Too Brave to Live, Too Young to Die: Teenage Heroes from World War I
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World War I was a slaughter on an unprecedented scale. Nevertheless there was no shortage of young...
Whispers Across the Atlantick: General William Howe and the American Revolution
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General William Howe was the commander-in-chief of the British forces during the early campaigns of...
Running My Life - The Autobiography
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One second in time may separate the great athlete from the merely good. Seb Coe has made every...
Sudan Days
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Sudan Days gives a grass roots picture of British colonial rule in Africa in the second quarter of...
The Audacious Crimes of Colonel Blood: The Spy Who Stole the Crown Jewels and Became the King's Secret Agent
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One morning in May 1671, Colonel Thomas Blood daringly attempted to seize the Crown Jewels from the...
The Best Surgeon in England: Percivall Pott, 1713-88
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Percivall Pott (1713-88) was a leading surgeon in eighteenth-century Britain. This work mines the...
Ellen Harmon White: American Prophet
Terrie Dopp Aamodt, Gary Land and Ronald L. Numbers
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In America, as in Britain, the Victorian era enjoyed a long life, stretching from the 1830s to the...
Margaret Thatcher: Power and Personality
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As Britain's first woman Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher brought about the biggest social and...
Jonathan Edwards and Transatlantic Print Culture
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On March 20, 1760, a fire broke out in the Cornhill district of Boston, destroying nearly 350...
Men, Women, and Money: Perspectives on Gender, Wealth, and Investment 1850-1930
David R. Green, Josephine Maltby, Alastair Owens and Jannette Rutterford
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The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries witnessed significant developments in the...