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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

Mesters to Masters

By Clyde Binfield, David Hey

Whiteways Cyder

By E.V.M. Whiteway

Reading in Old Photographs

By P.G. Southerton

Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1960s A Series)

By Joan Didion

Timewalkers: The Prehistory of Global Colonization

By Clive Gamble

Great African Americans in History

By Carlotta Hacker

British Rail

By Christian Wolmar

Last Hope Island: Britain, occupied Europe, and the brotherhood that helped turn the tide of war

By Lynne Olson