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Mrs Robinson's Disgrace

by Kate Summersdale
A compelling story of romance and fidelity, insanity, fantasy, and the boundaries of privacy in a society clinging to rigid ideas about marriage and female sexuality.
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National Service

by Colin Shindler
A fascinating account of life as a national serviceman between 1950 and 1963, based on the author's interviews with servicemen called up in a specific year.
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Navvies

by Anthony Burton
This is the story of the men who built Britain’s canals and railways – not the engineers and the administrators but the ones who provided the brawn and muscle.
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Nella Last's Peace: The Post-war diaries of Housewife, 49

by Patricia & Robert Malcolmson
Nella Last writes of what ordinary people experienced during the post-war years of privation and hope.
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Secret History Of Georgian London

by Dan Cruickshank
Georgian London evokes images of elegant buildings and fine art, but it was also a city where prostitution was rife, houses of ill repute widespread, and many tens of thousands of people dependent in some way or other on the wages of sin.
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Servants

by Lucy Lethbridge
Sweeping in its scope, extensively researched and brilliantly observed, Servants is an original and fascinating portrait of twentieth-century Britain; an authoritative history that will change and challenge the way we look at society.
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Serving Victoria

by Kate Hubbard
Follows the lives of six members of Victoria's household from the governess to the royal children, to her maid-of-honour, chaplain and personal physician to offer a unique insight into the Victorian court, with all its frustrations and absurdities.
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The Fatal Shore

by Robert Hughes
An epic description of the brutal transportation of men, women and children out of Georgian Britain into a horrific penal system which was to be the origin of Australia.
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The Gentry

by Adam Nicholson
Adam Nicolson's riveting new book concentrates on fourteen families with a time-span from 1400 to the present day. They act as markers for the virtues and otherwise, which created the English character today.
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The Girl in the Painted Caravan

by Eva Petulengro
Moving, evocative, romantic and funny, The Girl in the Painted Caravan is a fascinating portrait of the Romany lifestyle.
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