The Reign – Part 1: Bibliography

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Barker, Brian, When the Queen Was Crowned, 1976

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Barstow, Phyllida, The English Country House Party, 1989

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Butler, David, and Michael Pinto-Duschinsky, The British General Election of 1970, 1971

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Campbell, Duncan, Underworld: The Definitive History of Britain’s Organised Crime, 2019

Campbell, Duncan, We’ll All Be Murdered in Our Beds!: The Shocking History of Crime Reporting in Britain, 2016

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Cannadine, David, The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy, 1990

Carpenter, Humphrey, That Was Satire That Was: The Satire Boom of the 1960s, 2000

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Channon, Sir Henry, Chips: The Diary of Sir Henry Cannon, 1967

Chesshyre, Robert, The Return of a Native Reporter, 1987

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Connor, William Neil, Cassandra – At His Finest and Funniest, 1967

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Cox, Evelyn, The Great Drought of 1976, 1978

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Davies, Christie, The Strange Death of Moral Britain, 2004

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Davies, Russell (ed.), The Kenneth Williams Diaries, 1993

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Dewa, Roberta J., The Memory of Bridges, 2013

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Elliston Allen, David, British Tastes: An Enquiry into the Likes and Dislikes of the Regional Consumer, 1968

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Faulks, Sebastian, The Fatal Englishman: Three Short Lives, Hutchinson, 1996

Fergusson, Adam, The Sack of Bath, 2011

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Ferry, Kathryn, The 1950s Kitchen, 2011

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Fordham, Peta, Inside the Underworld, 1972

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Gathorne-Hardy, Jonathan, The Public School Phenomenon, 597–1977, 1977

Gattey, Charles Neilson, The Incredible Mrs Van der Elst, 1972

Geraghty, Tony, Who Dares Wins: The Story of the Special Air Service, 1950–1980, 1980

Gielgud, John, Gielgud’s Letters, 2004

Gimson, Andrew, Gimson’s Prime Ministers, 2018

Glanville, Brian, The Story of the World Cup, 1993

Glass, Ruth, Newcomers: The West Indians in London, 1960

Glenconner, Anne, Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown, 2019

Godwin, Peter, and Ian Hancock, ‘Rhodesians Never Die’: The Impact of War and Political Change on White Rhodesia, 1970–80, 1993

Goldblatt, David, The Game of Our Lives: The Meaning and Making of English Football, 2014

Goodhart, David, The British Dream: Successes and Failures of Post-war Immigration, 2013

Gorer, Geoffrey, Exploring English Character, 1955

Grant, Thomas, Jeremy Hutchinson’s Case Histories, 2015

Green, Francis, and David Kynaston, Engines of Privilege: Britain’s Private School Problem, 2019

Green, Jonathon, All Dressed Up: The Sixties and the Counter-Culture, 1998

Green, Jonathon, Days in the Life: Voices from the English Underground, 1961–71, 1988

Green, Shirley, Rachman, 1979

Grenfell, Stephen (ed.), Gilbert Harding by His Friends, 1961

Grimshaw, Eric, and Glyn Jones, Lord Goddard: His Career and Cases, 1958

Haines, Joe, Glimmers of Twilight: Harold Wilson in Decline, 2003

Haines, Joe, The Politics of Power, 1977

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Halsey A. H., with Josephine Webb, Twentieth-Century British Social Trends, 2000

Hardman, Robert, Our Queen, 2011

Hardyment, Christina, Slice of Life: The British Way of Eating since 1945, 1995

Harvey, Ian, To Fall like Lucifer, 1971

Haslam, Nicholas, Redeeming Features: A Memoir, 2009

Hastings, Max, The Korean War, 1987

Hattersley Roy, Fifty Years On: A Prejudiced History of Britain since the War, 1997

Heald, Tim, Denis Compton: The Life of a Sporting Hero, 2006

Healey, Denis, The Time of My Life, 1989

Hebdige, Dick, Subculture: The Meaning of Style, 1979

Heffer, Simon, Like the Roman: The Life of Enoch Powell, 1998

Hellyer, A. G. L., The Amateur Gardener, 1968[GW1] 

Henderson, Jon, When Footballers Were Skint: A Journey in Search of Football, 2018

Hendy, David, Life on Air: A History of Radio Four, 2007

Hennessy, Peter, Having It So Good Britain in the Fifties, 2006

Hennessy, Peter, Winds of Change: Britain in the Early Sixties, 2019

Henniker, John, Painful Extractions: Looking Back at a Personal Journey, 2002

Hickman, Tom, The Call-Up: A History of National Service, 2004

Higges, Geoffrey, How Meteors Hit the Ground, 2013

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Hilton, Matthew, Smoking in British Popular Culture, 1800–2000, 2000

Hobsbawm, Eric, Interesting Times: A Twentieth-Century Life, 2002

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Hopkins, Harry, The New Look: A Social History of the Forties and Fifties in Britain, 1963

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Horne, Donald, God Is an Englishman, 1970

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Humphrys, John, A Day Like Today: Memoirs, 2019

Hurd, Douglas, An End to Promises Sketch of a Government, 1970–74, 1979

Hurd, Douglas, Elizabeth II: The Steadfast, 2015

Hurd, Douglas, Memoirs, 2003

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Jenkins, Roy, A Life at the Centre, 1991

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Kerridge, Roy, Real Wicked, Guy: A View of Black Britain, 1983

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Kynaston, David, Modernity Britain, 1957–1962, 2009

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McKittrick, David, and David McVea, Making Sense of the Troubles, 2000

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