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Making of the English Working Class
by E P Thompson
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"Thompson's book has been called controversial, but perhaps only because so many have forgotten how explosive England was during the Regency and the early reign of Victoria. Without any reservation, The Making of the English Working Class is the most... ( read more)
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Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire (Modern Library)
by Amanda Foreman
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The winner of Britain's prestigious Whitbread Prize and a bestseller there for months, this wonderfully readable biography offers a rich, rollicking picture of late-eighteenth-century British aristocracy and the intimate story of a woman who for a time... ( read more)
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The Anglo Files: A Field Guide to the British
by Sarah Lyall
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Sarah Lyall, a reporter for the New York Times, moved to London in the mid-1990s and soon became known for her amusing and incisive dispatches on her adopted country. As she came to terms with its eccentric inhabitants (the English husband who never... ( read more)
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Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire
by Amanda Foreman
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The winner of Britain's prestigious Whitbread Prize and a bestseller there for months, this wonderfully readable biography offers a rich, rollicking picture of late-eighteenth-century British aristocracy and the intimate story of a woman who for a time... ( read more)
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The Oxford Illustrated History of the British Monarchy (Oxford Illustrated Histories)
by John Cannon
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The rich pageant of Britain's history emerges nowhere more colorfully than in the story of its kings and queens. This spectacular book offers the most authoritative account of the British monarchy ever published for the general reader. With over 400... ( read more)
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William Wallace: Brave Heart
by James Mackay
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Sir William Wallace of Ellerslie is one of history's greatest heroes, but also one of its greatest enigmas--a shadowy figure whose edges have been blurred by myth and legend. James MacKay uses all his skills as a historical detective to produce this... ( read more)
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Witchfinders: A Seventeenth Century English Tragedy
by Malcolm Gaskill
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By spring 1645, two years of civil war had exacted a dreadful toll upon England. People lived in terror as disease and poverty spread, and the nation grew ever more politically divided. In a remote corner of Essex, two obscure gentlemen, Matthew Hopkins... ( read more)
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The Duchess
by Amanda Foreman
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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK Now a major motion picture starring Keira Knightley and Ralph Fiennes Lady Georgiana Spencer was the great-great-great-great-aunt of Diana, Princess of Wales, and was nearly as famous in her day. In 1774 Georgiana achieved... ( read more)
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Jane Boleyn: The True Story of the Infamous Lady Rochford
by Julia Fox
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In a life of extraordinary drama, Jane Boleyn was catapulted from relative obscurity to the inner circle of King Henry VIII. As powerful men and women around her became victims of Henry’s ruthless and absolute power, including her own husband and... ( read more)
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The Six Wives of Henry VIII
by Alison Weir
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The tempestuous, bloody, and splendid reign of Henry VIII of England (1509-1547) is one of the most fascinating in all history, not least for his marriage to six extraordinary women. In this accessible work of brilliant scholarship, Alison Weir draws on... ( read more)
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Sisters the Saga of the Mitford Family
by Mary S Lovell
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This is the Story of a close, loving family splintered by the violent ideologies of Europe between the wars. Jessica was a Communist; Debo became the Duchess of Devonshire; Nancy was one of the best-selling novelists of her day; the ethereally beautiful... ( read more)
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Mary, Queen of Scots and the Murder of Lord Darnley
by Alison Weir
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [632]-649) and index.... ( read more)
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London :the biography of a city
by Christopher Hibbert
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An introduction to the history of the development of London and of the social life of its people.... ( read more)
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Among the Bohemians: Experiments in Living 1900-1939
by Virginia Nicholson
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They ate garlic and didn't always bathe; they listened to Wagner and worshiped Diaghilev; they sent their children to coeducational schools, explored homosexuality and free love, vegetarianism and Post-impressionism. They were often drunk and broke... ( read more)
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The Angry Island: Hunting the English
by A A Gill
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Think of England, and anger hardly springs to mind as its primary national characteristic. Yet in The Angry Island, A. A. Gill argues that, in fact, it is plain old fury that is the wellspring for England's accomplishments. The default setting of England... ( read more)
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To Rule the Waves: How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World (P.S.)
by Arthur Herman
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To Rule the Waves tells the extraordinary story of how the British Royal Navy allowed one nation to rise to a level of power unprecedented in history. From the navy's beginnings under Henry VIII to the age of computer warfare and special ops, historian... ( read more)
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1215: The Year of Magna Carta
by Danny Danziger
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Surveying a broad landscape through a narrow lens, 1215 sweeps readers back eight centuries in an absorbing portrait of life during a time of global upheaval, the ripples of which can still be felt today. At the center of this fascinating period is the... ( read more)
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The History of England (Penguin Classics)
by Thomas Bab Macaulay
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This historic text was originally published in five volumes between 1849 and 1861. Covering the period from the accession of James II to the death of Richard III, it examines social, economic and political forces and events that contributed to the... ( read more)
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The Wars of the Roses
by Alison Weir
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"Weir does a masterful job of leading the layman through the entwined family trees of England's powerful families and the many usurpers to the throne. . . . [She] has perfected the art of bringing history to life." --Chicago Tribune Lancaster and York... ( read more)
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The Last Great War: British Society and the First World War
by Adrian Gregory
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What was it that the British people believed they were fighting for in 1914-18? This compelling history of the British home front during the First World War offers an entirely new account of how British society understood and endured the war. Drawing on... ( read more)
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