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Civil Rights Stories: Women's Rights and Suffrage

By Kay Barnham, Toby Newsome

On the Road With Wellington: the Diary of a War Commissary

By A.F.L. Schaumann, bernard cornwell

Dangerous Hero

By Tom Bower

Galloper Jack

By Brough Scott

Richard Cobden: Independent Radical

By Nicholas C. Edsall

Heartbreak Farm: A Farmer and His Farm in Wartime

By Frances Mountford

The Sociable Humanist

By Clive T. Probyn

Adventures in Criminology

By Sir Leon Radzinowicz

The Love Letters

By King Henry VIII, Jasper Ridley

A People's History of London

By John Rees, Lindsey German

Golf's Strangest Rounds: Extraordinary but true stories from over a century of golf

By Andrew Ward

Enemy Coast Ahead

By Guy Gibson

The Pain and the Privilege: The Women in Lloyd George's Life

By Hague, Ffion

Americans in Paris: Life and Death under Nazi Occupation 1940-44

By Charles Glass

A Bundle from Britain

By Alistair Horne

The New Elizabethans: Sixty Portraits of our Age

By Naughtie, James

Nelson Mandela: Little Guides to Great Lives

By Isabel Thomas, Hannah Warren

Power, Treason and Plot in Tudor England: Margaret Clitherow, an Elizabethan Saint

By Tony Morgan

Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport

By Mark Jonathan Harris, Deborah Oppenheimer, David Cesarani, Lord Richard Attenborough

Stiff Upper Lip: Secrets, Crimes and the Schooling of a Ruling Class

By Alex Renton

A Very Private School

By Charles Spencer

O Brother

By John Niven

Travels in an Old Tongue: Touring the World Speaking Welsh

By Petro, Pamela

The Queen: The Life and Family of Queen Elizabeth II

By A. N. Wilson

British Prime Ministers

By Robert J. Parker

Harry's Last Stand: How the world my generation built is falling down, and what we can do to save it

By Harry Leslie Smith

The Strangers Who Came Home: The First Australian Cricket Tour of England

By John Lazenby

Remember Nelson: The Life of Sir William Hoste

By Tom Pocock

Piltdown Man

By Miles Russell

War Memorial: The Story of One Village's Sacrifice from 1914 to 2003

By Clive Aslet