Historathon 2023 - hosted by tahlia__nerds_out

1500 to 1820
 Q3: July - September 
All books added
Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune: How Younger Sons Made Their Way in Jane Austen's England by Rory Muir

Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune: How Younger Sons Made Their Way in Jane Austen's England

Rory Muir

399 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
A Hangman's Diary: The Journal of Master Franz Schmidt, Public Executioner of Nuremberg, 1573-1617 by Franz Schmidt

A Hangman's Diary: The Journal of Master Franz Schmidt, Public Executioner of Nuremberg, 1573-1617

Franz Schmidt

272 pages • missing pub info (editions) user-added

nonfiction history dark slow-paced
Pastimes and Pleasures in the Time of Jane Austen by Sarah Jane Downing

Pastimes and Pleasures in the Time of Jane Austen

Sarah Jane Downing

96 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction history literary informative reflective relaxing medium-paced
The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century by Joel F. Harrington

The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century

Joel F. Harrington

9 hours, 39 minutes • first pub 2013 (editions) user-added

nonfiction biography history challenging informative slow-paced
Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow

Washington: A Life

Ron Chernow

930 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative reflective slow-paced
The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village by Eamon Duffy

The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village

Eamon Duffy

260 pages • first pub 2001 (editions) user-added

nonfiction history religion challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Angelika Kauffmann: Künstlerin und Geschäftsfrau by Gabriele Katz

Angelika Kauffmann: Künstlerin und Geschäftsfrau

Gabriele Katz

184 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction art biography history informative inspiring tense medium-paced
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