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The Country House Kitchen Garden

By C. Anne Wilson

Jack Nastyface: Memoirs of an English Seaman

By William Robinson, Oliver Warner, George Cruikshank

Future Perfect: The Case For Progress In A Networked Age

By Johnson, Steven

The End of Enlightenment: Empire, Commerce, Crisis

By Richard Whatmore

Houses and Society in Pompeii and Herculaneum

By Andrew Wallace-Hadrill

Evolution: A Very Short Introduction

By Brian Charlesworth (Institute of Cell, Animal and Population Biology at the University of Edinburgh), Deborah Charlesworth (Professor in the ICABP at Edinburgh)

Scotch Missed: Lost Distilleries of Scotland

By Brian Townsend

The Workhouse: A Social History

By Norman Longmate

Broadmoor Revealed: Victorian Crime and the Lunatic Asylum

By Mark Stevens

Legendary Ladies: 50 Goddesses to Empower and Inspire You

By Ann Shen

The Forging of the Modern State: Early Industrial Britain 1783-1870

By Eric Evans

The Discovery of France

By Graham Robb

Food Worth Fighting for: From Food Riots to Food Banks

By Josh Sutton

The Haves and Have-Yachts: Dispatches on the Ultrarich

By Evan Osnos

Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

By John Green

Captain Swing

By Eric Hobsbawm, George Rude

100 People You Never Knew Were at Bletchley Park

By Sinclair McKay

Luxury and power: Persia to Greece

By James Fraser, Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, Henry Bishop-Wright

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano

By olaudah equiano, Angelo Costanzo

Les Parisiennes: How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved and Died in the 1940s

By Anne Sebba

Rations: A Very Peculiar History

By David Arscott

A Million Years in a Day: A Curious History of Daily Life

By Greg Jenner

Young Elizabeth: The Making of our Queen

By Kate Williams

The Woman's Hour

By Elaine Weiss

The Anatomy of Manchester United: A History in Ten Matches

By Jonathan Wilson, Jonathan Wilson Ltd

Before and After: the heartbreaking true stories of a notorious adoption scandal

By Lisa Wingate, Judy Christie

A New World: England's First View of America

By Kim Sloan

The Ancient Olympic Games

By Judith Swaddling

Children of Bondage: A Social History of the Slave Society at the Cape of Good Hope, 1652-1838

By Robert Shell

The Home Front: Civilian Life in World War Two

By Cooksley, Peter G. Cooksley