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Behind Closed Doors: At Home in Georgian England

By Amanda Vickery

A Passion For Places: England Through the Eyes of John Betjeman

By David Meara, Simon Jenkins

Essex Girls: The Scandalous History of the Women of Essex

By Karen Bowman

The Great Tapestry of Scotland

By Alistair Moffat, Andrew Crummy, Alexander McCall Smith

Strange Days Indeed: The Golden Age of Paranoia

By Francis Wheen

The Far Side of Revenge: Making Peace in Northern Ireland

By Deaglan de Breadun

Universities and Elites in Britain since 1800

By R. D. Anderson (University of Edinburgh)

Reason of State, Propaganda, and the Thirty Years' War: An Unknown Translation by Thomas Hobbes

By Noel Malcolm (Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford)

The Ludicrous Laws of Old London

By Nigel Cawthorne

Pride and Joy: My Amazing 25-year Journey with Brighton & Hove Buses

By Roger French

The Dam Busters: A Pocket History

By Martin W. Bowman

John WesleyThe Life of John Wesley

By Hattersley, Roy

My Dearest, Dearest Albert: Queen Victoria's Life Through Her Letters and Journals

By Karen Dolby

Old Trafford: The Official Story of the Home of Manchester United

By MUFC, Ian Marshall

Round About Chatsworth

The Hungry Empire: How Britain's Quest for Food Shaped the Modern World

By Lizzie Collingham

Ma, I've Got Meself Locked Up in the Madhouse

By Martha Long

The Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero

By Timothy Egan

The St Patrick's Treasury: Celebrating the Myths, Legends and Traditions of Ireland's Patron Saint

By John Killen

The Provos: The IRA and Sinn Fein

By Peter Taylor

Blood Upon the Rose: Easter 1916: The Rebellion That Set Ireland Free

By Gerry Hunt

The Women

By Alice Taylor

Behind the Scenes: Domestic Arrangements in Historic Houses

By Christina Hardyment

House Divided: Lib-Lab Pact and the Future of British Politics

By David Steel

British Cultural Identities

By Mike Storry (formerly at John Moores University, UK), Peter Childs (Newman University College

Bread for All: The Origins of the Welfare State

By Chris Renwick

British Civilization: An Introduction

By John Oakland

British History in 50 Events: From First Immigration to Modern Empire (English History, History Books, British History Textbook)

By James Weber (Duquesne University USA)

How to Read London: A crash course in London Architecture

By Chris Rogers

Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest

By Wade Davis