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  • House of Tudor

    A Grisly History

    by Mickey Mayhew ...
    Forty-five gruesome but not gratuitous accounts from the Tudor reign, including the death of Richard III and the botched execution of Mary Queen of Scots.This decidedly darker take on the Tudors, from 1485 to 1603, covers a whole host of horrors from the Tudor reign. Particular attention is paid to the various gruesome ways in which the Tudors despatched their various villains and lawbreakers, ... Read more

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  • John Keats

    Poetry, Life & Landscapes

    by Suzie Grogan ...
    “This is a celebratory meld of memoir, biography and travelogue, intensely personal and all the better for it.” —Eleanor Fitzsimons, author of Wilde’s WomenJohn Keats is one of Britain’s best-known and most-loved poets. Despite dying in Rome in 1821, at the age of just twenty-five, his poems continue to inspire generations who reinterpret and reinvent the ways in which we consume his work.Apart ... Read more

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  • 1919

    Britain's Year of Revolution

    by Simon Webb ...
    The little-known true story of rioting and rebellion among British veterans and workers after the end of World War I.On the August Bank Holiday of 1919, the government in London dispatched warships to the northern city of Liverpool in an overwhelming show of force. Thousands of troops, backed by tanks, had been trying without success to suppress disorder on the streets.Earlier that year in London, ... Read more

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  • Women's Lives and Clothes in WW2

    Ready for Action

    by Lucy Adlington ...
    An illustrated history of World War II-era women’s fashions, featuring ladies from all nations involved in conflict.What would you wear to war?How would you dress for a winter mission in the open cockpit of a Russian bomber plane? At a fashion show in Occupied Paris? Singing in Harlem, or on fire watch in Tokyo?Women’s Lives and Clothes in WW2 is a unique, illustrated insight into the experiences ... Read more

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  • 1920

    A Year of Global Turmoil

    by David Charlwood ...
    “History writing at its best . . . teasing out extraordinary parallels between our current world and that of a century ago.” —Tim Butcher, author of Blood RiverA pandemic has killed millions. Violent uprisings are tearing apart the Middle East. Nationalism is on the march in Europe. An unlikely candidate is running for president in the US on a populist platform to put “America first.” The year is ... Read more

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  • Mrs Despard and the Suffrage Movement

    Founder of The Women's Freedom League

    by Lynne Graham-Matheson, Helen Matheson-Pollock ...
    The biography of an activist who dedicated her long life to standing up for women, children, and the poor.Charlotte Despard, social reformer and suffragette, was always known as Mrs Despard, never Charlotte. Her name should be as familiar to historians as those of Emmeline Pankhurst and Millicent Fawcett—yet she remains overlooked.Born in 1844, she found solace in literature during a difficult ... Read more

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  • Convicts in the Colonies

    Transportation Tales from Britain to Australia

    by 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 PrivateersIn 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 out their sentences in ... Read more

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  • The Peasants' Revolting Lives

    by Terry Deary ...
    The author of the Horrible Histories series tells the unpleasant truth about what the poor have endured in this sharp-witted, pull-no-punches book.British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli once described the rich and poor as “two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other’s habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different ... Read more

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  • Creating Hitler's Germany

    The Birth of Extremism

    by Tim Heath ...
    A historian seeks to answer “What created Hitler’s Germany?” by examining personal stories and first-hand accounts of post-World War I German families.Germany’s defeat in the First World War and the Treaty of Versailles that followed were national disasters, with far-reaching consequences not just for the country but for the world itself.Weaving the stories of three German families from the ... Read more

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  • Apollo 11

    The Moon Landing in Real Time

    by Ian Passingham ...
    A day-by-day account of the 1969 Apollo 11 Moon landing—from launch prep to the crews’ return to Earth—by the author of 66: The World Cup In Real Time.Half a century has passed since arguably the greatest feat of the twentieth century: when Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon. Apollo 11: The Moon Landing In Real Time brings the mission back to life as never before in a ... Read more

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  • Great British Family Names and Their History

    What's in a Name?

    by John Moss ...
    A reference guide to hundreds of surnames that reveal the story of the United Kingdom across generations and centuries.To some extent, we are all products of our family history, the many generations before us. So it is with nations. The history of Great Britain has been largely defined by powerful and influential families, many of whose names came down from Celtic, Danish, Saxon or Norman ... Read more

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  • The Daughters of George III

    Sisters & Princesses

    by Catherine Curzon ...
    An in-depth look into the lives of the six daughters of King George III of England.In the dying years of the 18th century, the corridors of Windsor echoed to the footsteps of six princesses. They were Charlotte, Augusta, Elizabeth, Mary, Sophia, and Amelia, the daughters of King George III and Queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. Though more than fifteen years divided the births of the eldest ... Read more

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