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Just a Straightforward Shooting Weekend

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Going Jungly

The British in India: Three Centuries of Ambition and Experience

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Class Myths

Master and Servant: Love and Labour in the English Industrial Age

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What Life Held for a Clergyman’s Daughter

A Governess in the Age of Jane Austen: The Journals and Letters of Agnes Porter

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Ed Potten

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Jessica Mann

Affairs of the Hearth

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Jonathan Mirsky

A Subversive Infusion

Secret Histories: Finding George Orwell in a Burmese Teashop

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The Lust for Acquisition

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Waxing Mythical: The Life and Legend of Madame Tussaud

By Kate Berridge

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Stephen Halliday

Eastenders

The Blackest Streets: The Life and Death of a Victorian Slum

By Sarah Wise

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Andrew Lycett

Day of the Detective

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No Mary Poppins

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Donald Rayfield

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Brutal Truths

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By Joanna Bourke

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Saul David

Out of the Turmoil

Diamonds, Gold and War: The Making of South Africa

By Martin Meredith

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Alnwick Calling

As They Really Were: The Citizens of Alnwick 1831

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Andrew Lycett

Maiden Voyages

The Fishing Fleet: Husband-Hunting in the Raj

By Anne de Courcy

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Simon Heffer

In Fagin’s Footsteps

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David Gelber

Behind Closed Doors

Family Secrets: Living with Shame from the Victorians to the Present Day

By Deborah Cohen

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Alan Judd

Va Va Voom

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