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Roundhead General: Campaigns of Sir William Waller

By John Adair

Milton and the English Revolution

By Hill, Christopher

The Five Giants: A Biography of the Welfare State

By Nicholas Timmins

Engines of Privilege: Britain's Private School Problem

By David Kynaston, Francis Green

A Field Guide to the English Clergy: A Compendium of Diverse Eccentrics, Pirates, Prelates and Adventurers; All Anglican, Some Even Practising

By The Revd Fergus Butler-Gallie

Those Wild Wyndhams: Three Sisters at the Heart of Power

By Claudia Renton

Please, Mister Postman

By Johnson, Alan

Fall Out: A Year of Political Mayhem (Brexit Trilogy 2)

By Shipman, Tim

Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village

By Dr. Ronald Blythe

Wake Up: Why the world has gone nuts

By Morgan, Piers

Heresies and Heretics: Memories of the Twentieth Century

By George Watson

Before the Dawn: An Autobiography

By Gerry Adams

Captives: Britain, Empire and the World 1600-1850

By Linda Colley

Mill and Liberalism

By Maurice Cowling

Hobbes (Past Masters S.)

By Tuck, Richard

The Nitrate King: A Biography of "Colonel" John Thomas North

By W. Edmundson

Staging Modern American Life: Popular Culture in the Experimental Theatre of Millay, Cummings, and Dos Passos

By T. Fahy

Mary I: Gender, Power, and Ceremony in the Reign of England's First Queen

By S. Duncan

Childhood, Culture, and Class in Britain: Margaret McMillan, 1860-1931

By Carolyn Steedman

Cultural Afterlives and Screen Adaptations of Classic Literature: Wuthering Heights and Company

By H. Shachar

Charles Dickens and the Great Theatre of the World

By Simon Callow

Angela Carter and Decadence: Critical Fictions/Fictional Critiques

By M. Tonkin

Challenges of the Caspian Resource Boom: Domestic Elites and Policy-making

By Andreas Heinrich, Heiko Pleines

The Female Figure in Contemporary Historical Fiction

By K. Cooper, E. Short

Wicked Women of Tudor England: Queens, Aristocrats, Commoners

By R. Warnicke

Indography: Writing the "Indian" in Early Modern England

By J. Harris

The Diamond Queen: Elizabeth II and her People

By Andrew Marr

The Spirit of London

By Johnson, Boris

The Mystery of Princess Louise: Queen Victoria's Rebellious Daughter

By Lucinda Hawksley

Paupers and Pig Killers: The Diary of William Holland, a Somerset Parson, 1799-1818 (Country Library)

By William Holland