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Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Souvenir 1952-2012

By Bullen, Annie

I Have a Dream: Martin Luther King and the Fight for Equal Rights

By Anita Ganeri

When Christmas Comes: An Anthology of Childhood Christmases

By Anne Harvey

Hopping

By Melanie McGrath

Twentieth Century History Makers: Nelson Mandela: An Extraordinary Life

By Ann Kramer

Brasso, Blanco and Bull

By Tony Thorne

Watching Neighbours Twice a Day...: How '90s TV (Almost) Prepared Me For Life

By Josh Widdicombe

Windward Family: An atlas of love, loss and belonging

By Alexis Keir

Failed State: Why Britain Doesn't Work and How We Fix It

By Sam Freedman

Thank You Mr Crombie: Lessons in Guilt and Gratitude to the British

By Mihir Bose

The Corner Shop: A BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club Pick

By Babita Sharma

Helen Macfarlane: A Feminist, Revolutionary Journalist, and Philosopher in Mid-Nineteenth-Century England

By David Black

Herbert Spencer and the Invention of Modern Life

By Mark Francis (University of Canterbury - Christchurch, New Zealand)

The Real Diana Dors

By Anna Cale

The Secret Diary of Sarah Thomas: A Victorian Lady, 1860-65

By Sarah Thomas, June R. Lewis

Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History

By Nicolson, Adam

Goodbye East End

By David Merron

It Takes Two: A History of the Couples Who Dared to be Different

By Cathy Newman

Infamous Essex Women

By Dee Gordon

Lost Voices of the Edwardians: 1901-1910 in Their Own Words

By Max Arthur

Why Europe Will Run the 21st Century

By Mark Leonard

The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: How a Remarkable Woman Crossed Seas and Empires to Become Part of World History

By Linda Colley

A Tudor Christmas

By Alison Weir, Siobhan Clarke

Lincolnshire Women

By John R. Ketteringham

Religion, Business and Wealth in Modern Britain

By David Jeremy

Wild Life in a Southern County (Nature Classics Library)

By Richard Jefferies, C. F. Tunnicliffe, Richard Mabey

The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe

By Charles Nicholl

Richard Owen: Victorian Naturalist

By Nicolaas A. Rupke

Colour Bar: The Triumph of Seretse Khama and His Nation

By Susan Williams

Bertrand Russell: v. 1: 1872-1920 The Spirit of Solitude

By Ray Monk