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 | London: a Social History by Roy Porter An encyclopaedic look at the Capital's social history, Porter's book examines London's growth and the infinitely varied experiences of its inhabitants. Ranging from its beginnings in Roman times to the period of change in the 1990s, this is a mesm Our Price: £10.99 | |  | East End Chronicles by Ed Gilnert The East End: Roman burial ground, mediaeval rubbish tip, Victorian hell hole, WW2 bombing target, 21st century gentrification template. Our Price: £20.00 |
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 | City of Cities; The Birth of Modern London by Stephen Inwood A dazzling account of London at its height, when it was the largest and richest city on earth. There is no period in London's history in which the city was more dynamic, fascinating, innovative and important than the thirty years before the First Wo Our Price: £10.99 | | |
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| |  | A Short History of Europe by Gordon Kerr Europe â€" both a continent and an idea. Now Europe is as close as it ever has been to being one entity, yet we Europeans still cling to our national independence. Gordon Kerr provides a coherent map of the jumbled history of Europe a Our Price: £9.99 |
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 | Winston Churchill by Bill Price During his long and extraordinary life, Winston Churchill was a central figure in almost all of the tumultuous events of the first half of the twentieth century. Our Price: £7.99 | |  | The Gnostics by Sean Martin Gnosticism - derived from the Greek word gnosis, to know - is the name given to various religious schools that proliferated in the first centuries after Christ Our Price: £7.99 |
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