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Making Socialists: Mary Bridges Adams and the Fight for Knowledge and Power, 1855-1939

By Jane Martin

Privacy and Publicity: Modern Architecture As Mass Media (The MIT Press)

By Colomina, Beatriz

A Double Thread

By Gross, John

1963: A Slice of Bread and Jam

By Tommy Rhattigan

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

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

By Shaw, Jane

Things My Mother Never Told Me

By Morrison, Blake

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

Donald Winnicott and John Bowlby: Personal and Professional Perspectives

By Hauptmann, Bruce, Reeves, Christopher, Issroff, Judith

H.J.S.Guntrip: A Psychoanalytical Biography

By Hazell, Jeremy

Illuminations

By Walter Benjamin

Faces of Labour: The Inside Story

By McSmith, Andy

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

By Schama, Simon

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

By Maas, Sharon

Memoirs of a Breton Peasant

By Deguignet, Jean-Marie

The Industrial Revolution

By Hepplewhite, Peter