
My Political Race
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As the Labour MP for Gloucester, when things were good for Parmjit Dhanda, they were very good. He...
Merchants and Explorers: Roger Barlow, Sebastian Cabot, and Networks of Atlantic Exchange 1500-1560
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In the early sixteenth century, a young English sugar trader spent a night at what is now the port...

Imperial Brothers: Valentinian, Valens and the Disaster at Adrianople
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The latest of Ian Hughes' Late Roman biographies here tackles the careers of the brother emperors,...

In the Front Line: A Doctor's Life in War and Peace
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This memoir by a Scottish doctor who was born and went on to work in Govan was found among family...
Ice Blink: Navigating Northern Environmental History
Brad Martin and Stephen Bocking
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Northern Canada's distinctive landscapes, its complex social relations and the contested place of...

Wainwright on the Pennine Way
Alfred Wainwright and Derry Brabbs
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On 24 April 2015, it will have been exactly fifty years since a ceremony was held at Malham to mark...

The Early Victorian Railway Excursions: The Million Go Forth
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There is a widely held belief that Thomas Cook invented the railway excursion. In fact the railway...

The West Coast Lines: BR Steam from Euston to Glasgow
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The two decades following the end of the Second World War was a period of great change in Britain....

Joining the Dots: A Woman In Her Time
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From Britain’s leading social historian, a lyrical look at the changes to women’s lives since...
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Rise: How Jeremy Corbyn Inspired the Young to Create a New Socialism
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`Liam is one of Britain's most brilliant young writers. He was ridiculed for believing a Corbyn-led...