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A Thing in Disguise: The Visionary Life of Joseph Paxton

By Kate Colquhoun

Europe: History in the Making, 1870-1966

By Richard Fogarty

Keep Smiling Through: My Wartime Story

By Dame Vera Lynn, Virginia Lewis-Jones

Hidden World of the Naga, The: Living Traditions in Northeast India and Burma (includes Audio Cd)

By Aglaja Stirn, Peter van Ham

Dan Cruickshank’s Bridges: Heroic Designs that Changed the World

By Cruickshank, Dan

Left Bank: Art, Passion and the Rebirth of Paris 1940-1950

By Agnes Poirier

Heath Robinson: On Sport

By William Heath Robinson

Culture and Society in the Asia-Pacific

By Colin Mackerras, Richard Maidment

In Pursuit of Civility: Manners and Civilization in Early Modern England

By Keith Thomas

Francis Frith's Down the Severn

By Clive Hardy, Francis Frith

The Rest is History: The official book from the makers of the hit podcast

By Goalhanger Podcasts, Dr Tom Holland, Dominic Sandbrook

Democracy: A Life

By Cartledge, Paul

Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes: The Story of Women in the 1950s

By Virginia Nicholson

Lytton Strachey: The New Biography

By Michael Holroyd

I Met Lucky People: The Story of the Romani Gypsies

By Yaron Matras

The End of Science: Facing the Limits of Knowledge in the Twilight of the Scientific Age

By Horgan, John

The Berbers: The Peoples of Africa

By Michael Brett (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London), Elizabeth Fentress (School of Oriental and African Studies

Shakespeare in Swahililand: Adventures with the Ever-Living Poet

By Edward Wilson-Lee

Women and Politics in Uganda: The Challenge of Associational Autonomy

By Aili Mari Tripp (Royalty Account)

The British Book Trade: An Oral History

By Sue Bradley

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano

By olaudah equiano, Angelo Costanzo

The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution

By C.L.R. James, David Scott Scott

The Soul of Success: Inspiring Quotations for Entrepreneurs

By Janet Cheatham Bell, Dennis Kimbro

In Black and White: Prints from Africa and the Diaspora

By Gill Saunders, Zoe Whitley

The Greek Pursuit of Knowledge

By Brunschwig, Jacques, Lloyd, Sir Geoffrey E. R., Porter, Catherine

African Art: Close-Up

By Spring, Chris

African Art (World of Art S.)

By Willett, Frank

Ladies of Influence: Women of the Elite in Interwar Britain

By A. Susan Williams

The Colonisation of Time: Ritual, Routine and Resistance in the British Empire

By Giordano Nanni

Disciplines in the Making: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Elites, Learning, and Innovation

By Lloyd, G. E. R.