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It's Our Turn to Eat

By Michela Wrong

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

By Wrong, Michela

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

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

By Linda Colley

Why Europe Will Run the 21st Century

By Mark Leonard

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

By Max Arthur

Infamous Essex Women

By Dee Gordon

It Takes Two: A History of the Couples Who Dared to be Different

By Cathy Newman

Goodbye East End

By David Merron

Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History

By Nicolson, Adam

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

By Sarah Thomas, June R. Lewis

The Real Diana Dors

By Anna Cale

Herbert Spencer and the Invention of Modern Life

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

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

By David Black

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

By Babita Sharma

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

By Linda E. Mitchell

The Writing of Rural England, 1500-1800

By S. Bending, A. McRae

Character, Self, and Sociability in the Scottish Enlightenment

By T. Ahnert

Tudor Queenship: The Reigns of Mary and Elizabeth

By A. Hunt, A. Whitelock