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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

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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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