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The Starmer Project: A Journey to the Right

By Oliver Eagleton

Northerners: A History, from the Ice Age to the Present Day

By Brian Groom

Hoolifan: 30 Years of Hurt

By Martin Knight, Martin King (Author)

London Labour and the London Poor

By Henry Mayhew, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst (Fellow and Tutor in English, Magdalen College, Oxford)

The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals

By Dorothy Wordsworth, Pamela Woof

The Undercover Mathematician: Band 11+/Lime Plus (Collins Big Cat)

By Rachael Davis, Alice Negri, Collins Big Cat

The Elizabethans

By A.N. Wilson

Sorrows of the Moon

By Iqbal Ahmed

Overpaid, Oversexed and Over There: How a Few Skinny Brits with Bad Teeth Rocked America

By David Hepworth

The Kerracher Man

By Eric MacLeod

Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn and the Marriage That Shook Europe

By John Guy, Julia Fox

Sad Little Men: The revealing book about the world that shaped Boris Johnson

By Richard Beard

A Critical Woman: Barbara Wootton, Social Science and Public Policy in the Twentieth Century

By Ann Oakley

English Eccentrics

By Dame Edith Sitwell

The Thieves' Opera: The Remarkable Lives and Deaths of Jonathan Wild, Thief-taker and Jack Sheppard, House-breaker

By Mrs Lucy Moore

An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo

By Richard Davenport-Hines

British As A Second Language

By David Bennun

Young Bloomsbury: the generation that reimagined love, freedom and self-expression

By Nino Strachey

Introducing Thatcherism: A Graphic Guide

By Peter Pugh, Carl Flint

Modern British History: The Essential A-Z Guide

By Dr Mark Garnett, Richard Weight

Who Are We?: How Identity Politics Took Over the World

By Gary Younge

Hostage to Fortune: Troubled Life of Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

By Lisa Jardine, Alan Stewart

Reelin' in the Years: The Soundtrack of a Northern Life

By Mark Radcliffe

Simon Weston: Moving on

By Simon Weston

An Iron Girl in a Velvet Glove: The Life of Joan Rhodes

By Triona Holden

Saving Bletchley Park: How #socialmedia saved the home of the WWII codebreakers

By Sue Black

Clouds Of Glory: A Childhood in Hoxton

By Bryan Magee

Fifty Dead Men Walking

By Martin McGartland

Flagship Historymakers – Elizabeth I (Flagship Historymakers S.)

By Fellows, Nicholas, Murphy, Derrick

Mao Zedong

By Anne Faulkner