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The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy

By Mr David Cannadine

Cornovia: Ancient Sites of Cornwall and Scilly

By Craig Weatherhill

The Reivers: The Story of the Border Reivers

By Alistair Moffat

The Age Of Gold

By H.W. Brands

365 Reasons to be Proud to be British: Great British Moments of Greatness: Magical moments in our great history

By Richard Happer, Happer, Richard

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

By John Morris

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

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

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

By Myerson

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)

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

By Widgery, David

Manchester: A History

By Alan Kidd

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

By Lynn Dorothy Hockton, Beatrice May Callow

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

By Robert A. Caro

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

By Kate Andersen Brower

Different Class: The Story of Laurie Cunningham

By Dermot Kavanagh

Central Liverpool

By David Paul

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

By Babita Sharma

D-Day West Sussex: Springboard for the Normandy Landings

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

Adventures on the High Teas: In Search of Middle England

By Maconie, Stuart

Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898

By Mike Wallace (Professor of History, Professor of History, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York), Edwin G. Burrows (Professor of History, Brooklyn College

The village in the valley: A history of Ramsbury

By Croucher, Barbara

East Kent at War: Britain in Old Photographs

By David G. Collyer

The Human Zoo

By Desmond Morris

Janesville: An American Story

By Amy Goldstein

Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America

By Gilbert King

Domesday Book Berkshire: History from the Sources

By John Morris

Country Ways: Taste of the Country in Kent and Sussex

By Anthony Howard

Disappearing Norwich

By George Plunkett

Place Names of Kent

By Judith Glover

Building Jerusalem: The Rise and Fall of the Victorian City

By Tristram Hunt