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Customs in Common: Studies in Traditional Popular Culture

By Thompson, E. P.

Droppin Science: Critical Essays on Rap Music and Hip Hop Culture (Critical Perspectives On The P)

By Perkins, WILLIAM

Not in My Neighborhood: How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City

By Pietila, Antero

Understanding the Contemporary Middle East (Understanding: Introductions to the States & Regions of the Contemporary World)

By Gerner, Deborah J., Schwedler, Jillian

Howard Zinn Speaks: Collected Speeches 1963-2009

By Zinn, Howard, Arnove, Anthony, Anthony Arnove

The Flag: The story of Revd David Railton MC and the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior

By Richards, Andrew

Cotton Tenants: Three Families

By James Agee, Walker Evans

NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and How to Think Smarter About People Who Think Differently

By Steve Silberman

Dangerous Days on the Victorian Railways: Feuds, Frauds, Robberies and Riots

By Terry Deary

Stranger Than We Can Imagine: Making Sense of the Twentieth Century

By Higgs, John

Ghosts: A Haunted History

By Lisa Morton

Way of the Wanderers: The Story of Travellers in Scotland

By Jess Smith

St Andrews Links: Six Centuries of Golf

By Mason, Peter, Jarrett, Tom

The Story of Medicine: From Bloodletting to Biotechnology

By Dobson, Mary

Keep Smiling Through: My Wartime Story

By Lynn, Dame Vera, Lewis-Jones, Virginia

A Galaxy of Her Own: Amazing Stories of Women in Space

By Jackson, Libby

The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust (Wellcome Collection)

By Watt Smith, Tiffany

The Society of Timid Souls: Or, How to be Brave

By Polly Morland

The Greedy Queen: Eating with Victoria

By Gray, Annie

Army Wives: From Crimea to Afghanistan: the Real Lives of the Women Behind the Men in Uniform

By Gillies, Midge

Timekeepers: How the World Became Obsessed With Time

By Garfield, Simon

White Boots and Miniskirts: A True Story of Life in the Swinging Sixties

By Jacky Hyams

In Search of Lost Books: The forgotten stories of eight mythical volumes

By Giorgio van Straten

A New History of Yachting

By Mike Bender

Alehouses and Good Fellowship in Early Modern England (Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History, 21)

By Mark Hailwood

Balloon Madness: Flights of Imagination in Britain, 1783-1786

By Clare Brant

When the Lamps Went Out: Reporting the Great War 1914–1918

By Fountain, Nigel, Fountain, Nigel

Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe

By Kapka Kassabova

This Golden Fleece: A Journey Through Britain's Knitted History

By Esther Rutter

At Home: A Short History of Private Life (Bryson)

By Bryson, Bill