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Art, Culture, and Cuisine: Ancient and Medieval Gastronomy

By Phyllis Pray Bober

The Celts

By John Davies

The Insect That Stole Butter?

By Julia Cresswell

Trellech 2000: An Account of Life in Trellech and Catbrook at the Start of the New Millenium

By Julian.W.T. Wimpenny

Oxford A Level History for AQA: Industrialisation and the People: Britain c1783-1885

By Sally Waller, Ailsa Fortune

A Lifetime of Mountains: The Best of A.Harry Griffin's 'Country Diary'

By A.H. Griffin, Martin Wainwright

Idle Hands: The Experience of Unemployment, 1790-1990

By Proffessor John Burnett, John Burnett

Victorian Shopping

By Maurice E. Baren

The English Marriage

By Maureen Waller

Slaves and Slavery: The British Colonial Experience

By James Walvin

Popular Cultures in England 1550-1750

By Barry Reay

Bad Land

By Jonathan Raban, Raban

Life in Roman Britain

By Joan P. Alcock

The Story of Wine

By Hugh Johnson

A Brief History of Pasta: The Italian Food that Shaped the World

By Luca Cesari, Johanna Bishop (Translator)

The Artist, The Philosopher and The Warrior

By Paul Strathern

Tales From When I Were A Lad: More snapshots from a time that Health & Safety forgot

By Davies, Andrew

Consuming Passions: Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian Britain

By Flanders, Judith

The Making of Home: The 500-year story of how our houses became homes

By Judith Flanders

Fighting on the Home Front: The Legacy of Women in World War One

By Kate Adie

Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War 1929-1945

By David M. Kennedy (Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History, Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History, Stanford University)

The Motor Men

By Peter King

Rules of Desire: Sex in Britain, World War I to the Present

By Cate Haste

Women Artists: Recognition and Reappraisal from the Early Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century

By Karen Petersen, J. J. Wilson

Art of the Renaissance Courts

By Alison Cole

Roughing it in the Suburbs: Reading Chatelaine Magazine in the Fifties and Sixties

By Valerie J. Korinek

The Lewis Chessmen: Objects in Focus series

By Robinson, James

Food and Feast in Medieval England

By Peter Hammond

Cod

By Mark Kurlansky

Diamonds and Precious Stones

By Patrick Voillot, Jack Hawkes