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Fashion in European Art: Dress and Identity, Politics and the Body, 1775-1925

By Justine De Young

Children and Childhood in Western Society Since 1500

By Hugh Cunningham

The Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities and Meaning of Table Manners

By Margaret Visser

The Pain and the Privilege: The Women in Lloyd George’s Life

By Hague, Ffion

Hampshire of One Hundred Years Ago

By Barry Stapleton

Welsh Food Stories

By Carwyn Graves

Free the Tipple: Kickass Cocktails Inspired by Iconic Women

By Jennifer Croll, Kelly Shami

Beastly: A New History of Animals and Us

By Keggie Carew

Eccentric Culture - A Theory of Western Civilization

By Remi Brague, Samuel Lester

A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History

By Nicholas Wade

In Bed with the Ancient Greeks

By Paul Chrystal

Wilde's Last Stand: Scandal, Decadence and Conspiracy During the Great War

By Philip Hoare

The Wall: The People's Story

By Christopher Hilton

The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?

By Jared Diamond

Heroic Animals: Amazing Creatures that Changed Our World

By Clare Balding

The Final Curtsey: A Royal Memoir by the Queen's Cousin

By Margaret Rhodes

Rebel Rebel: 25 Years of Teenage Trauma from James Dean to the Damned

By Chris Tarrant

The Book Lovers' Miscellany

By Claire Cock-Starkey

Adventures in Stationery: A Journey Through Your Pencil Case

By James Ward

When in Germany, Do as the Germans Do

By Hyde Flippo

Plague and Fire: Band 11/Lime (Collins Big Cat)

By Platt, Richard, Gibson, Barbara, Collins Big Cat

The Pursuit of Paradise: A Social History of Gardens and Gardening

By Jane Brown

Revolution in Time: Clocks and the Making of the Modern World

By David S. Landes

The Thirties: An Intimate History

By Gardiner, Juliet

I Saw Two Englands

By H. V. Morton, Tommy Candler

The Cotswolds of One Hundred Years Ago

By Alan Sutton

The Honest Truth about Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone--Especially Ourselves

By Ariely, Dr Dan

Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother

By William Shawcross

Daily Life in Ancient Rome: The People and the City at the Height of the Empire (Penguin History)

By Carcopino, Jerome, Rowell, Henry T

The Mitfords: Letters between Six Sisters

By Mosley, Charlotte