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The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England

By Dan Jones

Big Ben: the Great Clock and the Bells at the Palace of Westminster

By Chris McKay (Horologist)

The Spy Who Loved: The secrets and lives of Christine Granville, Britain's first female special agent of WWII

By Clare Mulley

Stumbling on Happiness (P.S.)

By Gilbert, Daniel, Daniel Gilbert

Bring No Clothes: Bloomsbury and the Philosophy of Fashion

By Charlie Porter

Hugh Casson's London

By Casson, Sir Hugh

London by Pub

By Ted Bruning

Naming Jack the Ripper: New Crime Scene Evidence, A Stunning Forensic Breakthrough, The Killer Revealed

By Russell Edwards

Jack the Ripper--Case Solved, 1891

By J.J. Hainsworth

Farewell To The East End

By Jennifer Worth, SRN, SCM

Weymouth & Portland Then Meets Now

By Maureen Attwooll

London Lights: The Minds that Moved the City that Shook the World

By James Hamilton

The London Treasury: A collection of cultural and historical insights into a great city

By Lucinda Hawksley

Chocolate Wars: From Cadbury to Kraft - 200 Years of Sweet Success and Bitter Rivalry

By Cadbury, Deborah

Making Cultures of Solidarity: London and the 1984-5 Miners' Strike

By Diarmaid Kelliher (University of Glasgow, UK)

London: A History in Maps

By Peter Barber

A Voyage Around the Queen: The new Sunday Times bestselling biography of Queen Elizabeth II, from the winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize

By Brown, Craig

Courting Disaster

By Barker

Outside Roman London: Roadside burials by the Walbrook stream

By Serena Ranieri, Alison Telfer

Eggs or Anarchy: The remarkable story of the man tasked with the impossible: to feed a nation at war

By William Sitwell

Inside Dickens' London

By Michael Paterson (Author)

Frost Fairs on the Frozen Thames

By Nicholas Reed

The City of London: v.4: Club No More, 1945-2000

By David Kynaston

A Survey of London

By John Stow

The Man Who Drew London

By Gillian Tindall

The Immortal Dinner: A Famous Evening of Genius And Laughter in Literary London, 1817

By Penelope Hughes-Hallett

Bryant & May's Peculiar London

By Christopher Fowler

The Diary of Samuel Pepys: A Pepys Anthology

By SAMUEL PEPYS, Robert Latham, Linnet Latham

Woolwich Reviewed: Photographs from the Local History Library

By Julian Watson

How to Read London: A crash course in London Architecture

By Chris Rogers