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Compacts and Cosmetics: Beauty from Victorian Times to the Present Day

By Madeleine Marsh

The Penguin Book of Modern Speeches

By MacArthur, Brian

Our Woman in Havana: Reporting Castro's Cuba

By Sarah Rainsford

Captain Swing

By Eric J. Hobsbawm, George F. E. Rudé

North of the DMZ: Essays on Daily Life in North Korea

By Andrei Lankov

Food and Drink in Antiquity: A Sourcebook: Readings from the Graeco-Roman World

By John Donahue

When They Go Low, We Go High: Speeches That Shape the World - and Why We Need Them

By Collins, Philip, Philip Collins

A History of Women in 101 Objects: A Walk Through Female History

By Annabelle Hirsch

Chopin's Piano: A Journey through Romanticism

By Paul Kildea

Popular Music in England 1840-1914: A Social History

By Dave Russell

OLD STAGERS: Canterbury, Cricket and Theatricals

By RICHARD. RITCHIE

Witches and Witch-Hunts: A Global History

By Wolfgang Behringer

Russia in the Age of Peter the Great

By Lindsey Hughes

Battle of Brothers: You’ve heard from one side – now read the full, true story of the royal family in crisis

By Lacey, Robert

Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America

By Kerby A. Miller

Pepper: A History of the World's Most Influential Spice

By Marjorie Shaffer

On Monsters: An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears

By Stephen T. Asma

The Windrush Betrayal: Exposing the Hostile Environment

By Gentleman, Amelia

Folkestone in Old Photographs: A Second Selection

By Alan F. Taylor, Eamonn D. Rooney

Ultimate Risk

By Adam Raphael

Talking Cure: Mind and Method of the Tavistock Clinic

By David Taylor

The Long History of Old Age

By Pat Thane

The Pottery Gardener: Flowers and Hens at the Emma Bridgewater Factory

By Arthur Parkinson, Emma Bridgewater

1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: The story of two lives, one nation, and a century of art under tyranny

By Ai Weiwei

Young Voices: British Children Remember the Second World War

By Lyn Smith, The Imperial War Museum

The Story of Wales

By Jon Gower

Darwin and the Emergence of Evolutionary Theories of Mind and Behavior

By Robert J. Richards

This Land was Theirs: A Study of North American Indians

By Wendell H. Oswalt, Sharlotte Neely

The Cossacks

By Shane O'Rourke

Life in Ancient Britain

By Brian Williams