Social & Cultural History

Carpe Diem Regained: The Vanishing Art of Seizing the Day

By Roman Krznaric

Army Wives: From Crimea to Afghanistan: the Real Lives of the Women Behind the Men in Uniform

By Midge Gillies

Doctor's Occupation

By John Lewis

Keep the Flag Flying

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Desperate Romantics

By Moyle, Franny

The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall 1477-1806

By Jonathan Israel (Professor of Dutch History and Institutions, Professor of Dutch History and Institutions, University of London)

Once Upon a Number: The Hidden Mathematical Logic of Stories

By John Allen Paulos

Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother: Stories of Loss and Love

By Xinran, Nicky Harman

LONDON PAST

Pon My Puff!: A Childhood in 1920s Isle of Wight

By Dr. Charles M Lansley, Peter Stark Lansley

The Lost Fortune Of The Tsars

By William Clarke

How the French Think: An Affectionate Portrait of an Intellectual People

By Sudhir Hazareesingh

An Edwardian Childhood

By Jane Pettigrew

Primate Change: How the world we made is remaking us

By Vybarr Cregan-Reid

The Happy Valley

Eve: How The Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution

By Cat Bohannon

The BBC: A People's History

By David Hendy

Absent Minds: Intellectuals in Britain

By Stefan Collini (Professor of Intellectual History and English Literature, University of Cambridge)

How a Century of War Changed the Lives of Women

By Lindsey German

Engines of Privilege: Britain's Private School Problem

By David Kynaston, Francis Green

Black Tudors: The Untold Story

By Kaufmann, Miranda

From Childhood to Chivalry: The Education of the English Kings and Aristocracy 1066-1530

By Nicholas Orme

Lark Rise to Candleford: A Trilogy - Lark Rise; Over to Candleford; Candleford Green (Modern Classics)

By Thompson, Flora, Massingham, H., Flora Thompson

50 Big Ideas You Really Need to Know (50 Ideas)

By Ben Dupre

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