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Love, Madness, and Scandal: The Life of Frances Coke Villiers, Viscountess Purbeck

By Johanna Luthman (Associate Professor of History, University of North Georgia)

The Islandman (Oxford Paperbacks Series)

By O'Crohan, Tomás, Flower, Robin

The Flame Trees Of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood

By Elspeth Huxley

Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History

By Philippa Gregory

Henry VII's New Men and the Making of Tudor England

By Steven Gunn (Fellow and Tutor in History, Fellow and Tutor in History, Merton College, Oxford)

The Good Sharps: The Eighteenth-Century Family that Changed Britain

By Hester Grant

Shoot to Kill

By Michael Asher

Dead Men Risen: The Welsh Guards and the Real Story of Britain's War in Afghanistan

By Toby Harnden

Tales of London Docklands

By Henry T. Bradford

Over Here

By Seitz, Raymond

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (Oxford World's Classics)

By Douglass, Frederick, McDowell, Deborah E.

First Man In: Leading from the Front

By Middleton, Ant

Everyone Versus Racism: a Letter to Change the World

By Patrick Hutchinson

Eye of the Storm: Twenty-Five Years In Action With the SAS: 25 Years in Action with the SAS

By Peter Ratcliffe DCM.

Yesterday's Sunshine: Reminiscences of an Edwardian Childhood

By Verne Morgan

To Gain at Harvest: Portraits from the English Reformation

By Jonathan Dean

Isaiah Berlin

By Ignatieff, Michael

Thomas Paine Reader

By Thomas Paine

Suffolk Records Society

William and Harry: The People's Princes

By Ingrid Seward

Margaret Thatcher: The Autobiography

By Margaret Thatcher

Willie Gavin, Crofter Man: A Portrait of a Vanished Lifestyle

By David Kerr Cameron

Too Many Mothers: An East End Childhood

By Roberta Taylor

Suet and soufflé

By Joyce Horlock

Victorian Values: Personalities and Perspectives in Nineteenth-century Society

By Gordon Marsden

No Country for a Woman: The Adventurous Life of Lady Dorothy Mills, Explorer and Writer

By JANE. DISMORE

ELIZABETH HEYRICK: The Making of an Anti-slavery Campaigner

By JOCELYN. ROBSON

Eighteen: The Young Lives of 18 Leading Britons

By Alice Loxton

Shooting Victoria: Madness, Mayhem, and the Rebirth of the British Monarchy

By Paul Thomas Murphy

Treason: Famous English Treason Trials

By Alan Wharam