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Only Connect
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Richard Vinen
Last Days of King Coal
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The British Miner in the Age of De-Industrialisation: A Political and Cultural History
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William Whyte
Who’s Afraid of Flying Buttresses?
Architecture in Britain and Ireland, 1530–1830
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Joanna Kavenna
Unlimited Dream Company
Selected Nonfiction, 1962-2007
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Lucy Lethbridge
Jam Yesterday
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Chris Renwick
From Colliery to Wing Collars
The Men of 1924: Britain’s First Labour Government
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Age of Hope: Labour, 1945, and the Birth of Modern Britain
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Stewart Wood
Broken Britain, the Sequel
Shattered Nation: Inequality and the Geography of a Failing State
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Richard Overy
Britain’s Colony in Europe
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Christopher Tyerman
For God & Profit
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Peter Marshall
Notes from the Atlantic Archipelago
The Britannias: An Island Quest
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Robert Colls
The Umpire Strikes Back
More Than a Game: A History of How Sport Made Britain
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Jane Ridley
Prime Ministers & Paupers
Sing As We Go: Britain Between the Wars
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Piers Brendon
Ticket to Ride but No Trains
A Northern Wind: Britain 1962–65
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Richard Vinen
Dates with Destiny
Turning Points: Crisis and Change in Modern Britain, from 1945 to Truss
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Philip Snow
Tale of Two Empires
The Lion and the Dragon: Britain and China – A History of Conflict
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They Come Over Here, Take Our Nuts
Squirrel Nation: Reds, Greys and the Meaning of Home
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Simon Heffer
A Bottle of Château Maldon, Please
Vines in a Cold Climate: The People Behind the English Wine Revolution
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Nat Segnit
How We Laughed
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Robert Colls
From Wapping to Westminster
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Eric Kaufmann
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It wasn’t until 1825 that Pepys’s diary became available for the first time. How it was eventually decrypted and published is a story of subterfuge and duplicity.
Kate Loveman tells the tale.
Kate Loveman - Publishing Pepys
Kate Loveman: Publishing Pepys
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Arthur Christopher Benson was a pillar of the Edwardian establishment. He was supremely well connected. As his newly published diaries reveal, he was also riotously indiscreet.
Piers Brendon compares Benson’s journals to others from the 20th century.
Piers Brendon - Land of Dopes & Tories
Piers Brendon: Land of Dopes & Tories - The Benson Diaries: Selections from the Diary of Arthur Christopher Benson by Eamon Duffy & Ronald Hyam (edd)
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Of the siblings Gwen and Augustus John, it is Augustus who has commanded most attention from collectors and connoisseurs.
Was he really the finer artist, asks Tanya Harrod, or is it time Gwen emerged from her brother’s shadow?
Tanya Harrod - Cut from the Same Canvas
Tanya Harrod: Cut from the Same Canvas - Artists, Siblings, Visionaries: The Lives and Loves of Gwen and Augustus John by Judith Mackrell
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