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Edward Burne-Jones

By Ann S Dean

Rabbit Stew and a Penny or Two

By Smith-Bendell, Maggie

Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time

By Clive James

Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle

By Clare Hunter

Aristocrats: Power, grace and decadence - Britain's great ruling classes from 1066 to the present

By Lawrence James

Courtesans

By Hickman, Katie

Histories of Nations: How Their Identities Were Forged

By Peter Furtado, Furtado, Peter

The Country House at War: Life below stairs and above stairs during the war (National Trust History & Heritage)

By Simon Greaves, National Trust Books

All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939-1945

By Hastings, Max

Forgotten Voices Of The Second World War: A New History of the Second World War in the Words of the Men and Women Who Were There

By Arthur, Max

The Sudan Campaigns 1881-98

By Robert Wilkinson-Latham, Michael Roffe

100 Nasty Women of History: Brilliant, badass and completely fearless women everyone should know

By Jewell, Hannah

White Heat: A History of Britain in the Swinging Sixties

By Dominic Sandbrook

Dead Famous: An Unexpected History of Celebrity from Bronze Age to Silver Screen

By Greg Jenner

Seven Ages of Paris: Portrait of a City

By Alistair Horne

Tourists: How the British Went Abroad to Find Themselves

By Lucy Lethbridge

Fancy Dress

By Anthea Jarvis, Patricia Raine

The Forties in Pictures

Bombers and Mash: The Domestic Front, 1939-45

By Raynes Minns

Valvona & Crolla: A Year at an Italian Table

By Mary Contini, Philip Contini

Dubai: The Story of the World's Fastest City

By Krane, Jim

The Industrial Revolution Explained: Steam, Sparks and Massive Wheels - An Illustrated Guide to the Technology that Changed Britain Forever

By Stan Yorke

The House of Lords

By John Wells

The Cliveden Set: Portrait of an Exclusive Fraternity

By Norman Rose

From the Gracchi to Nero: A History of Rome 133 BC to AD 68

By H. H. Scullard

Drawing Europe Together: Forty-five Illustrators, One Europe

By Axel Scheffler, Various

Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle

By Clare Hunter

Short Skirts and Shorthand: Secretaries in the 1970s

By Sarah Shaw

War and Society in Renaissance Europe, 1450-1620

By J. R. Hale

Crowns in a Changing World: The British and European Monarchies, 1901-36

By John Van der Kiste