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The Thieves' Opera: The Remarkable Lives and Deaths of Jonathan Wild, Thief-taker and Jack Sheppard, House-breaker

By Mrs Lucy Moore

An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo

By Richard Davenport-Hines

British As A Second Language

By David Bennun

Young Bloomsbury: the generation that reimagined love, freedom and self-expression

By Nino Strachey

Introducing Thatcherism: A Graphic Guide

By Peter Pugh, Carl Flint

Modern British History: The Essential A-Z Guide

By Dr Mark Garnett, Richard Weight

Who Are We?: How Identity Politics Took Over the World

By Gary Younge

The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: How a Remarkable Woman Crossed Seas and Empires to Become Part of World History

By Linda Colley

All The King's Women

By Wilson, Derek

Bertrand Russell: v.2: 1921-70 The Ghost of Madness

By Ray Monk

Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers

By Cheryl Misak (University of Toronto)

The Middle Class: A History

By Lawrence James, James, Lawrence

Bertrand Russell: v. 1: 1872-1920 The Spirit of Solitude

By Ray Monk

Colour Bar: The Triumph of Seretse Khama and His Nation

By Susan Williams

Richard Owen: Victorian Naturalist

By Nicolaas A. Rupke

The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe

By Charles Nicholl

Wild Life in a Southern County (Nature Classics Library)

By Richard Jefferies, C. F. Tunnicliffe, Richard Mabey

Religion, Business and Wealth in Modern Britain

By David Jeremy

Lincolnshire Women

By John R. Ketteringham

A Tudor Christmas

By Alison Weir, Siobhan Clarke

Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History

By Nicolson, Adam

The Corner Shop: A BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club Pick

By Babita Sharma

Helen Macfarlane: A Feminist, Revolutionary Journalist, and Philosopher in Mid-Nineteenth-Century England

By David Black

Herbert Spencer and the Invention of Modern Life

By Mark Francis (University of Canterbury - Christchurch, New Zealand)

The Real Diana Dors

By Anna Cale

The Secret Diary of Sarah Thomas: A Victorian Lady, 1860-65

By Sarah Thomas, June R. Lewis

Infamous Essex Women

By Dee Gordon

Why Europe Will Run the 21st Century

By Mark Leonard

Lost Voices of the Edwardians: 1901-1910 in Their Own Words

By Max Arthur

I Didn't Do It For You: How the World Used and Abused a Small African Nation

By Wrong, Michela