
Crosscountry Trains: Providing the Rail Services Connecting Britain's Towns and Cities
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CrossCountry Trains Ltd won the right to operate the CrossCountry franchise from 11 November 2007...

Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know: The Extraordinary Exploits of the British and European Aristocracy
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The alarming history of the British, and European, aristocracy - from Argyll to Wellington and from...

Quintinshill Conspiracy: The Shocking True Story Behind Britain's Worst Rail Disaster
Adrian Searle and Jack Richards
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It was the railway's Titanic. An horrific crash involving five trains in which 230 died and 246 were...

The Catholics: The Church and its People in Britain and Ireland, from the Reformation to the Present Day
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"The story of Catholicism in Britain from the Reformation to the present day, from a master of...

The Sinking of the Lancastria: Britain's Greatest Maritime Disaster and Churchill's Cover-up
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A fortnight after the evacuation at Dunkirk some 150,000 British troops were still stuck in France....

Ice Station: The Creation of Halley VI; Britain's Pioneering Antarctic Research Station
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Halley VI Research Station is the first fully re-locatable research station in the world. It was...

British Models of Art Collecting and the American Response: Reflections Across the Pond
Inge Reist and Michael E. Yonan
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British Models of Art Collecting and the American Response - Reflections Across the Pond presents 14...
Collecting and Displaying China's Summer Palace in the West: The Yuanmingyuan in Britain and France
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In October 1860, at the culmination of the Second Opium War, British and French troops looted and...