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Kings Of Georgian Britain
Kings of Georgian Britian
For over a century of turmoil, upheaval and scandal, Great Britain was a Georgian land. From the day the German-speaking George I stepped off the boat from Hanover, to the night that George IV,...
Knight
Knight : The Medieval Warrior's Unofficial Manual
It is the year 1415, the epic battle of Agincourt has just been fought, and never has it been a more glorious time to be a knight. But as any warrior will tell you, the ...
Lady Fanshawe's Receipt Book
Lady Fanshawe's Receipt Book
'Fascinating... A vivid account' - Philippa Gregory, The TimesIn the mid-seventeenth century, England was divided by Civil War, but inside the home domestic life continued as it always had d...
Legacy
Legacy : One Family, a Cup of Tea and the Company that Took On the World
I was riveted: this is a fascinating social history.' NIGELLA LAWSON
'Five stars... history on a scale at once intimate and grand.' TELEGRAPH
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Letters Of Note
Letters of Note : Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience
Letters of Note is a collection of over one hundred of the world's most entertaining, inspiring and unusual letters, based on the seismically popular websit...
Life Below Stairs
Life Below Stairs : in the Victorian and Edwardian Country House
The largely untold stories of innumerable, rather humble, lives spent 'in service' are lying just below the surface of many great houses; the physical evi...
Life Below Stairs : The Real Lives of Servants : The Edwardian Era to 1939
Life Below Stairs : The Real Lives of Servants; the Edwardian Era to 1939
By the end of the 1920s domestic service remained the largest female occupation in Britain. We view it today as an undesirable job, owing to the ...
Life In A Victorian Workshouse
Life in a Victorian Workhouse : From 1834 to 1930
The word 'workhouse' has a grim resonance even today, conjuring up a vision of the darker side of Victorian Britain. Almost every town had at least one workshouse, and m...
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Life In The 1950s
Pitkin : Life in The 1950s
he 1950s began in the shadow of War. In Britain, food was still rationed as the country strove to pay off the huge debts that were the legacy of war. However by the end of the decade, the Brit...
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Life In The Georgian Court
Life in the Georgian Court
As the glittering Hanoverian court gives birth to the English Georgian era, a golden age of royalty dawns in Europe. Houses rise and fall, births, marriages and scandals change the course of h...
Life In The Victorian Asylum
Life In A Victorian Asylum : The World of Nineteenth Century Healthcare
Life in the Victorian Asylum reconstructs the lost world of the nineteenth century public asylums. This fresh take on the history of mental health ...
Life In The Victorian Country House
Life in A Victorian Country House
Country houses formed a distinct community and power base within the broader Victorian countryside. This book shows how landed families' day-to-day existence depended on the skills of t...
Life on The Victorian Stage
Life on Victorian Stage
The expansion of the press in Victorian Britain meant more pages to be filled, and more stories to be found. Life on the Victorian Stage: Theatrical Gossip looks at how the everyday lives of Vict...
Lionheart
Lionheart
When people think of Richard the Lionheart they recall the scene at the end of every Robin Hood epic when he returns from the Crusades to punish his treacherous brother John and the wicked Sheriff of Nottingha...
Living Back-To-Back
Living Back-To-Back
Back-to-backs were once the commonest form of housing in England, home to the majority of working people in Victorian cities, but they have now almost entirely vanished from our urban townscape. The ...
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Long Live The King
Long Live the King : The Mysterious Fate of Edward II
Edward II's death at Berkeley Castle in 1327, murdered by having a red-hot poker inserted inside him, is one of the most famous and lurid tales in all of English his...
Lords of The Desert
Lords of The Desert : Britain's Struggle with America to Dominate the Middle East
'Compelling... This is essential, gripping history with major relevance for those who wish to understand that tortured region today.'-Nic...
Love Among The Ruins
Love Among The Ruins: A Memoir Of Life And Love In Hamburg, 1945
At 22, the war is over for RAF serviceman Harry Leslie Smith - the now 92-year-old activist and author of the acclaimed Harry's Last Stand - but the battl...
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Love, Madness And Scandal
Love, Madness, and Scandal : The Life of Frances Coke Villiers, Viscountess Purbeck
The high society of Stuart, England found Frances Coke Villiers, Viscountess Purbeck (1602-1645) an exasperating woman. She lived at a ...
Lovell Our Dogge
Lovell Our Dogge : The Life of Viscount Lovell, Closest Friend of Richard III and Failed Regecide
In July 1484 Tudor agent William Collingbourne - executed for treason in 1484 - tacked up a lampoon to the walls of St Pa...
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