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The Anglo Files: A Field Guide to the British
by Sarah Lyall
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Eminent Victorians (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
by Lytton Strachey
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Giordano Bruno and the Embassy Affair
by John Bossy
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London Labour & the London Poor
by Henry Mayhew
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The History of England (Penguin Classics)
by Thomas Babington Macaulay
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Diana Mosley: Mitford Beauty, British Fascist, Hitler's Angel
by Anne De Courcy
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Agincourt Henry V & the Battle That Made
by Juliet Barker
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Boswell's Presumptuous Task: The Making of the Life of Dr. Johnson
by Adam Sisman
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Evil Empire: 101 Ways That Britain Ruined the World
by Steven A Grasse
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1215: The Year of Magna Carta
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Are You Somebody?: The Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Woman
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Scotland: A History
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The Web of Empire: English Cosmopolitans in an Age of Expansion, 1560-1660
by Alison Games
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Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour
by Kate Fox
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Eighteenth-Century Britain: A Very Short Introduction
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All the Queens Men the World of Elizabeth I
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The Illustrated Rise & Fall of the British Empire (Ill)
by Lawrence James
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