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Scholarship and Fiction Empires Colston Whitehead, The Underground Railroad – 2018 Mirelle Harper, Timelines from Black History: Leaders, Legends, Legacies – 2020 David Olusoga, Black & British, a short essential history – 2020 David Olusoga, The Black History Book – 2021 Sathnam Sanghera, Empireland – 2021 Andrea Stuart, Sugar in the Blood: A family’s story of slavery and empire – 2012 Peter Frankopan, The Silk Roads – 2021 Industrial Revolution William Rosen, The Most Powerful Idea in the World – 2010 Emma Griffin, Liberty’s Dawn: A people’s history of the Industrial Revolution – 2013 Roger Osborne, Iron, Steam & Money: The Making of the Industrial Revolution – 2013 Peter Hepplewhite, Industrial Revolution – 2015 Anita Gane, Life during the Industrial Revolution, a child’s history of Britain – 2015 Power & Protest Fern Riddell, Death in Ten Minutes: Kitty Marion: Activist, Arsonist, Suffragette – 2018 Diane Atkinson, Rise Up Women!: The Remarkable Lives of the Suffragettes – 2018 Tracy Chevalier, Falling Angels – 2001 (FICTION) Juliet Kerrigan, Match Girls – 2013 Jacqueline Riding, Peterloo: The Story of the Manchester Massacre – 2019 Bobbie Kalman, 19th Century Girls and Women – 1997 TV & Film Podcasts 