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The True Story of the Abdication
"Susan Williams reveals there was huge popular support for King Edward and that many ordinary people were happy for him to marry Wallis - even though ...
The UN, the Cold War and White Supremacy in Africa
One of the outstanding mysteries of the 20th century, and one with huge political resonance, is the death of Dag Hammarskjold and his UN team in a pla...
The CIA and the Neocolonisation of Africa
The shocking, untold story of how African independence was strangled at birth by America's systematic interference. Accra, 1958. Africa's liberation l...
The Triumph of Seretse Khama and His Nation
London 1945: the heir to the largest tribe of Bechuanaland (later Botswana) arrives in Britain. Seretse Khama, an urbane 24-year-old was welcomed into...
The Race for the Ore that Built the Atomic Bomb
Spies in the Congo is the untold story of one of the most tightly-guarded secrets of the Second World War: America's desperate struggle to secure enou...
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Women of the Elite in Interwar Britain
In the 1920s, when the franchise was extended to put women in Britain on an equal footing with men, it was still to be many years before women held po...
Examines the civilian and military roles British women have played in war from the turn of the nineteenth century - as fighters, as workers, as mother...
Reviews the life and work of the American writer whose "Grapes of Wrath" portrayed farmers during the Depression and won him a Pulitzer and a Nobel Pr...
Attendance and Welfare at School 1870-1990
Lifting children out of poverty is one of the UK government's priorities. This book tells the story of efforts by London's education services to preve...
An exploration of the growth of maternal welfare services in the 20th century which looks at the major role played by the National Birthday Trust Fund...