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Elizabethans: The Sunday Times bestseller, now a major BBC TV series

By Marr, Andrew

Sisters and Spies: The True Story of WWII Special Agents Eileen and Jacqueline Nearne

By Ottaway, Susan

A Day in the Life of a Victorian Farm Worker

By Huggett, Frank E.

Kilvert's diary, 1870-1879: An illustrated selection

By Kilvert, Francis; Plomer, William (editor)

Devil's Advocate

By Humphrys, John

Where Did It All Go Right?: Growing Up Normal in the 70s

By Collins, Andrew

Forgotten Voices of the Great War: A New History of WWI in the Words of the Men and Women Who Were There (Forgotten Voices/the Great War)

By Arthur, Max

Where Did It All Go Right?: Growing Up Normal in the 70s

By Collins, Andrew

Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now: My Difficult Student 80s

By Collins, Andrew

British as a Second Language

By Bennun, David

Hard Tackles and Dirty Baths: The inside story of football's golden era

By George Best

The Lady's Maid: My Life in Service

By Harrison, Rosina

Bringing Down The Krays: Finally the truth about Ronnie and Reggie by the man who took them down

By Bobby Teale

Bringing Down The Krays: Finally the truth about Ronnie and Reggie by the man who took them down

By Teale, Bobby

Running with the Firm: My Double Life as an Undercover Hooligan

By Bannon, James

Devil's Advocate

By Humphrys, John

London: The Biography

By Ackroyd, Peter

Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII

By Starkey, Dr David

Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination

By Ackroyd, Peter

Things My Mother Never Told Me

By Morrison, Blake

La Belle Saison

By Atkinson, Patricia

The Goldfish Bowl: Married to the Prime Minister

By Haste, Cate, Booth, Cherie

Aristocrats: Caroline, Emily, Louisa and Sarah Lennox 1740 - 1832

By Stella Tillyard

The Pankhursts: The History of One Radical Family

By Pugh, Martin

The Age of Spectacle: The Rise and Fall of Iconic Architecture

By Dyckhoff, Tom

Littlejohn's Lost World

By Littlejohn, Richard

The Justice Game

By Robertson, Geoffrey

The Tunnel Through Time: A New Route for an Old London Journey

By Tindall, Gillian

When Daddy Came Home: How War Changed Family Life Forever

By Turner, Barry, Rennell, Tony

The Button Box: The Story of Women in the 20th Century Told Through the Clothes They Wore

By Knight, Lynn