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Byrhtnoth: Anglo-Saxon warrior

By John McSween

Lady Catherine and the Real Downton Abbey

By The Countess Of Carnarvon

Dark Skies: A Journey into the Wild Night

By Tiffany Francis-Baker

Rose: My Life in Service to Lady Astor

By Rosina Harrison

Coronation Cups and Jam Jars: Portrait of an East End Family Through Three Generations

By Ron Barnes

What's Tha Up To Nah?

By Martyn Johnson

Crowns in a Changing World: The British and European Monarchies, 1901-36

By John Van der Kiste

London: The Concise Biography

By Peter Ackroyd

Conundrum

By Jan Morris

From Russia with Blood: Putin's Ruthless Killing Campaign and Secret War on the West

By Heidi Blake

Erasmus Darwin: Sex, Science, and Serendipity

By Patricia Fara (Director of Studies in HPS, Fellow, Clare College, Cambridge)

Childhood in a Welsh Mining Valley, A

By Vivian Jones

Women in the War

By Lucy Fisher

My Old Man: A Personal History of Music Hall

By Major, John

That Woman: The Life of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor

By Anne Sebba

Streetfighters: Real Fighting Men Tell Their Stories

By Julian Davies

The Profession of Violence: The Rise and Fall of the Kray Twins

By Pearson, John, JOHN PEARSON

Truth About Cora Pearl

By Polly Binder

Littlejohn's Lost World

By Richard Littlejohn

A Daisy for Dorothy: Love Story of a Family in War Time

By Pat Read, Leslie Thomas

The Diamond Queen: Elizabeth II and Her People

By Marr, Andrew

Daughters of Britannia: The Lives and Times of Diplomatic Wives

By Hickman, Katie

Len Goodman's Lost London

By Len Goodman, Trinity Mirror Media

Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe

By Roger McNamee

Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and then Took on the West

By Catherine Belton

London's Strangest: The Thames: Extraordinary but true stories (Strangest)

By Iain Spragg

A People's History of Scotland

By Chris Bambery

Flagship Historymakers - JFK and LBJ

By Derrick Murphy

Clinging to the Wreckage: A Part of Life

By Mortimer, John

People Who Say Goodbye: Memories of Childhood

By P. Y. Betts