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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

The Wipers Times: The Famous First World War Trench Newspaper

By Christopher Westhorp

The Victorian Soldier

By David Nalson

Yesterdays: v. 1: Yesterdays Way We Were, 1919-39

By Eric Midwinter

The Making Of The British Landscape: From the Ice Age to the Present

By Nicholas Crane

One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time

By Craig Brown

Sugar in the Blood: A Family's Story of Slavery and Empire: A Family Memoir

By Andrea Stuart

The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

By Gleick, James

Laughter in Ancient Rome: On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up

By Mary Beard