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Social & Cultural History

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

Compact Wales: Battles for Wales

Slate Quarrying in Wales

The Secrets of Freemasonry: Revealing the Suppressed Tradition

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Pop Goes the Weasel: The Secret Meanings of Nursery Rhymes

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

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

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

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

Seashaken Houses: A Lighthouse History from Eddystone to Fastnet

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

THE SIXTIES (Big Ideas)

On Roads: A Hidden History

Clean: An Unsanitised History of Washing

The Great Indoors: At home in the modern British house

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

Visions of England

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

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