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Oliver Thomson read history at Cambridge and later added a PhD at Glasgow University where he has been a part-time lecturer for many years. Though his main career was in advertising he has written twelve books, one of which was also published in Japanese and two in Portuguese. His books include The Great Feud: The Campbells and the MacDonalds, The Impossible Bourbons and The Other Kaisers.

Average rating: 3.5 · 113 ratings · 19 reviews · 27 distinct works
A History of Sin

3.65 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1983 — 7 editions
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The Great Feud: The Campbel...

3.35 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2000 — 7 editions
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Romanovs: Europe's Most Obs...

3.59 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2008 — 5 editions
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The Impossible Bourbons

3.23 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions
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Easily Led: A History of Pr...

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1999 — 4 editions
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The Rises & Falls of the Ro...

3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2009 — 5 editions
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Zealots: How a Group of Sco...

3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2018
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From the Bloody Heart: The ...

4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2003 — 6 editions
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Gods at War: Understanding ...

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Mass persuasion in history:...

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1977 — 2 editions
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“...the first flush of aristocratic support for the Covenant had begun to wear off when the nobles found themselves being ordered about by middle-class clerics with vaguely egalitarian views and a deep distrust of human pleasures.”
Oliver Thomson, Zealots: How a Group of Scottish Conspirators Unleashed Half a Century of War in Britain



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