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“Another new history book that’s reliant on other disciplines is the latest by Cat Jarman, a bioarchaeologist. In her book, The Bone Chests: Unlocking the Secrets of the Anglo Saxons, she turns her attention to chests at Winchester Cathedral that are purported to contain the bones of various kings—and one queen, Emma—of the kingdoms that sprang up in the British Isles after the Romans left. Winchester was in Wessex, the kingdom of the West Saxons, and one of the more powerful ones. As in her previous book…Jarman likes to combine straight history with imagining what it must have been like. The new knowledge that DNA brings to this period, when England was so much in flux, is fascinating.” Read more...
Notable Nonfiction of Fall 2023
Sophie Roell, Journalist
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Resistance: The Underground War in Europe, 1939-1945
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Portable Magic: A History of Books and Their Readers
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The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators between Qing China and the British Empire
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African and Caribbean People in Britain: A History
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Vagabonds
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The World the Plague Made: The Black Death and the Rise of Europe
by James Belich
