National Service: A Generation in Uniform, 1945-1963
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Winner of the Templer Medal and the Wolfson History Prize Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller Richard...
Politicians and Other Animals
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Displaying an irreverent sense of humour and casting a sharp eye at modern Irish life, Olivia...
The Fishing Boats Story
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Britain has a history of a wonderful array of sailing fishing boats, some of which still sail under...
The Cotswold Cottage
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Cotswold Cottages have a warm beauty unequaled in rural Britain. The cottages have a character that...
A Samuel Hieronymus Grimm (1733-1794): A Very English Swiss
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Samuel Hieronymus Grimm (1733-1794) recorded, in watercolour and pen and ink, great historical...
Little Sparta: A Guide to the Garden of Ian Hamilton Finlay
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Ian Hamilton Finlay's garden in the Pentland Hills near Edinburgh is widely regarded as one of the...
The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Robert Wenley, Richard Verdi and Nicola Kalinsky
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The Barber Institute of Fine Arts in Birmingham, UK, is one of the finest small picture galleries in...
Silver Bullets: Classic Werewolf Stories
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Of the monsters that stalked the pages of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century fiction, the...
The English Idea of History from Coleridge to Collingwood
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This title was first published in 2000: Despite the widely remarked indifference to philosophy of...
A Kestrel for a Knave
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"Penguin Decades" bring you the novels that helped shape modern Britain. When they were published,...