Social & Urban History

1. Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
Author: Barack Obama
Publisher: Canongate Books
List price: £8.99
Paperback
Publication date: 05/06/2008
ISBN-13: 9781847670946 / ISBN: 1847670946

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2. Nella Last's War: The Second World War Diaries of 'Housewife 49'
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
List price: £8.99
Paperback
Publication date: 16/11/2006
ISBN-13: 9781846680007 / ISBN: 184668000X

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3. The King of Sunlight: How William Lever Cleaned Up the World
Author: Adam Macqueen
Publisher: Corgi Books
List price: £7.99
Paperback
Publication date: 02/05/2005
ISBN-13: 9780552150873 / ISBN: 0552150878

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4. Tommy's War: A First World War Diary 1913-1918
Author: Thomas Cairns Livingstone
Publisher: HarperPress
List price: £20.00
Hardcover
Publication date: 15/09/2008
ISBN-13: 9780007280674 / ISBN: 000728067X

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5. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
Author: Amanda Foreman
Publisher: Flamingo
List price: £9.99
Paperback
Publication date: 07/06/1999
ISBN-13: 9780006550167 / ISBN: 0006550169

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Georgiana Spencer was, in a sense, an 18th-century "It Girl". She came from one of England's richest and most landed families, and married into another. She was, beautiful, sensitive and extravagan...

6. London: The Biography
Author: Peter Ackroyd
Publisher: Vintage
List price: £14.99
Paperback
Publication date: 21/08/2008
ISBN-13: 9780099422587 / ISBN: 0099422581

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When the eminent novelist and biographer Peter Ackroyd finished writing London: The Biography, he almost immediately had a heart attack, such was the effort of his 800-page work about the "hum...

7. Shadows Of The Workhouse: The Drama Of Life In Postwar London: The Drama of Life in Postwar London
Author: Jennifer Worth
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
List price: £12.99
Hardcover
Publication date: 26/06/2008
ISBN-13: 9780297853268 / ISBN: 0297853260

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8. Lark Rise to Candleford: A Trilogy (Penguin Modern Classics)
Author: Flora Thompson
Publisher: Penguin Classics
List price: £11.99
Paperback
Publication date: 04/12/2008
ISBN-13: 9780141183312 / ISBN: 0141183314

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9. Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love
Author: Sheila Rowbotham
Publisher: Verso Books
List price: £24.99
Hardcover
Publication date: 01/10/2008
ISBN-13: 9781844672950 / ISBN: 1844672956

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10. Trains and Buttered Toast: Selected Radio Talks
Author: John Betjeman
Publisher: John Murray
List price: £8.99
Paperback
Publication date: 14/06/2007
ISBN-13: 9780719561276 / ISBN: 0719561272

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