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Hot Dogs And Cocktails : When FDR Met King George VI at Hyde Park on Hudson
Hot Dogs And Cocktails : When FDR Met King George VI at Hyde Park on Hudson
Between 9th and 12th June 1939, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth were the guests of Roosevelt at his country estate in Hyde Park, New York St...
Housekeeper's Tale
Housekeeper's Tale : The Women Who Really Ran the English Country House
Working as a housekeeper was one of the most prestigious jobs a nineteenth and early twentieth century woman could want - and also one of the tough...
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Houses of Power
Houses of Power : The Places That Shaped the Tudor World
What was it like to live as a royal Tudor? Why were their residences built as they were and what went on inside their walls? Who slept where and with who? Who cho...
How To Be A Tudor
How To Be A Tudor : A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Everyday Life
How To be a Tudor by Ruth Goodman - a time traveller's guide to Tudor England full of fascinating down-to-earth detail. Enter the real Wolf Hall...We know about ...
How To Be A Tudor
How To Be A Tudor : A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Everyday Life
The real Wolf Hall - a time traveller's guide to daily life in Tudor England. The Tudor era encompasses some of the greatest changes in our history. But while we...
I Love Shakespeare
I Love Shakespeare
* One of Shakespeare's relatives was executed for plotting against Elizabeth I.
* There are more than 80 records of Shakespeare's name. Not one of them says 'William Shakespeare'.
* Shakespeare onc...
I Was Transformed
'I Was Transformed' Frederick Douglass : An American Slave in Victorian Britain
In the summer of 1845, Frederick Douglass, the young runaway slave catapulted to fame by his incendiary autobiography, Narrative of the Lif...
Ice Ghosts
Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt For The Lost Franklin Expedition
Ice Ghosts weaves together the epic story of the Lost Franklin Expedition of 1845-whose two ships and crew of 129 were lost to the Arctic ice-with the tale of t...
In Bed With The Georgians
In Bed With The Georgians: Sex, Scandal And Satire In The 18th Century
In Bed with the Georgians provides a fascinating insight into life under the bed-clothes in Georgian England, where the Madams and pimps were able t...
In Defence Of Emma
In Defence of Emma : A new assessment of Emma, Lady Hamilton
Determined to disprove the derogatory and unsubstantiated allegations made against her, Sylvia Robinson has meticulously researched extensive source material ...
In Love And War
In Love And War : The Lives and Marriage of General Harry and Lady Smith
The manner of their meeting was unprecedented. During the lawless mayhem that followed the capture of Badajoz by Wellington, a 14 year old Spanish...
In Search of a Better Life : British and Irish Migration
In Search of a Better Life : British and Irish Migration
In Search of a Better Life challenges the traditional histories of British and Irish migration, the stories of oppression and exile that form an essential part of...
In Search Of Alfred The Great
In Search Of Alfred The Great : The King, The Grave, The Legend
Buried in 899 AD as the King of the English at his capital city of Winchester, Alfred the Great's bones were thought to have ultimately moved to an unmarke...
In These Times
In These Times : Living in Britain through Napoleon's Wars 1793-1815
This book is Short-listed for the Duff Cooper Prize. As the Napoleonic wars raged, what was life really like for those left at home? Award-winning soc...
Inconvenient People : Lunacy, Liberty And The Mad-Doctors In Victorian England
Inconvenient People : Lunacy, Liberty and Mad Doctors in Victorian England
Gaslight tales of rooftop escapes, men and women snatched in broad daylight, patients shut in coffins, a fanatical cult known as the Abode of Lo...
India Conquered
India Conquered : Britain's Raj and the chaos of Empire
'The product of many years of detailed archival research, Wilson's book is without question the best one-volume history of the Raj currently in print.' - William D...
Indian Summer : The Secret History of the End of an Empire
Indian Summer : The Secret History of the End of an Empire
The stroke of midnight on 15 August 1947 liberated 400 million Indians from the British Empire. One of the defining moments of world history had been brought ab...
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Inside The Tudor Court
Inside The Tudor Court : Henry VIII and his Six Wives Through The Eyes of the Spanish Ambassador
The reports and despatches of Eustace Chapuys, Spanish Ambassador to Henry VIII's court from 1529 to 1545, have been instr...
Into The Silence : The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest
Into The Silence : The Great War Mallory and the Conquest of Everest
'The price of life is death'. For Mallory, as for all of his generation, death was but 'a frail barrier that men crossed, smiling and gallant, every d...
Isabella She-Wolf of France Queen of England
Isabella : She Wolf of France, Queen of England
Described by Christopher Marlowe as the 'She-Wolf of France', Isabella was one of the most notorious femme fatales in history. According to popular legend, her angry ghost...
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