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By: Kate Winkler Dawson
ISBN: 9780316506830
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2019
UK Publication Date: 13th December 2018
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
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A "fascinating, beautifully readable, compulsively readable book" (Douglas Preston) that tells the real-life story of the Great London Smog of 1952--an utterly preventable natural disaster that killed 12,000 people--and the serial killer, John Reginald Christie, who used the smog and its aftermath as a veritable cloak for his crimes.
(Paperback, Main)
By: Ben Wilson
ISBN: 9780571224692
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2008
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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A rich and provocative new account of the colourful period before the Victorians - the age of Austen, Byron and Brummell.
(Hardback)
By: Edward Gibbon
ISBN: 9781857150957
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 1994
UK Publication Date: 16th September 1993
Publisher: Everyman
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Easily the most celebrated historical work in English, Gibbon's account of the Roman empire was in its time a landmark in classical and historical scholarship and remains a remarkable fresh and powerful contribution to the interpretation of Roman history more than two hundred years after its first appearance.
(Hardback)
By: Edward Gibbon
ISBN: 9781857151923
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 1994
UK Publication Date: 20th October 1994
Publisher: Everyman
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The six-volume Everyman edition - the only complete one now available-prints the entire text of the book with all Gibbon's own notes, later editorial commentaries, maps, tables, descriptive tables of contents, indices, appendices and two magisterial essays on the author and his work by Hugh Trevor-Roper.
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By: John Parker
ISBN: 9780755312894
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2005
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
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Authoritative profile of the glamorous Desert Rats brigade
(Hardback)
By: Dr Andr Keil
ISBN: 9781350267749
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2026
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Kevin Flude
ISBN: 9781782434634
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2015
UK Publication Date: 10th September 2015
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books Ltd
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Featuring tales of murder, adultery, beheadings, civil war, usurpation and madness, Divorced, Beheaded, Died takes you on a gallop through the history of all of Englands kings and queens, plus some of the less well-known Scots and Welsh rulers, presented in an accessible, chronological format.
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By: Paddy Duffy
ISBN: 9781473606739
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2016
Publisher: Hachette Books Ireland
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Do You Know Who's Dead is a hilarious celebration of all things unmistakably Irish, as it describes our distinguishing features - big and small - in politics, music, culture, sport and more.
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By: Peter Ackroyd
ISBN: 9781509881321
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2019
UK Publication Date: 19th September 2019
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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The fifth instalment in Peter Ackroyd's acclaimed and bestselling six-volume History of England.
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By: Peter Ackroyd
ISBN: 9781509880027
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2018
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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The fifth instalment in Peter Ackroyd's acclaimed and bestselling six-volume History of England.
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By: Helen McCarthy
ISBN: 9781408870754
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2021
UK Publication Date: 15th April 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Lynn Picknett
ISBN: 9780751532203
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2002
UK Publication Date: 5th September 2002
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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A revelatory account of the true purpose of Rudolf Hess's doomed flight to Britain in 1941 and its consequences for the 20th century.
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By: Dan Elkind
ISBN: 9781915672797
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2025
UK Publication Date: 19th August 2025
Publisher: Watkins Media Limited
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A work of experimental nonfiction that spotlights the so-called Undesirables of recent history, forced into martyrdom and infamy.
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By: Sean Longden
ISBN: 9781845299774
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2004
UK Publication Date: 23rd April 2009
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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The true story of the 41,000 British soldiers who were left behind after the evacuation of Dunkirk, May 1940.
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By: Charles Townshend
ISBN: 9780141982472
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2016
UK Publication Date: 5th November 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Before Easter 1916 Dublin had been a city much like any other British city, comparable to Bristol or Liverpool and part of a complex, deep-rooted British world. The devastating events of that Easter changed everything. This book focuses on these events.
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By: Duncan Mackay
ISBN: 9781399714143
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2024
UK Publication Date: 4th April 2024
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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An original, revelatory, enthralling narrative history of how Queen Boudica led the greatest rebellion Britain has ever seen.
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By: Jean Stein
ISBN: 9781529110715
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2020
UK Publication Date: 6th February 2020
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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A brilliant and unique biography of Andy Warhol's tragic muse, the 60s icon Edie Sedgwick
Exceptionally seductive You cant put it down LA Times
Outrageous, vulnerable and strikingly beautiful - in the 1960s Edie Sedgwick became both an emblem of, and a memorial to, the doomed world spawned by Andy Warhol.
(Paperback, Unabridged edition)
By: Michael Fry
ISBN: 9780330455794
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2010
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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A biography of Scotlands first city, in the manner of Peter Ackroyds bestselling London: A Biography - now available in paperback.
(Paperback)
By: Andy King
ISBN: 9780141988665
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2018
UK Publication Date: 28th June 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Christopher Given-Wilson
ISBN: 9780141989914
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2019
UK Publication Date: 4th July 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Roger Louis
ISBN: 9781788311861
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Helen Rappaport
ISBN: 9780099520092
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2009
UK Publication Date: 2nd April 2009
Publisher: Cornerstone
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A vivid and compelling account of the final thirteen days of the Romanovs, counting down to the last, tense hours of their lives.
On 4 July 1918, a new commandant took control of a closely guarded house in the Russian town of Ekaterinburg.
(Hardback)
By: Nora Berend
ISBN: 9781399709620
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2025
UK Publication Date: 7th November 2024
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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An authoritative new history: The life and afterlife of a medieval hero and an exploration of heroism, myth-making and national identity through the centuries.
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By: Trea Martyn
ISBN: 9780571217014
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2009
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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The beguiling story of how Elizabeth I's two great courtiers fought a lifelong duel for her affections - with their gardens.
