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In Search of the Immortals: Mummies, Death and the Afterlife

By Reid, Howard

Belt and Buckle: An Hilarious Tale of a West Country Boyhood

By Dyer, Toby, Younger, Gill

British Cinema: the Lights That Failed

By Park, James

William Shakespeare: The Extraordinary Life of the Most Successful Writer of all Time

By Gurr, Andrew

Stranger in the House: Women's Stories of Men Returning from the Second World War

By Summers, Julie

They Also Serve: The real life story of my time in service as a butler

By Quinn, Tom

The Sugar Girls: Tales of Hardship, Love and Happiness in Tate & Lyle's East End: Tales of Hardship, Love and Happiness in Tate & Lyle’s East End

By Duncan Barrett, Barrett, Duncan, Calvi, Nuala

Late Victorian Britain, 1875-1901

By Harrison, J. F. C.

The Roman World 44 BC-AD 180 (The Routledge History of the Ancient World)

By Goodman, Martin, Martin Goodman

Plague Pox and Pestilence: Disease in History

By Kiple, Dr Kenneth

A Local Habitation, Life & times volume 1 1918 - 1940 (Oxford Letters & Memoirs - Paperback)

By Hoggart, Richard

Atlas of British Social and Economic History Since c.1700

By Pope, Mr Rex, Rex

The Roman Empire: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

By Kelly, Christopher

Turbulent, Seditious and Factious People: John Bunyan and His Church, 1628-88 (Oxford paperbacks)

By Hill, Christopher

Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male Power

By Oluo, Ijeoma

Scoff: A History of Food and Class in Britain

By Vogler, Pen

Black against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party (The George Gund Foundation Imprint in African American Studies)

By Bloom, Joshua

The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness 1680-1790

By Robertson, Ritchie

An Edible History of Humanity

By Standage, Tom

American Slavery: 1619-1877

By Kolchin, Peter

Hunger History: Food Shortage, Proverty, and Deprivation (Food Shortage, Poverty and Deprivation)

By F. Newman, Lucile

Contours of Death and Disease in Early Modern England: 29 (Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time, Series Number 29)

By Dobson, Mary J.

Women and Families: An Oral History 1940-1970 (Family, Sexuality and Social Relations in Past Times)

By Roberts, Elizabeth

How We Lived Then: A History of Everyday Life During the Second World War

By Longmate, Norman

This Civilisation is Finished: Conversations on the end of Empire - and what lies beyond

By Read, Rupert, Alexander, Samuel

Contagion: How Commerce Has Spread Disease

By Harrison, Mark

The Beauty and the Terror: An Alternative History of the Italian Renaissance

By Fletcher, Catherine

Eating the Enlightenment: Food and the Sciences in Paris, 1670-1760

By Spary, E. C.

Colonial Lives of Property: Law, Land, and Racial Regimes of Ownership (Global and Insurgent Legalities)

By Brenna Bhandar

The Demographic Transition: Stages, Patterns, and Economic Implications

By Chesnais, Jean-Claude, Kreager, Elizabeth, Philip