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Beastly Fury: The Strange Birth of British Football
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'Footeballe is nothinge but beastlie furie and extreme violence', wrote Thomas Elyot in 1531. Nearly...
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Uncle Bill: The Authorised Biography of Field Marshal Viscount Slim
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Masterly biography of the 'greatest commander of the 20th century'. Field Marshal Slim is less well...
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The 32 Stops: The Central Line
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Geographer Danny Dorling tells the stories of the people who live along "The 32 Stops of the Central...
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The Last Years of Steam Around the Midlands
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Alan Maund lived in Worcestershire all his life and had an enthusiasm for steam. He travelled...
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In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein
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Mary Shelley was brought up by her father in a house filled with radical thinkers, poets,...
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Derby in 50 Buildings
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Straddling the Derwent River, the cathedral city of Derby, its foundations in the Roman occupation...
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A Wood of One's Own
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After years of living in London's urban jungle, Ruth Pavey dreamt of reconnecting with the British...
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Canary
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Canary is multi-award winning playwright Jonathan Harvey's long-awaited return to the stage: a...
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A Little History of British Gardening
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Did the Romans have rakes? Did the monks get muddy? Did the potato seem really, really weird when it...
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The Book of Echoes
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A sweeping, uplifting story of how a boy from Brixton and a girl from Lagos escape their dark past...
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