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Remember the Sixties

The Spitfire Kids: The generation who built, supported and flew Britain's most beloved fighter

By Cross, Alasdair, BBC Worldwide

Great Parliamentary Scandals: Five Centuries of Calumny, Smear and Innuendo

By Parris, Matthew

When We Were Young: A Compendium of Childhood

By John Burningham

Jumbo: The Unauthorised Biography of a Victorian Sensation

By Sutherland, John

Everything You Know About London is Wrong

By Brown, Matt

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive

By Diamond, Jared

Plymouth's Historic Barbican

By Robinson, Chris

The Design and Construction of the British Library

By Wilson, Colin St. John

Caithness to Patagonia: Distant Lands and Close Relatives

By Leith, Ian

Literary Tour of Gloucestershire and Bristol

By Carroll, David

Estuary: Out from London to the Sea

By Lichtenstein, Rachel

PERO: The Life of a Slave in Eighteenth-Century Bristol

By Eickelmann, Christine, Small, David

Life in the Mill

By Burton, Anthony

The Georgian Bawdyhouse (Shire Library)

By Brand, Emily

Austerity Britain: A World to Build

By Kynaston, David

An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo

By Davenport-Hines

The Times On This Day: Facts and trivia for every day of the year

By Owen, James, Times Books

A Little History Of The English Country Church

By Strong, Roy

The Spirit Of Britain

By Strong, Sir Roy

A Journey Through Ruins: The Last Days of London

By Wright, Patrick

Out of Time: 1966 and the End of Old-Fashioned Britain (Wisden Sports Writing)

By Chapman, Peter

Empires and Barbarians: Migration, Development and the Birth of Europe

By Heather, Peter

Plague, Population and the English Economy 1348-1530 (Studies in economic & social history)

By Hatcher, John

King Death: The Black Death And Its Aftermath In Late-Medieval England

By Platt, Colin

To Be Someone

By Ian Stone

How to Survive a Plague: The Story of How Activists and Scientists Tamed AIDS

By France, David

The Oxford History of the British Empire: The Origins of the Empire

By Louis, William Roger, Marshall, P. J., Canny, Nicholas

The Science Of Discworld II: The Globe: 2

By Stewart, Ian, Cohen, Jack, Pratchett, Terry

A Governess in the Age of Jane Austen: The Journals and Letters of Agnes Porter

By Porter, Ann Agnes