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Live TV!: Telly Brats and Topless Darts - The Uncut Story of Tabloid TV

By Horrie, Chris, Nathan, Adam

House of Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilisation Across the South West

By Childs, Craig

The Egyptians (Ancient Peoples and Places)

By Cyril Aldred, Aidan Dodson

People and Production (v. 2) (The Identity of France)

By Braudel, Fernand, Reynolds, Siân

Shaka's Children: A History of the Zulu People

By Taylor, Stephen

Courtesans and Fishcakes: The Consuming Passions of Classical Athens

By Davidson, James

Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire

By Foreman, Amanda

Paradise With Serpents: Travels in the Lost World of Paraguay

By Carver, Robert

One More Kilometre and We’re in the Showers

By Hilton, Tim

Our Age: The Generation That Made Post-war Britain

By Annan, Noel Gilroy

The Honourable Company: A History of the English East India Company

By Keay, John

The World in 2020: Power, Culture and Prosperity - A Vision of the Future

By McRae, Hamish

The Grass is Greener: An Anglo-Saxon Passion: Our Love Affair with the Lawn

By Fort, Tom

The Ocean Railway: Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Samuel Cunard and the Revolutionary World of the Great Atlantic Steamships

By Fox, Stephen

One More Kilometre and We’re in the Showers

By Hilton, Tim

Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire

By Foreman, Amanda, Amanda Foreman

Late Victorian Britain, 1875-1901

By Harrison, J. F. C.

The Rise of Respectable Society: Social History of Victorian Britain, 1830-1900 (The Fontana social history of Britain since 1700)

By Thompson, F. M. L., F. M. L. Thompson

Black Ivory: History of British Slavery

By Walvin, James

Courtesans and Fishcakes: The Consuming Passions of Classical Athens

By Davidson, James

LADIES OF THE GRAND TOUR

By Dolan

Illustrated Daughters of Britannia the public and private worlds of the diplomatic wife

By Hickman, Katie

How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World: A Short History of Modern Delusions

By Wheen, Francis

Edge of Empire: Conquest and Collecting on the Eastern Frontiers of the British Empire

By Jasanoff, Maya

Americans in Paris: Life and Death under Nazi Occupation 1940–44

By Glass, Charles

Strange Days Indeed: The Golden Age of Paranoia

By Wheen, Francis

Tommy’s War: A First World War Diary 1913–1918

By Livingstone, Thomas Cairns, Marr, Andrew

Titanic Lives: Migrants and Millionaires, Conmen and Crew

By Richard Davenport-Hines

How the Girl Guides Won the War

By Hampton, Janie

When God Spoke English: The Making of the King James Bible

By Nicolson, Adam