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Religion, Time and Memorial Culture in Late Medieval Ripon
Stephen Werronen

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Perceptions of Femininity in Early Irish Society
Helen Oxenham

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Parties, Agents and Electoral Culture in England, 1880–1910
Kathryn Rix

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Naval Families, War and Duty in Britain, 1740-1820
Ellen Gill

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Home Fronts
Britain and the Empire at War, 1939-45
Ed. Mark J Crowley;Sandra Trudgen Dawson

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The History of William Marshal
Trans. Nigel Bryant

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Commerce and Politics in Hume's History of England
Jia Wei

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Catholicism, Identity and Politics in the Age of Enlightenment
The Life and Career of Sir Thomas Gascoigne, 1745–1810
Alexander Lock

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Beds and Chambers in Late Medieval England
Readings, Representations and Realities
Hollie Ls Morgan

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Kensington Palace
An Intimate Memoir from Queen Mary to Meghan Markle
Tom Quinn

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Fighting Churchill, Appeasing Hitler
How a British Civil Servant Helped Cause the Second World War
Adrian Phillips

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The Crown
The Inside History
Robert Lacey
For viewers of The Crown who wonder how far Peter Morgan’s drama mirrors reality, the historian Robert Lacey presents an account of Queen Elizabeth’s reign in the years covered by the first series; from her marriage to Philip Mountbatten in 1947, to Princess Margaret’s decision to part from Peter Townsend in 1955. The history is richly illustrated with formal and informal photographs of the royal family and photographs of the actors who portrayed them in The Crown.

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A Vicar in Victorian Norfolk
The Life and Times of Benjamin Armstrong (1817-1890)
Susanna Wade Martins

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Leaders of the Anglo-Saxon Church
From Bede to Stigand
Alexander R Rumble

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Conductors in Britain, 1870-1914
Wielding the Baton at the Height of Empire
Fiona M Palmer

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The Crown
Political Scandal, Personal Struggle and the Years that Defined Elizabeth II
Robert Lacey
From the Suez Crisis in 1956, through the Aberfan disaster, Princess Margaret’s marriage and American astronauts in Buckingham Palace, to the Queen’s Silver Jubilee celebrations in 1977, the historian Robert Lacey gives an account of Elizabeth II’s reign, shedding light on both the royal family and the world they lived in during the years covered by the second and third series of Peter Morgan’s drama, The Crown. With photographs of royal family members as portrayed by the series’ actors.

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Revolution
How the Bicycle Reinvented Modern Britain
William Manners

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The Nine Lives of John Ogilby
Britain's Master Map Maker and His Secrets
Alan Ereira

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Empire of Guns
The Violent Making of the Industrial Revolution
Priya Satia
Challenging the conventional narratives of cotton mills and inspired innovators, Priya Satia argues that the constant state of war and Britain’s thriving gun trade were driving forces in the Industrial Revolution. Discussing the economic impact of war on political and industrial progress, she scrutinizes the claims by Samuel Galton Jnr, the leading gun manufacturer, that his industry was no worse than any other as everyone was participating in war manufacturing, and that guns were instruments of civilization, essential for preserving property.

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Churchill: The life
An Authorised Pictorial Biography
Max Arthur
This unique and intimate biography tells the eventful life of Winston Churchill (1874-1965) in photographs (some never before published) and material from the Churchill Papers. Often quoting his own words, the captions give the full context behind each image, with a focus on less familiar artefacts such as young Winston's battle plans for an invasion of Russia, the Boer War poster offering a ú25 reward for his capture and a 1927 snapshot of the Chancellor constructing a snowman.

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A Cheesemonger's History of the British Isles
Ned Palmer
Realizing that some of the artisanal cheeses he was sampling for Neal’s Yard Dairy were similar to those made in the Neolithic era, Ned Palmer set out to explore the history of cheesemaking. Travelling across Britain and Ireland, he uncovers the stories behind long-term favourites such as Cheddar and Stilton and rejoices in the recent ‘Great Cheese Renaissance’ that has seen the revival of farmhouse varieties.

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Magna Carta
Origins and Legacy
Nicholas Vincent

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Lansdowne
The Last Great Whig
Simon Kerry
Lord Lansdowne (1845–1927) was one of the last hereditary peers to hold high office in Britain. Using material from Lansdowne’s own extensive archive, this biography follows his career as Governor General of Canada, Viceroy of India, Secretary of State for War and Foreign Secretary. It also explores his conflict with fellow Liberals over free trade, and describes the opprobrium aroused by his 1917 call for an armistice with Germany.

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The Last Hurrah
South Africa and the Royal Tour of 1947
Graham Viney

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The Regency Revolution
Jane Austen, Napoleon, Lord Byron and the Making of the Modern World
Robert Morrison

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New World, Inc.
How England's Merchants Founded America and Launched the British Empire
John Butman;Dr Simon Targett

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MI5 and Me
Charlotte Bingham

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The Royal Navy at Dunkirk
Commanding Officers' Reports of British Warships in Action During Operation Dynamo
Martin Mace

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Mutiny on Board HMS Bounty
William Bligh

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The History of Britain
From Neolithic Times to the Present Day
Richard Dargie
Covering the story of Britain in eight chronological sections – on prehistory, Roman Britain, the age of invaders and settlers, medieval, early modern, Georgian and Victorian Britain and the 20th century up to and beyond the millennium – Richard Dargie offers a rapid and very accessible survey of these islands’ history, with timelines, text boxes on special topics and illustrations.

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Untitled
The Real Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor
Anna Pasternak
The woman for whom Edward VIII renounced the throne was vilified in the press as a scheming social climber but Anne Pasternak portrays a very different person. Testimony from the couple’s closest friends reveals a woman whose impoverished childhood and unconventional looks taught her to rely on her intelligence and intuition – qualities that made her ‘too bright and witty’ for a royal consort of the time. It also provides evidence of the depth of their mutual feelings.

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Under Every Leaf
How Britain Played the Greater Game from Afghanistan to Africa
William Beaver

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Untitled
The Real Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor
Anna Pasternak
The woman for whom Edward VIII renounced the throne was vilified in the press as a scheming social climber but Anne Pasternak portrays a very different person. Testimony from the couple’s closest friends reveals a woman whose impoverished childhood and unconventional looks taught her to rely on her intelligence and intuition – qualities that made her ‘too bright and witty’ for a royal consort of the time. It also provides evidence of the depth of their mutual feelings.

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Royal Renegades
The Children of Charles I and the English Civil Wars
Linda Porter
Charles I was a loving father, but what became of his children after his execution in 1649? This history recounts the fortunes of the Stuart princes and princesses in exile and after: Elizabeth, imprisoned during the Civil War; the dashing Henry, who died within months of his brother Charles's restoration to the throne; James, Charles's ill-fated successor; Mary, child bride of the Prince of Orange; and Henrietta Anne, the youngest, who married Philippe d'Orléan.

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Cops and Robbers
The Story of the British Police Car
Ant Anstead
A former police constable turned car builder, Ant Anstead presents a lively history of the British Police Force’s relationship with the car, from chasing pioneer motorists on bicycles and the realization that they needed to be quicker than the offenders, to the high spec supercars in use today. Anstead traces the car’s changing role in policing with the emphasis on the motors, whether Morris Minor panda cars or powerful Subaru Impreza Turbos.

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Wellington's Voice
The Candid Letters of Lieutenant Colonel John Fremantle, Coldstream Guards, 1808–1837
Ed. Gareth Glover

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Torquay in the Great War
Your Towns and Cities in the Great War
Alex Potter

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Toll-houses of Somerset
Janet Dowding;Patrick Taylor

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The Royal Naval Air Service in the First World War
Aircraft and Events as Recorded in Official Documents
Philip Jarrett
This collection of original documents records First World War air missions involving the Royal Naval Air Service (which would be merged with the RFC to form the RAF in 1918). Accompanied by numerous illustrations and reproductions of official paperwork, charts and flying maps, it provides insight into seaplane recovery and experiments with hydrovanes and flotation gear.

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Renaissance Warfare
Military History from Primary Sources
James Grant
A Victorian military writer’s classic accounts of Renaissance warfare in the British Isles are reproduced here, together with the engravings that illustrated them, detailing skirmishes from the Battle of Flodden in 1513 to the Battle of Newburn Ford in 1640.

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Petroleum Rail Tank Wagons of Britain
R Tourret

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Norwich in the Great War
Your Towns and Cities in the Great War
Stephen Browning

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Exeter in the Great War
Your Towns and Cities in the Great War
Derek Tait

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Churchill: Warrior
How a Military Life Guided Winston's Finest Hours
Brian Lavery
As war leader, Churchill was heavily involved in both the overall strategy and the minutiae of the war effort. Lavery recounts his career as an army officer in India, Sudan and South Africa, and argues his direct experience of the different combat branches played a crucial role in his ability to assess their priorities in the most challenging moments of the conflict.

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They Fought Alone
The True Story of the Starr Brothers, British Secret Agents in Nazi-Occupied France
Charles Glass

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Daughters of the Winter Queen
Four Remarkable Sisters, the Crown of Bohemia, and the Enduring Legacy of Mary, Queen of Scots
Nancy Goldstone
The daughter of James I, Elizabeth Stuart, the ‘Winter Queen’ was married to Frederick, Elector Palatine, who became King of Bohemia – for one season. Nancy Goldstone’s engrossing history first tells Elizabeth’s story, from childhood in the Stuart court to deposed queen in exile, then describes the lives of her four daughters: Princess Elizabeth, Louise Hollandine, Henrietta Maria and Sophia, Electress of Hanover and mother of George I – women who ‘formed the loom upon which the great tapestry of Europe was woven’.

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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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The Social Life of Books
Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home
Abigail Williams
Starting with the example of William and Dorothy Wordsworth’s cosy evening in a tavern reading ‘an odd volume of Congreve’s plays’, as recorded in Dorothy’s diary, Abigail Williams sets out to show how ‘a history of sociable reading puts books back into the lives and homes, enabling us to see literature in the round’. Discussing topics such as verse at home, drama and recital, the rise of the novel, non-fiction and religious reading, the book offers fresh insights into middle-class domestic life.

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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 former 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. Slightly off-mint.

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Viking London
Thomas Williams
‘London’, writes Thomas Williams, ‘is a city of spectres, of ghosts walking in the footsteps of other ghosts, and the Viking Age is perhaps its most forgotten hinterland’. This colourful account of the city in the centuries between 842 and 1016 – a period that saw over a dozen Viking attacks on London – describes how it withstood the ‘great heathen horde’; how it endured and prospered through to the time of Cnut; and how the Viking legacy lives on in the capital.

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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
Elizabeth Longford
Lady Longford's classic biography, which drew extensively on Victoria’s journals, is republished in an anniversary edition with a new introduction by Tristram Hunt. It gives a sympathetic, human account of the woman who wore a bonnet instead of a crown at her Golden Jubilee, exploring her public life and emotional challenges, including problems in her marriage to Prince Albert.

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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 Lifelong Friends
Richard Steyn
This dual biography explores the relationship between the aristocrat Winston Churchill and the ascetic South African farm boy Jan Smuts. It tells how the two men, antagonists during the Anglo-Boer War of 1899–1902, became friends after Smuts risked unpopularity at home by supporting Britain in the First World War, and assesses their role during the establishment of apartheid.

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The Restless Kings
Henry II, His Sons and the Wars for The Plantagenet Crown
Nick Barratt
For 60 years, England was dominated by Henry II and his sons Richard the Lionheart and John. Combining biography and political history, this book begins with the dynasty’s turbulent origins in the death of Henry I’s heir William in the White Ship disaster and the ensuing war between Stephen and Matilda. It then follows Henry II’s conflict with Thomas à Beckett, the loss of Normandy, Richard’s crusades, and John’s struggle with the barons that led to Magna Carta.

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The Restless Kings
Henry II, His Sons and the Wars for the Plantagenet Crown
Nick Barratt
For 60 years, England was dominated by Henry II and his sons Richard the Lionheart and John. Combining biography and political history, this book begins with the dynasty’s turbulent origins in the death of Henry I’s heir William in the White Ship disaster and the ensuing war between Stephen and Matilda. It then follows Henry II’s conflict with Thomas à Beckett, the loss of Normandy, Richard’s crusades, and John’s struggle with the barons that led to Magna Carta.

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The Stewart Dynasty
Stewart Ross
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Germans in Britain Since 1500
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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England and her Neighbours, 1066-1453
Essays in Honour of Pierre Chaplais
M. C. E. Jones;M.G.A. Vale
Slightly off-mint

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Germans in Britain Since 1500
Ed. Panikos Panayi
Off-mint

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Collision of Empires
Britain in Three World Wars, 1793-1945
A. D. Harvey
Off-mint

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English Medieval Industries
Craftsmen, Techniques, Products
Ed. John Blair: Nigel Ramsay
Off-mint

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Feudal Empires
Norman and Plantagenet
John Le Patourel;Michael Jones
Off-mint

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Ban This Filth
Letters From the Mary Whitehouse Archive
Ben Thompson;Johnny Trun
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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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21st Century Courage
Stirring Stories of Modern British Heroes
Mark Felton
Slightly off-mint

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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
Slightly off-mint

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Paddy Finucane
Fighter Ace
Doug Stokes
Wing Commander Paddy Finucane was at the height of his powers when, in July 1942, his Spitfire was hit by German fire and ditched in the English Channel. Drawing on family archives, this book tells how the Dublin-born accountant joined the RAF in 1938 and rose swiftly through the ranks, destroying 32 enemy aircraft before his own disappearance.

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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
During the Mesolithic period and throughout Europe, hunter-fisher-gatherer communities occupied and exploited the resources of a diverse range of ecological zones: coastal, lacustrine and riverine, lowland and upland. Aiming to characterize such communities, this study focuses on the Mesolithic period in Wales, but also links evidence found in Wales with examples from northwest Europe, to offer insights into hunter-fisher-gatherer settlement, subsistence and economic activity between 10,200 and 6,000 years ago.

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Stowe House
Saving an Architectural Masterpiece
Ed. Nick Morris
Stowe House in Buckinghamshire was remodelled throughout the 18th century, growing into the magnificent mansion now occupied by Stowe School. This volume contains contributions from experts who have been involved in the 21st-century programme of urgent restoration. They trace the history of the house, gardens and estate, especially the last two decades when painstaking work has returned the building to its former glory and revealed long-hidden wall paintings.

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Longford Castle
The Treasures and the Collectors
Amelia Smith
Built in Wiltshire during the reign of Elizabeth I, Longford Castle, seat of the Earls of Radnor, houses an important art collection – the majority of the paintings still hanging within the magnificently furnished home. This study of Longford, its collectors and its paintings is illustrated by 119 photographs of the interior and reproductions of works by artists including Velázquez, Gainsborough and Van Dyck, and masterpieces now in the National Gallery, among them The Ambassadors by Hans Holbein the Younger.

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Blood and Fears
How America's Bomber Boys and Girls in England Won Their War
Kevin Wilson
Drawing on letters, diaries and interviews, Kevin Wilson recreates the experiences of the men of the US 8th Air Force, and the Women’s Army who served alongside them, from their arrival in Britain in February 1944 to victory in May 1945. Their own words offer vivid glimpses of the camaraderie, relations with their British hosts, and the terror of daytime raids over Berlin.

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A History of the English-Speaking Peoples since 1900
Andrew Roberts
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
On 31 January 1916, nine German Zeppelins bombed several major towns in the Midlands, killing 70 people in the worst air raid of the First World War. Using local newspapers, coroner’s reports and GCHQ documents, this history records the routes taken by each airship and where its bombs fell, and names the officers, crew members and those who died.

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Victorians in Camera
The World of 19th Century Studio Photography
Robert Pols
Whether it was an expensive daguerreotype, a piece of studio trickery, or a carte de visite, the Victorians were fascinated by photography, and by portraits in particular. Using contemporary texts and images, Robert Pols describes the experience of the 19th-century photographic studio from the subjects’ point of view, exploring why and how they chose a photographer, pose or style, and their uses for the finished products.

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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
Walter Ralegh’s virtues led to him captaining an Atlantic voyage, winning a commission in the English army, and catching Queen Elizabeth’s eye before the age of 30, but his flaws included the monstrous egotism that led to some disastrous enterprises and to his final downfall. Anna Beer’s biography reveals both sides of the man who inspired many myths; a talented writer, soldier, politician, courtier, spy and explorer.

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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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Vanishing Edinburgh
In the Steps of George Washington Wilson
Alastair J. Durie

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Calendar of Inquisitions Post-Mortem and other Analogous Documents preserved in the Public Record Office XXIII
6-10 Henry VI (1427-1432) (23) (Public ... Office
Claire Noble;Christine Carpenter
Slightly off-mint

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Operation Columba
The Secret Pigeon Service
Gordon Corera
Pigeons were still in use during the Second World War to carry messages from planes and battlefields but Operation Columba set them to work in a more ambitious project gathering intelligence across Nazi-occupied Europe. BBC security correspondent Gordon Corera tells the recently declassified story of the thousands of birds released over Holland, Belgium and France and assesses the value of the information they brought home. Slightly off-mint. Felt-tip mark on lower trimmed edge.

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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
In 1908, a wealthy woman was murdered in her Glasgow home. Oscar Slater, a German Jewish immigrant, was found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment. Convinced of his innocence, Arthur Conan Doyle deployed the methods of his fictional detective to prove it. Written with the verve of a whodunnit, this book follows his efforts to secure the man’s freedom.

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The Licensed City
Regulating Drink in Liverpool, 1830–1920
David Beckingham
Examining ‘how drunkenness came to be written into the image that the port city presented to the nation’, Beckingham focuses on how Victorian Liverpool’s reputation as one of the most drink-sodden cities in Britain prompted municipal regulation in an attempt to salvage civic pride. Tracing Liverpool’s progress from degradation to temperance, the study offers a more general discussion of the place of drink in British society.

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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
Originally published in 1981, this volume of five essays opens with Ivan Roots's ground-breaking study of the British dimension of the civil war and Interregnum, 'Union and Disunion in the British Isles, 1637–1660'. Revised edition. Slightly off-mint.

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British Shipbuilding and the State since 1918
A Political Economy in Decline
Lewis Johnman;Hugh Murphy

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Played in London
Charting the Heritage of a City at Play
Simon Inglis
This overview of the capital’s sporting heritage and architecture details the background and history of a comprehensive variety of events, including current and forgotten venues from the centre to the suburbs, together with a range of anecdotes and archive photos.

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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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