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Victorian Cities: Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham, Middlesbrough, Melbourne, London

By Asa Briggs

The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

By Heather McGhee

City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles

By Mike Davis

Cambridge University - An 800th Anniversary Portrait

By Peter Pagnamenta, Matt Wilson

A People Betrayed: A History of Corruption, Political Incompetence and Social Division in Modern Spain 1874-2018

By Paul Preston

Milk: An Intimate History of Breastfeeding

By Joanna Wolfarth

Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World

By Malcolm Harris

The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House

By Kate Andersen Brower

Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia

By David Graeber

Edible Economics: The World in 17 Dishes

By Ha-Joon Chang

An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo

By Richard Davenport-Hines

An Encyclopaedia of Myself

By Jonathan Meades

The Great Tamasha: Cricket, Corruption and the Turbulent Rise of Modern India

By James Astill

Official History, Notts County, 1862-1995

By Tony Brown

A Hero for High Times: A Younger Reader's Guide to the Beats, Hippies, Freaks, Punks, Ravers, New-Age Travellers and Dog-on-a-Rope Brew Crew Crusties of the British Isles, 1956-1994

By Ian Marchant

Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD

By Martin A. Lee

In Search of the Lost Chord: 1967 and the Hippie Idea

By Danny Goldberg

International Development and the Social Sciences: Essays on the History and Politics of Knowledge

By Frederick Cooper, Randall M. Packard

Rich Relations: The American Occupation of Britain, 1942-1945

By David Reynolds

Contesting Markets: Anthropology of Ideology, Discourse and Practice

By Roy Dilley

The Rebel's Dilemma

By Mark I. Lichbach

The Lost Decade: 2010–2020, and What Lies Ahead for Britain

By Toynbee, Polly, Walker, David

The 1930s

By Ammonite Press

Floodlights and Touchlines: A History of Spectator Sport

By Rob Steen

Religion in Britain Since 1945: Believing without Belonging (Making Contemporary Britain)

By Davie, Grace

Nothing to Envy: Real Lives in North Korea

By Demick, Barbara, Barbara Demick

Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident

By Donnie Eichar

Elizabeth: The Queen and the crown

By Sarah Gristwood

America

By Willie Thompson, etc., et al

Staring at God: Britain in the Great War

By Simon Heffer