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Margaret Forster
Margaret Forster (1938-2016)

journalist, literary critic, biographer, historian

  • University of Oxford

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Daphne du Maurier
Significant sisters
Hidden Lives
William Makepeace Thackeray
Precious lives
GOOD WIVES?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The rash adventurer
Gerald
My Life in Houses
The rash adventurer
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Precious lives
My life in houses
The bride of Lowther Fell
Diary of an ordinary woman 1914-1995
Private papers
Memoirs of a Victorian gentleman, William Makepeace Thackeray
Keeping the World Away
Mr. Bone's retreat
Lady's Maid
The memory box
Battle for Christabel
Have the Men Had Enough?
Seduction of Mrs.Pendlebury
Georgy girl
The battle for Christabel
Fenella Phizackerley
Mothers' boys
Have the Men Had Enough?
The Unknown Bridesmaid
Mother Can You Hear Me?
Over
The Unknown Bridesmaid
Isa & May
BP Portrait Award
KEEPING THE WORLD AWAY
Mother Can You Hear Me?
Miss Owen-Owen
OVER
Rich Desserts & Captain's Thin
Significant Sisters
Marital rites
Lady's maid
Chemie für die Sekundarstufe 1. Bd. 2. Schülerbuch. Brandenburg.
The park
Diary of an Ordinary Schoolgirl
Rich desserts and captain's thin
The Battle for Christabel
Private Papers
The Seduction of Mrs. Pendlebury
The Memory Box
Is there anything you want?
The unknown bridesmaid
Isa & May
The travels of Maudie Tipstaff
Shadow baby
Daphne DuMaurier. Ein Leben
Dieses so kostbare Leben
The bogeyman
The travels of Maudie Tipstaff
Ich glaube, ich fahre in die Highlands. Roman
Familiengeheimnisse
The Memory Box (Horatio Hornblower Adventures)
Diary of an Ordinary Woman
Schattenkinder
Fenella Phizackerley
Is There Anything You Want?
Die Dienerin
Nichts wird mehr sein, wie es war
How to Measure a Cow
Private Papers
Dames' Delight
Shadow Baby
Shadow Baby - Horatio Hornblower Adventures
Ich glaube, ich fahre in die Highlands. Jubiläums-Edition. Roman
Das Vermächtnis meiner Mutter
Miss Owen-Owen is at home
Dames' Delight
Christabel. Roman
Projects
Georgy Girl
IS THERE ANYTHING YOU WANT?
Daphne Du Maurier ("Good Housekeeping" Audio Collection)
A Policy Maker's Guide to International Achievement Studies
Shadow baby
William Makepeace Thackery Memoirs of A
Die Dienerin. Sonderausgabe
Portfolios
Keeping the world away
La Boîte aux souvenirs
Ritos Conyugales
The travels of Maudie Tipstaff
A girl called Fathom
DIARY OF AN ORDINARY WOMAN: 1914-1995
Mother can you hear me?
Miss Owen-Owen is at home
Keeping the world away
Rash Adventurer Edward Stuart
Isa & May
Diary of an ordinary woman
Alan Bullock
Alan Bullock (1914-2004)

politician, historian of Modern Age, historian, biographer

  • University of Oxford, Bradford Grammar School

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Hitler
Natalia Ginzburg
Hitler and Stalin
The life and times of Ernest Bevin
Building Jerusalem
Ernest Bevin
Ernest Bevin, foreign secretary, 1945-1951
Ernest Bevin
Building Jerusalem
The Fontana biographical companion to modern thought
Twentieth-century culture
The Fontana biographical companion to modern thought
Hitler & Stalin
The life and times of Ernest Bevin
Gitler i Stalin
John Wheeler Wheeler-Bennett, 1902-1975
Fontana Biographical Companion to Modern Thought
Great lives of the twentieth century
Hiá¹­ler
Ernest Bevin, Foreign Secretary, 1945-1951
The twentieth century: a Promethean age
Dictionary of modern thought
The humanist tradition in the West
Personality and power
The Fontana Dictionary of Modern Thought
The Liberal Tradition
The humanist tradition in the West
The life and times of Ernest Bevin.
Twentieth Century Culture
Is history becoming a social science?
Harper Dictionary of Modern Thought
The twentieth century
The humanist tradition in the West
The Harper dictionary of modern thought
The life and times of Ernest Bevin
The past and the future
Select List of Books on European History, 1815-1914
Has history a future?
A select list of books on European history, 1815-1914
Hitler and the origins of the second World War
History of the 20th century
The twentieth century
Life and Times of Ernest Bevin; 2
The Faces of Europe
Contemporary history in Europe
Men, chance and history
World History - Civilization From Its Beginnings
The New Fontana dictionary of modern thought
History of the 20th century
The life and times of Ernest Bevin
A new English history
A select list of books on European history, 1815-1914
Meeting teachers' management needs
Germany's colonial demands
Humanist Tradition In the West
Ernest Bevin, foreign secretary, 1945-51
The Norton dictionary of modern thought
Have the humanities ceased to be relevant?
Great Britian in the world of the twentieth century
The Doubleday pictorial library of world history
Great Britian in the world of the twentieth century
A select list of books on European history, 1815-1914
The Fontana dictionary of modern thought
Great rivers of Europe
A select list of books on European history, 1815-1914
Ernest Bevin, foreign secretary, 1945-51
Great Lives of the Twentieth Century
20th Century Culture; A Biographical Companion
The British political tradition
Die Grossen Ströme Europas
Past and the Future
The life and times of Ernest Bevin
Abel Paz
Abel Paz (1921-2009)

historian, anarchist

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Durruti
Al pie del muro, 1942–1954
Viaje al pasado (1936–1939)
Chumberas y alacranes
Entre la niebla (1939-1942)
Ada Martí
Crónica de la Columna de Hierro
The Spanish Civil War
Correspondencia entre Diego Camacho "Abel Paz" y Juan García Oliver
CNT 1939-1951
Paradigma de una revolución
Guerre d'Espagne
La cuestión de Marruecos y la República española
La España otorgada
La guerra de España
James R. Hansen
James R. Hansen (born 1952)

academic, historian

  • Indiana University, Ohio State University

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First Man
The Bird Is on the Wing
First man
Difficult Par
Truth, lies, and O-rings
Spaceflight revolution
Dear Neil Armstrong
Engineer in charge
O Primeiro Homem
The Wind and Beyond: A Documentary Journey Into the History of Aerodynamics in America
First Man
Spaceflight Revolution
Enchanted rendezvous
The wind and beyond
Spaceflight revolution : NASA Langley Research Center from Sputnik to Apollo
Apollo and America's Moon Landing Program - Enchanted Rendezvous, John Houbolt and the Genesis of the Lunar-Orbit Rendezvous Concept, and Political and Technical Aspects of Placing a Flag on the Moon
First Man - The Annotated Screenplay
Truth, Lies, and O-Rings
Aufbruch zum Mond
Completely Mad
Reluctant Icon
Primer Hombre
Michael Fellman
Michael Fellman (1943-2011)

historian

  • University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Northwestern University

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Citizen Sherman
The making of Robert E. Lee
Views from the dark side of American history
Faces of the Confederacy
This terrible war
Twisting the Cross
In the name of God and country
The unbounded frame
Inside war
Antislavery reconsidered
Lincoln's Generals (Gettysburg Civil War Institute Books)
Evidence of This Terrible War
Faces of the Civil War
Antislavery Reconsidered
Lincoln's Generals
Debby Applegate
Debby Applegate (born 1968)

historian, biographer

  • Yale University, Amherst College

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The Most Famous Man in America
Madam
Green-Wood at 175
Candace Falk
Candace Falk (born 1947)

historian

  • University of Chicago, University of California, Santa Cruz

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Love, Anarchy, and Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman : a Documentary History of the American Years, Volume 3 Vol. 3
Emma Goldman - A Documentary History of the American Years Vol. 2
Emma Goldman, Vol. 1
Emma Goldman, Vol. 2
The Life and times of Emma Goldman
With speech as my weapon
Kenneth Manning
Kenneth Manning (born 1947)

historian of science

  • Harvard University

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Black Apollo of Science
Blueprint for change
MIT--shaping the future
Asking the right questions