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Great Hostesses

By Brian Masters

My Old Man: A Personal History of Music Hall

By Major, John

Women in the War

By Lucy Fisher

Childhood in a Welsh Mining Valley, A

By Vivian Jones

Erasmus Darwin: Sex, Science, and Serendipity

By Patricia Fara (Director of Studies in HPS, Fellow, Clare College, Cambridge)

Daughters of Britannia: The Lives and Times of Diplomatic Wives

By Hickman, Katie

The Times Queen Elizabeth II: Commemorating her life and reign 1926 - 2022

By James Owen, Times Books

So Here I Am: Speeches by great women to empower and inspire

By Anna Russell, Camila Pinheiro

Bess of Hardwick

By David N. Durant

Just For One Day: Adventures in Britpop

By Louise Wener

The Sisters of Battle Road: The Extraordinary True Story of Six Sisters Evacuated from Wartime London

By J.M. Maloney

Fire in the Sky: Band 04 Blue/Band 17 Diamond (Collins Big Cat Progress)

By Manning, Mick, Granström, Brita, Collins Big Cat

An Empire Wilderness: Travels into America's Future (Vintage Departures)

By Kaplan, Robert D

1950s Childhood Spangles, Tiddlywinks and The Clitheroe Kid: Spangles, Tiddlywinks and the Clitheroe Kid

By Derek Tait

Kent's Strangest Tales: Extraordinary True Stories: A Very Curious History: Extraordinary but true stories from a very curious county

By Martin Latham, Latham, Martin

The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East

By Fisk, Robert

Lotte's War: Bunkers, Bombs and Barrage Balloons

By Lotte Moore

More Than A Game: The Story of Cricket's Early Years

By John Major

Estuary: Out from London to the Sea

By Rachel Lichtenstein

Quality of Mercy: Cambodia, the Holocaust and Modern Conscience

By William Shawcross

Royalty Inc: Britain's Best-Known Brand

By STEPHEN BATES

One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time

By Craig Brown

The Life and Work of Henry Scott Tuke

By Emmanuel Cooper

The Pain and the Privilege: The Women in Lloyd George’s Life

By Hague, Ffion

Hildegard of Bingen: A Visionary Life

By Sabina Flanagan

Venice

By Peter Ackroyd

Heroic Animals: Amazing Creatures that Changed Our World

By Clare Balding

The Final Curtsey: A Royal Memoir by the Queen's Cousin

By Margaret Rhodes

Front Page: Covers of the Twentieth Century

By Raphaele Vidaling

The Thirties: An Intimate History

By Gardiner, Juliet