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A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
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The Wars of the Roses
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The Guns of August
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Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life
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The Life of Elizabeth I
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What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist—the Facts of Daily Life in 19th-Century England
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3.85 avg rating — 5,827 ratings
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Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire
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The Six Wives of Henry VIII
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The Canterbury Tales
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The Wives of Henry VIII
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Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
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3.88 avg rating — 11,107 ratings
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The Princes in the Tower
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3.87 avg rating — 7,860 ratings
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The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
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3.89 avg rating — 57,984 ratings
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The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium, An Englishman's World
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3.87 avg rating — 5,918 ratings
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A Journal of the Plague Year
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3.55 avg rating — 12,247 ratings
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The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874–1932
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4.33 avg rating — 16,226 ratings
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The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, 1400-1580
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4.26 avg rating — 1,322 ratings
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The Diary of Samuel Pepys
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3.97 avg rating — 3,423 ratings
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The Making of the English Working Class
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4.22 avg rating — 3,774 ratings
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Henry VIII: The King and His Court
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4.10 avg rating — 14,986 ratings
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The Strange Death of Liberal England 1910-1914
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4.12 avg rating — 473 ratings
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Elizabeth's London: Everyday Life in Elizabethan London
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3.98 avg rating — 1,047 ratings
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Victorian London: The Tale of a City 1840-1870
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4.03 avg rating — 1,471 ratings
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Dr Johnson's London
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4.03 avg rating — 798 ratings
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Shakespeare: The World as Stage
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3.82 avg rating — 50,351 ratings
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Mary Queen of Scots
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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
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3.99 avg rating — 78,327 ratings
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The Blood Never Dried: A People's History of the British Empire
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4.25 avg rating — 773 ratings
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Eminent Victorians
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3.76 avg rating — 2,718 ratings
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The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
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4.02 avg rating — 27,440 ratings
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The Three Edwards (The Plantagenets, #3)
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4.12 avg rating — 1,199 ratings
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The Black Death
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3.71 avg rating — 1,520 ratings
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Queen Isabella: Treachery, Adultery, and Murder in Medieval England
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3.77 avg rating — 7,975 ratings
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The First Queen of England: The Myth of "Bloody Mary"
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The Birth of Britain (A History of the English Speaking Peoples, #1)
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The Age of Arthur: A History of the British Isles from 350 to 650
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Churchill's Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India During World War II
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The Suspicions of Mr Whicher: Or The Murder at Road Hill House
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3.51 avg rating — 25,695 ratings
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The Magnificent Century (The Plantagenets, #2)
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The Conquering Family (The Plantagenets, #1)
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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
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3.84 avg rating — 124,825 ratings
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The Last Plantagenets (The Plantagenets, #4)
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The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme
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4.12 avg rating — 8,905 ratings
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The Children of Henry VIII
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4.01 avg rating — 15,641 ratings
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1215: The Year of Magna Carta
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The Weaker Vessel
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The History of the Kings of Britain
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Sexuality and Its Impact on History: The British Stripped Bare
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Somme
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Arthur's Britain
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The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England
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Dreadnought: Britain, Germany and the Coming of the Great War
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England Under the Tudors
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Ecclesiastical History of the English People
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Roman Britain: A New History
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The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn
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Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII
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1066 and all that: A memorable history of England
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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Restoration London: From Poverty to Pets, from Medicine to Magic, from Slang to Sex, from Wallpaper to Women's Rights
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London Under: The Secret History Beneath the Streets
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Shakespeare: The Biography
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The Ties That Bound: Peasant Families in Medieval England
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The Saxon and Norman Kings
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Her Majesty's Spymaster: Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Walsingham, and the Birth of Modern Espionage
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The Warrior Queens
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Queen Victoria: A Personal History
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A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
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The Perfect Prince: The Mystery of Perkin Warbeck and His Quest for the Throne of England
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The Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in Britain
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Customs in Common: Studies in Traditional Popular Culture
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The New World (A History of the English Speaking Peoples, #2)
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Bess of Hardwick: First Lady of Chatsworth
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England's Dreaming: Anarchy, Sex Pistols, Punk Rock, and Beyond
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The Enemy Within: The Secret War Against the Miners
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Royal Charles: Charles II and the Restoration
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London in the Nineteenth Century: A Human Awful Wonder of God
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The Isles: A History
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Britain After Rome: The Fall and Rise, 400-1070 (Penguin History of Britain, Vol. 2)
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Mr. Kipling's Army: All the Queen's Men
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A Medieval Family: The Pastons of Fifteenth-Century England
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The Mitford Girls: The Biography of an Extraordinary Family
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The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution
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Kings and Queens of England
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Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey: The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle
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The Royal Stuarts: A History of the Family That Shaped Britain
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Inside the Victorian Home: A Portrait of Domestic Life in Victorian England
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To Marry an English Lord or, How Anglomania Really Got Started
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Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King
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Emma: The Twice-Crowned Queen: England in the Viking Age
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The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605
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A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599
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Shit my History Teacher DID NOT tell me!
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The Reluctant King: The Life and Reign of George VI, 1895-1952
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Elizabeth: The Struggle for the Throne
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George III: A Personal History
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Blood on the Snow (The Soldier Chronicles, #3)
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Britons: Forging the Nation 1707-1837
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My Heart Is My Own: The Life of Mary Queen of Scots
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Privilege and Scandal: The Remarkable Life of Harriet Spencer, Sister of Georgiana
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