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David Lloyd George: The Great Outsider

By Roy Hattersley

Painting Women: Victorian Women Artists

By Deborah Cherry

Tales From When I Were A Lad: More snapshots from a time that Health & Safety forgot

By Davies, Andrew

The House by the Dvina: A Russian Childhood

By Eugenie Fraser

The Common Years

By Jilly Cooper

My Brief History

By Stephen Hawking (University of Cambridge)

The Burning Of Bridget Cleary

By Angela Bourke

Harold Wilson: The Winner

By Nick Thomas-Symonds

The Life and Adventures of William Cobbett

By Richard Ingrams

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Souvenir 1952-2012

By Bullen, Annie

I Have a Dream: Martin Luther King and the Fight for Equal Rights

By Anita Ganeri

When Christmas Comes: An Anthology of Childhood Christmases

By Anne Harvey

Hopping

By Melanie McGrath

Twentieth Century History Makers: Nelson Mandela: An Extraordinary Life

By Ann Kramer

Brasso, Blanco and Bull

By Tony Thorne

Watching Neighbours Twice a Day...: How '90s TV (Almost) Prepared Me For Life

By Josh Widdicombe

Windward Family: An atlas of love, loss and belonging

By Alexis Keir

Failed State: Why Britain Doesn't Work and How We Fix It

By Sam Freedman

Thank You Mr Crombie: Lessons in Guilt and Gratitude to the British

By Mihir Bose

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

Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History

By Nicolson, Adam

Goodbye East End

By David Merron

I Read the News Today, Oh Boy: The short and gilded life of Tara Browne, the man who inspired The Beatles' greatest song

By Paul Howard

Will In The World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare

By Stephen Greenblatt

That's Not English: Britishisms, Americanisms and What Our English Says About Us

By Erin Moore, Lynne Truss

Elizabethan Society: High and Low Life, 1558-1603

By Mr Derek Wilson