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His mistakes as well as his achievements, and a fascinating post- Brexit look at our history since WW2, in which our leaders still vye for Churchill's mythic mantle to legitimize their polit... read more

Churchill’s Shadow: An Astonishing Life and a Dangerous Legacy ...

Geoffrey Wheatcroft

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A vivid record of the 1987 election campaign, which he ran.

Inside Thatcher’s Last Election: Diaries of the Campaign That Sa ...

David Young

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Panoramic account of the conflicts that arose from British attempts to control North Africa and the Middle East.

Empire and Jihad: The Anglo-Arab Wars of 1870-1920

Neil Faulkner

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A fascinating and valuable tour of objects and buildings in the UK that recall Britain's engagements with the East over hundreds of years.

Hidden Heritage: Rediscovering Britain’s Lost Love of the Orient ...

Fatima Manji

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The buildings that are falling into disuse and ruin all around the UK were once essential in their communities. This study - from the Anglo-Saxons to the mid-C16th shows how they worked.

Going to Church in Medieval England

Nicholas Orme

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An artist joins an island community of impoverished like-minded souls. When the island's owner pushes up the rent, a conflict ensues in which the dispossessed protest against gentrification.

The Painter’s Friend

Howard Cunnell

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Includes both rural and urban subjects as artists responded to altered landscapes.

Artists Making Landscapes in Post-war Britain

M Garlake

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FSS is an excellent and varied writer. In this new book, she looks at her father's life through the papers in a suitcase revealing how he was exiled from Romania during the war, to Turkey th... read more

The Suitcase: Six Attempts to Cross a Border

Frances Stonor Saunders

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Part three of her autobiographical trilogy, following 'Things I Don't Want to Know' and 'The Cost of Living'.

Real Estate

Deborah Levy

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A biography of the man so vividly presented in Robert Edric's 2008 novel 'In Zodiac Light': the poet and composer who, following his experiences as a soldier in WW1, was confined to an asylu... read more

Dweller in Shadows: A Life of Ivor Gurney

Kate Kennedy

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A singularly deft and knowledgeable interweaving of the stories with Kipling's life. Illustrated and illuminating.

How the Just So Stories Were Made: The Brilliance and Tragedy Behind K ...

John Batchelor

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The cultural historian details 20 years of disillusionment in political institutions, banks, press, religion etc... and that's just England.

All In It Together: England in the Early 21st Century ...

Alwyn Turner

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Asia, Africa and America as well as Australia: the role of forced labour in the establishment of the British Empire.

Condemned: The Transported Men, Women and Children Who Built Britain&# ...

Graham Seal

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An account of farming in Britain today - from sheep farming to polytunnels. Bella Bathurst's previous subjects have included the Lighthouse Stevensons, so she gets our vote.

Field Work: What Land Does to People & What People Do to Land ...

Bella Bathurst

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A concise, well-argued and nuanced approach to understanding racial justice.

What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition ...

Emma Dabiri

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Hearts of oak etc.

The Trees that Made Britain

Archie Miles

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For a teetering moment we thought this might be about tea and tea alone - but no! There are also recipes for scones, Welsh cakes, tea truffles, Lapsang-smoked ribs, etc, washed down with Ear... read more

Fortnum & Mason: Time for Tea

Tom Parker Bowles

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Rutter - a literature graduate who notes the etymological link between 'text' and 'textile' - travelled the British Isles researching the social history of wool and knitting. This charming a... read more

This Golden Fleece: A Journey Through Britain’s Knitted History ...

Esther Rutter

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A memoir of his double career in the family firm and in Parliament.

Among the Supporting Cast: Reminiscences and Reflections on Three Care ...

Tim Sainsbury

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A new assessment of Alan Brooke, first Viscount Alanbrooke, which examines his treatment at the hands of historians as well as his importance to Churchill.

Alan Brooke: Churchill’s Right-Hand Critic: A Reappraisal of Lor ...

Andrew Sangster

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From war hero to moral wreck, Czech Jewish childhood to a yacht off the Canary Islands...

Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell

John Preston

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A vibrant blend of social history and memoir: argues that this three-month period of nation-wide, wintry shutdown gave rise to unprecedented cultural renewal. Fingers crossed for 2021 and 2... read more

Frostquake: The frozen winter of 1962 and how Britain emerged a differ ...

Juliet Nicolson

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An historian's view of Brexit, from the author of 'The English and Their History'.

This Sovereign Isle: Britain In and Out of Europe

Robert Tombs

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Twins live with their elderly mother in rural isolation and poverty. Her death threatens their strange sanctuary.

Unsettled Ground

Claire Fuller

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Bloom's last work, completed weeks before his death when he felt 'edged by nothingness' and consoled himself with readings from Montaigne, Blake, Dante, Shakespeare et al. Missed from our Xm... read more

Take Arms Against a Sea of Troubles: The Power of the Reader’s M ...

Harold Bloom

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The dewy, rolling hills, as witnessed by Hardy, Shepherd, Macfarlane, Macdonald, and a gaggle of brilliant, lesser-known writers. (This volume is testament to the genre's true diversity, whi... read more

The Wild Isles: An Anthology of the Best of British and Irish Nature W ...

Patrick Barkham

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The Sleep Quilt

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An ironic moment, perhaps, for a major new biography of the man who first uttered, 'The lamps are going out all over Europe' (August, 1914)... Grey remains the longest-ever serving Foreign S... read more

Statesman of Europe: A Life of Sir Edward Grey

T. G. Otte

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Slaveowners were paid compensation to the equivalent of £340 billion from the public purse, which entrenched their power.

The Interest: How the British Establishment Resisted the Abolition of ...

Michael Taylor

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An account of the club, its remarkable members and their influence, since 1824. Scholarly and entertaining.

The Athenaeum: ‘More Than Just Another London Club’ ...

Michael Wheeler

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Marr has a gift of presenting complex issues with clarity; here he uses a diverse cast to show where we are and how we got here.

Elizabethans: How Modern Britain Was Forged

Andrew Marr

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848 pages can't all be balloon juice.

Behind the Enigma: The Authorised History of GCHQ, Britain’s Sec ...

John Ferris

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A fascinating book following the traces of a C14th monk named John of Westwyk, for whom the period was not one of darkness but of wonderful illumination and discovery.

The Light Ages: A Medieval Journey of Discovery

Seb Falk

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The 'special relationship' was dreamt up by Churchill to keep Britain afloat geopolitically when faced with the loss of empire. Buruma takes a shrewd look at Churchill and FDR, JFK and Macm... read more

The Churchill Complex: The Curse of Being Special, from Winston and FD ...

Ian Buruma

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The clandestine manoeuvres of one branch of military intelligence, responsible for saving thousands of lives. Airey Neave, Jimmy Langley, Sam Derry and Mary Lindell emerge as central figures... read more

MI9: A History of the Secret Service for Escape and Evasion in World W ...

Helen Fry

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A decade of austerity and its miserable consequences.

No Fixed Abode: Life and Death Among the UK’s Forgotten Homeless ...

Maeve McClenaghan

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