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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 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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  • LANDRU'S SECRET
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    LANDRU'S SECRET
    RICHARD TOMLINSON
    On 12 April 1919, the Paris police arrested a bald, short, 50-year-old swindler at his apartment near the Gare du Nord, acting on a lead from a humble housemaid. A century later, Henri Désiré Landru remains the most notorious and enigmatic serial killer in French criminal history, a riddle at the heart of an unsolved murder puzzle. The official version of Landrus lethal rampage...

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  • SUFFRAGETTES OF KENT
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    SUFFRAGETTES OF KENT
    JENNIFER GODFREY
    A thought-provoking insight into the stories of hope, determination, courage and sacrifice of those involved in the women’s suffrage movement in Kent.   Discover an untold story of a young working-class Kent maid involved in the suffrage movement. See photographs of Ethel and learn of her arrest and imprisonment in March 1912 for participating in the window-smashing militant ac...

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  • THE PEASANTS' REVOLTING CRIMES
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    THE PEASANTS' REVOLTING CRIMES
    TERRY DEARY
    The bestselling author of Horrible Histories “lays bare the kind of crimes peasants would be committing throughout modern history . . . fascinating!” —Books Monthly   Popular history writer Terry Deary takes us on a light-hearted and often humorous romp through the centuries with Mr. & Mrs. Peasant, recounting foul and dastardly deeds committed by the underclasses, as well as t...

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  • NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN'S LEGACY
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    NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN'S LEGACY
    NICHOLAS MILTON
    A biography reassessing the man whose name became a synonym for appeasement: “An important read for anyone with an interest in the prelude to World War II.” —The NYMAS Review   Neville Chamberlain has gone down in history as the architect of appeasement, the prime minister who by sacrificing Czechoslovakia at Munich in September 1938 put Britain on an inevitable path to war.   ...

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  • A CENTURY OF MAN-MADE DISASTERS
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    A CENTURY OF MAN-MADE DISASTERS
    NIGEL BLUNDELL
    A pictorial history of the major man-made calamities that shocked the world throughout the twentieth century.   It was a period during which the power and scale of industrialization changed the planet—an unforeseen consequence being the creation of more human-created catastrophes than ever before experienced.   The events recorded here include the needless carnage of history’s ...

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  • THE KRAYS' LONDON
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    THE KRAYS' LONDON
    CAROLINE ALLEN
    A true crime travel guide to the haunts and hangouts of the most notorious gangsters of London’s East End.      There are many conflicting stories about who Ronnie and Reggie Kray were.   Films depicting their lives have made the public vilify them, adore them and even admire them. This guidebook will dig a little deeper into the places they spent their time. Many of the places...

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  • SPINNING AND WEAVING
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    SPINNING AND WEAVING
    LYNN HUGGINS-COOPER
    A look at the extensive history of the folkcraft, its presence in the modern world, and resources to help beginners enter the world of textile artistry.   This book offers a whistle-stop guide to the history of spinning and weaving. The story begins in prehistory when people first wove yarns to create clothing and blankets. The book explores how spinning and weaving have contin...

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  • THE GRIMY 1800S
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    THE GRIMY 1800S
    ANDRE GREN
    In the nineteenth century, as towns grew, Britain became increasingly grimy. The causes of dirt and pollution were defined legally as ‘nuisances’ and, in 1835, the new local authorities very rapidly appointed an army of ‘inspectors of nuisances’. This book is the inspectors’ chronicle: it offers their eyewitness accounts and a plethora of details pertaining to the workings of t...

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  • THE HIDDEN LIVES OF JACK THE RIPPER'S VICTIMS
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    THE HIDDEN LIVES OF JACK THE RIPPER'S VICTIMS
    ROBERT HUME
    An in-depth look at the lives of the women murdered by the infamous, 19th-century London serial killer.   Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes, and Mary Jane Kelly are inextricably linked in history. Their names might not be instantly recognizable, and the identity of their murderer may have eluded detectives and historians throughout the years, ...

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  • LIFE IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE
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    LIFE IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE
    DANIÈLE CYBULSKIE
    “A lovely, witty treasure trove of a book, spilling over with historical gems . . . a very human history: sometimes weird, always wonderful.” —Dan Jones, New York Times-bestselling author   Have you ever found yourself watching a show or reading a novel and wondering what life was really like in the Middle Ages? What did people actually eat? Were they really filthy? And did the...

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  • THE TWO ELEANORS OF HENRY III
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    THE TWO ELEANORS OF HENRY III
    DARREN BAKER
    This account of two strong medieval women and their relationship “thoroughly engrosses you in a story hundreds of years past”(Seattle Book Review).    Born in 1223, Eleanor of Provence has come to England at the age of twelve to marry the king, Henry III. He’s sixteen years older, but was a boy when he ascended the throne. He’s a kind, sensitive sort whose only personal attachm...

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  • LOST HEIRS OF THE MEDIEVAL CROWN
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    LOST HEIRS OF THE MEDIEVAL CROWN
    J. F. ANDREWS
    “A fascinating study of the also-rans and almost-made-its of medieval history . . . Beautifully written and well researched, it is an engaging read.” —History . . . The Interesting Bits!   When William the Conqueror died in 1087, he left the throne of England to William Rufus . . . his second son. The result was an immediate war as Rufus’s elder brother Robert fought to gain th...

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  • JOSIAH WEDGWOOD
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    JOSIAH WEDGWOOD
    ANTHONY BURTON
    The story of the innovative genius who became pottery maker to royalty—and to the world: “You don't have to know a glaze from a slip to enjoy this.” —Kirkus Reviews   Born in Staffordshire, England, to a family of traditional potters in 1730, Josiah Wedgwood would grow up to revolutionize the industry, founding the company still world-renowned in the twenty-first century. When ...

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  • SOPHIA: MOTHER OF KINGS
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    SOPHIA: MOTHER OF KINGS
    CATHERINE CURZON
    From the Thirty Years’ War to the formation of Great Britain, the royal mother of the House of Hanover comes to life in this historical biography.   Princess Sophia of Hanover was born to greatness and yet fated to obscurity. The 1701 Act of Settlement made her the heiress presumptive to the thrones of England and Ireland, and yet she died mere weeks before becoming queen. Gran...

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  • REGENCY SPIES
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    REGENCY SPIES
    SUE WILKES
    Sue Wilkes reveals the shadowy world of Britain's spies, rebels and secret societies from the late 1780s until 1820. Drawing on contemporary literature and official records, Wilkes unmasks the real conspirators and tells the tragic stories of the unwitting victims sent to the gallows. In this 'age of Revolutions', when the French fought for liberty, Britain's upper classes fear...

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  • LOST TO THE SEA, BRITAIN'S VANISHED COASTAL COMMUNITIES
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    LOST TO THE SEA, BRITAIN'S VANISHED COASTAL COMMUNITIES
    STEPHEN WADE
    Once there was a Roman settlement on what is now Filey Brig. In Holderness, a prosperous town called Ravenser saw kings and princes on its soil, and its progress threatened the good people of Grimsby. But the Romans and the Ravenser folk are long gone, as are their streets and buildings sunk beneath the hungry waves of what was once the German Ocean.Lost to the Sea: The Yorkshi...

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  • SYRIA
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    SYRIA
    JOHN D. GRAINGER
    Syria (which in its historical wider sense includes modern Syria, Lebanon, Israel/Palestine and Jordan) has always been at the centre of events of world importance. It was in this region that pastoral-stock rearing, settled agriculture and alphabetic writing were invented (and the dog domesticated). From Syria, Phoenician explorers set out to explore the whole Mediterranean reg...

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  • BOMBERS, RIOTERS AND POLICE KILLERS
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    BOMBERS, RIOTERS AND POLICE KILLERS
    SIMON WEBB
    “Fascinating and enlightening . . . Historical true crime books can often fall victim to being very dry . . . [This book], however, is quite the opposite” (Crime Traveler).   Despite the Victorian period’s reputation for stability and social order, there was plenty of civil disorder during this time—violent crime and terrorism were considerably worse than they are today. This b...

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  • THE SUFFRAGETTE BOMBERS
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    THE SUFFRAGETTE BOMBERS
    SIMON WEBB
    In the years leading up to the First World War, the United Kingdom was subjected to a ferocious campaign of bombing and arson. Those conducting this terrorist offensive were members of the Women's Social and Political Union; better known as the suffragettes. The targets for their attacks ranged from St Paul's Cathedral and the Bank of England in London to theatres and churches ...

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  • A RIGHT ROYAL SCANDAL
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    A RIGHT ROYAL SCANDAL
    JOANNE MAJOR / SARAH MURDEN
    From the authors of An Infamous Mistress: “The tale of two juicy 19th-century scandals, both concerning the aristocratic Cavendish-Bentinck family” (Cheshire Life).   Almost two books in one, A Right Royal Scandal recounts the fascinating history of the irregular love matches contracted by two successive generations of the Cavendish-Bentinck family, ancestors of the British roy...

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  • CRIME, CLEMENCY & CONSEQUENCE IN BRITAIN 1821–39
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    CRIME, CLEMENCY & CONSEQUENCE IN BRITAIN 1821–39
    ALISON EATWELL
    A history of criminal justice—from bigamy and body snatching to fraud and murder. “Offers a fascinating insight into the social conditions of the time” (Crime Review).   From the woman who steals a cloak, to the highwayman and the middle-class forger, this book allows us a glimpse of the rich mix of criminals, their crimes, and sentences in early nineteenth-century Britain.   W...

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  • THE LIFE OF HENRIETTA ANNE
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    THE LIFE OF HENRIETTA ANNE
    MELANIE CLEGG
    Henrietta Anne Stuart, youngest child of Charles I and Henrietta Maria, was born in June 1644 in the besieged city of Exeter at the very height of the English Civil War. The hostilities had separated her parents and her mother was on the run from Parliamentary forces when she gave birth with only a few attendants on hand to give her support. Within just a few days she was on he...

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  • THE MIDWIFE'S TALE
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    THE MIDWIFE'S TALE
    NICKY LEAP / BILLIE HUNTER
    Mothers and midwives reveal the wonders and difficulties of early twentieth century childbirth in this informative and insightful healthcare history.   Before the foundation of the United Kingdom’s National Health Service (NHS) in 1948, expectant mothers relied on midwives to help them through childbirth. Based on interviews conducted with dozens and mothers and retired midwive...

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  • ROME, BLOOD & POLITICS
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    ROME, BLOOD & POLITICS
    GARETH C. SAMPSON
    This in-depth chronicle examines the series of political upheavals that led to division, violence, and civil war in the ancient Roman Republic. The last century of the Roman Republic saw the consensus of the ruling elite shattered by a series of high-profile politicians who proposed political or social reform programs, many of which culminated in acts of bloodshed on the street...

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  • SCOURGE OF HENRY VIII
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    SCOURGE OF HENRY VIII
    MELANIE CLEGG
    The little-known story of the mother of Mary, Queen of Scots and her feud with the Tudors: “Will fascinate anyone who loves a simmering, twisting tale” (All About History).   Mary, Queen of Scots continues to intrigue both historians and the general public—but the story of her mother, Marie de Guise, is much less well known. A political power in her own right, she was born into...

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  • THE BRITISH SEASIDE
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    THE BRITISH SEASIDE
    LUCINDA GOSLING
    Drawing on the archives of Mary Evans Picture Library, Images of the Past The British Seaside is a nostalgic promenade through the history of Britains seaside resorts from their early genesis as health destinations to their glorious, mid-20th century heyday, subsequent decline and recent regeneration.British coastal resorts developed during a period of vast expansion and social...

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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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  • THE CASE OF THE CHOCOLATE CREAM KILLER
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    THE CASE OF THE CHOCOLATE CREAM KILLER
    KAYE JONES
    The true story of the seemingly respectable woman convicted of a murderous spree in Victorian-era Brighton, England.   In 1871, when the news broke of a series of mysterious poisonings in the popular resort town of Brighton, shock and horror gripped the public. Even more disturbing was the revelation that the culprit was not a common criminal but a local “lady of fortune,” Chri...

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