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The Thirties: An Intimate History of Britain

By Gardiner, Juliet

Problems of Everyday Life: And Other Writings on Culture and Science

By Leon Trotsky

The Offshore Islanders: A History of the English People

By Paul Johnson

The Story of England

By Michael Wood

Being British: The Search for the Values That Bind the Nation

By Matthew d'Ancona, Gordon Brown

Country House Society: The Private Lives of England's Upper Class After the First World War

By Pamela Horn

Garlands, Conkers and Mother-Die: British and Irish Plant-Lore

By Roy Vickery

The Much-lamented Death of Madam Geneva: The Eighteenth-century Gin Craze

By Patrick Dillon

1970s Britain: 1970-1979

By Janet Shepherd, John Shepherd

Bloc Life: Stories from the Lost World of Communism

By Peter Molloy

On a Chinese Screen

By W. Somerset Maugham, H.J. Lethbridge

Tribes: A Search for Belonging in a Divided Society

By David Lammy

Carpe Diem Regained: The Vanishing Art of Seizing the Day

By Roman Krznaric

Rational Optimist

By ridley-matt, Ridley, Matt

Early Business Contacts

By Nick Brieger, Jeremy Comfort

Women of the 1960s

By Sheila Hardy

Bachelor Girl: The Secret History of Single Women in the 20th Century

By Betsy Israel

Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing

By Melissa Mohr

Culture and Imperialism

By Said, Edward W

The Reinvention of Humanity: A Story of Race, Sex, Gender and the Discovery of Culture

By Charles King

The Female Eunuch

By Dr. Germaine Greer

More Than A Game: The Story of Cricket's Early Years

By Major, John

Early Broadstairs and St. Peter's in Old Photographs

By Barrie Wootton

Growing Up: Sex in the Sixties

By Peter Doggett

The Bin Ladens: Oil, Money, Terrorism and the Secret Saudi World

By Steve Coll

Photography, Humanitarianism, Empire

By Jane Lydon

Curry: A Tale of Cooks and Conquerors

By Lizzie Collingham

Love Among the Ruins: A memoir of life and love in Hamburg, 1945

By Harry Leslie Smith

Aristocrats: Caroline, Emily, Louisa and Sarah Lennox 1740 - 1832

By Stella Tillyard

1215: The Year of Magna Carta

By Danziger, Danny, Gillingham, John, Danziger, Danny