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

By Tomalin, Claire

Aubrey's Brief Lives

By John Aubrey, Oliver Lawson Dick

The Soap Man: Lewis, Harris and Lord Leverhulme

By Roger Hutchinson

The War After

By Karpf, Anne

Down and Out in Paris and London: George Orwell (Penguin Modern Classics)

By Orwell, George

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

By Lacey, Nicola

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

By Jones, Nicolette

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

By Hague, WILLIAM

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

By Tillyard, Stella

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

By Barrett, Duncan, Calvi

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

By Timmins, Nicholas

A Nice Girl Like Me

By Boycott, Rosie

Inside The BBC: British Broadcasting Characters

By Leonard Miall, Kenneth Harris

Voices from the Past

By Levy, Herbert

Impossible Love

By Frister, Roman

Three Guineas

By Woolf, Virginia

Belfast Days: A 1972 Teenage Diary

By O’Callaghan, Eimear

The Diary of Samuel Pepys: 1664: 05

By Pepys, S

Captives: Britain, Empire and the World 1600-1850

By Colley, Linda

Freud's War

By Helen Fry

A Right Royal Christmas: An Anthology

By Hugh Douglas

The Celebrated Captain Barclay: Sport, Money and Fame in Regency Britain

By Radford, Peter

Gi Brides: The War-Time Girls Who Crossed The Atlantic For Love

By Barrett, Duncan

What the Grown-ups Were Doing: An Odyssey Through 1950s Suburbia

By Michele Hanson

East End Chronicles

By Glinert, Ed

The Thirties: An Intimate History of Britain

By Gardiner, Juliet

Mrs Keppel and Her Daughter

By SOUHAMI, Diana

The Making of an Analyst: A Memoir

By Fordham, Michael

Sojourner Truth (Tell Me About)

By John Malam

A Woman's Work

By Harman, Harriet