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A Nice Girl Like Me

By Boycott, Rosie

The Five Giants [New Edition]: A Biography of the Welfare State

By Timmins, Nicholas

The Girls Who Went to War: Heroism, heartache and happiness in the wartime women’s forces

By Barrett, Duncan, Calvi

Aristocrats: Caroline, Emily, Louisa and Sarah Lennox, 1750-1832

By Tillyard, Stella

William Wilberforce: The Life of the Great Anti-Slave Trade Campaigner

By Hague, WILLIAM

The Plimsoll Sensation: The Great Campaign to Save Lives at Sea

By Jones, Nicolette

A Life of H. L. A. Hart: The Nightmare and the Noble Dream

By Lacey, Nicola

Down and Out in Paris and London (Penguin Modern Classics)

By Orwell, George

The War After

By Karpf, Anne

The Soap Man: Lewis, Harris and Lord Leverhulme

By Roger Hutchinson

Aubrey's Brief Lives

By John Aubrey, Oliver Lawson Dick

Mrs Jordan's Profession: The Story of a Great Actress And a Future King

By Tomalin, Claire

Bad Boy

By Myers, Walter Dean

A Governess in the Age of Jane Austen: The Journals and Letters of Agnes Porter

By Porter, Ann Agnes

The Wild Silence: The Sunday Times Bestseller 2021 from the author of The Salt Path

By Winn, Raynor

The Quest for C: Mansfield Cumming and the Founding of the Secret Service

By Judd, Alan

To Be Someone

By Ian Stone

The Magistrate's Tale: A Frontline Report from a New JP

By Grove, Trevor

Livewire Real Lives: William Wallace

By Holt, Julia, Woodcock, Sandra

Livewire: General Custer (Livewire Real Lives) (Livewire ESL / EFL Readers ELT Series)

By Holt, Julia, Woodcock, Sandra

Memories of Maryhill

By Wilkinson, Roderick

Fields of Young Corn

By Garnett, Anne

Winston Churchill (British History Makers S.)

By Ashworth, Leon

20th Century Leaders: Churchill

By Dowswell, Paul

Helen Keller: 6 (Life Stories)

By Morgan, Nina

The Life and Times of Call the Midwife: The Official Companion to Series One and Two

By Heidi Thomas, Jenny Agutter

Testament Of A Peace Lover: Letters from Vera Brittain

By Eden-Green, Winifred and Alan

The Stopping Places: A Journey Through Gypsy Britain

By Bas, Damian Le

The Diary of a Young Girl (Unicorn)

By Frank, Anne

In Search of a Past: Manor House, Amnersfield, 1933-45

By Fraser, Ronald