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The People's Victory: Ve Day Through the Eyes of Those Who Were There

By Lucy Noakes

The CIA Book Club

By Charlie English

A History of the World in Six Plagues

By Edna Bonhomme

All the Rage: Pleasure, Pain, Power: Stories from the Frontline of Beauty 1860-1960

By Virginia Nicholson

A Brief History of the End of the F*cking World

By Tom Phillips

When I Passed the Statue of Liberty I Became Black

By Harry Edward

Twenty Chickens for a Saddle: The Story of an African Childhood

By Robyn Scott

The Day Kennedy Died: A Snapshot of the Sixties

By Reg Grant

The Bundesbank: Germany's Central Bank in the International Monetary System

By Ellen Kennedy

Future of Nostalgia

By Boym, Svetlana

After The Victorians

By Wilson, A.N.

The East End: Four Centuries of London Life

By Alan Warwick Palmer

Philosophers of Peace and War: Kant, Clausewitz, Marx, Engles and Tolstoy

By W. B. Gallie

The Secret War: Spies, Codes and Guerrillas 1939–1945

By Hastings, Max

Treason: Famous English Treason Trials

By Alan Wharam

Cold War

By Jeremy Isaacs, Taylor Downing

The Black Hole: Money, Myth and Empire

By Jan Dalley

The Awful End of Prince William the Silent: The First Assassination of a Head of State with a Hand-Gun

By Jardine, Lisa

Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

By Yuval Noah Harari

In Search of Stones: A Pilgrimage of Faith, Reason and Discovery

By Peck, M. Scott

The Killer of Little Shepherds: The Case of the French Ripper and the Birth of Forensic Science

By Douglas Starr

Censored: A Literary History of Subversion and Control

By Matthew Fellion, Katherine Inglis

Common Reading: Critics, Historians, Publics

By Stefan Collini

The People's Peace: British History, 1945-1990

By Kenneth O. Morgan

What We Really Do All Day: Insights from the Centre for Time Use Research (Pelican Books)

By Gershuny, Jonathan, Sullivan, Oriel

Life and Traditions of the Ribble Valley

By William Reginald Mitchell

Now Then: The Story of Yorkshire and Its People

By Rick Broadbent

The Poppy: A Cultural History from Ancient Egypt to Flanders Fields to Afghanistan

By Nicholas J. Saunders

World History For Dummies

By Peter Haugen

Art and the Sacred

By Wendy Beckett