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Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam-Power and the Roots of Global Warming

By Andreas Malm

The Empire of Climate: A History of an Idea

By David N. Livingstone

The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions

By Jason Hickel

Lest We Forget: Remembrance & Commemoration

By Professor Maggie Andrews, Nigel Hunt, Charles Bagot Jewitt

The Italians

By John Hooper

The Creators: A History of Heroes of the Imagination

By Daniel J. Boorstin

The Sixties

By Jenny Diski

Government and Politics of Britain (Hutchinson university library)

By John P. Mackintosh

Life in the Country House: A Historical Dictionary

By David N. Durant

A Dancer in Wartime: The touching true story of a young girl's journey from the Blitz to the Bright Lights

By Gillian Lynne

The Optician of Lampedusa

By Emma Jane Kirby

Modern Britain: A Social History, 1750-1985

By Edward Royle

The English Renaissance: An Anthology of Sources and Documents

By Kate Aughterson

Romantic Affinities: Portraits from an Age, 1780-1830

By Rupert Christiansen

The Elizabethan Underworld

By Gamini Salgado

Thames: Sacred River

By Ackroyd, Peter

Out of this Century - Confessions of an Art Addict: The Autobiography of Peggy Guggenheim

By Peggy Guggenheim, Gore Vidal

The Head Gardeners

By Toby Musgrave

The Swerve: How the Renaissance Began

By Stephen Greenblatt

Eminent Edwardians: Four figures who defined their age: Northcliffe, Balfour, Pankhurst, Baden-Powell

By Piers Brendon

Childhood at Court 1819-1914

By John Van der Kiste

Rogue Male: Sabotage and seduction behind German lines with Geoffrey Gordon-Creed, DSO, MC

By Roger Field And Geoffrey Gordo, N Creed

A Lady of Cotton: Hannah Greg, Mistress of Quarry Bank Mill

By David Sekers

Berlin: Coming in from the Cold

By Ken Smith

The Bank of England: Money, Power, and Influence 1694-1994

By Richard Roberts (Lecturer in Economic History, Lecturer in Economic History, University of Sussex), David Kynaston

The Journey of Humanity: The Origins of Wealth and Inequality

By Oded Galor

A Social History of Nineteenth Century France, 1815-1914

By Roger Price

The Future of Medical Journals: In Commemoration of 50 Years of the "British Medical Journal"

By Lock, Stephen

Curious Survivals

By Williamson, George C.

A Short History of Caravans in the UK: The Essential Love ’Em or Hate ’Em Guide

By Hammond, Richard