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History 220: Modern Britain

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In the Rolvaag Reference Room

Britain in the Hanoverian Age, 1714-1837
Call Number: Rolvaag Ref: DA480 .B75 1997
Encyclopedia of the Victorian Era
Call Number: Rolvaag Ref: DA550 .E527 2004
Twentieth-Century Britain: An Encyclopedia
Call Number: Rolvaag Ref: DA566 .T835 1995