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The Britannias: An Island Quest

By Alice Albinia

Mythomania: Tales of Our Times, From Apple to Isis

By Peter Conrad

The World of Downton Abbey

By Julian Fellowes, Jessica Fellowes, Nick Briggs

Dispatches from the Diaspora: From Nelson Mandela to Black Lives Matter

By Gary Younge

Medieval Europe

By Chris Wickham

Famine and Death in Occupied Greece, 1941-1944

By Violetta Hionidou (Lecturer, University of Newcastle upon Tyne)

All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake

By Tiya Miles

Crucible: The Long End of the Great War and the Birth of a New World, 1917-1924

By Charles Emmerson

George Washington's False Teeth: An Unconventional Guide to the Eighteenth Century

By Robert Darnton (Harvard University)

Gulag: A History of the Soviet Camps

By Anne Applebaum

History of Italian Mafia: The definitive guide to discover the origin, development, and spread of Sicilian Mafia in Italy and the world. From 1800 up to the present day.

By David Anversa

Why Food Matters

By Paul Freedman

The Oxford History of Witchcraft and Magic

By Owen Davies (Professor of Social History, Professor of Social History, University of Hertfordshire)

Between Freedom and Equality: The History of an African American Family in Washington, DC

By Barbara Boyle Torrey, Clara Myrick Green, James Fisher, Tanya Gaskins Hardy, Maurice Jackson

A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race, and Human History

By Professor of Visual Psychology Nicholas Wade

One Fine Day: Britain's Empire on the Brink

By Matthew Parker

Tropical Whites: The Rise of the Tourist South in the Americas

By Catherine Cocks

The Witches: Salem, 1692

By Stacy Schiff

Debs at War: 1939-1945 (WOMEN IN HISTORY)

By Anne de Courcy

Amusing Ourselves to Death

By Neil Postman

Streetfighters: Real Fighting Men Tell Their Stories

By Julian Davies

In Search of Us: Adventures in Anthropology

By Lucy Moore

Settling the Earth: The Archaeology of Deep Human History

By Clive Gamble (University of Southampton)

Dorset

By Richard Ollard

Great Hostesses

By Brian Masters

My Old Man: A Personal History of Music Hall

By Major, John

When the War Is Over: Far from home, far from family, safe from the war - a true story of two Second World War evacuees

By Barbara Fox

The Beatles?

At Day's Close: A History of Nighttime

By Professor A. Roger Ekirch

Erasmus Darwin: Sex, Science, and Serendipity

By Patricia Fara (Director of Studies in HPS, Fellow, Clare College, Cambridge)