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Hungry Nation: Food, Famine, and the Making of Modern India

By Benjamin Robert Siegel (Boston University)

Eat Thy Neighbour: A History of Cannibalism

By Daniel Diehl, Mark P Donnelly

The Creation of Inequality: How Our Prehistoric Ancestors Set the Stage for Monarchy, Slavery, and Empire

By Kent Flannery, Joyce Marcus

Anything Goes: A Biography of the Roaring Twenties

By Lucy Moore

Gods of Noonday: A White Girl's African Life

By Elaine Neil Orr

Emily Wilding Davison

By Lucy Fisher

Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

By David W. Blight

The Moral Economy and Popular Protest: Crowds, Conflict and Authority

By Andrew Charlesworth, Adrian Randall

The Price of Prosperity: Why Rich Nations Fail and How to Renew Them

By Todd G Buchholz

Out of Our Minds: What We Think and How We Came to Think It

By FELIPE FERNANDEZ-ARMESTO

Tracing Your Ancestors' Lives

By Barbara J. Starmans

The British Empire in Colour: Unique Images of the British Empire

By Binns, Stewart

Archaeology: A Very Short Introduction

By Paul Bahn (Freelance writer, translator, and broadcaster in archaeology)

Charleston!, Charleston!: History of a Southern City

By Walter J. Fraser

What is Truth?

By Peter Vardy

Folkestone

By Paul Harris, The Francis Frith Collection

Snakes and Ladders: The great British social mobility myth

By Professor Selina Todd

Anxious Decades: America in Prosperity and Depression, 1920-1941

By Michael E. Parrish

The Ascent of Woman: A History of the Suffragette Movement

By Melanie Phillips

Lido: A dip into outdoor swimming pools: the history, design and people behind them

By Christopher Beanland

Adventures in the Orgasmatron: The Invention of Sex

By Christopher Turner

Experiments: Design and Analysis

By J. A. John, M.H. Quenouille

The People Speak: Democracy is Not a Spectator Sport

By Anthony Arnove, Colin Firth, David Horspool

Reforming Sex: The German Movement for Birth Control and Abortion Reform, 1920-1950

By Atina Grossman (Associate Professor, History Department, Associate Professor, Columbia University)

The Union Jack: The Story of the British Flag

By Professor Nick Groom

Bathing in Public in the Roman World

By Garrett G. Fagan

A Divine Rage: The Careers and Controversies of the Pankhursts

By Martin Pugh

Letters To My Grandchildren

By Tony Benn

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

By Selina Todd

An Utterly Impartial History of Britain or 2000 Years of Upper-class Idiots in Charge

By O'Farrell, John