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The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century

By Peter Linebaugh

The New Book of Snobs: A Definitive Guide to Modern Snobbery

By D.J. Taylor

Alistair Cooke's American Journey: Life on the Home Front in the Second World War

By Alistair Cooke

A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks

By David Gibbins

Lists of Note

By Shaun Usher

Letters of Note: Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience

By Shaun Usher, Shaun Usher

Bees and Their Keepers: From waggle-dancing to killer bees, from Aristotle to Winnie-the-Pooh

By Frank Perry, Lotte Moeller

City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles

By Mike Davis, Robert Morrow

Regulating Womanhood

By Carol Smart

The Many-Headed Hydra: The Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic

By Marcus Rediker, Peter Linebaugh

Glorious Goodwood: A Biography of England's Greatest Sporting Estate

By James Peill

Gender and Well-Being in Europe: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

By Lina Galvez, Bernard Harris

Recovering Dorothy: The Hidden Life of Dorothy Wordsworth

By Polly Atkin

Edible Economics: The World in 17 Dishes

By Ha-Joon Chang

Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the birth of agriculture

By Bruce Pascoe

LOCHS & GLENS

Get Her Off the Pitch!: How Sport Took Over My Life

By Lynne Truss

A Square Meal: A Culinary History Of The Great Depression

By Jane Ziegelman, Andrew Coe

Victorian Cities: Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham, Middlesbrough, Melbourne, London

By Asa Briggs

The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

By Heather McGhee

City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles

By Mike Davis

Cambridge University - An 800th Anniversary Portrait

By Peter Pagnamenta, Matt Wilson

A People Betrayed: A History of Corruption, Political Incompetence and Social Division in Modern Spain 1874-2018

By Paul Preston

Milk: An Intimate History of Breastfeeding

By Joanna Wolfarth

Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World

By Malcolm Harris

The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House

By Kate Andersen Brower

Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia

By David Graeber

Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD

By Martin A. Lee

The Lost Decade: 2010–2020, and What Lies Ahead for Britain

By Toynbee, Polly, Walker, David

The Rebel's Dilemma

By Mark I. Lichbach