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Explore the manifold stories of the British Isles with a vast range of books that light up different corners of British and Irish past, from Celts to Churchill, and from Tudors to Thatcher and beyond. Here you will find the bestselling titles on British History from the likes of Andrew Marr, Dan Jones and Alison Weir, David Olusoga’s pioneering works on Black British History, as well as biographies of figures who shaped the fate of these island nations. And while you’re here do not forget our fantastic range of Christmas cards and festive gift wrap to make your Christmas complete.

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Our Bestselling British & Irish History Books

Politics On the Edge
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Unruly
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Normal Women
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Lost Realms
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Buried
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The Princes in the Tower
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The Bone Chests
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The Anglo-Saxons
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Sarn Helen
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The Palace
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The Facemaker
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Hauntings
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Johnson at 10
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A Short History of England
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The Princes in the Tower
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Women in Intelligence
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The Dictionary People
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Hunting the Falcon
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Kings and Queens
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Victory to Defeat
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Mirrors of Greatness
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What Was Shakespeare Really Like?
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Dickensland
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Belfast
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Age of Hope
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The Lion and the Dragon
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Party Lines
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After Elizabeth
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Imperial Island
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Heirs of Ambition
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What's in a Name?
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The Rest is History
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Britain’s Landmarks and Legends
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The Dictionary People
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Why Women Grow
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Ancient Magic in Greece and Rome
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Love; A Curious History
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A Short History of the World in 50 Lies
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Gimson’s Kings and Queens
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Gods, Heroes and Monsters
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Anatomical Oddities
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Underworlds
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The Pirates’ Code
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The Power of Art
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Secret Britain
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No Pie, No Priest
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A History of Britain in Just a Minute
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The Restless Republic
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Legacy of Violence
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Shadowlands
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Lost Realms
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Takeaway
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British Rail
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Northerners
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The Red Arrows
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The Facemaker
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Courtiers
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The British Museum Puzzle Book
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Woodston
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Tourists
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Winters in the World
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Whatever Next?
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Black England
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The House of Dudley
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Black and British

Black and British
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Natives
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Black Tudors
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Brit(ish)
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Settlers
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I Am Not Your Baby Mother
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One of Them
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Tribes
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100 Great Black Britons
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Safe
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Black London
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Black Britain
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Back to Black
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Musical Truth
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We're Here Because You Were There
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Biracial Britain
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Spare
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Do Let’s Have Another Drink
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Hunting the Falcon
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Courtiers
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Whatever Next?
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Lady in Waiting
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Queen of Our Times
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Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I
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Young Elizabeth
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Revenge
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The Shortest History of the Crown
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Philip
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Traitor King
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Embroidering Her Truth
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George V
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The Palace Papers
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The Road to Wigan Pier
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Appeasing Hitler
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Elizabethans
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Court Number One
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Who Dares Wins
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The Rise and Fall of the British Nation
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Black Diamonds
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A History of Modern Britain
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Austerity Britain, 1945-1951
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Frostquake
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The Defence of the Realm
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Modernity Britain
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Britain Alone
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Citizen Clem
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Suffragette Manifestos
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The bestselling author of the award-winning Empireland delivers another powerful volume on the far-reaching consequences of British colonialism, this time exploring the UK's imperial legacy on a global scale.
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Empire and its Legacies

Orientalism
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Empireland
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The Anarchy
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Natives
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Lords of the Desert
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Inglorious Empire
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The Patient Assassin
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The Fatal Shore
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The World's War
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Empire
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Ten Cities that Made an Empire
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From the Ruins of Empire
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Empire
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The Hungry Empire
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Insurgent Empire
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The Trader, The Owner, The Slave
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Forgotten Wars
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The 19th Century

The Five
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Queen Victoria
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Brunel
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White Debt
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Sophia
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Victoria
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Victorious Century
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The Butchering Art
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The Victorians
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In These Times
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The Hated Cage
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Wellington
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Prince Albert
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Dominion
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The Peterloo Massacre
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The 17th and 18th Centuries

Witches
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The Georgians
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Devil-Land
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The Blazing World
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Witchfinders
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The English Civil War
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Dinner with Joseph Johnson
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The Covent Garden Ladies
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The Making of Oliver Cromwell
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Killers of the King
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Civil War
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The World Turned Upside Down
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Jacobites
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Courtiers
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To Catch A King
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1606
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The Tudors

The Six Wives of Henry VIII
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The Hollow Crown
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Black Tudors
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The Private Lives of the Tudors
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Tudor
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The Lady In The Tower
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How to be a Tudor
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Winter King
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Thomas Cromwell
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Henry VIII and the Men Who Made Him
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Thomas Cromwell
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Tudors
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Elizabeth, the Queen
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Elizabeth of York
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The Watchers
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Elizabeth
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My Heart is My Own
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Medieval Britain

The White Ship
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The Plantagenets
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The Norman Conquest
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Medieval Bodies
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She-Wolves
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A Great and Terrible King
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The King in the North
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The Black Prince
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The Song of Simon de Montfort
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The Wars Of The Roses
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Foundation
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Eleanor Of Aquitaine
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In the Land of Giants
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The Brothers York
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King Arthur
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Richard III
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Anglo-Saxon Britain

The Anglo-Saxons
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Viking Britain
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Mercia
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Alfred the Great
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In the Land of Giants
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A Brief History of the Anglo-Saxons
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Aethelstan
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Boudica
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The Private Lives of the Saints
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Elfrida
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Anglo-Saxon England
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The Anglo-Saxon Age
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Æthelflæd: A Ladybird Expert Book
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The King in the North
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AEthelred
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Ancient Britain

Ancestors
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The Celts
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A History of Ancient Britain
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Scenes from Prehistoric Life
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Roman Britain
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Britain BC
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