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Books : History : Countries & Regions : Europe : Britain & Ireland : General AAS

• Family Britain, 1951-1957 (Tales of a New Jerusalem)

  David Kynaston

  
  Presents a picture of everyday life in the 1950s Britain. This title tells the story of Britain from VE Day in 1945 to the election of Margaret Thatcher in 1979.
  
   

• Wedlock: How Georgian Britain's Worst Husband Met His Match

  Wendy Moore

  
  
   

• The Battle of Britain

  James Holland

  
  
   

• Kisses on a Postcard: A Tale of Wartime Childhood

  Terence Frisby

  
  A memoir of two young evacuees growing up in the countryside during the Second World War.
  
   

• An Utterly Exasperated History of Modern Britain: or Sixty Years of Making the Same Stupid Mistakes as Always

  John O'Farrell

  
  
   

• The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century

  Ian Mortimer

  
  Explains what life was like in the most immediate way, through taking readers, to the middle ages, and showing various things from the horrors of leprosy and war to the ridiculous excesses of roasted larks and haute couture.
  
   

• Austerity Britain, 1945-1951 (Tales of a New Jerusalem)

  David Kynaston

  
  
   

• A View From The Foothills: The Diaries of Chris Mullin

  Chris Mullin

  
  The author has been a Labour MP for 20 years, and despite his refusal to toe the party line, he has held several prominent posts. This book offers humorous and incisive takes on various aspects of political life: from the build-up to Iraq, to the scandalous sums of tax-payers' money spent on ministerial cars he didn't want to use.
  
   

• Road to the Dales: The Story of a Yorkshire Lad

  Gervase Phinn

  
  
   

• Inheritance: The Story of Knole and the Sackvilles

  Robert Sackville-West

  
  For the past four hundred years, since its purchase in 1605 by Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, the house at Knole, Kent, has been inhabited by fifteen generations of a single aristocratic family, the Sackvilles. This title paints a portrait of the labyrinthine house and the close relationships the author's ancestors formed with it.
  
   

• Life in the United Kingdom: official citizenship test study guide: A Journey to Citizenship - Study Guide: 1

  Stationery Office

  
  
   

• When the Lights Went Out: Britain in the Seventies

  Andy Beckett

  
  
   

• A Gambling Man

  Jenny Uglow

  
  
   

• Whitehall: The Street That Shaped a Nation

  Colin Brown

  
  A fascinating behind-closed-doors history of Whitehall and the buildings and figures that shaped British history
  
   

• Go! Go! Go!: The Definitive Inside Story of the Iranian Embassy Siege

  Rusty Firmin, Will Pearson

  
  
   

• A History of Modern Britain

  Andrew Marr

  
  
   

• An Utterly Impartial History of Britain: (or 2000 Years of Upper Class Idiots in Charge)

  John O'Farrell

  
  
   

• Courtiers: The Secret History of Kensington Palace

  Lucy Worsley

  
  
   

• Germania: A Personal History of Germans Ancient and Modern

  Simon Winder

  
  
   

• London Lore: The Legends and Traditions of the World's Most Vibrant City

  Steve Roud