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  • STRUGGLE AND SUFFRAGE IN PETERBOROUGH
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    STRUGGLE AND SUFFRAGE IN PETERBOROUGH
    ABIGAIL HAMILTON-THOMPSON
    Votes for Women. Handle with Care' was the message left on a hoax bomb found under the Oundle railway bridge in 1913, just two years after the leading suffrage campaigner Mrs Pankhurst visited the city. Notable women of Peterborough include Florence Saunders, a selfless dedicated nurse who regularly visited the poorer areas of Peterborough and set up the District Nursing Health...

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  • MY YEARS WITH THE BRITISH RED CROSS
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    MY YEARS WITH THE BRITISH RED CROSS
    NICHOLAS YOUNG
    Sir Nick Young’s memoir is a fascinating and candid account of his thirteen years as chief executive of the British Red Cross (2001-2014). During this critical period he led the organization's response to the financial crisis, the Iraq War, the Asian Tsunami, the London bombings, a kidnapping, the fighting in Syria, media challenges, and numerous earthquakes, floods and other d...

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  • A HISTORY OF WOMEN IN MEDICINE AND MEDICAL RESEARCH
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    A HISTORY OF WOMEN IN MEDICINE AND MEDICAL RESEARCH
    DALE DEBAKCSY
    In the nineteenth century, a small but dedicated group of European and American women rose to agitate for the inclusion of women in the medical profession. It is a historic tale that we have told and retold for decades, but it is far from where the story of women as physicians and healers begins. Stretching back into deepest antiquity, we possess accounts of women who were cons...

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  • TRANSFORMING HITLER'S GERMANY
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    TRANSFORMING HITLER'S GERMANY
    TIM HEATH / ANNAMARIE VICKERS
    As the last flames of the Second World War flickered and died, Germany emerged into an apocalyptic wasteland, where the Hitler Youth generation would be cursed with the running sore of National Socialism. With the uncaged bear of the Soviet Union flexing its muscles and the escalating tensions between East and West providing some distraction from the funeral pyre of the Third R...

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  • THE LONDON BOYS
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    THE LONDON BOYS
    MARC BURROWS
    Rock 'n' Roll fanatics, mods, beat group wannabes, underground hippies, glam rock icons: David Bowie and Marc Bolan spent the first part of their careers following remarkably similar paths. From the day they met in 1965 as Davie Jones and Mark Feld, rock 'n' roll wannabes painting their manager's office in London’s Denmark Street, they would remain friends and rivals, each watc...

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  • VICTORIAN MURDERESSES
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    VICTORIAN MURDERESSES
    DEBBIE BLAKE
    The Victorian belief that women were the ‘weaker sex’ who were expected to devote themselves entirely to family life, made it almost inconceivable that they could ever be capable of committing murder. What drove a woman to murder her husband, lover or even her own child? Were they tragic, mad or just plain evil? Using various sources including court records, newspaper accounts ...

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  • HENRY V
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    HENRY V
    DEBORAH FISHER
    There are many books about King Henry V, several of which concentrate entirely on his victory at the Battle of Agincourt in 1415. This one looks at his life from a different point of view, concentrating on places that were important in his life and can still be visited by those interested in getting a better feel for the man and understanding how his character was shaped by his...

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  • WELSH CASTLE BUILDERS
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    WELSH CASTLE BUILDERS
    JOHN MARSHALL
    The Edwardian castles of north Wales were built by a Savoyard master mason, but also by many other artisans from Savoy. What is more extraordinary, is that the constables of Flint, Rhuddlan, Conwy and Harlech were also Savoyards, the Justiciar and Deputy Justiciar at Caernarfon were Savoyards and the head of the English army leading the relief of the sieges of Flint and Rhuddla...

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  • SECRETS OF THE COLD WAR
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    SECRETS OF THE COLD WAR
    ANDREW LONG
    The dramatic story of how the superpowers collected secrets and used intelligence to build an advantage during the Cold War, the longest and most dangerous confrontation of the twentieth century. The Cold War, which lasted from the end of the Second World War to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, was fought mostly in the shadows, with the superpowers maneuvering for stra...

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  • FACTORY GIRLS
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    FACTORY GIRLS
    PAUL CHRYSTAL
    Ever since there have been factories women and children have, more often than not, worked in those factories. What is perhaps less well known is that women also worked underground in coal mines and overground scaling the inside of chimneys. Young children were also put to work in factories and coalmines; they were deployed inside chimneys, often half-starved so that they could ...

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  • PIONEERING WOMEN’S EDUCATION
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    PIONEERING WOMEN’S EDUCATION
    SALLY ANN WALLER
    Although much less well known than some other nineteenth century female campaigners, such as Florence Nightingale or Emmeline Pankhurst, Dorothea Beale is nonetheless deserving of wide recognition for her pioneering, and at times radical, ideas. Dorothea's work for the education of girls made just as significant an impact on the liberation of women as did that of Florence Night...

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  • VICTORIAN ENGLAND'S BESTSELLING AUTHOR
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    VICTORIAN ENGLAND'S BESTSELLING AUTHOR
    STEPHEN BASDEO / MYA DRIVER
    George W.M. Reynolds (1814–79) was one of the biggest-selling novelists of the Victorian era. He was the author of over 58 novels and short stories and his “penny blood” The Mysteries of London, serialised in weekly numbers between 1844 and 1848, sold over a million copies. A controversial figure in his lifetime, Reynolds’s Mysteries, and its follow-up The Mysteries of the Cour...

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  • THE WELSH GOLD KING
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    THE WELSH GOLD KING
    NORENA SHOPLAND
    In 1864, a poor Welsh boy, William Pritchard Morgan, emigrated to Australia to make his fortune. He returned a wealthy lawyer and aspiring politician, having used his riches to invest in gold mines and develop new techniques of recovering gold. His political aims were unsuccessful in Australia: the newspaper Morgan used to promote himself was involved a sensational trial agains...

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  • WOMEN OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
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    WOMEN OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
    SAMANTHA WILCOXSON
    This diverse collection of profiles on women who had an impact on the revolution offers a rare window into the female experience of the burgeoning nation. Women of the American Revolution explores the trials of war and daily life for women in the United States during the War of Independence. Many names will be familiar, such as Martha Washington who traveled to winter camps to ...

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  • EYEWITNESS AT DIEPPE
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    EYEWITNESS AT DIEPPE
    ROSS REYBURN
    In August 1942, Allied forces mounted an attack on the German-held port of Dieppe; titled Operation Jubilee, it represented a rehearsal for invasion. The amphibious attack saw over 6,000 infantrymen, predominantly Canadian, put ashore, tasked with destroying German structures and gathering intelligence. The doomed raid was an abject failure, and became Canada’s worst military d...

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  • ROBERT THE BRUCE
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    ROBERT THE BRUCE
    PHIL CARRADICE
    Robert the Bruce is a detailed account of the life and times of the Scottish hero and monarch. It covers his life from childhood to death, looking at the political, social and military life of Scotland before, during and after the time of Robert the Bruce. The book looks at the relationship between The Bruce and people like Edward I and Edward II of England, William Wallace and...

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  • THE REIGN OF EMPEROR ANTONINUS PIUS, AD 138–161
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    THE REIGN OF EMPEROR ANTONINUS PIUS, AD 138–161
    JOHN S. MCHUGH
    The reign of Antoninus Pius is widely seen as the apogee of the Roman Empire yet, due to gaps in the historical sources, his reign has been overlooked by modern historians. He is considered one of the five good emperors of the Antonine dynasty under whom the pax Romana enabled the empire to prosper, trade to flourish and culture to thrive. His reign is considered a Golden Age b...

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  • CARDINAL WOLSEY
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    CARDINAL WOLSEY
    PHIL ROBERTS
    The Wolsey’s of Suffolk date to Anglo-Saxon times. The earliest notice of a Wolsey as inhabitant of Ipswich is Thomas Wolsey’s father, Robert. He was a successful small businessman and married a Joan Daundy. Thomas was probably born in 1471 in an Inn and was almost certainly baptised in St Mary at the Elms church, Ipswich. Wolsey graduated from university and then his climb to ...

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  • IMPRISONING MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS
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    IMPRISONING MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS
    MICKEY MAYHEW
    Imprisoning Mary Queen of Scots covers the lives and careers of the men and women who ‘kept’ Mary Queen of Scots when she was a political prisoner in England, circa 1568/9-1587. Mary’s troubled claim to the English throne - much to the consternation of her ‘dear cousin’ Elizabeth I - made her a mortal enemy of the aforementioned Virgin Queen and set them on a collision course f...

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  • RIVALRIES THAT DESTROYED THE ROMAN REPUBLIC
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    RIVALRIES THAT DESTROYED THE ROMAN REPUBLIC
    JEREMIAH MCCALL
    This is the story of how some Roman aristocrats grew so competitive in their political rivalries that they destroyed their Republic, in the late second to mid-first century BCE. Politics had always been a fractious game at Rome as aristocratic competitors strove to outshine one another in elected offices and honors, all ostensibly in the name of serving the Republic. And for ce...

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  • INTERPRETING THE DEATH OF EDWARD VI
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    INTERPRETING THE DEATH OF EDWARD VI
    KYRA KRAMMER
    King Edward VI tends to be glossed over in the historical narrative of the Tudor dynasty. His achievements during his brief time on the throne are eclipsed by the tumultuous and fascinating reigns of his grandfather, father and two half-sisters. This does a great disservice to the precocious and remarkable boy-king. Even with his early death, his effect on English history is un...

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  • SEX & SEXUALITY IN MEDIEVAL ENGLAND
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    SEX & SEXUALITY IN MEDIEVAL ENGLAND
    KATHRYN WARNER
    “She incorporates stories from every rank of society, from monarchs to peasants between 1250 and 1450, to tell a sweeping tale of sex and sexuality.” —Adventures of a Tudor Nerd Sex and Sexuality in Medieval England allows the reader a peek beneath the bedsheets of our medieval ancestors, in an informative and fascinating look at sex and sexuality in England from 1250 to 1450. ...

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  • THE PRIVATE LIFE OF THOMAS CROMWELL
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    THE PRIVATE LIFE OF THOMAS CROMWELL
    CAROLINE ANGUS
    A new biography revealing the personal story of the powerful, doomed minister to Henry VIII. Thomas Cromwell was King Henry VIII’s most faithful servant, the only man the king ever openly regretted executing. But Cromwell came to royal prominence late in life, and had forty-five years of family, friends, and experiences behind him before catching Henry’s eye. Born a commoner at...

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  • THE REAL QUEEN CHARLOTTE
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    THE REAL QUEEN CHARLOTTE
    CATHERINE CURZON
    Known to millions as the imperious matriarch of Bridgerton’s court, Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz was still a teenager when she was chosen to be the bride of King George III. Shy, innocent, and sheltered, the orphaned princess and her youthful groom carried the hopes of a nation on their shoulders. The placid and unassuming young couple symbolised a new beginning, but soon ...

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  • ALEXANDER THE GREAT & PERSIA
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    ALEXANDER THE GREAT & PERSIA
    JOSEPH STILES
    Upon his return from India, Alexander the Great travelled to the Persian royal city of Pasargadae to pay homage at the tomb of King Cyrus, founder of the Achaemenid Persian Empire, whom he admired greatly. Disgusted to find Cyrus’ tomb desecrated and looted, the Macedonian king had the tomb guards tortured, the Persian provincial governor executed and the tomb refurbished. This...

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  • THE PTOLEMIES, RISE OF A DYNASTY
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    THE PTOLEMIES, RISE OF A DYNASTY
    JOHN D. GRAINGER
    “Thoroughly ‘reader friendly’ in organization and presentation . . . an ideal introduction to the creation and rise of the Ptolemaic era of Egypt.” —Midwest Book Review    In this first volume of his trilogy on the Ptolemies, John Grainger explains how Ptolemy I established the dynasty’s power in Egypt in the wake of Alexander the Great’s death. Egypt had been independent for m...

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  • THE BRITISH BONAPARTES
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    THE BRITISH BONAPARTES
    EDWARD HILARY DAVIS
    A hitherto unexamined history of the wider Bonaparte family, presented in a new way and shedding fresh light on their eventful lives in Britain. From duels on Wimbledon Common and attempted suicides in Hyde Park, to public brawls and arrests in Shropshire and the sexual adventures of a princess who rescued Freud from the Nazis and brought him to Britain, this book exposes the c...

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  • TROTSKY, THE PASSIONATE REVOLUTIONARY
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    TROTSKY, THE PASSIONATE REVOLUTIONARY
    ALLAN TODD
    Although Trotsky was dramatically assassinated just over eighty years ago, he remains a controversial figure. He has had many biographers over the decades - ranging from the overly-sympathetic, to the extremely-hostile. Robert Service, his most recent biographer, expressed the hope that his book would ‘finish off’ Trotsky - a job he believed the ice-axe had failed to do in 1940...

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  • CELTIC PLACES & PLACENAMES
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    CELTIC PLACES & PLACENAMES
    JOHN MOSS
    ‘Celtic Places’ are typified by some several hundred townships and villages whose names still bear the imprint of their earliest Celtic roots, but the scope of the book is not restricted to human settlements; it is also true of the many mountains and rivers that they named, and to several thousand sites of standing stone monuments, Celtic high crosses, henges, hill figures, fun...

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  • ARTHUR PLANTAGENET
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    ARTHUR PLANTAGENET
    SARAH-BETH WATKINS
    Illegitimate son to Edward IV and the uncle of Henry VIII, Arthur Plantagenet’s life is an intriguing story. Raised in his father’s court, he then became a trusted member of Henry VII’s household and after his death, was a prominent figure at the court of Henry VIII. Henry VIII treated his uncle well in the early years of his reign, making him vice-admiral and then Lord Deputy ...

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