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Under Every Leaf: How Britain Played the Greater Game from Afghanistan to Africa

By William Beaver

Community, Empire and Migration: South Asians in Diaspora

By Crispin Bates

A Merciless Place: The Lost Story of Britain's Convict Disaster in Africa

By Emma Christopher (Australian Research Council Fellow, University of Sydney)

Gresford: The Anatomy of a Disaster

By Stanley Williamson

William Blake vs the World

By John Higgs

Breaking the Chains: Slavery and Its Legacy in the Nineteenth-century Cape Colony

By Nigel Worden, Clifton C. Crais

The Home Front: Civilian Life in World War Two

By Cooksley, Peter G. Cooksley

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

By Robert Shell

The Ancient Olympic Games

By Judith Swaddling

A New World: England's First View of America

By Kim Sloan

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

By Lisa Wingate, Judy Christie

The Anatomy of Manchester United: A History in Ten Matches

By Jonathan Wilson, Jonathan Wilson Ltd

The Woman's Hour

By Elaine Weiss

Young Elizabeth: The Making of our Queen

By Kate Williams

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

By Greg Jenner

Rations: A Very Peculiar History

By David Arscott

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

By Anne Sebba

Antigone Rising: The Subversive Power of the Ancient Myths

By Helen Morales

One Morning In Sarajevo: The true story of the assassination that changed the world

By David James Smith

Thoroughly Modern: The pioneering life of Barbara Ker-Seymer, photographer, and her brilliant Bohemian friends

By Sarah Knights

One Morning In Sarajevo: The true story of the assassination that changed the world

By David James Smith

Two Brothers

By Jonathan Wilson

Two Brothers

By Jonathan Wilson

A Balkan Summer

By George East

Dancing into Battle: A Social History of the Battle of Waterloo

By Nicholas Foulkes

My History: A Memoir of Growing Up

By Lady Antonia Fraser

The Duff Cooper Diaries: 1915-1951

By Lord John Julius Norwich

At Day's Close: A History of Nighttime

By Professor A. Roger Ekirch

Fighting Fit: The Wartime Battle for Britain's Health

By Laura Dawes

Dangerous Days in Ancient Egypt: Pyramids, Plagues, Gods and Grave-Robbers

By Terry Deary