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Adventures on the High Teas: In Search of Middle England

By Maconie, Stuart

D-Day West Sussex: Springboard for the Normandy Landings

By Ian Greig, Kim Leslie, Alan Readman, Dame Vera Lynn DBE

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

By Babita Sharma

Roloff Beny Interprets in Photographs Pleasure of Ruins by Rose Macaulay

By Rose Macaulay, Roloff Beny

Different Class: The Story of Laurie Cunningham

By Dermot Kavanagh

First Women: The Grace and Power of America's Modern First Ladies

By Kate Andersen Brower

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

By Robert A. Caro

Hurdy Gurdy Days: A Portrait of Life in Coventry at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century

By Lynn Dorothy Hockton, Beatrice May Callow

Manchester: A History

By Alan Kidd

Some Lives: A G.P.'s East End

By Widgery, David

The Making of Apartheid, 1948-1961: Conflict and Compromise

By Deborah Posel (Research Fellow in African Studies, Research Fellow in African Studies, University of the Witwatersrand)

HOME: The Story of Everyone Who Ever Lived in Our House

By Myerson

Sir John Vanbrugh and Landscape Architecture in Baroque England, 1690-1730

By Christopher Ridgway, Robert Williams, Kerry Downes (University of Reading)

Domesday Book Cheshire (with parts of Lancashire and Cumbria): History From the Sources

By John Morris

Fall of Public Man

By Sennet

Steam and the Road to Glory: The Paxman Story

By Phillips, Andrew Benjamin

Whitsunday's Child: A Country Life in Pictures

By Punter, Vera, Haggerty, Sara Jane, Woodgate, Julie, Woodgate, Julie

Frank Meadow Sutcliffe: A Second Selection

By Bill Eglon Shaw

Glory That Was Home

By Townsend, Brian

Helen Allingham's England, an idyllic view of rural life

By Taylor, Ina

Intimacy and Power in the Old South: Ritual in the Lives of the Planters (New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History)

By Stowe, Prof Steven

Surrey of One Hundred Years Ago

By Guilmant, Aylwin

Helen Allingham's England

By Ina Taylor

Family History Book: A Guide to Tracing Your Ancestors

By Colwell, Stella

Power And Imagination: City-States in Renaissance Italy

By Martines, Lauro

Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire - The Sunday Times Bestseller

By Akala

Glasgow: The Socio-spatial Development of the City (World Cities Series)

By Pacione, Michael

Empire Building: Orientalism and Victorian Architecture

By Crinson, Mark

New York: An Illustrated History

By Ric Burns, James Sanders, Lisa Ades

Bess of Hardwick

By Durant, David N.