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Heart of Darkness
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Darwin: On the Origins of Charles Darwin
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The Vacuum of Space
The Magna Carta
The Siege of Vienna
The Whale - A History
St Paul
The Trial of Charles I
The Augustan Age
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Calculus
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The Dreyfus Affair
The Death of Elizabeth I
The Geological Formation of Britain
Schopenhauer
The Siege of Munster
Radiation
Sparta
Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The Silk Road
Pythagoras
The Samurai
Mary Wollstonecraft
The Royal Society and British Science: Episode 1
The Royal Society and British Science: Episode 2
The Royal Society and British Science: Episode 3
The Royal Society and British Science: Episode 4
The Frankfurt School
The Glencoe Massacre
Silas Marner
Ibn Khaldun
Mathematics' Unintended Consequences
The Indian Mutiny
Calvinism
The Infant Brain
Boudica
Munch and The Scream
The City - a history, part 1
The City - a history, part 2
William Hazlitt
The Zulu Nation's Rise and Fall
Roman Satire
The Great Wall of China
The Cool Universe
William James's 'The Varieties of Religious Experience'
The Cavendish Family in Science
Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists
Edmund Burke
al-Biruni
The Neanderthals
Antarctica
Athelstan
Pliny's Natural History
Imaginary Numbers
The Delphic Oracle
The Spanish Armada
Sturm und Drang
Logic
The Unicorn
Women and Enlightenment Science
The Volga Vikings
Foxe's Book of Martyrs
History of Metaphor
Cleopatra
Thomas Edison
Daoism
The Industrial Revolution
Consequences of the Industrial Revolution
Random and Pseudorandom
The Mexican Revolution
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Aristotle's Poetics
The Battle of Bannockburn
The Nervous System
Maimonides
The Taiping Rebellion
The Age of the Universe
Free Will
The Medieval University
The Iron Age
The Bhagavad Gita
Octavia Hill
The Neutrino
The Pelagian Controversy
Cogito Ergo Sum
Islamic Law and its Origins
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Custer's Last Stand
Xenophon
The Battle of Stamford Bridge
The Origins of Infectious Disease
Wyclif and the Lollards
Malthusianism
Tennyson's In Memoriam
The Minoan Civilisation
The Hippocratic Oath
Shinto
The Etruscan Civilisation
David Hume
The Ming Voyages
Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People
The Siege of Tenochtitlan
The Moon
The Continental-Analytic Split
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Judas Maccabeus
Christina Rossetti
Heraclitus
The Concordat of Worms
Robinson Crusoe
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Conductors and Semiconductors
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Lyrical Ballads
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Moses Mendelssohn
The Measurement of Time
George Fox and the Quakers
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The Battle of Bosworth Field
Voltaire's Candide
Game Theory
Clausewitz and On War
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King Solomon
James Joyce's Ulysses
Annie Besant
Al-Kindi
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Hadrian's Wall
The Cell
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Gerald of Wales
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Simone Weil
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Songs of Innocence and of Experience
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Epic of Gilgamesh
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Henrik Ibsen
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Edith Wharton
Is Shakespeare History? The Plantagenets
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Venus
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Emmy Noether
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William Cecil
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The Evolution of Teeth
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Bergson and Time
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President Ulysses S Grant
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Lorca
Napoleon's Retreat from Moscow
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Dorothy Hodgkin
Rousseau on Education
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Robert Burns
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Li Shizhen
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Solar Wind
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Albrecht Dürer
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Kali
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The Needham Question
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Hell
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Fairies
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The Second Law of Thermodynamics
Faust
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The City in the 20th Century
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History's relevance in the 20th century
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The American Century
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The British Empire's Legacy
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Ageing
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Language and the Mind
Space in Religion and Science
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Shakespeare and Literary Criticism
History as Science
Animal Experiments and Rights
Architecture in the 20th Century
Good and Evil
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Artificial Intelligence
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The Universe's Origins
Memory and Culture
Just War
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The Great Disruption
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Truth, Lies and Fiction
Pain
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Atrocity in the 20th Century
Education
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Progress
Consciousness
Tragedy
Childhood
Medical Ethics
Prayer
Time
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Reading
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Lenin
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The Natural Order
New Wars
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Human Origins
Death
Shakespeare's Work
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Chemical Elements
The American Ideal
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London
Hitler in History
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Laws of Nature
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Science and Religion
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The Restoration
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Black Holes
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The American West
Wagner
Cultural Imperialism
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The Scientist
Architecture and Power
Human Nature
Victorian Realism
Muslim Spain
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The Enlightenment in Scotland
Man and Disease
The Calendar
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The Life of Stars
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Proust
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The Art of War
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Maxwell
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The Schism
Infinity
Robin Hood
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