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100 Ideas that Changed the World
by Jheni Osman

Rob Attar enjoys a lively compendium of some of mankind's greatest discoveries

Ralph Tailor’s Summer: A Scrivener, His City and the Plague
by Keith Wrightson

Rab Houston discovers the story of the plague through the pen of a Newcastle clerk

Children of Light: How Electricity Changed Britain Forever
by Gavin Weightman

Stephen Halliday is fascinated by stories of electrical pioneers

A Short History of the British Industrial Revolution
by Emma Griffin

Jeremy Black praises a new analysis of how Britain surged ahead

The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and
by Judith Flanders

Clive Emsley discovers how ghastly crimes caused a sensation in Victorian Britain

Boffinology: The Real Stories Behind Our Greatest Scientific Discoveries
by Justin Pollard

Rob Attar enjoys an entertaining collection of scientific adventures

Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science
by Jim Al-Khalili

Jerry Brotton is disappointed by Jim Al-Khalili’s attempt to address the injustices done to Arabic pioneers

MI6: The History of the Secret Intelligence Service, 1909–1949
by Keith Jeffery

Michael Goodman welcomes an overdue history of Britain’s intelligence service

Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City
by Greg Grandin

Rob Attar on a tale of hubris in the Amazon

A History of the World in 100 Objects
by Neil MacGregor

Paul Cartledge believes that the book arising from Radio 4’s popular history series is a valuable artefact in itself