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By: Jan Morris
ISBN: 9780571290697
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2012
UK Publication Date: 4th October 2012
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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First in Jan Morris's classic Pax Britannica Trilogy.
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By: Stephen Earle
ISBN: 9781623171148
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2017
Publisher: North Atlantic Books,U.S.
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"Biography & Autobiography - Historical; History - Asia - Japan; Sports & Recreation - Martial Arts & Self-Defense"--
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By: Laura Thompson
ISBN: 9781788548243
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2022
UK Publication Date: 12th May 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A survey of the world of the wealthy heiress glittering and gleaming, flawed and fascinating from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries.
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By: Eleanor Doughty
ISBN: 9781529153040
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 2025
UK Publication Date: 4th September 2025
Publisher: Cornerstone
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By: Robert Leckie
ISBN: 9780091937515
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2011
UK Publication Date: 3rd February 2011
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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Presents author's journey, from boot camp on Parris Island, South Carolina, all the way to the raging battles in the Pacific, where some of the war's fiercest fighting took place. This title provides details of the horrors and sacrifice of war, painting a portrait of how real warriors are made, fight, and often die in the defence of their country.
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By: Henry Adams
ISBN: 9780940450349
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 1986
Publisher: The Library of America
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By: Eugene Stelzig
ISBN: 9781611483505
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jun 2010
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
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By: Robert Hutchinson
ISBN: 9781474605809
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2020
UK Publication Date: 16th April 2020
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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A vivid and shocking account of the last years of terror at the court of the tyrant King Henry VIII.
'Hutchinson brilliantly conveys the atmosphere of terror...a gripping narrative' DAILY MAIL
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By: Rachel Cooke
ISBN: 9781844087419
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2014
UK Publication Date: 1st May 2014
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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A witty and touching account of ten inspirational figures that makes us reconsider conventional ideas of the fifties woman.
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By: Waisman Charlotte S
ISBN: 9780062113962
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2013
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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This one-of-a-kind illustrated timeline highlights the awesome, varied, and often unrecognized contributions of American women since the 1500s. The result is a captivating look at champions that will resonate with women and men alike.
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By: William Shand
ISBN: 9781781301067
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2021
Publisher: Philip Wilson Publishers Ltd
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The first comprehensive study of heraldry and stained glass in one of the oldest surviving Livery Halls of the City of London, dating from 1672.
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By: Scott Bateman
ISBN: 9780241655580
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2024
UK Publication Date: 23rd May 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Lyn Smith
ISBN: 9781529107470
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2021
UK Publication Date: 28th January 2021
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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By: Lucy Hughes-Hallett
ISBN: 9781857026863
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2005
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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From the author of The Pike winner of the 2013 Samuel Johnson prize for non-fiction a compelling story of heroism told through eight famous lives that span from Achilles to Sir Francis Drake.
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By: Donald S. Murray
ISBN: 9781399409148
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2022
UK Publication Date: 8th December 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Ben Wilson
ISBN: 9780753829219
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2017
UK Publication Date: 6th April 2017
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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A globe-spanning narrative history of the 1850s - a time of electrifying change - seen through the eyes of the men and women who embraced the adventurous spirit of the times
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By: Andrew Otis
ISBN: 9781804441657
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2025
Publisher: Footnote Press Ltd
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The fascinating story of India's first newspaper, Hicky's Bengal Gazette, and its founder, Irishman James Hicky, who used his newspaper to call out the corruption of British imperialists.
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By: Fatima Manji
ISBN: 9781529110951
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2022
UK Publication Date: 11th August 2022
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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By: Gerry Docherty
ISBN: 9781780576305
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2013
UK Publication Date: 4th July 2013
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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Exposes those responsible for the First World War. This book reveals how accounts of the war's origins have been deliberately falsified to conceal the guilt of the secret cabal of rich and powerful men in London responsible for the heinous crime perpetrated on humanity.
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By: Michael McNay
ISBN: 9781847946171
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2015
Publisher: Cornerstone
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A beautifully illustrated guide to over 400 of London's lesser-known cultural gems.
Nobody could deny that London is one of the most culturally and architecturally rich places in the world.
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By: Niall Ferguson
ISBN: 9780141022017
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2011
UK Publication Date: 1st September 2011
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Features the story of Siegmund Warburg: the refugee from Nazi Germany who restored the Blitz-shattered City of London as the world's pre-eminent international financial centre. It shows how this scholarly man brought wit, passion and high ethical standards to the world of finance, and more.
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By: Simon Heffer
ISBN: 9780099558477
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Aug 2014
UK Publication Date: 14th August 2014
Publisher: Cornerstone
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That it should have changed so radically was very largely the work of an astonishingly dynamic and high-minded group of people politicians and philanthropists, writers and thinkers who in a matter of decades fundamentally remade the country, its institutions and its mindset, and laid the foundations for modern society.
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By: Kevin Sampson
ISBN: 9780091955625
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2017
UK Publication Date: 9th February 2017
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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On 15 April 1989, the world witnessed one of the worst football disasters in history occur at the Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield.
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By: John Hersey
ISBN: 9780141041865
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 2009
UK Publication Date: 7th May 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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When the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in August 1945, killing 100,000 men, women and children, it was the beginning of a terrifying new episode in human history. This title presents the event with an account of six men and women who survived despite all the odds.
