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The Cartoon History of the Universe: Volumes 1-7: From the Big Bang to Alexander the Great

By Larry Gonick

Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Uniforms of the Roman World: A Detailed Study of the Armies of Rome and Their Enemies, Including the Etruscans, Sam

By Kevin F. Kiley

Atlas of Improbable Places: A Journey to the World's Most Unusual Corners

By Travis Elborough

Dundrennan Abbey

By Dave Pollock

Antique Maps

By David Bannister, Carl Moreland

The Oxford Classical Dictionary

By Hornblower, Simon, Spawforth, Antony

Penguin Book of Hindu Names

By Maneka Gandhi

Tyrants: History's 100 Most Evil Despots and Dictators

By Nigel Cawthorn

A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century World History (Oxford Paperback Reference)

By Palmowski, Jan

British Warships and Auxiliaries: 2003/04

By Mike Critchley

Taking the Piss: A Potted History of Pee

By Adam Hart-Davis, Emily Troscianko

Thunder, Flush and Thomas Crapper: An Encycloopedia

By Adam Hart-Davis

101 Things for The Housewife to do in 1949

By B. Lille

Who's Who in Late Hanoverian Britain

By Geoffrey Treasure

The Little Wonder: The Remarkable History of Wisden

By Robert Winder

Dictionary of English and European History, 1485-1789

By Williams, E., E.N. Williams

When, Where, Why and How it Happened (Readers Digest)

By Reader's Digest

Medicine's Strangest Cases: Extraordinary but true stories from over five centuries of medical history

By O'Donnell, Michael

The Timetables of History: A Horizontal Linkage of People and Events

By Bernard Grun, Eva Simpson

The Cromwellian Gazetteer: An Illustrated Guide to Britain in the Civil War and Commonwealth

By Peter Gaunt

Men of War: The Changing Face of Heroism in the 19th Century Navy

By David Crane

The History of Syphilis

By Claude Quetel (Historian and Researcher, Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, France), Judith Braddock, Brian Pike

The Classical Tradition

By Anthony Grafton, Glenn W. Most, salvatore Settis

The Penguin Dictionary of First Names (Penguin Reference)

By Pickering, David

Mammoth Book of British Kings and Queens

By Michael Ashley

21 Lessons for the 21st Century

By Harari, Yuval Noah

1001 Battles That Changed The Course of History

By R G Grant

"Sunday Times" Illustrated History of Football

By Chris Nawrat, Steve Hutchings

An Encyclopedia of Small Antiques

By James A MacKay

Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything

By Lydia Kang, Nate Pedersen