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Pop Goes the Weasel: The Secret Meanings of Nursery Rhymes

By Jack, Albert

The Triumph of Music: Composers, Musicians and Their Audiences, 1700 to the Present

By Blanning, Tim

The Old Dog and Duck: The Secret Meanings of Pub Names

By Jack, Albert

A Natural History of Ghosts: 500 Years of Hunting for Proof

By Clarke, Roger

Shakespeare's Restless World: An Unexpected History in Twenty Objects

By MacGregor, Dr Neil

Seashaken Houses: A Lighthouse History from Eddystone to Fastnet

By Nancollas, Tom

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

By Harari, Yuval Noah

THE SIXTIES (Big Ideas)

By Diski, Jenny

On Roads: A Hidden History

By Moran, Joe

Clean: An Unsanitised History of Washing

By Ashenburg, Katherine

The Great Indoors: At home in the modern British house

By Ben Highmore

The Great Migrations: from the earliest humans to the age of globalisation

By Haywood, John

Visions of England

By Strong, Sir Roy, Roy

Into The Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest

By Davis, Wade

The Hungry Empire: How Britain’s Quest for Food Shaped the Modern World

By Collingham, Lizzie

Origins: How the Earth Shaped Human History

By Dartnell, Lewis

Appeasing Hitler: Chamberlain, Churchill and the Road to War

By Bouverie, Tim

Barbara Cartland's Etiquette Handbook

By CARTLAND, Barbara

A Time to Dance, a Time to Die: The Extraordinary Story of the Dancing Plague of 1518

By Waller, John

Together: How small groups achieve big things

By Hemming, Henry

The People: The Rise and Fall of the Working Class, 1910-2010

By Todd, Selina

The Royal Over-Seas League: From Empire into Commonwealth, A History of the First 100 Years

By Adele Smith

The Golden Thread: The Story of Writing

By Clayton, Ewan

Veni, Vidi, Vici: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Romans But Were Afraid to Ask

By Peter Jones

The House of Borgia

By Christopher Hibbert

Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History

By S.C. Gwynne

Pauperland: Poverty and the Poor in Britain

By Seabrook, Jeremy

On Germany

By MacDonogh, Giles

Turn Back Time: The High Street - 100 Years of British Life Through the Shop Window

By Philip Wilkinson

Stephen Ward Was Innocent, OK: The Case for Overturning his Conviction

By Geoffrey Robertson Q.C.