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Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey: The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle by Fiona Carnarvon Publisher Comments Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey tells the story behind Highclere Castle, the real-life inspiration for the hit PBS show Downton Abbey, and the life of one of its most famous inhabitants, Lady Almina, the 5th Countess of Carnarvon and the basis of... (read more) Your price: $15.99 New - Trade Paper 
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To Marry an English Lord by Gail Maccoll Publisher Comments From the Gilded Age until 1914, more than 100 American heiresses invaded Britannia and swapped dollars for titles--just like Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham, the first of the Downton Abbey characters Julian Fellowes was inspired to create after... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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Below Stairs: The Classic Kitchen Maid's Memoir That Inspired "Upstairs, Downstairs" and "Downton Abbey" by Margaret Powell Publisher Comments Brilliantly evoking the long-vanished world of masters and servants portrayed in Downton Abbey and Upstairs, Downstairs, Margaret Powells classic memoir of her time in service, Below Stairs, is the remarkable true story of an indomitable woman who... (read more) Your price: $22.99 New - Hardcover
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Among the Thugs by Bill Buford Publisher Comments They have names like Barmy Bernie, Daft Donald, and Steamin' Sammy. They like lager (in huge quantities), the Queen, football clubs (especially Manchester United), and themselves. Their dislike encompasses the rest of the known universe, and England's... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Governess: The Lives and Times of the Real Jane Eyres by Ruth Brandon Publisher Comments The rise and fall of the English governess, the domestic heroine who inspired Victorian literatures greatest authors. Between the 1780s and the end of the nineteenth century, an army of sad women took up residence in other peoples homes, part and yet not... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Family in Early Modern England by Elizabeth Foyster Publisher Comments This is the first single volume in recent years to provide an overview and assessment of the most important research that has been published on the English family in the past three decades. Some of the most distinguished historians of family life... (read more) List Price $129.25 Your price: $28.97 Sale - Hardcover
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Road To Nab End an Extraordinary Norther by William Woodruff Publisher Comments The highly acclaimed autobiography of William Woodruff, who grew up in Blackburn in a working-class family in the 1920s and '30s, has sold 18,000 copies for Eland Press. Now published under the Abacus imprint, it will receive colour advertising in the... (read more) Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective (New Approaches to Economic and Social History) by Robert C Allen Publisher Comments Why did the industrial revolution take place in eighteenth-century Britain and not elsewhere in Europe or Asia? In this convincing new account Robert Allen argues that the British industrial revolution was a successful response to the global economy of... (read more) List Price $109.75 Your price: $70.00 Used - Hardcover
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Beyond Nab End: The Sequel to the Road to Nab End by William Woodruff Publisher Comments A sequel to Woodruff's bestselling memoir of a Lancashire childhood, "The Road To Nab End" which begins in the 1930s and tells the story of how the one-time steelworker won a place at Ruskin College, Oxford against the odds, and provides a moving account... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Hutton Inquiry (Uncovered Editions) by Tim Coates Synopsis The report of Lord Hutton's inquiry into the death, in July 2003, of Dr David Kelly, a British scientist and expert in chemical and biological warfare, who was employed by the government to advise it on weapons in such warfare.... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price: $2.48 Used - Trade Paper
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Manor House: Life in an Edwardian Country House by Juliet Gardiner Synopsis This is the illustrated companion to the public television reality show wheremodern people live in an early 20th century mansion.... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Hardcover
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English Society in the 18th Century: Second Edition (Penguin Social History of Britain) by Roy Porter Synopsis In this boldly drawn portrait of 18th century England, Roy Porter defines a nation from its princes to its paupers, from its metropolis to its smallest hamlet. The topics covered run the gamut - diet, housing, prisons, rural festivals, bordellos, plays... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Stand Before Your God: An American Schoolboy in England by Paul Watkins Publisher Comments At the age of seven, Paul Watkins was roughly transplanted from his home in Rhode Island to England's Dragon School. He was greeted by a delegation of bullies who, in time, would become his friends and whose rules would become his own. For at Dragon, and... (read more) List Price $14.50 Your price: $5.95 Used - Mass Market
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Hurricane Hits England by Onyekachi Wambu Synopsis In June 1948, the SS Empire Windrush docked in Tilbury, England, carrying with it the first wave of young immigrants from the Caribbean. Whatever hopes and fears those young men and women entertained about life in their new home, their arrival marked a... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Making History: Writings on History and Culture by E P Thompson Publisher Comments The leading historian's essays on history and literature, published posthumously.... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Collins Library #06: Curious Men by Frank Buckland Synopsis Ever hear of the man who walked upside down? The guano mummy? The four-ton Chinese giant? The disembodied singing head of Anthropoglossos? Whenever a mysterious curiosity arrived in Victorian London, people knew there was one man who would always be at... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Britannia in Brief: The Scoop on All Things British by Leslie Banker Publisher Comments Chapter One So Where Are We Anyway? England? Britain? UK? Whats the Difference? First things first: England, Great Britain, UK? All the same thing? These terms, which are so often used interchangeably, actually refer to distinct geographical and... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Dons: Mentors, Eccentrics and Geniuses by Noel Annan Publisher Comments "[A] wonderfully gifted and energetic writer. . . . Noel was one of the few figures in English public life known simply by his first name. There was no mistaking him for anyone else."-Jonathan Mirsky, New Yorker For over two hundred years, Oxford and... (read more) List Price $23.25 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Crime in Modern Britain by Eamonn Carrabine Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [149]-175) and indexes.... (read more) List Price $62.75 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Blackstone's Guide to the Identity Cards ACT 2006 (Blackstone's Guide) by John Wadham Publisher Comments Structured in a clear and logical way following the parts of the Act, it provides an up-to-date and informative guide, making it an essential purchase for practitioners and organizations working in a number of legal areas.... (read more) List Price $119.50 Your price: $35.00 Used - Trade Paper
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