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Understanding Roman Inscriptions

By Lawrence Keppie

The Oxford Companion to the Book: 2 Volumes

By Michael Suarez SJ (University of Virginia)

The "Radio Times" Story

By Tony Currie

Consider England

By Proud, Linda, Petts, Valerie

Oranges and Sunshine

By Margaret Humphreys

A Cabinet of Roman Curiosities: Strange Tales and Surprising Facts from the World's Greatest Empire

By J. C. McKeown (Professor of Classics, Professor of Classics, University of Wisconsin, Madison)

Crete: The Battle and the Resistance

By Antony Beevor

The British in India: Three Centuries of Ambition and Experience

By David Gilmour

The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company

By John Keay

Eating with the Victorians

By C. Anne Wilson, Tom Jaine

Cardiff & the Vale in the First World War

By Phil Carradice

Books on Fire:The Tumultuous Story of the World's Great Libraries: The Tumultuous Story of the World's Great Libraries

By Lucien X Polastron

William Burges

By Matthew Williams

Trowbridge in Old Photographs

By Michael Marshman

A Point of View

By James, Clive

Forgotten Voices of the Blitz and the Battle For Britain: A New History in the Words of the Men and Women on Both Sides

By Levine, Joshua

Home: A Time Traveller's Tales from Britain's Prehistory

By Francis Pryor

The Corpse Walker: Real Life Stories: China From the Bottom Up

By Liao Yiwu

A History of the Book in 100 Books

By Roderick Cave, Sara Ayad

Comanches: The History of a People

By T. R. Fehrenbach

Danubia: A Personal History of Habsburg Europe

By Simon Winder

Hot Flushes, Cold Science: A History Of The Modern Menopause

By Louise Foxcroft

British Chimney Sweeps: Five Centuries of Chimney Sweeping

By Benita Cullingford

Back to the Broads: Britain in Old Photographs

By David Holmes

Critical Ethnic Studies: A Reader

By Nada Elia, David M. Hernandez, Jodi Kim, Shana L. Redmond, Dylan Rodriguez

Sorrow of the Earth: Buffalo Bill, Sitting Bull and the Tragedy of Show Business

By Eric Vuillard, Ann Jefferson

My Secret Sister: Jenny Lucas and Helen Edwards' family story

By Helen Edwards, Jenny Lee Smith

Soul of the City: The Pike Place Public Market

By Alice Shorett, Murray Morgan

Coyer and the Enlightenment: 1974

By Leonard Adams

Protected Children, Regulated Mothers: Gender and the "gypsy Question" in State Care in Postwar Hungary, 1949-1956

By Eszter Varsa