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Time's Anvil: England, Archaeology and the Imagination
by Richard Morris

David Musgrove on a bid to use archaeology to see the past in new ways

Contagion: How Commerce Has Spread Disease
by Mark Harrison

Michael Worboys praises a history of global disease, and attempts to control it

Erasmus Darwin: Sex, Science and Serendipity
by Patricia Fara

Hallie Rubenhold has reservations about a study of Erasmus Darwin

Turing’s Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe
by George Dyson

Patricia Fara reads a personality-driven account of the mid-20th-century computer revolution

Circulation: William Harvey’s Revolutionary Idea
by Thomas Wright

Patricia Fara considers a vivid biography of William Harvey, which reveals his complex character

The Arch-Conjuror of England: John Dee
by Glyn Parry

Anna Whitelock meets an enigmatic Tudor man of many talents

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