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Cultural and Social History, Vol. 4, Issue 4: The Journal of the Social History Society : v. 4 issue 4

By McElligott, Anthony, Shepard, Alexandra

Compact Wales: Battles for Wales

By Myrddin ap Dafydd

Slate Quarrying in Wales

By Richards, Alun John

The Secrets of Freemasonry: Revealing the Suppressed Tradition

By Robert Lomas

A Brief History of Life in the Middle Ages (Brief Histories)

By Martyn Whittock

Taking the Medicine: A Short History of Medicine’s Beautiful Idea, and our Difficulty Swallowing It

By Burch, Druin

The Havana Mob: How the Mob Owned Cuba . . . and then Lost it to the Revolution

By English, T.J.

FUBAR F***ed Up Beyond All Recognition: Soldier Slang of World War II

By Gordon Rottman

The Black-Out Book: One-hundred-and-one black-out nights' entertainment (General Military)

By August, Evelyn, Brown, Mike

Buy Me the Sky: The remarkable truth of China’s one-child generations

By Xinran

When I Was a Nipper: The Way We Were in Disappearing Britain

By Titchmarsh, Alan

The Complete Countryman: A User's Guide to Traditional Skills and Lost Crafts

By Titchmarsh, Alan

Elizabeth: Her Life, Our Times: A Diamond Jubilee Celebration

By Titchmarsh, Alan

Seasons in the Sun: The Battle for Britain, 1974-1979

By Sandbrook, Dominic

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