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  • Shakespeare's London: Everyday Life in London 1580-1616

    Shakespeare's London: Everyday Life in London 1580-1616

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    Everyday life in the teeming metropolis during William Shakespeare's time in the city. Shakespeare's London was a bustling, teeming metropolis that was growing so rapidly that the government took repeated, and ineffectual, steps to curb its expansion...
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  • The Noble Army: The Modern Martyrs of Westminster

    The Noble Army: The Modern Martyrs of Westminster Abbey

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    In July 1998, ten statues of martyrs of the twentieth century were unveiled surmounting the Great West Door of Westminster Abbey. These statues were intended to represent those millions of individuals who suffered for their faith in Christ in the...
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  • The Tudors in Love: The Courtly Code Behind the La

    The Tudors in Love: The Courtly Code Behind the Last Medieval Dynasty

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    A BBC History Magazine Book of the Year. ‘One of the most important books to be written about the Tudors in a generation.’ Tracy Borman In this groundbreaking history, Sarah Gristwood reveals the way courtly love made and marred the Tudor dynasty. From...
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  • Game of Queens: The Women Who Made Sixteenth-Centu

    Game of Queens: The Women Who Made Sixteenth-Century Europe

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    A BBC History magazine Book of the Year. As religion divided sixteenth-century Europe, an extraordinary group of women rose to power. They governed nations while kings fought in foreign lands. They ruled on behalf of nephews, brothers and sons. They...
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  • Mary I: Queen of Sorrows

    Mary I: Queen of Sorrows

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    Sunday Times bestselling novelist Alison Weir returns with the spellbinding story of Mary I. A DESTINY REWRITTEN. A ROYAL HEART DIVIDED. Adored only child of Henry VIII and his Queen, Katherine of Aragon, Princess Mary is raised in the golden splendour...
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  • Steeple Chasing: Around Britain by Church

    Steeple Chasing: Around Britain by Church

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    Churches are all around us. Their steeples remain landmarks in our towns, villages and cities, even as their influence and authority has waned. They contain art and architectural wonders - one huge gallery scattered, like a handful of jewels, across...
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  • Votes For Women!: The Pioneers and Heroines of Fem

    Votes For Women!: The Pioneers and Heroines of Female Suffrage

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    Mary Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, Millicent Fawcett, Emmeline Pankhurst, Constance Markievicz, Nancy Astor They terrorised the establishment. They fought for the vote. They pushed back boundaries and revolutionised our world. For the...
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  • Black England: A Forgotten Georgian History

    Black England: A Forgotten Georgian History

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    'The classic book on Black people in Georgian London' DAVID OLUSOGA 'Deeply researched, lucidly written and utterly fascinating . . . If you ever thought Black British history started with Windrush, read this book' GREG JENNER Georgian England had a...
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  • The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho

    The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho

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    Meet Charles Ignatius Sancho: his extraordinary story, hidden for three hundred years, is about to be told. I had little right to live, born on a slave ship where my parents both died. But I survived, and indeed, you might say I did more… It’s 1746 and...
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  • Bright Stars of Black British History Bright Stars of Black British History

    Bright Stars of Black British History

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    This richly illustrated collection presents the extraordinary life stories of fourteen bright stars from Black British history - from Tudor England to modern Britain - and charts their ongoing influence. This important and timely book delves into the...
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  • The Unknown Warrior By James Wilkinson The Unknown Warrior By James Wilkinson

    The Unknown Warrior By James Wilkinson

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    This 24 page publication takes an in-depth look at the Tomb of the 'Unknown Warrior' at Westminster Abbey. Written by James Wilkinson, it looks at the idea behind the Unknown Soldier, the selection of the deceased, the journey of the coffin and the...
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  • The Making of Handel's Messiah The Making of Handel's Messiah

    The Making of Handel's Messiah

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    The first performance of Handel’s 'Messiah' in Dublin in 1742 is now legendary. Gentlemen were asked to leave their swords at home and ladies to come without hoops in their skirts in order to fit more people into the audience. Why then, did this now...
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