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Ever thought about all the people who lived in your house before you Julie Myerson did, and set out to learn as much as she could about their fascinating lives.

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In 1951 an aristocrat accused five nonwhite men of gang rape. When the trial ended in a hung jury, her mother arranged for one of the suspects to be murdered. The ensuing trial, Clarence Darrow's last, exposed the shocking realities of a Hawaiian "paradise."

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Jacqueline Bouvier, Ethel Skakel and Joan Bennett all married into the Kennedy family and became forever linked with the American legend. This book offers an account of the relationship shared by these three women, during the "Camelot" years and beyond.

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The extraordinary story of a small Jewish ghetto in a small town in Poland - and of one man's obsessive quest to discover its fate and its survivors. He felt an irresistible urge to find out more about this small town and its Jewish community, to place on record something of what the Nazis had destroyed and thus to remember.

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The definitive history of the third-largest Jewish community in the UK, which analyses the factors which contributed to its growth and success and explores the disproportionate influence the community had on the modern history of Leeds. -- .

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The definitive history of the third-largest Jewish community in the UK, which analyses the factors which contributed to its growth and success and explores the disproportionate influence the community had on the modern history of Leeds. -- .

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A captivating memoir of one womans relationship with a man and his mansion.

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The house and the family were the real inspiration for Brideshead Revisited: Evelyn Waugh was a regular visitor, and based his story of the doomed Marchmain family on the Lygons.
Never before open to the public, the doors of Madresfield have now swung open to allow Jane Mulvagh to explore its treasures and secrets.

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Using 60 different words that speak of the city, from bees to sewers, Manchester: something rich and strange offers a new way of thinking about this iconic post-industrial city. Twenty-three writers from diverse backgrounds offer their take on the everyday things that inform how we experience Manchester, recognising that were all active in the making and unmaking of the citys spaces.

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The author knew little about his mother's father - only that he had been a military surveyor who mapped great swathes of the British Empire. This is the story of five brothers who, mapping the world, lived up to the Royal Engineers' motto of Everywhere. It is the story of Ireland, and of the Empire from which it broke away.

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Medieval Norwich, together with its sister volume Norwich Since 1550, covers over 1000 years of history, and tells the story of one of England's finest and most interesting cities. The text offers a readable, copiously illustrated account of its people, rich and poor, from Anglo-Saxon times to 1550.

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Beloved novelist and playwright Thulani Davis takes a journey through her ancestral history and finds tartan plaid, unlikely lovers, and Confederate soldiers

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When Jeremy Hardy decided to explore his ancestry it was, in part, to get to the bottom of his grandmother Rebecca's dubious claims that the family descended from a certain 17th-century architect and that, more recently, Jeremy's great-grandfather was a Royal bodyguard.

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Oxfordshire, a land-locked county, is rich in geology, varied in landscape, steeped in history. With an area of 1, 007 square miles, a population of 560, 000 and towns such as Oxford, Abingdon, Banbury, Henley, Witney and Woodstock, Oxfordshire is one of the most literate - and visited counties in Britain.

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Deals with the extraction methods of various types of stone and the rise and slow decline of quarrying across the UK. This book covers some of the most famous and notable quarrying sites.

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