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By: Jeremy Paxman
ISBN: 9780670919598
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2012
UK Publication Date: 7th June 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The influence of the British Empire is everywhere, from the very existence of the United Kingdom to the ethnic composition of our cities. This title describes the selection process for colonial officers, the importance of sport, the sweating domestic life of the colonial officer's wife and the crazed end for General Gordon of Khartoum.
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By: Margaret Humphreys
ISBN: 9780552165327
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2011
UK Publication Date: 17th March 2011
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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THE BOOK THAT EXPOSED THE HEARTBREAKING SCANDAL OF BRITAIN'S FORGOTTEN AND ABUSED CHILD MIGRANTS - now a film, Oranges and Sunshine, starring Emily Watson.
In 1986 Margaret Humphreys, a Nottingham social worker, investigated a woman's claim that, aged four, she had been put on a boat to Australia by the British government.
By: Daniel F. Littlefield Jr.
ISBN: 9780313360411
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2011
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This work is a comprehensive encyclopedia of Indian removal that accurately presents the removal process as a political, economic, and tribally complicit affair.
In 1830, Andrew Jackson became the first U.S. president to implement removal of Native Americans with the passage of the Indian Removal Act.
(Paperback, Main)
By: Wendy Moore
ISBN: 9781786495853
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2021
UK Publication Date: 19th August 2021
Publisher: Atlantic Books
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The forgotten and inspiring story of a London hospital during the First World War which was staffed entirely by women.
(Hardback, Main)
By: Gurnek Bains
ISBN: 9781788167963
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2021
UK Publication Date: 19th November 2020
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Chris Bryant
ISBN: 9781784160661
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2018
UK Publication Date: 6th September 2018
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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"A proudly partisan history of the British aristocracy - which scores some shrewd hits against the upper class themselves, and the nostalgia of the rest of us for their less endearing eccentricities.
(Paperback)
By: Lisa Samson
ISBN: 9780007544639
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2019
UK Publication Date: 21st March 2019
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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The ash tree has long been an integral part of the British landscape, its familiar branches protruding from limestone scars and chalky cliff faces.
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By: Dr. Charlotte Touati
ISBN: 9781350513556
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2025
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Exposes how global capital props up one of Africa's most dangerous dictators and thus helps fuel violence and instability throughout Africa.
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By: Lynsey Hanley
ISBN: 9781783783823
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2017
Publisher: Granta Books
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An updated edition of Lynsey Hanley's ground-breaking Estates, with a brand new chapter
(Hardback)
By: Dan Hicks
ISBN: 9781529152746
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2025
UK Publication Date: 1st May 2025
Publisher: Cornerstone
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(Paperback)
By: Juan Williams
ISBN: 9780143124740
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2013
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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(Paperback)
By: Peter Watson
ISBN: 9781471164514
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2019
UK Publication Date: 8th August 2019
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
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This scintillating narrative of spies and science shows how the atomic bomb was the unnecessary product of mistrust and deceit between America and Britain--resulting in a threat of nuclear war that still haunts us today.
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By: Daniel Milford-Cottam
ISBN: 9781784424084
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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From Mary Quant to Mods and Rockers, this is a colorful illustrated history of the most revolutionary decade for British fashion in the twentieth century: the 1960s.
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By: Professor Joanna Bourke
ISBN: 9781844081561
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2006
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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A history of the twentieth century through those British and American people who experienced the fears of their time - by Wolfson History Prize-winner Joanna Bourke
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By: Glenn Adamson
ISBN: 9781526615527
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2020
UK Publication Date: 14th November 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Laura Dawes
ISBN: 9781474601986
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2017
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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An extraordinary, forgotten story of medical triumph against the odds - 'Spirited and readable' Sunday Express
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By: Tobias Buck
ISBN: 9781399604253
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2024
UK Publication Date: 7th March 2024
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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The story of an extraordinary trial - the last trial of a Nazi war criminal - and its wider implications for history, memory and justice, and the author's own family legacy
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By: Henry Louis Gates
ISBN: 9780307382382
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2007
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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Endows readers with an appreciation for the key contributions made by history's unsung and also equip them with the tools to connect to pivotal figures in their own past.
(Hardback)
By: Michael Napier
ISBN: 9781472853578
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2022
UK Publication Date: 9th June 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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From acclaimed aviation historian Michael Napier, this is a highly illustrated survey of the aerial fighting in the flashpoints of the Cold War.
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By: Lyn Smith
ISBN: 9780091898267
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2006
UK Publication Date: 4th May 2006
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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Following the success of Forgotten Voices of the Great War, Lyn Smith visits the oral accounts preserved in the Imperial War Museum Sound Archive, to reveal the sheer complexity and horror of one of human history's darkest hours.
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By: Myles Dungan
ISBN: 9781800244856
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2022
UK Publication Date: 12th May 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A history of the fate of a single family in the period of the Irish Revolution.
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By: Myles Dungan
ISBN: 9781800244849
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A history of the fate of a single family in the period of the Irish Revolution.
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By: Frederick Douglass
ISBN: 9780940450790
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 1994
Publisher: The Library of America
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Born in slavery, Douglass, educated himself, escaped, and became one of the greatest leaders in American history. Here in one volume are his three autobiographical narratives: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself (1845); My Bondage and My Freedom (1855); and Life and Times (1881).
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By: The Revd Dr Lesley Husselbee
ISBN: 9781441156136
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2012
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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An historical account of the Non-Conformist contribution to social welfare in Britain, from 1800 to the present day.
