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British history
Sugar Girls
By Duncan Barrett
Hardback
Published 29-Mar-2012
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Tales of Hardship, Love and Happiness in Tate & Lyle's East End Factories
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Not for Turning
By Robin Harris
Hardback
Published 25-Apr-2013
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Margaret Thatcher is one of the most iconic politicians of the twentieth century. With the possible exception of Winston Churchill, no other Prime Minister has had such an impact on modern British history. This autobiography tells her life story, from humble beginnings above her father's shop in Grantham, to her days as the Prime Minister.
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How England Made the English
By Harry Mount
Paperback
Published 04-Apr-2013
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Packed with facts and stories, this book helps you to learn how we would be as freezing cold as Siberia without the Gulf Stream; why we drive on the left-hand side of the road; and why the Midlands became the home of the British curry.
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Sisters
By Barbara Mortimer
Paperback
Published 28-Mar-2013
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On 3 September 1939, the Prime Minister declared that Britain was at war with Nazi Germany. Thousands of young women, many of them barely out of school, were sent headlong into gruelling training regimes that would see them become wartime nurses. This title features over 150 unpublished stories from the archives of the Royal College of Nursing.
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All The King's Men
By Saul David
Paperback
Published 28-Feb-2013
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Between 1660 and 1815 British supremacy on foreign soil was near total. Central to this success was the humble redcoat soldier who showed heroism in battle and stoicism in peace, despite appalling treatment. This book tells their story: of brutal discipline and inedible food, of loyalty and low pay, and of barracks and battlefield.
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Why Spencer Perceval Had to Die
By Andro Linklater
Paperback
Published 09-May-2013
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On the two hundredth anniversary of the assassination of Spencer Perceval - the only British Prime Minister ever to have suffered that fate - this is the riveting untold story of the murder, the murderer and the repercussions of his act
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Sacred Land
By Martin Palmer
Paperback
Published 01-Mar-2012
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Uncover the hidden secrets and meaning of the landscape of Britain.
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Shadows on the Sea
By Neil Arnold
Paperback
Published 01-Apr-2013
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Covent Garden Then & Now
By Clive Boursnell
Paperback
Published 02-May-2013
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A fascinating record of how Covent Garden has changed over the past forty years
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All the Countries We've Ever Invaded
By Stuart Laycock
Hardback
Published 01-Sep-2012
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