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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

Legendary Ladies: 50 Goddesses to Empower and Inspire You

By Ann Shen

Luxury and power: Persia to Greece

By James Fraser, Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, Henry Bishop-Wright

100 People You Never Knew Were at Bletchley Park

By Sinclair McKay

Captain Swing

By Eric Hobsbawm, George Rude

Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

By John Green

The Haves and Have-Yachts: Dispatches on the Ultrarich

By Evan Osnos

Food Worth Fighting for: From Food Riots to Food Banks

By Josh Sutton

The Discovery of France

By Graham Robb

The Forging of the Modern State: Early Industrial Britain 1783-1870

By Eric Evans

The Country House Kitchen Garden

By C. Anne Wilson

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 tales of extraordinary women

By Favilli, Elena, Cavallo, Francesca

The Voice of War: The Second World War Told By Those Who Fought It

By Owen, James, Walters, Guy

The Unfinished Palazzo: Life, Love and Art in Venice

By Judith Mackrell