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Coronation: From the 8th to the 21st Century

By Roy Strong

The Big House: The Story of a Country House and its Family

By Christopher Simon Sykes

Blenheim: Biography of a Palace

By Marian Fowler

The King's Painter: The Life and Times of Hans Holbein

By Franny Moyle

The Louder I Will Sing: A story of racism, riots and redemption: Winner of the 2020 Costa Biography Award

By Lee Lawrence

Sylvia Pankhurst: Sexual Politics and Political Activism

By Barbara Winslow, Sheila Rowbotham

Rose: My Life in Service to Lady Astor

By Rosina Harrison

Mary, Queen of Scots

By Jenny Wormald, Anna Groundwater

Life After You

By Lucie Brownlee

History Makers: Women Who Changed History

By Adam Sutherland

An Ethiopian Odyssey

By Annette Allen

The Life Of Samuel Johnson: James Boswell (Everyman Classic Library)

By Boswell, James

The Common Years

By Jilly Cooper

My Secret Sister: Jenny Lucas and Helen Edwards' family story

By Helen Edwards, Jenny Lee Smith

Lost For Words

By Deric Longden

Masquerade: The Lives of Noel Coward

By Oliver Soden

The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Volume X – Companion: 10

By Pepys, Samuel

Strength in What Remains

By Tracy Kidder

The Great Outsiders: Harmsworth, Rothermere and the "Daily Mail"

By S.J. Taylor

Lady of the Manse

By Lavinia Derwent

Egyptians (Usborne Beginners) (Beginners Series)

By Turnbull, Stephanie, King, Colin

African's Life, 1745-1797: The Life and Times of Olaudah Equiano

By James Walvin (University of York, UK)

Life and Times of a Dovorian: Lillian Kay

By Kay, Lilian

Margery Perham and British Rule in Africa

By Mary Bull, Alison Smith

The Louder I Will Sing: A story of racism, riots and redemption: Winner of the 2020 Costa Biography Award

By Lee Lawrence

Scotland: The Story of a Nation

By Magnusson, Magnus

Essex Girls: For Profane and Opinionated Women Everywhere

By Sarah Perry

Lamplight on Cottage Loaves

By Joan Kent

Deadline: The Story of the Scottish Press

By Harry Reid

The Souls

By Jane Abdy, Charlotte Gere