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An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting

By Jane Collier, Katharine A. Craik

Fair and Foul: Beyond the Myths and Paradoxes of Sport

By D. Stanley Eitzen

Dawn of the Belle Epoque: The Paris of Monet, Zola, Bernhardt, Eiffel, Debussy, Clemenceau, and Their Friends

By Mary McAuliffe

Mother Tongue: The English Language

By Bill Bryson

The Enlightenment

By Anthony Pagden (Professor of Political Science and History, Professor of Political Science and History, University of California, Los Angeles)

Essex

By Helen Livingston, The Francis Frith Collection

French Society: 1589-1715

By Sharon Kettering

Images of God: The Consolations of Lost Illusions

By Peter Fuller

Boys and Girls: A Ladybird Book of Childhood

Beyond the Gatehouse: The Eccentric Lives of England's Aristocracy

By David Long

A Brief History of Tea: Addiction, Exploitation, and Empire

By Roy Moxham

Culture

By Terry Eagleton

Forgotten Voices of the Great War: A New History of WWI in the Words of the Men and Women Who Were There (Forgotten Voices/the Great War)

By Arthur, Max

Selwyn College: A History

By W. R. Brock, P.H.M. Cooper

The United States and China

By Michael Schaller

Roman Britain: A Sourcebook

By Stanley Ireland (University of Warwick, UK)

White Heat

By Pursell, Carroll W.

The Secret Life of Bletchley Park: The History of the Wartime Codebreaking Centre by the Men and Women Who Were There

By Sinclair McKay

Chronologica: The Incredible Years That Defined History

By Bloomsbury Publishing

Not Forgotten

By Neil Oliver

Beauty and Cosmetics 1550 to 1950

By Sarah Jane Downing

Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition

By Daniel Okrent

All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939-1945

By Max Hastings

Judicial Punishment in England

By J. A. Sharpe

Dearth, Public Policy and Social Disturbance in England, 1550-1800

By R. B. Outhwaite

Written in Blood

By Colin Wilson

Charles Darwin: pocket GIANTS

By Stephen Webster

Brick History: Amazing Historical Scenes to Build from LEGO

By Warren Elsmore

Pioneers of Psychology

By Raymond E. Fancher (York University), Alexandra Rutherford (York University)

Take Six Girls: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters

By Laura Thompson