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Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

By Yuval Noah Harari

The Awful End of Prince William the Silent: The First Assassination of a Head of State with a Hand-Gun

By Jardine, Lisa

The Black Hole: Money, Myth and Empire

By Jan Dalley

Cold War

By Jeremy Isaacs, Taylor Downing

Treason: Famous English Treason Trials

By Alan Wharam

The Secret War: Spies, Codes and Guerrillas 1939–1945

By Hastings, Max

Philosophers of Peace and War: Kant, Clausewitz, Marx, Engles and Tolstoy

By W. B. Gallie

The East End: Four Centuries of London Life

By Alan Warwick Palmer

After The Victorians

By Wilson, A.N.

Future of Nostalgia

By Boym, Svetlana

The Bundesbank: Germany's Central Bank in the International Monetary System

By Ellen Kennedy

The Day Kennedy Died: A Snapshot of the Sixties

By Reg Grant

Twenty Chickens for a Saddle: The Story of an African Childhood

By Robyn Scott

When I Passed the Statue of Liberty I Became Black

By Harry Edward

A Brief History of the End of the F*cking World

By Tom Phillips

The Shaping of Scotland

By R. J. Brien

The Oxford Companion to Family and Local History

By David Hey

The Men Commandments

By Christian O'Connell

A Street in China: Discovering a Timeless Market Town

By Trea Wiltshire

Adapting to a New World: English Society in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake

By James Horn

The Book of Bottesford: Continuity and Change in a Leicestershire Village

By Michael Honeybone

Rural England: An Illustrated History of the Landscape

By Joan Thirsk

Chinese Customs

By Xiang Wei

Fred; The Definitive Biography Of Fred Dibnah

By David Hall

How to be Well Read: A guide to 500 great novels and a handful of literary curiosities

By Sutherland, John

Victorian Values: Personalities and Perspectives in Nineteenth-century Society

By Gordon Marsden

Scared to Death: From BSE to Global Warming: Why Scares are Costing Us the Earth

By Christopher Booker, Richard North

Paralysed with Fear: The Story of Polio

By Gareth Williams

Jerusalem: The Biography

By Simon Sebag Montefiore

Migration and Society in Britain, 1550-1830

By Ian Whyte