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Churchill: Warrior
How a Military Life Guided Winston's Finest Hours
Brian Lavery

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Jocelin of Brakelond
The Life of a Monk and Chronicler of the Great Abbey of St Edmund
Norman Scarfe

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Support for the Fleet
Architecture and Engineering of the Royal Navy's Bases 1700-1914
Jonathan Coad

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Votes for Women
The Pioneers and Heroines of Female Suffrage
Jenni Murray
Jenni Murray, the presenter of BBC Radio 4's Women’s Hour, counter’s Carlyle’s assertion that history ‘is but the biography of great men’ with a personal selection of inspirational women who have made significant contributions to British history. In 21 short biographies, Murray includes just one queen, Elizabeth I, among writers, artists and scientists, social reformers and politicians from Boadicea to Nicola Sturgeon.

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The Trials of the King of Hampshire
Madness, Secrecy and Betrayal in Georgian England
Elizabeth Foyster
Every family has its skeletons, but in 1823 the aristocratic Wallops were about to have theirs laid bare to the world. This biography tells the dramatic story of the Third Earl of Portsmouth. Wealthy and well-connected, a friend of Byron and Jane Austen, he was widely considered a harmless eccentric until – amid accusations of blackmail, abduction and sodomy – his own family set out to have him declared insane in a trial that scandalized the nation.

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Viking London
Thomas Williams

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Richard III
Brother Protector King
Chris Skidmore
The loyal brother of Edward IV, Richard was entrusted as Protector of Edward’s son and heir, but in 1483 he took the crown himself while his nephews, Edward V and Prince Richard, disappeared. It was widely rumoured that the king had murdered his brother’s sons. Avoiding the bias of Richard’s evil reputation, this narrative history of his life and reign returns to original sources and looks in depth at contemporary politics, Richard’s earlier years and northern affinity, and how he constructed his own power base.

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Queen Victoria
Anniversary Edition
Elizabeth Longford

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Eavesdropping on Jane Austen's England
How Our Ancestors Lived Two Centuries Ago
Lesley Adkins;Roy Adkins
Drawing on contemporary sources including diaries, letters, newspapers and trial proceedings as well as Jane Austen's own correspondence and writings, Roy and Lesley Adkins have created a wide-ranging and richly detailed social history of English life in the early 19th century that offers new perspectives on the world of the great novelist. Covering everything from childbirth, education and work to the darker side of Georgian society, poverty and crime, the book provides an illuminating companion to Austen's novels.

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Churchill and Smuts
From Enemies to Life Long Friends
Richard Steyn

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The Restless Kings
Henry II, His Sons and the Wars for The Plantagenet Crown
Nick Barratt

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The Restless Kings
Henry II, His Sons and the Wars for the Plantagenet Crown
Nick Barratt

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The Stewart Dynasty
Stewart Ross
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Germans in Britain Since 1500
Panikos Panayi
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Church and Society in the Medieval North of England
R.B. Dobson
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Asquith as War Leader
George H Cassar
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Collision of Empires
Britain in Three World Wars, 1793–1945
A D Harvey
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Crime, Protest and Popular Politics in Southern England, 1740-1850
John Rule;Roger A. E. Wells
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England and her Neighbours, 1066-1453
Essays in Honour of Pierre Chaplais
M. C. E. Jones;M.G.A. Vale
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Palmerston and Africa
Rio Nunez Affair, Competition, Diplomacy and Justice
Roderick Braithwaite;Jasper Ridley
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Communities and Courts in Britain, 1150-1900 (British legal history conference)
C. W. Brooks;Michael Lobban
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Germans in Britain Since 1500
Ed. Panikos Panayi
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Asquith as War Leader
George H. Cassar
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Collision of Empires
Britain in Three World Wars, 1793-1945
A. D. Harvey
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Functions of the Medieval Parliament of England ([History series])
G.O. Sayles
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English Medieval Industries
Craftsmen, Techniques, Products
Ed. John Blair: Nigel Ramsay
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British Politics in the Age of Anne
Geoffrey S. Holmes
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Feudal Empires
Norman and Plantagenet
John Le Patourel;Michael Jones
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Bastard Prince
Henry VIII's Lost Son
Beverley A. Murphy
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Taking Liberties
The Struggle for Britain's Freedoms and Rights
Mike Ashley
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Ban This Filth
Letters From the Mary Whitehouse Archive
Ben Thompson;Johnny Trun
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Reader's Digest and the Royals
A Jubilee Celebration of the British Royal Family
Digest Reader's;Jennie Bond

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Elginhaugh
A Roman Frontier Fort in Scotland
William S Hanson
Discovered in 1979, the Roman fort at Elginhaugh near Dalkeith is now the most completely excavated timber-built auxiliary fort in the Roman Empire. Here, Professor Hanson describes the discovery, excavation and interpretation of the site and sets the findings in the wider context of the fort’s builders and the lives of its inhabitants.

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A History of Britain book III, The Tudors 1485-1603 (Classic British History)
E. H. Carter;R .A. F. Mears;David Evans
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21st Century Courage
Stirring Stories of Modern British Heroes
Mark Felton
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Emperors, Kings and Queens
The History of Connections, Marriages and Feuds Between the Royal Families of Great Britain and Europe
Sonya Newland;William Doyle
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Rise Against Eagles
Stories of RAF Airmen in the Battle of Britain
Christopher Yeoman
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Reader's Digest and the Royals
A Jubilee Celebration of the British Royal Family
Digest Reader's;Jennie Bond
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The 1st Household Cavalry 1943-44
in the Shadow of Monte Amaro
Garry O'Connor
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Ye Olde Good Inn Guide
A Tudor Traveller's Guide to the Nation's Finest Taverns
James Moore;Paul Nero
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Elginhaugh
A Roman Frontier Fort in Scotland
William S Hanson
Discovered in 1979, the Roman fort at Elginhaugh near Dalkeith is now the most completely excavated timber-built auxiliary fort in the Roman Empire. Here, Professor Hanson describes the discovery, excavation and interpretation of the site and sets the findings in the wider context of the fort’s builders and the lives of its inhabitants. Slightly off-mint

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The People's Bread
A History of the Anti-Corn Law League
Paul Pickering;Alex Tyrell
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Paddy Finucane
Fighter Ace
Doug Stokes

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Transformation in Anglo-Saxon Culture
Toller Lectures on Art, Archaeology and Text
Ed. Charles Insley;Gale R Owen-Crocker

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Hunters, Fishers and Foragers in Wales
Towards a Social Narrative of Mesolithic Lifeways
Malcolm Lillie

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Stowe House
Saving an Architectural Masterpiece
Ed. Nick Morris

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Blood and Fears
How America's Bomber Boys and Girls in England Won Their War
Kevin Wilson

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A History of the English-Speaking Peoples since 1900
Andrew Roberts
Picking up where Churchill’s work of the same title left off, Andrew Roberts follows Britain’s relations with the United States and the Commonwealth over the last 120 years. He examines the Western Alliance’s response to the challenges of two world wars and the Cold War, arguing that the unity of the English-speaking peoples is a bastion of liberty, and warning that the ‘wasted breathing space’ between 1991 and 2011 left us ill-prepared to meet the rise of Islamic fundamentalism.

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Zeppelins Over the Midlands
The Air Raids of 31 January 1916
Mick Powis

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Victorians in Camera
The World of 19th Century Studio Photography
Robert Pols

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The Victorians
A Beginner's Guide
David Gange
This concise introduction covers many aspects of Victorian society: class, religion, gender roles, the city and the empire. It considers how British views of the era have changed, and how it has shaped the modern world, from the infrastructure of British politics and culture to the global struggles of the post-colonial era.

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A Revolution of Feeling
The Decade that Forged the Modern Mind
Rachel Hewitt
In the 1790s Britain experienced what Edmund Burke called ‘a revolution in sentiments’: Hewitt shows how the French Revolution inspired British radicals to incorporate raw emotion into reformist ideals concerning sex, education, commerce and medicine. However, while this had enduring political effects, the aspirations of Enlightenment figures including Samuel Coleridge, William Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft and Thomas Wedgwood went unfulfilled as the ensuing Terror led to political crackdowns in Britain.

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Patriot or Traitor
The Life and Death of Sir Walter Ralegh
Anna Beer

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Mapping Shakespeare
An Exploration of Shakespeare's World Through Maps
Jeremy Black
In Shakespeare’s time explorers were adding to European knowledge of distant places and peoples, while advances in cartography allowed for more accurate projections and more detailed mapping. Presenting many contemporary representations of English and European locations, the wider world and the heavens, Jeremy Black examines what such maps reveal about the ways in which playwright and audience understood geography and how they viewed their place in the world and the universe. Slightly off-mint.

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The Dark Side of East London
David Charnick
The alleyways and estates of Tower Hamlets were rife with poverty and crime in the 18th and 19th centuries. Local historian David Charnick tells dark tales of murders, poisonings and abductions that occurred there, using them to reveal aspects of everyday life before and during the encroachment of London’s East End. A specially commissioned section of black and white photographs shows the locations of many of the events.

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Dinner with Churchill
Policy-Making at the Dinner Table
Cita Stelzer
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No More Kick-Can and Cobbles
Michael Fowler
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Vanishing Edinburgh
In the Steps of George Washington Wilson
Alastair J. Durie

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Guardsman and Commando
The War Memoirs of RSM Cyril Feebery DCM
David Feebery
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6-10 Henry VI (1427-1432) (23) (Public ... Office
Claire Noble;Christine Carpenter
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Goodnight Children, Everywhere
Voices of Evacuees
Monica B. Morris

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Wallis in Love
The Untold Life of the Duchess of Windsor, the Women Who Changed the Monarchy
Andrew Morton
Andrew Morton, author of Diana: Her True Story, turns his attention to Wallis Simpson, the twice-married divorcée who claimed the heart of Edward VIII, causing his abdication. Drawing on interviews, secret letters, diaries and previously unseen primary sources, Morton charts Wallis’s life, from falling in love with a female teacher as a teenager to ignoring the cries of her husband as he lay dying. While Morton makes plain Wallis’s disdain for the duke, it seems his devotion to her never wavered.

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Operation Columba
The Secret Pigeon Service
Gordon Corera
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Conan Doyle for the Defense
The True Story of a Sensational British Murder, a Quest for Justice, and the World's Most Famous Detective Writer
Margalit Fox

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The Licensed City
Regulating Drink in Liverpool, 1830–1920
David Beckingham

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Land Travel and Communications in Tudor and Stuart England
Achieving a Joined-up Realm
Mark Brayshay
Dealing with the period between 1500 and 1700, this study documents the unprecedented growth in road travel by all sections of society, from paupers to princes; the increasing volume of wheeled vehicles on the highways; and the radical changes in the means of conveying correspondence, both within England and beyond its borders.

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'Into Another Mould'
Aspects of the Interregnum
Ivan Roots
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British Shipbuilding and the State since 1918
A Political Economy in Decline
Lewis Johnman;Hugh Murphy

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St Paul's Cathedral Before Wren
John Schofield

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Played in London
Charting the Heritage of a City at Play
Simon Inglis

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Hillforts
Prehistoric Strongholds of Northumberland National Park
Al Oswald;Stewart Ainsworth;Trevor Pearson
The hillforts of Northumberland are extraordinarily well-preserved, their interiors relatively untouched since they were last occupied, around 1,500 years ago. Presenting the key results of the detailed and extensive archaeological landscape surveys carried out by English Heritage, this well-illustrated account, aimed at hill-walkers and other visitors, describes what hillforts would have looked like when they were first built and what life was like for the inhabitants.

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Glasgow
A History of the City
Michael Fry
The historian and columnist for The National in Scotland, Michael Fry offers a new perspective on the history and culture of Glasgow as ‘a unique species of urban civilization’. His book takes in the whole span of the city’s history, from the sixth century to the present day, but is structured thematically, in chapters exploring Glasgow’s trade and industry, religion, the lives and politics of its ‘patricians’ and ‘plebeians’, and its distinctive styles of language, literature and art.

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The Dandy at Dusk
Taste and Melancholy in the Twentieth Century
Philip Mann
Dandyism is often thought to be about extravagance of dress. Combining biography, social history and men’s fashion, this study reveals it to be something different: an austere, almost religious dedication to style. Through profiles of six 20th-century dandies – the Duke of Windsor, the architect Adolf Loos, Bunny Roger, Quentin Crisp, Jean-Philippe Melville and the film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder – it probes issues of identity, nostalgia and the self-created persona.

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Out of the Firing Line ... Into the Foyer
My Remarkable Story
Copp Bruce & Merriman Andy
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History of Huntingdonshire
Wickes Michael

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The King's Bed
Sex, Power and the Court of Charles II
Don Jordan;Michael Walsh
Charles II was obsessed by women, and his conquests ranged across the classes, from the actress Nell Gwyn to the aristocrat Barbara Villiers. For the first time, this revealing book places the king’s compulsive philandering at the centre of an account of his reign. Taking us behind the scenes, it introduces a colourful cast of court favourites, politicians and a parade of mistresses fighting for influence over a king ruled – and ruined – by his passions.

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War! Hellish War! Star Shell Reflections 1916–1918
The Illustrated Great War Diaries of Jim Maultsaid
Barbara McClune
Jim Maultsaid was injured on the Somme in 1916, after which he was commissioned into the Chinese Labour Corps, directing these foreign recruits in non-combatant support work and manual labour. His unusual war diaries include his frank but often upbeat observations about his experiences as well as drawings, satirical cartoons and scrapbook photographs which give a unique insight into his everyday activities and the characters he encountered.

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The Real Guy Fawkes
Nick Holland
Guy Fawkes is among British history’s most recognizable figures, burned in effigy every November to celebrate the Gunpowder Plot’s failure. His early life is less familiar though, and so this biography focuses on his youth as a Protestant in York and the motivations that led him to fight as a mercenary and to plan mass murder for the Catholic cause, asking whether he was ‘a fanatic, a fool, or a freedom fighter’.

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The Life of Henrietta Anne
Daughter of Charles I
Melanie Clegg
Melanie Clegg offers a detailed biography of the youngest daughter of Charles I. Her prestige enhanced by her dramatic escape from parliamentary forces during the Civil War, the infant Henrietta Anne was cherished by the court in her mother's native France. As a young woman, her flirtatious reputation belied her political acumen, but the part she played in negotiating the Secret Treaty of Dover in 1670 was a notable highpoint in her short, at times controversial, life.

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Wingfield College and its Patrons
Piety and Patronage in Medieval Suffolk
Ed. Peter Bloore;Edward Martin

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A Sixpence at Whist
Gaming and the Middle Classes 1680–1830
Janet E Mullin

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The Royal Touch in Early Modern England
Politics. Medicine and Sin
Stephen Brogan

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'Only Connect'
Learned Societies in Nineteenth-Century Britain
William C Lubenow

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The Livery Collar in Late Medieval England and Wales
Politics, Identity and Affinity
Matthew Ward

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Children and Youth in Premodern Scotland
Ed. Janay Nugent;Elizabeth L Ewan

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British Travellers and the Encounter with Britain
1450–1700
John Cramsie

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British Battle Planning in 1916 and the Battle of Fromelles
A Case Study of an Evolving Skill
Roger Lee

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The Mediterranean Fleet
1930–1939
Paul G Halpern

£125.00

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Living with Jacobitism, 1690–1788
The Three Kingdoms and Beyond
Ed. Allan I Macinnes;Lesley Graham;Kieran German

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Clarendon Reconsidered
Law, Loyalty, Literature 1640–1674
Ed. Philip Major
This multi-disciplinary collection of eight essays reassesses the career of Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon (1609–1674), a figure of major importance in 17th-century British politics, constitutional history and literature, and the author of the History of the Rebellion (1702–04).

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Satan and the Scots
The Devil in Post-Reformation Scotland, c.1560–1700
Michelle D Brock

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The Wilson-Johnson Correspondence
1964–69
Ed. Simon C Smith

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Police Courts in Nineteenth-Century Scotland
Volume 1, Magistrates, Media and the Masses
David G Barrie;Susan Broomhall

£125.00

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Police Courts in Nineteenth-Century Scotland
Volume 2, Boundaries, Behaviours and Bodies
David G Barrie;Susan Broomhall

£125.00

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The Last Battle on English Soil, Preston 1715
Jonathan Oates

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The Anthony Roll of Henry VIII's Navy
Pepys Library 2991 and British Library Additional MS 22047 with Related Documents
Ed. CS Knighton;David Loades

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