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The Morville Hours: The Story of a Garden

By Katherine Swift

A Force To Be Reckoned With: A History of the Women's Institute

By Jane Robinson

A Force To Be Reckoned With: A History of the Women's Institute

By Jane Robinson

Bad Land

By Jonathan Raban

Empty Cradles (Oranges and Sunshine)

By Margaret Humphreys

Far Too Noisy, My Dear Mozart: Collection of Historical Insults

By Jennifer Higgie

French Cultural Studies

By Jill Forbes, Michael Kelly

The Red Cross Story

Eighteenth-Century English Society: Shuttles and Swords

By Douglas Hay (Professor of History, Professor of History, York University, Ontario), Nicholas Rogers (Professor of History

Aristocrats, Plebeians and Revolution in England, 1640-60

By Brian Manning

A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891-1924

By Figes, Orlando

Life in a Roman Villa

By Brian Williams, Brenda Williams

In My Time of Dying: A History of Death and the Dead in West Africa

By John Parker

Rule, Nostalgia: A Backwards History of Britain

By Hannah Rose Woods

Scotch Missed: Lost Distilleries of Scotland

By Brian Townsend

Heroic Animals: 100 Amazing Creatures Great and Small

By Balding, Clare

Bombers and Mash: The Domestic Front 1939-45

By Raynes Minns

No Turning Back: The Peacetime Revolutions of Post-War Britain

By Paul Addison (Honorary Fellow at the Centre for the Study of the Two World Wars, University of Edinburgh)

Veni, Vidi, Vici: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Romans but Were Afraid to Ask (Classic Civilisations)

By Peter Jones

The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia

By Orlando Figes

The Square and the Tower: Networks, Hierarchies and the Struggle for Global Power

By Niall Ferguson

Child Welfare in the UK, 1948 - 1998

By Olive Stevenson

Appeasing Hitler: Chamberlain, Churchill and the Road to War

By Tim Bouverie

Cossack!: Warrior Riders of the Steppes

By Michael Groushko

The Book of Victorian Heroes

By Adam Hart-Davis, Paul Bader

History's Greatest Mysteries: And the Secrets Behind Them

By Bill Price

Last Curtsey: The End of the Debutantes

By Fiona MacCarthy

A 1960s Childhood: From Thunderbirds to Beatlemania (Childhood Memories)

By Paul Feeney

Black Diamonds: The Rise and Fall of a Great English Dynasty

By Catherine Bailey

The Global Merchants: The Enterprise and Extravagance of the Sassoon Dynasty

By Joseph Sassoon