straightforward way but the period really comes alive if you take an unexpected approach to its history. Yes, emperors, the development of civilization and armies all have a fascinating history . . . ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Histories of the Unexpected: World War II

    by James Daybell, Sam Willis ...
    Series series Histories of the Unexpected
    The Histories of the Unexpected series not only presents a new way of thinking about the past, but also reveals the world around us as never before. Traditionally, World War II has been understood in a straightforward way but the period really comes alive if you take an unexpected approach to its history. Yes, battles, bombs and bravery all have a fascinating history . . . but so too do ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Histories of the Unexpected: The Vikings

    by Sam Willis, James Daybell ...
    Series series Histories of the Unexpected
    The Histories of the Unexpected series not only presents a new way of thinking about the past, but also reveals the world around us as never before. Traditionally, the Vikings have been understood in a straightforward way—but the period really comes alive if you take an unexpected approach to its history. Yes, ships, raiding and trade have a fascinating history, but so too do hair, break-ins, toys ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Histories of the Unexpected: The Tudors

    by James Daybell, Sam Willis ...
    Series series Histories of the Unexpected
    The Histories of the Unexpected series not only presents a new way of thinking about the past, but also reveals the world around us as never before. Traditionally, the Tudors have been understood in a straightforward way but the period really comes alive if you take an unexpected approach to its history. Yes, Tudor monarchs, exploration and religion have a fascinating history . . . but so too do ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Histories of the Unexpected

    How Everything Has a History

    by James Daybell, Sam Willis ...
    'History as you've never seen it before.' Dan Snow 'A wonderful, eclectic and entertaining history of everything, full of fascinating, surprising stories.' Suzannah Lipscomb Did you know that the history of the beard is connected to the Crimean War; that the history of paperclips is all about the Stasi; and that the history of bubbles is all about the French Revolution? And who knew that Heinrich ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Women Letter-Writers in Tudor England

    by James Daybell ...
    This book represents the most comprehensive study of women's letters and letter-writing during the early modern period so far undertaken, and acts as an important corrective to traditional ways of reading and discussing letters as private, elite, male, and non-political. Based on over 3,000 manuscript letters, it shows that letter-writing was a larger and more socially diversified area of female ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • Cultures of Correspondence in Early Modern Britain

    Edited by James Daybell, Andrew Gordon ...
    Series series Material Texts
    The letter is a powerfully evocative form that has gained in resonance as the habits of personal letter writing have declined in a digital age. But faith in the letter as evidence of the intimate thoughts of individuals underplays the sophisticated ways letters functioned in the past. In Cultures of Correspondence in Early Modern Britain leading scholars approach the letter from a variety of ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Gender and Political Culture in Early Modern Europe, 1400-1800

    Edited by James Daybell, Svante Norrhem ...
    Gender and Political Culture in Early Modern Europe investigates the gendered nature of political culture across early modern Europe by exploring the relationship between gender, power, and political authority and influence. This collection offers a rethinking of what constituted ‘politics’ and a reconsideration of how men and women operated as part of political culture. It demonstrates how ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Women and Epistolary Agency in Early Modern Culture, 1450�1690

    Edited by James Daybell, Andrew Gordon ...
    Series series Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
    Women and Epistolary Agency in Early Modern Culture, 1450–1690 is the first collection to examine the gendered nature of women’s letter-writing in England and Ireland from the late-fifteenth century through to the Restoration. The essays collected here represent an important body of new work by a group of international scholars who together look to reorient the study of women’s letters in the ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Cultures of Correspondence in Early Modern Britain

    Edited by James Daybell, Andrew Gordon ...
    Series series Material Texts
    The letter is a powerfully evocative form that has gained in resonance as the habits of personal letter writing have declined in a digital age. But faith in the letter as evidence of the intimate thoughts of individuals underplays the sophisticated ways letters functioned in the past. In Cultures of Correspondence in Early Modern Britain leading scholars approach the letter from a variety of ... Read more

    $64.79 USD

  • Women and Politics in Early Modern England, 1450–1700

    Edited by James Daybell ...
    This collection of essays examines women's involvement in politics in early modern England, as writers, as members of kinship and patronage networks, and as petitioners, intermediaries and patrons. It challenges conventional conceptualizations of female power and influence, defining 'politics' broadly in order to incorporate women excluded from formal, male-dominated state institutions. The ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Histories of the Unexpected

    by Sam Willis, James Daybell ...
    Narrated by Sam Willis, James Daybell ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 15 min

    Did you know that the history of the beard is connected to the Crimean War; that the history of paperclips is all about the Stasi; and that the history of bubbles is all about the French Revolution? And who knew that Heinrich Himmler, Tutankhamun and the history of needlework are linked to napalm and Victorian orphans? In Histories of the Unexpected, Sam Willis and James Daybell lead us on a ... Read more

    $47.90 USD or Free with Kobo Plus