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Reputations in History: Robin Hood Paper

By Brooman, Josh

Young Romantics: The Shelleys, Byron and Other Tangled Lives

By Hay, Daisy

Dickens' Artistic Daughter Katey: Her Life, Loves and Impact

By Lucinda Hawksley

Letters To My Grandchildren: Thoughts on the Future

By Benn, Tony

New York: Monocle Travel Guides

By monocle

Octavia, Daughter of God: The Story of a Female Messiah and her Followers

By Shaw, Jane

Square Haunting: Five Women, Freedom and London Between the Wars

By Wade, Francesca

The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft

By Tomalin, Claire

Fred and Rose: The Full Story of Fred and Rose West and the Gloucester House of Horrors

By Howard Sounes

Druglord: Guns, Powder and Pay-Offs

By Graham Johnson, Johnson, Graham

Finding Out About Edwardian Britain

By Rawcliffe, Michael

The Mitre and the Crown: A History of the Archbishops of Canterbury

By Stella Fletcher, Dominic Aidan Bellenger, Bellenger, Dominic Aidan, Fletcher, Stella

A Dancer in Wartime: One girl's journey from the Blitz to Sadler's Wells

By Lynne, Gillian

Bright Particular Stars: A Gallery of Glorious British Eccentrics

By David McKie

Serving Victoria: Life in the Royal Household

By Hubbard, Kate

La Belle France: A Short History

By Horne, Sir Alistair

The Varieties of History: From Voltaire to the Present

By Stern, Fritz

What the Butler Winked at: Being the Life and Adventures of Eric Horne (Butler)

By Eric Horne

The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Royal Britain: A Magnificent Study of Britain's Royal and Historic Heritage with a Directory of Royalty and Over 120 ... Houses and Castles in Britain and Ireland

By Charles Phillips, Richard Wilson, John Haywood

Illuminations

By Walter Benjamin

The View from the Corner Shop: Diary of a Wartime Shop Assistant: The Diary of a Yorkshire Shop Assistant in Wartime

By Kathleen Hey, Robert Malcomson, Patricia Malcolmson

The Industrial Revolution

By Hepplewhite, Peter

Memoirs of a Breton Peasant

By Deguignet, Jean-Marie

The Girl from Lamaha Street: A Guyanese girl at a 1950s English boarding school and her search for belonging

By Maas, Sharon

The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age

By Schama, Simon

Faces of Labour: The Inside Story

By McSmith, Andy

Lowborn: Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain’s Poorest Towns

By Hudson, Kerry

The Stopping Places: A Journey Through Gypsy Britain

By Bas, Damian Le

Black Tudors: The Untold Story

By Kaufmann, Miranda

Things My Mother Never Told Me

By Morrison, Blake