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Overpaid, Oversexed and Over There: How a Few Skinny Brits with Bad Teeth Rocked America

By David Hepworth

The Kerracher Man

By Eric MacLeod

Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn and the Marriage That Shook Europe

By John Guy, Julia Fox

Sad Little Men: The revealing book about the world that shaped Boris Johnson

By Richard Beard

A Critical Woman: Barbara Wootton, Social Science and Public Policy in the Twentieth Century

By Ann Oakley

English Eccentrics

By Dame Edith Sitwell

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

Hostage to Fortune: Troubled Life of Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

By Lisa Jardine, Alan Stewart

Reelin' in the Years: The Soundtrack of a Northern Life

By Mark Radcliffe

Simon Weston: Moving on

By Simon Weston

An Iron Girl in a Velvet Glove: The Life of Joan Rhodes

By Triona Holden

Saving Bletchley Park: How #socialmedia saved the home of the WWII codebreakers

By Sue Black

Clouds Of Glory: A Childhood in Hoxton

By Bryan Magee

Fifty Dead Men Walking

By Martin McGartland

Flagship Historymakers – Elizabeth I (Flagship Historymakers S.)

By Fellows, Nicholas, Murphy, Derrick

Mao Zedong

By Anne Faulkner

The History Of: African and Caribbean Communities in Britain

By Adi, Hakim

Finding Home: The Real Stories of Migrant Britain

By Emily Dugan

Queen Bees: Six Brilliant and Extraordinary Society Hostesses Between the Wars - A Spectacle of Celebrity, Talent, and Burning Ambition

By Sian Evans

History Makers: Asian People Who Changed History

By Adam Sutherland

Monty: The Making of a General, 1887-1942 v. 1: Life of Montgomery of Alamein

By Hamilton, Nigel

Mighty Lewd Books: The Development of Pornography in Eighteenth-Century England

By J. Peakman

PORTRAITS OF MEDIEVAL WOMEN: FAMILY, MARRIAGE,AND POLITICS IN ENGLAND 1225-1350

By Linda E. Mitchell

Character, Self, and Sociability in the Scottish Enlightenment

By T. Ahnert