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Engines of Privilege: Britain's Private School Problem

By David Kynaston, Francis Green

The Age of Scandal: An Amusing Foray into Literature

By T. H. White

Through the Palace Keyhole

By Ann Sawalha

Relish: The Extraordinary Life of Alexis Soyer, Victorian Celebrity Chef

By Ruth Cowen

Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women

By Silvia Federici

The Little Wonder: The Remarkable History of Wisden

By Robert Winder

Those Wild Wyndhams: Three Sisters at the Heart of Power

By Claudia Renton

Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First

By Professor of History Frank Trentmann (University of California Berkeley)

Country House Society: The Private Lives of England's Upper Class After the First World War

By Pamela Horn

The English and their History

By Tombs, Robert

Masters of the Word: How Media Shaped History

By William L. Bernstein

Havana: Autobiography of a City

By Alfredo Jose Estrada

The Passion Of The Western Mind: Understanding the Ideas That Have Shaped Our World View

By Tarnas, Richard

ON THE SPARTACUS ROAD: A Spectacular Journey through Ancient Italy

By Stothard

The Music Of The Spheres: Music, Science and the Natural Order of the Universe

By Jamie James

Sweet Memories

By Robert Opie

England's Thousand Best Churches

By Simon Jenkins

Hypatia's Heritage: A History of Women in Science from Antiquity to the Late Nineteenth Century

By Margaret Alic

The Curious World of Dickens

By Clive Hurst, Violet Moller

A Virtue for Courageous Minds: Moderation in French Political Thought, 1748-1830

By Aurelian Craiutu

The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition

By Manisha Sinha

Two Girls, One on Each Knee: The Puzzling, Playful World of the Crossword

By Alan Connor

What I Saw: Reports from Berlin 1920-33

By Joseph Roth

Medical Detective: John Snow and the Mystery of Cholera

By Sandra Hempel

The NHS: Britain's National Health Service, 1948-2020

By Susan Cohen

Wye College and Its World: A Centenary History

By Stewart Richards

Smart Machines and Service Work: Automation in an Age of Stagnation

By Jason E. Smith

Interrogation and Confession: A Study of Progress, Process and Practice

By Ian Bryan

Lewd Women & Wicked Witches

The Admirable Adventures and Strange Fortunes of Master Anthony Knivet: An English Pirate in Sixteenth-Century Brazil

By Anthony Knivet, Vivien Kogut Lessa de Sa (University of Cambridge)