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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

The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

By Rubenhold, Hallie

Inside the Seraglio: Private Lives of the Sultans in Istanbul (International Library of Historical Studies)

By Freely, John

Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World

By Spinney, Laura

Genghis Khan: The Man Who Conquered the World

By McLynn, Frank

Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

By Harari, Yuval Noah

Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging

By Hirsch, Afua

McMafia: Seriously Organised Crime

By Glenny, Misha, Misha Glenny

Icebreaker: A Voyage Far North

By Clare, Horatio

21 Lessons for the 21st Century

By Harari, Yuval Noah

Endeavour: The Ship and the Attitude that Changed the World

By Moore, Peter

Icebreaker: A Voyage Far North

By Clare, Horatio

Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History

By Andersen, Kurt

Pride: The Unlikely Story of the True Heroes of the Miner's Strike

By Tate, Tim

A History of Britain in 21 Women: A Personal Selection

By Murray, Jenni

A History of the World in 21 Women: A Personal Selection

By Murray, Jenni

Scoff: A History of Food and Class in Britain

By Vogler, Pen