Social & Cultural History

The Making Of The British Landscape: From the Ice Age to the Present

By Nicholas Crane

One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time

By Craig Brown

Sugar in the Blood: A Family's Story of Slavery and Empire: A Family Memoir

By Andrea Stuart

The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

By Gleick, James

Laughter in Ancient Rome: On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up

By Mary Beard

Eureka!: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Ancient Greeks But Were Afraid to Ask

By Peter Jones (Author)

Gladius: Living, Fighting and Dying in the Roman Army

By Guy de la Bédoyère

Out of the Shadow of a Giant: How Newton Stood on the Shoulders of Hooke and Halley

By John Gribbin, Mary Gribbin

Hidden Histories of Science

By Silvers, Robert B

Goodbye Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land

By Jacob Mikanowski

History of Germany 1780-1918: The Long Nineteenth Century

By David Blackbourn (Harvard University, USA)

The Big Book of Pain: Torture and Punishment Through History

By Mark P Donnelly, Daniel Diehl

The Greek World 479-323 BC

By Simon Hornblower

Greek Tragedy

By H. D. F. Kitto

The Hellenistic World

By F. W. Walbank

The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity

By Roy Porter, Porter, Roy

The Roman Republic (Fontana History of the Ancient World)

By Crawford, Michael

Bully for Brontosaurus

By Gould, Stephen Jay

A Strange Business: Making Art and Money in Nineteenth-Century Britain

By James Hamilton (Author)

The Victorians

By Paxman, Jeremy

The Invisibles: Tale of the Eunuchs of India

By Zia Jaffrey

Bloody Foreigners: The Story of Immigration to Britain

By Robert Winder

Access to History: Poverty and Welfare 1815-1950: Second edition

By Murray, Peter

Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts

By Rebecca Hall, Hugo Martinez

Her Brilliant Career: Ten Extraordinary Women of the Fifties

By Rachel Cooke

Japan: A Short History

By Mikiso Hane

The Hidden History of Burma: A Crisis of Race and Capitalism

By Thant Myint-U

Hungry Nation: Food, Famine, and the Making of Modern India

By Benjamin Robert Siegel (Boston University)

Eat Thy Neighbour: A History of Cannibalism

By Daniel Diehl, Mark P Donnelly

The Creation of Inequality: How Our Prehistoric Ancestors Set the Stage for Monarchy, Slavery, and Empire

By Kent Flannery, Joyce Marcus