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Freedom for Publishing, Publishing for Freedom

By Timothy Garton Ash

The Promise of the New South

By Edward L. Ayers

Forgotten Voices of the Somme: The Most Devastating Battle of the Great War in the Words of Those Who Survived

By Joshua Levine

Forbidden Britain

By Humphries, Steve, Gordon, Pamela

101 Things You Need to Know About Suffragettes

By Professor Maggie Andrews, Dr Janis Lomas

The Common People: A History from the Norman Conquest to the Present

By J. F. C. Harrison

The Most Powerful Idea in the World: A Story of Steam, Industry and Invention

By William Rosen

Confronting Crime: An American Challenge

By Elliott Currie

Taking Account of Crime: Key Findings from the 2nd British Crime Survey

By Great Britain: Home Office

Adorned in Dreams: Fashion and Modernity

By Elizabeth Wilson

Stalin's Music Prize: Soviet Culture and Politics

By Marina Frolova-Walker

Civil Resistance and Power Politics: The Experience of Non-violent Action from Gandhi to the Present

By Adam Roberts (Professor, Emeritus Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford), Timothy Garton Ash (Professor of European Studies at the University of Oxford and Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St Antony's College

The Penguin Book of Witches

By Katherine Howe

1990: Russians Remember a Turning Point

By Irina Prokhorova, Dr Arch Tait

Russia in Revolution: An Empire in Crisis, 1890 to 1928

By S. A. Smith (Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford; Professor of History, University of Oxford)

Well Ordered Police State: Social and Institutional Change Through Law in the Germanies and Russia, 1600-1800

By Marc Raeff

Wild Europe: The Balkans in the Gaze of Western Travellers

By Bozidar Jezernik

The Past is Before Us: Feminism in Action Since the 1960's

By Sheila Rowbotham

The Lost Pianos of Siberia: A Sunday Times Paperback of 2021

By Sophy Roberts

The Romans: An Introduction

By Antony Kamm

Daily Life in the Roman City: Rome, Pompeii, and Ostia

By Gregory S. Aldrete (University of Wisconsin - Green Bay, USA)

Introduction to the Romans: The History, Culture and Art of the Roman Empire

By Lesley Adkins, Roy A. Adkins

Emperors and Gladiators

By Thomas Wiedemann

Cruelty and Civilization: The Roman Games

By Roland Auguet

Scotch Missed: Lost Distilleries of Scotland

By Brian Townsend

Luxury and power: Persia to Greece

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

100 People You Never Knew Were at Bletchley Park

By Sinclair McKay

Captain Swing

By Eric Hobsbawm, George Rude

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

By John Green

The Haves and Have-Yachts: Dispatches on the Ultrarich

By Evan Osnos