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Cavalier: A Tale of Chivalry, Passion and Great Houses

By Lucy Worsley

Coffers, Clysters, Comfrey and Coifs: the Lives of Our Seventeenth Century Ancestors

By Janet Few

Tudor Monastery Farm: Life in rural England 500 years ago

By Peter Ginn, Ruth Goodman

Women in Medieval Life

By Margaret Wade Labarge

Life, Death and Biscuits

By Anthea Allen

Milton and the English Revolution

By Hill, Christopher

Conspiracy: A History of Boll*cks Theories, and How Not to Fall for Them

By Tom Phillips, Jonn Elledge

The Five Giants: A Biography of the Welfare State

By Nicholas Timmins

Medicine's Strangest Cases: Extraordinary but true stories from over five centuries of medical history

By O'Donnell, Michael

Francis Frith's Norfolk Living Memories

By Francis Frith, Frank Meeres

Huguenot Ancestry

By Noel Currer-Briggs, Royston Gambier

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