 | A History of the English-Speaking Peoples since 1900 by Andrew Roberts
Buy new: £18.99 / Used from: £0.97 vast scope and ingenious - only dipped into this but it is one my projects!!
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 | Empire: The British Imperial Experience, from 1765 to the Present by Denis Judd
Buy new: £16.99 / Used from: £5.50 Britain had the wrong empire - in the east not the west - traces the development and impact from the loss of american colonies to the inauguration of Mandela as President of South Africa
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 | Eminent Churchillians by Andrew Roberts
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 Opinionated and direct - but full of insight and intrigue - he wears his dislikes on his sleeve (eg Mountbatten) but from what he says, justly so
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 | Five Days in London: May 1940 (Yale Nota Bene) by J Lukacs
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 the claim seems farfetched at the start - but not by the end - these 5 days in may 1940 were the most influential of the Second World War and by extension for the last 67 years
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 | Shadowplay: The Hidden Beliefs and Coded Politics of William Shakespeare by Clare Asquith
Buy new: £6.49 / Used from: £4.65 Speculative but fascinating - certainly gives a sense of life and fear in Elizabethan England - what with all the paranoia caused by that religious oppression and espionnage and stuff
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 | Elizabeth, the Queen by Alison Weir
Buy used from: £2.50 brilliant and readable - an excellent account of an extraordinary queenn
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 | The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605 by Antonia Fraser
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £1.20 distinguishes fact from fiction and brings the potentially revolutionary acts to life
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 | Hogarth by Mark Hallet
Buy used from: £41.40 Graphic reality portrayed by the arch-satirist in the 1st half of the 18th century
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 | William Pitt the Younger: A Biography by William Hague
Buy used from: £6.08 Biography as it should be written - a brilliant book about a brilliant man by a brilliant writer
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 | Anglomania: A European Love Affair by Ian Buruma
Buy new: £8.44 / Used from: £0.30 how others have seen us
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 | Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour by Kate Fox
Buy new: £6.26 / Used from: £0.75 very funny and painfully accurate
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 | Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
Buy new: £5.38 / Used from: £0.01 Bryson's best - bumblingly sharp and witty - who else could say Oxford was one of Britain's ugliest cities!?
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 | 1066 and All That by W.C. Sellar
Buy used from: £4.96 THE DEFINITIVE history - the original bluffer's guide
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 | Servants of the People: The Inside Story of New Labour by Andrew Rawnsley
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £0.01 The origins of New Labour - not completely up to date but certainly explains how we ended up in the present mess
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 | Over Here by Raymond Seitz
Buy used from: £0.01 Former US Ambassador to London who decided to stay - a great read
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 | The Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson
Buy used from: £4.70 very entertaining, as Bryson can be - and pretty informative
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 | Class in Britain by David Cannadine
Buy new: £6.47 / Used from: £3.91 one of those 'Ahaa' books - you read it and think, yes that's exactly how it is.
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