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Memoirs of a Surrey Labourer (Working class biography)

By Sturt, George

Are You Still Circumcised?: East End Memories

By Rosen, Harold

Sultan of Zanzibar, The : The Bizarre World and Spectacular Hoaxes of Horace de Vere Cole

By Martyn Downer

Stuff and Nonsense: Observations of a Norfolk Scot

By Bruce-Lockhart, Logie

Bash the Rich: True Life Confessions of an Anarchist in the UK

By Ian Bone, Richard Jones, Trevor Wyatt

Subaltern Lives: Biographies of Colonialism in the Indian Ocean World, 1790–1920 (Critical Perspectives on Empire)

By Anderson, Clare

Cities of God: The Bible and Archaeology in Nineteenth-Century Britain

By Gange, David

England and Its Rulers 1066-1307 (Blackwell Classic Histories of England)

By Clanchy, M. T.

Stephen Hawking (A Life Story)

By Sheehan, Nikki

Did She Kill Him? A Victorian Tale of Deception, Adultery & Arsenic: A Victorian tale of deception, adultery and arsenic

By Colquhoun, Kate

Mrs Robinson's Disgrace: The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady

By Summerscale, Kate

A Spy Among Friends: Philby and the Great Betrayal

By MacIntyre, Ben

Queen Victoria's Matchmaking: The Royal Marriages that Shaped Europe

By Cadbury, Deborah

Mudlarking: The Sunday Times Bestseller

By Maiklem, Lara

The Haunting of Alma Fielding: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2020

By Summerscale, Kate

Mohandas Gandhi (TIME FOR KIDS(R) Nonfiction Readers)

By Rice, Dona

Trains and Buttered Toast

By Betjeman, John

The Prince, the Princess and the Perfect Murder: An Untold History

By Rose, Andrew

Watching the English: The International Bestseller Revised and Updated

By Fox, Kate

Suffragettes and the Fight for the Vote

By Ridley, Sarah

Isambard Kingdom Brunel: The Life of an Engineering Genius

By Maggs MBE, Colin

King of All Balloons: The Adventurous Life of James Sadler, The First English Aeronaut

By Davies, Mark, Branson, Sir Richard, Cameron, Don

What the Grown-Ups Were Doing

By Michele Hanson

The Secret History of the Blitz

By Levine, Joshua

The Co-Op's Got Bananas: A Memoir of Growing Up in the Post-War North

By Davies, Hunter

Flesh and Blood: A History of My Family in Seven Maladies

By McGann, Stephen

A Woman Lived Here: Alternative Blue Plaques, Remembering London's Remarkable Women

By Vale, Allison

Out of Time: 1966 and the End of Old-Fashioned Britain (Wisden Sports Writing)

By Chapman, Peter

The Women Who Shaped Politics: Empowering stories of women who have shifted the political landscape

By Ridge, Sophy

Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire - The Sunday Times Bestseller

By Akala