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The Merchant of Prato: Francesco Di Marco Datini: Daily Life in a Medieval Italian City

By Iris Origo

Lancaster to Berlin

By Walter Thompson

Harry's Last Stand: How the world my generation built is falling down, and what we can do to save it

By Harry Leslie Smith

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

By Patrick Bishop

Nowhere's Child: The inspiring story of how one woman survived Hitler's breeding camps and found an Irish home

By Kari Rosvall, Mrs Naomi Linehan

Pustules, Pestilence and Pain: Tudor Treatments and Ailments of Henry VIII

By Seamus O'Caellaigh

Churchill & Attlee: The Unlikely Allies Who Won The War: 2018

By David Cohen

No Case to Answer: The Men Who Got Away with the Great Train Robbery

By Andrew Cook

Mary Queen of Scots Downfall: The Life and Murder of Henry, Lord Darnley

By Robert Stedall

Jack the Ripper--Case Solved, 1891

By J.J. Hainsworth

See You After the Duration: The Story of British Evacuees to North America in World War II

By Assistant Professor Michael Henderson, Fellow Martin Gilbert (Merton College Oxford), Sir Martin Gilbert

The Berlin Candy Bomber

By Gail S Halvorsen

The Survival of the Princes in the Tower: Murder, Mystery and Myth

By Matthew Lewis

In Bed with the Tudors: The Sex Lives of a Dynasty from Elizabeth of York to Elizabeth I

By Amy Licence

Evacuee - From the Liverpool Blitz to Wales

By Barbara Davies

Richard III: Loyalty Binds Me

By Matthew Lewis

Who Loses, Who Wins: The Journals of Kenneth Rose: Volume Two 1979-2014

By Kenneth Rose, Richard Thorpe

Herod Antipas: A Contemporary of Jesus Christ

By Harold W. Hoehner

Mistresses: Sex and Scandal at the Court of Charles II

By Linda Porter

Operation Biting

By Max Hastings

Eighteen: The Young Lives of 18 Leading Britons

By Alice Loxton

Kingmaker: Pamela Churchill Harriman's Astonishing Life of Seduction, Intrigue and Power

By Sonia Purnell

Churchill's Citadel: Chartwell and the Gatherings Before the Storm

By Katherine Carter

The Scapegoat: The Brilliant Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham

By Lucy Hughes-Hallett

I Will Come Back for You: The Undercover Hewish Commando Who Helped Defeat the Nazis

By Daniel Huhn

Queen James

By Gareth Russell

All His Spies: The Secret World of Robert Cecil

By Stephen Alford

Storm's Edge: Life, Death and Magic in the Islands of Orkney

By Peter Marshall

The Rose, the Bastard and the Saint King: The Murder of Henry VI

By Andrew Boardman

Unfortunately, She Was a Nymphomaniac: A New History of Rome's Imperial Women

By Joan Smith