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British history
London in the Eighteenth Century
By Jerry White
Hardback
Published 01-Mar-2012
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London in the eighteenth century was very much a new city, risen from the ashes of the Great Fire. With thousands of homes and many landmark buildings destroyed, it had been brought to the brink. This title explores how and to what extent Londoners negotiated and repaired these open wounds.
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Family Britain, 1951-1957
By David Kynaston
Paperback
Published 03-May-2010
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Family Britain continues David Kynaston's groundbreaking series Tales of a New Jerusalem, telling as never before the story of Britain from VE Day in 1945 to the election of Margaret Thatcher in 1979.
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London Bridge in America
By Travis Elborough
Hardback
Published 07-Feb-2013
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In 1968 the world's largest antique went to America. But how do you transport a 130-year-old bridge 3,000 miles? And why did Robert P McCulloch, a multimillionaire oil baron and chainsaw-manufacturing king, buy it? Why did he ship it to waterless patch of the Arizonan desert? Did he even get the right bridge? This title deals with these questions.
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Ban This Filth!
By Ben Thompson
Hardback
Published 01-Nov-2012
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In 1964, Mary Whitehouse launched a campaign to fight what she called the 'propaganda of disbelief, doubt and dirt' being poured into homes through the nation's radio and television sets. Whitehouse, senior mistress at a Shropshire secondary school, became unlikely figurehead of a mass movement: the National Viewers' and Listeners' Association.
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Into the Silence
By Wade Davis
Hardback
Published 06-Oct-2011
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Of the twenty-six British climbers who, on three expeditions (1921-24), walked 400 miles off the map to find and assault the highest mountain on Earth, all had endured the slaughter. This title asks not whether George Mallory was the first to reach the summit of Everest, but rather why he kept on climbing on that fateful day.
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Shakespeare's Local
By Pete Brown
Hardback
Published 08-Nov-2012
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A history of Britain told through the story of one very special public house
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Plantagenets
By Dan Jones
Hardback
Published 10-May-2012
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Eight generations of the greatest and worst kings and queens that this country has ever seen - from the White Ship to the Lionheart, bad King John to the Black Prince and John of Gaunt - this is the dynasty that invented England as we still know it today - great history to appeal to readers of Ken Follet, Bernard Cornwell, Tom Holland
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Day Parliament Burned Down
By Caroline Shenton
Hardback
Published 09-Aug-2012
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The thrilling but largely unknown story of the day in 1834 that the 800 year-old Houses of Parliament burned down - an event that was as shocking and significant to contemporaries as the death of Princess Diana was to us at the end of the 20th century.
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Mrs Robinson's Disgrace
By Kate Summerscale
Hardback
Published 30-Apr-2012
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From the bestselling, multi-award-winning author of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher comes a brand new true story of Victorian scandal
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Winter King
By Thomas Penn
Paperback
Published 01-Mar-2012
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Recreates the dark and turbulent reign of Henry VII. In this title, the author traces the transformation of a young, vulnerable boy, Prince Henry, into the aggressive teenager who would become Henry VIII, and of Catherine of Aragon, his future queen.
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