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  • FALLEN IDOLS
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    FALLEN IDOLS
    NIGEL BLUNDELL
    Its a scandal! How often we use that phrase and what a catalogue of sins it covers. Thats what this book is all about. It is literally a catalogue of sins committed by some of the most celebrated names on the planet.Within these covers are startling stories of scandals during a century when screen idols seemed to vie with each other in outraging public decency. It was an age wh...

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  • CONVICTS IN THE COLONIES
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    CONVICTS IN THE COLONIES
    LUCY WILLIAMS
    “A book that looks deeply into the lives of some of the convicts who were sentenced in court to be transported to Botany Bay.” —Pirates and Privateers   In the eighty years between 1787 and 1868 more than 160,000 men, women and children convicted of everything from picking pockets to murder were sentenced to be transported beyond the seas. These convicts were destined to serve ...

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  • AUNT BRANWELL AND THE BRONTË LEGACY
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    AUNT BRANWELL AND THE BRONTË LEGACY
    NICK HOLLAND
    Elizabeth Branwell was born in Penzance in 1770, a member of a large and influential Cornish family of merchants and property owners. In 1821 her life changed forever when her sister Maria fell dangerously ill. Leaving her comfortable life behind, Elizabeth made the long journey north to a remote moorland village in Yorkshire to nurse her sister. After the death of Maria, Eliza...

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  • THE TUDOR MURDER FILES
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    THE TUDOR MURDER FILES
    JAMES MOORE
    In the Tudor age the murder rate was five times higher than it is today. Now, in this unique true crime guide, the Tudor Murder Files reveals just how bloody and brutal this fascinating era really was. From the dark days of Henry VIII to the turbulent times of Shakespeare, James Moores new book is the first to chart the periods most gripping murder cases in all their grizzly de...

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  • ROMAN CONQUESTS: ITALY
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    ROMAN CONQUESTS: ITALY
    ROSS COWAN
    The author of For the Glory of Rome details the conflicts ancient Rome endured to defeat its neighbors and take over the Italian Peninsula. The first of the exciting Roman Conquests series, this volume will look at how Rome went from just another Latin town under Etruscan rule, to a free republic that gradually conquered or dominated all her Italian neighbors. With hindsight we...

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  • SOUTH DEVON
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    SOUTH DEVON
    DEREK TAIT
    South Devon is steeped in history from prehistoric settlements, standing stones and Roman occupation, to the sites of Civil War battles and the various departure points of troops leaving for D-Day during the Second World War.Woolly rhinoceroses and woolly mammoths, as well as prehistoric deer and lion once roamed the area now known as Plymouth, while at Sidmouth, on the Jurassi...

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  • MY FATHER'S SON
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    MY FATHER'S SON
    DAWYCK HAIG
    Dawyck Haig, the only son of the great Field Marshal, was born in 1918, the year of his father's victory. His life has been hugely influenced by the legendary status accorded to his father and, after 1932, to himself. This unique memoir reveals a side of the Field Marshal that has never been seen before and makes mandatory reading for those who seek to understand one of the for...

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  • THE GUNPOWDER PLOT DECEIT
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    THE GUNPOWDER PLOT DECEIT
    MARTYN R. BEARDSLEY
    Most people think they know the story of the Gunpowder Plot, and of how a bloody catastrophe was averted at the eleventh hour when Guy Fawkes was caught lurking in the shadows beneath the Houses of Parliament.But what if it wasnt like that at all? How was it that a group of prominent, disaffected Catholics were able to plot for months with apparent impunity? How could they open...

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  • PIRATES AND PRIVATEERS IN THE 18TH CENTURY
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    PIRATES AND PRIVATEERS IN THE 18TH CENTURY
    MIKE RENDELL
    Pirates and Privateers tells the fascinating story of the buccaneers who were the scourge of merchants in the 18th Century. It examines their lifestyle, looking at how the sinking of the Spanish treasure fleet in a storm off the coast of Florida led to a pirates gold rush; how the Kings Pardon was a desperate gamble which paid off and considers the role of individual island gov...

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  • THE NHS AT 70
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    THE NHS AT 70
    ELLEN WELCH
    At midnight on 5th July 1948, the National Health Service was born with the founding principle to be free at the point of use and based on clinical need rather than on a persons ability to pay. Seventy years since its formation, these core principles still hold true, although the world we now live in is a very different place to the post war era in which it was formed, and the ...

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  • THE ENGINEERING REVOLUTION
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    THE ENGINEERING REVOLUTION
    ANGUS BUCHANAN
    Over the past two million years that human species have inhabited the Planet Earth they have distinguished themselves by their ability to make and do things creatively to ensure their survival. From the beginning, therefore, they have been defined by their technology, and the history of technology is the history of the species. For most of this period, the development of human ...

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  • MADNESS, MURDER AND MAYHEM
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    MADNESS, MURDER AND MAYHEM
    KATHRYN BURTINSHAW / JOHN BURT
    Following an assassination attempt on George III in 1800, new legislation significantly altered the way the criminally insane were treated by the judicial system in Britain. This book explores these changes and explains the rationale for purpose-built criminal lunatic asylums in the Victorian era.Specific case studies are used to illustrate and describe some of the earliest pat...

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  • THE PERSIAN INVASIONS OF GREECE
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    THE PERSIAN INVASIONS OF GREECE
    ARTHUR KEAVENEY
    The epic story of how Greece repelled Persia’s massive forces in some of the most momentous battles of the ancient world.   In 490 BC Darius I, Great King of Persia and the most powerful man in the world, led a massive invasion army to punish the interference of some minor states on the western borders of his huge empire. The main enemy was Athens. The resultant Battle of Marat...

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  • THE VIKING WARS OF ALFRED THE GREAT
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    THE VIKING WARS OF ALFRED THE GREAT
    PAUL HILL
    In the spring of 878 at the Battle of Edington the tide of English history turned. Alfred's decisive defeat of Guthrum the Dane freed much of the south and west of England from Danish control and brought to a halt Guthrum's assault on Alfred's Wessex. The battle was the culmination of a long period of preparation by Alfred in the wilderness - a victory snatched from the jaws of...

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  • THE REAL ENID BLYTON
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    THE REAL ENID BLYTON
    NADIA COHEN
    She is the most prolific childrens author in history, but Enid Blyton is also the most controversial. A remarkable woman who wrote hundreds of books in a career spanning forty years, even her razor sharp mind could never have predicted her enormous global audience. Now, fifty years after her death, Enid remains a phenomenon, with sales outstripping every rival.Parents and teach...

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  • MEDIEVAL SIEGE AND SIEGECRAFT
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    MEDIEVAL SIEGE AND SIEGECRAFT
    GEOFFREY HINDLEY
    A fascinating survey of the defining activity of warfare between rival power centers in the Middle Ages from the author of A Brief History of the Crusades.   Great sieges changed the course of medieval history, yet siege warfare, the dominant military activity of the period, is rarely given the attention it deserves. Geoffrey Hindley’s highly readable new account of this vital ...

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  • ARMISTICE
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    ARMISTICE
    LOUISE BELL
    11th November 1918 saw the signing of the armistice that ended fighting between the Allies and Germany.This book will take the reader through the final year of the First World War and everything that led up to this day. Starting from the Spring Offensive, photos and images from The National Archives will highlight important points ranging from the last 100 days to the signing o...

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  • EXPLORING THE LIVES OF WOMEN, 1558–1837
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    EXPLORING THE LIVES OF WOMEN, 1558–1837
    LOUISE DUCKLING / SARA READ / FELICITY ROBERTS / CAROLYN D. WILLIAMS
    Exploring the Lives of Women, 1558-1837' is an engaging and lively collection of original, thought-provoking essays. Its route from Lady Jane Greys nine-day reign to Queen Victorias accession provides ample opportunities to examine complex interactions between gender, rank, and power. Yet the books scope extends far beyond queens: its female cast includes servants, aristocrats,...

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  • SHEFFIELD'S MOST NOTORIOUS GANGS
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    SHEFFIELD'S MOST NOTORIOUS GANGS
    BEN W. JOHNSON
    British veterans of the Great War turn to organized crime in this history of rival street gangs and their reign of terror in the 1920’s. When the returning heroes of the First World War were forgotten by their country, they had no choice but to fight again, this time for their own survival. Reduced to motley neighborhood regiments, they traded their rifles for razors and butche...

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  • THE DUKE OF MONMOUTH
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    THE DUKE OF MONMOUTH
    LAURA BRENNAN
    He was the illegitimate son of a king, a gallant and brave military hero, charming, handsome and well loved both within the court and with women; James Scott, Duke of Monmouth, had the life many would have envied in the seventeenth century.Monmouth lived in an age that was on the cusp of modernity. He lived through some of the biggest events and scandals of seventeenth century ...

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  • CORNWALL
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    CORNWALL
    DEREK TAIT
    Cornwall has a rich and diverse history stretching from prehistoric times to the Norman Conquest and beyond, including the turbulent Tudor period, the English Civil War and the First and Second World Wars. Neolithic settlements and Bronze Age dwellings have been found at Carn Brea in Redruth and Rough Tour at Camelford, and many standing stones are scattered across the land. An...

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  • LOUIS XIV
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    LOUIS XIV
    AURORA VON GOETH / JULES HARPER
    Innovator. Tyrant. Consummate showman. Passionate lover of women.After the death of King Louis XIII in 1643, the French crown went to his first-born son and heir, four-year old Louis XIV. In the extraordinary seventy-two years that followed, Louis le Grand - Frances self-styled Sun King - ruled France and its people, leaving his unique and permanent mark on history and shaping ...

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  • A VICTORIAN LADY'S GUIDE TO FASHION AND BEAUTY
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    A VICTORIAN LADY'S GUIDE TO FASHION AND BEAUTY
    MIMI MATTHEWS
    “Meticulously researched and beautifully illustrated . . . indispensable to anyone interested in the era.” —Tasha Alexander, New York Times–bestselling author of the Lady Emily series What did a Victorian lady wear for a walk in the park? How did she style her hair for an evening at the theater? And what products might she have used to soothe a sunburn or treat an unsightly ble...

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  • THE LOST STORY OF THE OCEAN MONARCH
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    THE LOST STORY OF THE OCEAN MONARCH
    GILL HOFFS
    The ship was almost instantly in flames Some jumped overboard immediately, and all was in indescribable confusion. The masts began to fall one after another, and it is supposed killed great numbers by their descent. Others, it is feared, were roasted alive, but the majority were drowned. (Hull Advertiser and Exchange Gazette, 25 August 1848)The Ocean Monarch was only a few hour...

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  • THE DISTRICT NURSE
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    THE DISTRICT NURSE
    SUSAN COHEN
    For 150 years, up and down the country, from large cities to rural areas and the remotest islands and highlands, district nurses have been visiting the sick in their own homes. Here they have provided healthcare, and given moral support and advice to people of all ages the length and breadth of Britain.Follow the story of how, in the 1860s, the Liverpool philanthropist William ...

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  • THE CIVIL WAR IN LONDON
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    THE CIVIL WAR IN LONDON
    ROBIN ROWLES
    The Civil War years of the 1640s were amongst the most tumultuous in British history. The conflict between King Charles I and Parliament strained and split the social fabric of the British Isles. People of all classes who had previously coexisted peacefully found themselves opposing each other on political, religious, and economic grounds. Society was literally 'by the sword di...

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  • LEATHERWORK AND TANNING
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    LEATHERWORK AND TANNING
    LYNN HUGGINS-COOPER
    This book offers a whistle-stop guide to the history of leathercraft and tanning. The story begins in prehistory when people discovered, perhaps by chance, that skins exposed to smoke or accidentally soaked in autumnal puddles lasted longer. Skins were a valuable resource, used for everything from clothing to shelter, blankets and vessels. The book looks at evidence that shows ...

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  • THE MYSTERY OF KING JOHN'S TREASURE
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    THE MYSTERY OF KING JOHN'S TREASURE
    SHIRLEY CHARTERS
    Sunday evening, October 9th, 1216. King John is facing continued civil war and a devastating French invasion; treacherous times. We discover him crossing the tidal marshes of the Fenlands of East Anglia. He is about to lose Englands crown jewels, his gem collection, and sackfuls of silver coins with his image on them: a treasure trove.What happened? What was he doing in that re...

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  • WEST SUSSEX
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    WEST SUSSEX
    KEVIN NEWMAN
    Many writers have written about the delights of the former kingdom of the South Saxons, its Downs, villages, countryside, people and their ways but Visitors' Historic Britain - West Sussex_ is the first book to take readers on a tour of discovery of each of the county's historic eras in turn.Starting with prehistoric Sussex, we explore West Sussex from west to east, investigati...

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  • TALES FROM THE BIG HOUSE: NOSTELL PRIORY
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    TALES FROM THE BIG HOUSE: NOSTELL PRIORY
    MICHAEL J. ROCHFORD
    As long ago as the twelfth century, St Oswalds Priory at Nostell, near Pontefract, was home to canons of the order of St Augustine, and until it was dissolved during the reign of Henry VIII it was one of the wealthiest priories in the country. In secular times, a grand house on the site was home to the Gargrave family, whose rapid rise had seen Sir Thomas Gargrave attain the of...

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