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To misquote Peter Sellers, some of the greatest Tudors started their lives as children... An impeccably researched account.
Tudor Children
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The rise and fall of the Bacris and Busnachs, two Jewish families whose prominence in trade and banking led them to play a small but crucial diplomatic and logistical role in the Napoleonic ... read more
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English Food: A People’s History
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The whys and wherefores of frivolities in stone, shells, plaster, even glass and steel. An illustrated survey.
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A portrait of the scandalous Oxford club, of which EW was briefly secretary, and looks at the lives of several of his contemporaries too. Seven of them found their way into Brideshead... The... read more
Hellfire: Evelyn Waugh and the Hypocrites Club
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Neutral for fifty years in his work for the BBC, now he tells us what he thinks and thought about all those prime ministers, presidents, elections and scandals.
Keep Talking: A Broadcasting Life
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Barbara Cartland's daughter, Princess Diana's stepmother, who is said to left the Althorp estate with just a few bin bags of clothes. She was irrepressible, controversial - and perfectly man... read more
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A retrospective of Maier's extraordinary body of work, arranged thematically - self-portraits, the street, portraits, gestures, cinematography, children, etc.
Vivian Maier
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By looking at the work and methods of thirteen C20th anthropologists, LM shows how they ended by changing how we see ourselves as much as the 'primitive' societies they were studying.
In Search of Us: Adventures in Anthropology
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Where Tillyard's brilliant The Elizabethan World Picture looked outwards, this looks inwards. A deeply fascinating and empathetic study.