Dragons: ten entrepreneurs who built Britain 9781781857472, 9781781857465, 1781857474

Ten Engineers Who Made Britain Great: The Men Behind the Industrial Revolution 9781803992990, 1803992999

Samuel Smiles published Lives of the Engineers in 1862. The noted biographer presented his engineers as heroic progress

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Who Rules Britain 0745603025, 074560563X

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Ten Popes Who Shook the World 9780300184273

The Bishops of Rome have been Christianity's most powerful leaders for nearly two millennia, and their influence ha

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Foundations: How the Built Environment Made Twentieth-Century Britain 9780691208558

An urban history of modern Britain, and how the built environment shaped the nation’s politics Foundations is a histor

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Slave Empire: How Slavery Built Modern Britain 1472142357, 9781472142351

'Path-breaking . . . a major rewriting of history' Mihir Bose, Irish Times 'Slave Empire is lucid, elega

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Roman Military Stone-built Granaries in Britain 9780904531459, 9781407319674

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John Coates : The Man Who Built the Snowman 9780861969036, 9780861966820

John Coates is best known as the producer of The Snowman, When the Wind Blows, Wind in the Willows, Willows in Winter, a

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Gropius: The Man Who Built the Bauhaus 9780674239890

Fiona MacCarthy challenges the image of Walter Gropius as a doctrinaire architectural rationalist, bringing out the visi

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Templars: The Knights Who Made Britain 9780300274844

A gripping account of the Knights Templar, challenging received wisdom to show how these devout medieval knights played

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The Ten Legal Cases That Made Modern Britain 9781785907456

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