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The Elizabethans

By A.N. Wilson

Throwing the Book

By Wayne Barnes, Ben Dirs

The Heart of the World

By Alan Ereira

Sorrows of the Moon

By Iqbal Ahmed

The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia

By Orlando Figes

A Train in Winter: A Story of Resistance, Friendship and Survival in Auschwitz

By Caroline Moorehead

First Among Friends: George Fox and the Creation of Quakerism

By H. Larry Ingle (Professor, Department of History, Professor, University of Tennessee-Chattanooga)

Not for Turning

By Robin Harris

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

By John Guy, Julia Fox

Churchill's Angels: How Britain's Women Secret Agents Changed the Course of the Second World War

By Bernard O'Connor

The Heroines of SOE: Britain's Secret Women in France: F Section

By Squadron Leader Beryl E Escott

The Mad Emperor: Heliogabalus and the Decadence of Rome

By Harry Sidebottom

Prince Albert: The Man Who Saved the Monarchy

By A. N. Wilson

The Mighty Dead: Why Homer Matters

By Nicolson, Adam

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

Naples 1944: War, Liberation and Chaos

By Keith Lowe

Christine: A Search for Christine Granville

By MADELEINE MASSON

Five of the Few

By Steve Darlow

Last Man Standing: Memoirs of a Political Survivor

By Jack Straw

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Tudors But Were Afraid to Ask

By Terry Breverton

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

The Defeat Of The Spanish Armada

By Garrett Mattingly

An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo

By Richard Davenport-Hines

Fey's War: The True Story of a Mother, her Missing Sons and the Plot to Kill Hitler

By Catherine Bailey

The Man Who Was Saturday: The Extraordinary Life of Airey Neave

By Patrick Bishop

Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire

By Michael Palin

Introducing Thatcherism: A Graphic Guide

By Peter Pugh, Carl Flint

Modern British History: The Essential A-Z Guide

By Dr Mark Garnett, Richard Weight