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Matron on Call: More true stories of a 1960s NHS nurse

By Woodcock, Joan

Health, Hedonism and Hypochondria: The Hidden History of Spas

By Bradley, Ian

Totem Poles Bh (Museum note / U.B.C. Museum of Anthropology)

By Halpin

Fieldnotes: The Makings of Anthropology (Writings of James Fenimore Cooper)

By Roger Sanjek

Tropics of Discourse: Essays in Cultural Criticism

By White, Hayden

Athenian Democracy

By Jones, A. H. M.

The Roman Family (Ancient Society and History)

By Dixon, Suzanne

Frontiers of the Roman Empire: A Social and Economic Study (Ancient Society and History)

By Whittaker, Mr. C. R.

The Machine in America: A Social History of Technology

By Pursell, Carroll

Revolution Day: The Real Story of the Battle for Iraq

By Rageh Omaar

The Stuff of Life: Public Health in Edwardian Britain

By William Hatchett, Stuart Spear

Early Victorian Britain: 1832-51

By J. F. C. Harrison

Plague: A Very Short Introduction

By Paul Slack (Emeritus Professor of Early Modern Social History, Oxford University)

Romney Marsh in Old Photographs

By Edward Carpenter

Reading Shenbao: Nationalism, Consumerism and Individuality in China 1919-37

By W. Tsai

The Perils of Prosperity, 1914-1932

By William E. Leuchtenburg

Upstairs and Downstairs

By Sarah Warwick

Swindled: From Poison Sweets to Counterfeit Coffee - The Dark History of the Food Cheats

By Bee Wilson

Vuelta Skelter: Riding the Remarkable 1941 Tour of Spain

By Tim Moore

Among the Bohemians: Experiments in Living 1900-1939

By Virginia Nicholson

Scoff: A History of Food and Class in Britain

By Pen Vogler

The Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings

By Neil Price

Kitty Genovese: A True Account of a Public Murder and Its Private Consequences

By Catherine Pelonero

A History Of Scotland

By Neil Oliver

Tomb Builders of the Pharaohs

By M.L. Bierbrier

Overpaid, Oversexed and Over There: How a Few Skinny Brits with Bad Teeth Rocked America

By David Hepworth

History of King Alfred's College, Winchester, 1840-1980

By Martial Rose

Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn and the Marriage That Shook Europe

By John Guy, Julia Fox

Hegel: Elements of the Philosophy of Right (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)

By Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Fredrich

The Mad Emperor: Heliogabalus and the Decadence of Rome

By Harry Sidebottom