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Port after stormy seas,

Author: A.E. Garrod
Publication Date: 1996

A sailors tale...

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Road to Recovery
1950's

Author: brian moynahan
Publication Date: 29 January 2010

The decade began with the scars of war visible everywhere and rationing still in place. It ended with Prime Minister Harold Macmillan claiming that people had never had it so good. This was the start of a new Elizabethan age in which Britain began to divest itself of Empire and find its feet in a changed world order.

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War and Peace
1940's

Author:  
Publication Date: 29 January 2010

Wartime Britain saw heroism and hardship, as the country pulled together towards a common goal. It was an era of growing equality that carried over into peacetime. In 1945, the people threw out their war-winning Prime Minister and chose instead a Labour government who delivered the welfare state and the NHS.

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The Secret Life of Bletchley Park
The History of the Wartime Codebreaking Centre by the Men and Women Who Were There

Author: Sinclair McKay
Publication Date: 1 August 2011

The first oral history of one of the most fascinating aspects of the war effort.

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In Churchill's Shadow

Author: David Cannadine
Publication Date: 200311

Once Britannia ruled the waves and everyone knew what it meant to be British. But now things are not so clear. What defines...

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The Dam Busters

Author: Paul Brickhill
Publication Date: 22 January 1999

Originally published in 1951 by Evans Brothers this is the story of the 1943 raid when nearly 350 tons of water crashed into the valleys of the Ruhr, when the Lancasters of 617 squadron breached the giant Moehne and Eder dams with 'blockbuster' bombs. In the PAN GRAND STRATEGY series.

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Haverhill

Author: Roy Brazier
Publication Date: 30 June 2005

A history of Haverhill, Suffolk, in old and rare photographs, with full captions, showing the changing face of the region over the last hundred years.

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Revision Express Modern History

Author: Hermione Baines
Publication Date: 7 July 2005

'Revision Express A-level Study Guides' covers AS and A2 material in one book.

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Hertfordshire Headlines

Author: Richard Whitmore
Publication Date: 1 November 1987

Hertfordshire Headlines looks at news stories from the County's past which made the national press in their day. Some c...

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Strange People

Author: Frank Edwards
Publication Date: 1 Jan 1966

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Elements of the Celtic Tradition

Author: Caitlin Matthews
Publication Date: 19890500

The mysterious inner world of the Celts continues to intrigue and delight us. The richness of the myths and legends of the ...

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The Woman Writer
The History of the Society of Women Writers and Journalists

Author: Sylvia Kent
Publication Date: 1 November 2009

Since its creation in 1894 by Joseph Snell Wood, the Society of Women Writers & Journalists has attracted the company of many famous women writers, journalists, poets and playwrights. This title reveals the long and fascinating history of the Society.

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The Weaker Vessel

Author: Antonia Fraser
Publication Date: 1 August 2002

Antonia Fraser's bestselling account of the lives of women in seventeenth-century England.

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Bluestockings
The Remarkable Story of the First Women to Fight for an Education

Author: Jane Robinson
Publication Date: 29 April 2010

In 1869, when five women enrolled at university for the first time in British history, the average female brain was thought to be 150 grams lighter than a man's. Doctors warned that if women studied too hard their wombs would wither and die. This title tells the story of the fight for female education in Britain.

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Why the West Rules - for Now
The Patterns of History and What They Reveal About the Future

Author: Ian Morris
Publication Date: 4 August 2011

Why does the West rule? This title answers this provocative question, drawing on 15,000 years of history and archaeology, and the methods of social science.

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The Sacred Willow
Four Generations in the Life of a Vietnamese Family

Author: Duong Van Mai Elliott
Publication Date: 1 May 1999

Charting the lives of four generations of her family, the author traces her family's journey through tumultuous change, exploring different strands of Vietnamese history. It begins with her great-grandfather who rose from rural poverty to become an influential mandarin.

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Dambusters
A Landmark Oral History

Author: Max Arthur
Publication Date: 7 May 2009

On the night of 16-17 May 1943, nineteen Lancaster bombers from 617 Squadron headed for Germany. Their mission, for which they had been trained under a cloak of absolute secrecy, was to destroy the dams of the Ruhr Valley and in doing so cripple the Nazi industrial war effort. This book features the voices of the 'Dambusters'.

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The Roman World

Author: John Boardman
Publication Date: 1905611

Part of the Oxford History of the Classical World series, and written by a team of specialist scholars, this work traces the...

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In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great
A Journey from Greece to Asia

Author: Michael Wood
Publication Date: 30 November 1997

Between 334 and 324 BC, Alexander the Great's march across Asia opened up contacts between Europe and Asia. Michael Wood recreates this 20,000-mile trek from Greece to India, basing his account on Greek and Roman texts and sees the trek in terms of colonialism, orientalism and racism.

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We Were Young and at War
The First-hand Story of Young Lives Lived and Lost in World War Two

Author: Sarah Wallis
Publication Date: 3 September 2009

Never before have the diaries and letters of young people from all sides of World War Two been woven together to provide an ...

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The Description of Britain

Author: William Caxton
Publication Date: 1989

The English are accused of gluttony, the Welsh of telling tall stories, the Scots of being wild and alien and the Irish of b...

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Gladstone, Disraeli and Later Victorian Politics

Author: Paul Adelman
Publication Date: 19701130

An introductory survey of the two main Victorian political parties, this text covers the rise of the Liberal party under Gladstone until the period of Conservative domination under Salisbury in the late-19th century.

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victorian social reform

Author: e c midwinter
Publication Date: 1968

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The English Republic 1649-1660

Author: Toby Barnard
Publication Date: 1982

The book begins by introducing the complicated events leading to the execution of Charles I in 1649 and then offers a detail...

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Peter Pan's First XI
The Extraordinary Story of J.M. Barrie's Cricket Team

Author: Kevin Telfer
Publication Date: 13 May 2010

The story of possibly the most extraordinary cricket team ever to have taken the field.

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At Home
A Short History of Private Life

Author: Bill Bryson
Publication Date: 27 May 2010

At Home: A Short History of Private Life is a history of domestic life written by Bill Bryson. It was published in May 2010....

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Country Camera, 1844-1914
Rural Life as Depicted in Photographs from the Early Days of Photography to the Outbreak of the First World War

Author: Gordon Winter
Publication Date: 19731025

In this irresistible book Gordon Winter has collected together over 150 photographs depicting, as no written record could, ...

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Paddle to the Amazon
The Ultimate 12,000 Mile Canoe Adventure

Author: Don Starkell
Publication Date: 19890511

Edited by Charles Wilkins, an account of the longest recorded journey by canoe, telling of how the author and his teenage son travelled from Winnipeg, Canada to Belem in Brazil. First published in 1989.

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Geisha
The Secret History of a Vanishing World

Author: Lesley Downer
Publication Date: 14 June 2001

Contrary to popular opinion, geisha are not prostitutes but literally "arts people". Their accomplishments include singing, dancing or playing a musical instrument and they are masters of the art of conversation. The real secret history of the geisha is explored here.

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Double Cross
The True Story of the D-Day Spies

Author: Ben Macintyre
Publication Date: 30 August 2012

From the Number One bestselling author of Agent Zigzag and Operation Mincemeat, comes a new true story of Second World War deception

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The Sunlight on the Garden
A Family in Love, War and Madness

Author: Elizabeth Speller
Publication Date: 2 April 2007

Inspired by the stories, re-inventions and half-truths in her family's past, the author sets out to trace the criss-crossing lines of her family history.

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Not a Good Day to Die
The Untold Story of Operation Anaconda

Author: Sean Naylor
Publication Date: 1 June 2006

At dawn on March 2, 2002, over 200 soldiers of the 101st Airborne and 10th Mountain Divisions flew into Afghanistan's Shahikot valley and into the mouth of a buzz-saw. This book portrays the fight for Afghanistan's most hostile battleground, and details the failures of military intelligence and planning that left victory hanging by a thread.

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True North
In Praise of England's Better Half

Author: Martin Wainwright
Publication Date: 2 June 2006

Abysmal weather, slag heaps, funny accents and, the detritus of an industrial revolution well past its sell-by date. These, all too often, are the gloomy perceptions of 'the north'. With an insider's sensitivity and a journalist's enquiring mind, this title dispels these and other myths.

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Quest for Arthur's Britain

Author:  
Publication Date: 19710520

The book begins with the Arthurian legend, and goes on in various chapters to examine "the Arthurian fact". The au...

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London Bridge in America
The Tall Story of a Transatlantic Crossing

Author: Travis Elborough
Publication Date: 7 February 2013

In 1968 the world's largest antique went to America. But how do you transport a 130-year-old bridge 3,000 miles? And why did Robert P McCulloch, a multimillionaire oil baron and chainsaw-manufacturing king, buy it? Why did he ship it to waterless patch of the Arizonan desert? Did he even get the right bridge? This title deals with these questions.

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Peace, Print and Protestantism, 1450-1558

Author: C S L Davis
Publication Date: 19770317

A re-interpretation of the period of history between the years 1450-1558.

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London
The Biography

Author: Peter Ackroyd
Publication Date: 4 August 2001

Describes London from the time of the Druids to the beginning of the twenty-first century, noting magnificence in both epochs. This title includes chapters on the history of silence and the history of light, the history of childhood and the history of suicide, the history of Cockney speech and the history of drink.

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Molasses to Acid

Author: Alan Wilkinson
Publication Date: 1997420

Saltend's First 75 Years Distilled...

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Headlong into Pennilessness
Lessons in Life from 1950s' Sheffield

Author: Michael Glover
Publication Date: 18 November 2011

Young Michael Glover grew up never knowing his father. Sid Glover didn't die on the battlefield, but the man who returned fr...

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Romance and Legend of Chivalry

Author: A R Moncrieff
Publication Date: 1994

Survey of the legends of medieval Europe....

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Tales of Normansfield
The Langdon Down Legacy

Author: Andrew Merriman
Publication Date: 19 March 2007

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All the Countries We've Ever Invaded
And the Few We Never Got Round To

Author: Stuart Laycock
Publication Date: 1 September 2012

Out of 193 countries that are currently UN member states, we've invaded or fought conflicts in the territory of 171. That's ...

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At Home
A Short History of Private Life

Author: Bill Bryson
Publication Date: 27 May 2010

Presents the history of the way we live.

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1434
The Year a Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance

Author: Gavin Menzies
Publication Date: 1 July 2008

In his bestselling book 1421:The Year China Discovered the World, Gavin Menzies revealed that it was the Chinese that discovered America, not Columbus. Now he presents further astonishing evidence that it was also Chinese advances in science, art, and technology that formed the basis of the European Renaissance and our modern world.

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The Nottinghamshire Heritage

Author: Christopher Weir
Publication Date: 1 January 1991

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Nottingham

Author: Douglas Whitworth
Publication Date: 1 June 1995

Nottingham 1897-1947

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The Origins of the First World War

Author: Gordon Martel
Publication Date: 17 December 2003

In this volume, the author examines the policies and issues that brought Europe to war in 1914. The text of this new edition has been rewritten and extended to provide a historiographically current interpretation. The reading guide has also been revised, and new plates illustrate key themes in the text.

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Sheep Bell and Ploughshare

Author: Marjorie Reeves
Publication Date: 1978

This is an account of life in the Wiltshire village of Bratton, an account gathered from the domestic bric-a-brac and famil...

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Hope and Glory Britain 1900 - 1990

Author: Peter Clarke
Publication Date: 199711

Clarke challenges the commonly held view of Britain in the twentieth century as a nation in decline. He examines the politic...

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Necropolis
London and Its Dead

Author: Catharine Arnold
Publication Date: 5 March 2007

A vivid historical narrative of how London has dealt with its dead from pagan burial rites through the Black Death to the Blitz and the death of Diana.

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