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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

The English Town: A History of Urban Life

By Girouard, M

From the Gracchi to Nero: A History of Rome 133 BC to AD 68

By Scullard, H. H.

Life in Roman Britain (Gatekeeper Series)

By McAleavy, Tony

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

By Hoggart, Richard

Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy

By Ehrenreich, Barbara

Atlas of British Social and Economic History Since c.1700

By Pope, Mr Rex, Rex

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

By Bloom, Joshua

A Concise History of World Population, 5th Edition

By Livi-Bacci, Massimo

The Making of a Social Disease: Tuberculosis in Nineteenth-Century France

By Barnes, David S.

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

Dreadful Visitations: Confronting Natural Catastrophe in the Age of Enlightenment

By JOHNS, Alessa

Contagion: How Commerce Has Spread Disease

By Harrison, Mark

Fighting Fit: The Wartime Battle for Britain's Health

By Laura Dawes

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

The Life and Death of Ancient Cities: A Natural History

By Woolf, Greg

Humanology: A Scientist’s Guide to our Amazing Existence

By O'Neill, Luke

White Supremacy: A Comparative Study of American and South African History

By Fredrickson, George M.

Black Privilege: Modern Middle-Class Blacks with Credentials and Cash to Spend (Culture and Economic Life)

By Cassi Pittman Claytor