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Titanic: The Last Night of a Small Town
John Welshman reconstructs the Titanic disaster through the personal stories of 12 passengers and crew members.
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Eco-Republic
Melissa Lane, Melissa Lane, Professor of Politics at Princeton University, considers what it would mean for societies and ourselves if we dared to leave Plato's 'cave of illusion.'
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History, Historians and Development Policy: A Necessary Dialogue
Simon Szreter, H&P Partner and Fellow of St John's College Cambridge, looks at the contribution history has to make to development policy – and its potential to turn some key policy precepts on their head. This book was launched in Manchester.
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Contested Common Land: Environmental Governance Past and Present
Angus Winchester, Senior Lecturer at Lancaster University, charts his journey through the medieval and early modern land use of upland northern England to debates about the sustainable management of common land in the 21st century.
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The African Diaspora in Asian Trade Routes and Cultural Memories
Dr Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya, Senior Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies in London, talks about the context for her new book The African Diaspora in Asian Trade Routes and Cultural Memories – and how she went about compiling the information behind it.
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An Alternative History of Hyperactivity: Food Additives and the Feingold Diet
Dr Matthew Smith, Wellcome Trust Research Fellow Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare University of Strathclyde, talks about his upcoming book An Alternative History of Hyperactivity – explaining why the argument matters and what it means for future health policy.
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Sex Before the Sexual Revolution
The new professor of History and Public Policy, Simon Szreter and Dr Kate Fisher offer personal reflections on the motivation and rationale behind their new book Sex before the Sexual Revolution.
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