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By: Brett Velicovich
ISBN: 9780062693938
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2018
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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By: Susan Butler
ISBN: 9780306818370
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2009
Publisher: Hachette Books
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"The single best book that we now have on Earhart's life" (Washington Post Book World)--and the inspiration for the forthcoming major motion picture Amelia
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By: Diana Souhami
ISBN: 9781784291327
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2015
UK Publication Date: 6th August 2015
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
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A revealing insight into the remarkable life of the First World War heroine who saved hundreds of lives.
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By: Jesse Norman
ISBN: 9780007489640
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2014
UK Publication Date: 8th May 2014
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Longlisted for the Orwell Prize and the Samuel Johnson prize for non-fiction; both conservative and subversive, Burkes beliefs have never been more relevant, as MP Jesse Norman explains.
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By: Ilan Ehrlich
ISBN: 9780810895157
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Dec 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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While Cubas 1940 constitution was among the most progressive in the western hemisphere, few knew its details until political leader Chibs, whose suicide in 1951 precipitated the Cuban Revolution, read it on his radio program. This work explores Chibss life in order to explain the nature of Cuban politics from the mid-twentieth century to today.
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By: Jonathan Sumption
ISBN: 9780141988672
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2018
UK Publication Date: 28th June 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: David Woodman
ISBN: 9780241383001
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2020
UK Publication Date: 26th November 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Richard Davenport-Hines
ISBN: 9780141988719
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2018
UK Publication Date: 28th June 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Richard Davenport-Hines
ISBN: 9780241014806
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Like his mother Queen Victoria, Edward VII defined an era. Both reflected the personalties of their central figures: hers grand, imperial and pretty stiff; his no less grand, but much more relaxed and enjoyable. This book conveys Edward's distinct personality and significant influences.
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By: Piers Brendon
ISBN: 9780141987354
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2018
UK Publication Date: 28th June 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Jan Jarboe Russell
ISBN: 9781501198151
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2021
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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By: Rachel Holmes
ISBN: 9781408852897
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2015
UK Publication Date: 21st May 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Alison Weir
ISBN: 9780099523550
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2008
UK Publication Date: 10th January 2008
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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She lived to be 82, but it was only in old age that she triumphed over the adversities and tragedies of her earlier years and became virtual ruler of England.
Eleanor has exerted a fascination over writers and biographers for 800 years, but the prevailing myths and legends that attach to her name still tend to obscure the truth.
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By: Eleanor Roosevelt
ISBN: 9780316552912
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2017
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers Inc
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This unique collection of personal and professional letters, daily newspaper columns, radio shows, speeches, manuscripts, and photographs creates an intimate portrait of America's original 'nasty woman.'
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By: Douglas Perry
ISBN: 9780143126287
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2015
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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A wide-ranging portrait of the legendary leader of the Untouchables traces his years after his famous confrontation with Al Capone, documenting his efforts to end corruption in Cleveland and his achievements throughout the Torso Murderer case.
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By: Lady Anne Somerset
ISBN: 9781842126240
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2003
UK Publication Date: 1st August 2002
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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A biography of Elizabeth I, and examination of the politics and intrigues of her Tudor court.
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By: Helen Castor
ISBN: 9780141989945
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2019
UK Publication Date: 4th July 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Nicola Tallis
ISBN: 9781782437932
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2018
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books Ltd
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The first biography of Lettice Knollys, one of the most prominent women of the Elizabethan era.Living from the reign of Henry VIII through to Charles I, Lettice's story offers an extraordinary and intimate perspective on the history of the period.
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By: Nicola Tallis
ISBN: 9781782439240
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2019
UK Publication Date: 15th November 2018
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books Ltd
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The first biography of Lettice Knollys, one of the most prominent women of the Elizabethan era.
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By: Tracy Borman
ISBN: 9780099548621
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2010
UK Publication Date: 6th May 2010
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Elizabeth I is often portrayed as a ruthless 'man's woman', who derided her own sex - and loved to flirt with the young men at her court. Yet she was born into a world of women and it is her relationships with these women that provide the most fascinating insight into the character of this remarkable monarch.
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By: Claire Gervat
ISBN: 9780099429357
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2004
Publisher: Cornerstone
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Elizabeth Chudleigh was one of the eighteenth century's most colourful characters. In an engaging history of this strong and wilful woman, Gervat shows there was far more to Elizabeth than the caricature villain her contemporaries made her out to be.
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By: Piers Brendon
ISBN: 9780099532637
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2013
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Margaret Thatcher, Rupert Murdoch, Prince Charles, Mick Jagger - four figures who have illuminated our age. This title reveals how each one played out a major theme in the new Elizabethan medley.
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By: Edna Healey
ISBN: 9780747262480
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2002
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
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A major biography of Emma Darwin of whom the author writes: 'Darwin's debt to Emma can never be fully estimated. Without her he might have been a clever man who yet achieved nothing'
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By: Hywel Williams
ISBN: 9780857381620
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2011
UK Publication Date: 28th April 2011
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
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The life, times and historical legacy of the man who created modern Europe.
