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Mr Seldon hit a rich vein when he decided to write about recent prime ministers and now has a book out almost every year.

Sunak at 10: The Last Conservative Prime Minister?

Anthony Seldon

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From Caesar's first attempt at invasion in 55BC to the Romans' departure: a vivid portrait of Britain as a far-flung colony.

Conquest: A History of Roman Britain

Ferdinand Addis

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Argues that it was the Edward VIII's sympathies for unemployed miners in South Wales that drew the government's ire: Baldwin then used Mrs Simpson to force his abdication.

1936: The Year of Three Kings

Sîan Evans

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Recreates the drama following the death of Edward Confessor, when his brother-in-law Harald seized power and drew the invading fury of the King of Norway and William the Norman. And all in 1... read more

Nineteen Days in Autumn: A New History of 1066

Erin Goeres

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The rise and fall of the Oxbridge intellectual, from Isaiah Berlin to Keith Joseph.

Twilight of the Dons: British Intellectuals from World War II to Thatc ...

Colin Kidd

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A curious book that takes us around that very particular and even eccentric eco-system of colleges, hierarchies, gossip, exams, students, proctors, lawns, quads and dons.

Inside Oxford: Behind the Doors of the World’s Most Famous Unive ...

Oliver Carter

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From the author of Lords of Finance comes a powerful study of the first global crash and its consequences, from Vienna to Wall Street, and the British and Ottoman Empires.

1873: The First Great Depression and the Making of the Modern World ...

Liaquat Ahamed

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On the 175th anniversary, a moving reminder of the vision that celebrated free trade, democracy and creativity in a world of peace and prosperity.

The Wise and Their Works: The Legacy of the Great Exhibition of 1851 ...

A. N. Wilson

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This is a fascinating study of how what was found in the Americas permeated English society and altered it.

A Golden World: How the Americas Transformed Renaissance England ...

Lauren Working

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The objects discovered in the Cheapside Hoard and other pieces owned by the Goldsmiths' Company demonstrate the astonishing skills of the craftsmen who made them. Well illustrated and schola... read more

A Perfect Eye and Steady Hand: Goldsmithing in Tudor & Stuart Lon ...

Hazel Forsyth

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Not only Neolithic white horses but also modern images have been cut into the chalk hills. Woolcott visits them, considering what they have in common and how interpretations of them shift.

The Tattooed Hills: Journeys to Chalk Figures

Jon Woolcott

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Nine Days in May: The General Strike of 1926

Jonathan Schneer

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Appointed Archbishop of Canterbury in 1396, Arundel was exiled by Richard II and then - with Bolingbroke - assisted in his overthrow; he was a clever and politically astute administrator.

Archbishop, Chancellor, Kingmaker: A Life of Thomas Arundel ...

Chris Given-Wilson

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One of the last volumes in the Penguin Monarchs series.

Henry VII (Penguin Monarchs)

Sean Cunningham

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The illegitimate son of a ploughman in NE Scotland, MacDonald's rise was certainly remarkable. He has been widely disparaged by both sides of the political spectrum. Reid argues that he was ... read more

The Cancelled Prime Minister: The Extraordinary Rise and Tragic Fall o ...

Walter Reid

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After the Romans left, England split into a shrinking Celtic northwest and an expanding Germanic southeast. A fascinating early history of the country, drawing on ancient literature and new ... read more

How England Began: From Roman Britain to the Anglo-Saxons ...

Nicholas J. Higham

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As in his books on Culloden and Waterloo, O'Keeffe is interested in the consequences of the battle as well as its course.

Trafalgar: Battle & Aftermath

Paul O'Keeffe

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Considered controversial, Benson's superb diaries were sealed for one hundred years at his death. This selection shows the novelist, poet, don and Eton master to have been an acute and waspi... read more

The Benson Diary

A.C. Benson

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A biography of the restless, dazzling and dubious Sir George Downing: Pepys was his clerk; Milton wrote his letters; Wren was his surveyor (in the eponymous street).

Turncoat: Roundhead to Royalist, the Double Life of Cromwell’s S ...

Dennis Sewell

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From Carlos the Jackal and Baader-Meinhof to the Iranian Revolution and Israel's Raid on Entebbe in which the commander Yoni Netanyahu (brother of Benjamin) was killed. Burke, an eminent war... read more

The Revolutionists: The Story of the Extremists Who Hijacked the 1970s ...

Jason Burke

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Pivotal moments that illuminate our history, avoiding the canon in favour of intimate glimpses of private experience.

A History of England in 25 Poems

Catherine Clarke

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A rich and scholarly undertaking: AD has gone looking for unconventional lives across the period and found them in abundance. His portraits are rounded, unexpected and humane.

Queer Georgians

Anthony Delaney

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We anticipate the index being the most closely examined part of this thorough book.

Heirs and Graces: A History of the Modern British Aristocracy ...

Eleanor Doughty

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Double, double toil and trouble at the house of Dr. Dee et al.

The Years of the Wizard: The Strange History and Home Life of Renaissa ...

Rachel Morris

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Dizzying encounters and immense historical arcs: a hugely entertaining look (often from a bicycle) at our peculiar, scattered island nations, by the author of The Discovery of France.

The Discovery of Britain: An Accidental History

Graham Robb

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The author is of course the distinguished Law Lord who presided over the Supreme Court's carefully-argued judgement that Johnson's prorogation of Parliament in 2016 was an impossibility unde... read more

With the Law on Our Side: How the Law Works For Everyone and How We Ca ...

Brenda Hale

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Doing the hokey-cokey with Europe - and who danced with whom - by the astute political observer.

Between the Waves: The Hidden History of a Very British Revolution 194 ...

Tom McTague

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Uses paintings, sculpture, prints, tapestries, embroideries, clothes, jewels and household objects to conjure a broad spectrum of Tudor life.

The Story of Tudor Art: A History of Tudor England Through its Art and ...

Christina J. Faraday

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A fine study, bringing together architectural, urban and social history.

The Modern British City 1945-2000

Simon Gunn

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Positively ghoulish tales of Britain's storied royal abodes, by several authors including Alexia Casale and Joseph Coelho. Ages 8-12.

Historic Royal Palaces: Ghosts in the Walls

Various

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First edition, in fine condition with a fine dust jacket: almost as new. The scandal arising from the case between Sir Charles Mordaunt and his wife Harriett Moncrieffe, which involved an ap... read more

The Warwickshire Scandal

Elizabeth Hamilton

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First edition. Near-fine copy in fine dust jacket. Top and bottom edges of page block somewhat shelfworn.

The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy

David Cannadine

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The pre-eminent biographer of the late Queen has had plenty of time to prepare - and update - this.

Charles III: New King. New Court. The Inside Story

Robert Hardman

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Daughter of F.E. Smith and married to Lord Camrose, Pamela Berry was at the centre of British life for 50 years. This biography of one of the 'Bright Young Things', who became a redoubtable ... read more

Lady Pamela Berry: Passion, Politics and Power

Harriet Cullen

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A new study of this brilliant Renaissance man, so influential on the history of mainland Europe as well as England.

Thomas More: A Life

Joanne Paul

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Thrilling narrative history embracing the Hundred Years War, the Black Death and - with plenty of turmoil and skulduggery - the end of the Plantaganets.

Sceptred Isle: A New History of the Fourteenth Century ...

Helen Carr

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