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Who's In, Who's Out: The Journals of Kenneth Rose: Volume One 1944-1979

By Kenneth Rose, Richard Thorpe

On Liberty and Other Essays (Oxford World's Classics)

By Mill, John Stuart, Gray, John

Shadows of a Princess

By Patrick Jephson

Sea of Storms: A History of Hurricanes in the Greater Caribbean from Columbus to Katrina

By Stuart B. Schwartz

The Worst Jobs In History: A Vivid and Disgusting Alternative History of Britain

By Sir Tony Robinson

The Home Front 1914-1918: How Britain Survived the Great War

By Ian F. Beckett

Christ to Coke: How Image Becomes Icon

By Martin Kemp (Emeritus Professor of the History of Art, University of Oxford)

Phylloxera: How Wine Was Saved for the World

By Christy Campbell

The Deluge: British Society and the First World War

By Arthur Marwick (Professor of History, Open University)

1000 Years of Annoying the French

By Clarke, Stephen

One Sun One Moon

By Hetti Perkins

The Story of Charlwood Church

By Brendon Sewill

America Bewitched: The Story of Witchcraft After Salem

By Davies Owen

Worlds of Arthur: Facts and Fictions of the Dark Ages

By Guy Halsall (Professor of History, Professor of History, University of York)

Worlds of Arthur: Facts and Fictions of the Dark Ages

By Guy Halsall (Professor of History, Professor of History, University of York)

The Shock of America: Europe and the Challenge of the Century

By David Ellwood (Senior Adjunct Professor, Johns Hopskins University, School of Advanced International Studies, Bologna)

Buildings of Empire

By Ashley Jackson (Professor of Imperial and Military History, King's College London)

The Castrato and His Wife

By Helen Berry (Reader in Early Modern History, Newcastle University)

The Story of Pain: From Prayer to Painkillers

By Joanna Bourke (Professor of History, Professor of History, Birkbeck, University of London)

Love, Madness, and Scandal: The Life of Frances Coke Villiers, Viscountess Purbeck

By Johanna Luthman (Associate Professor of History, University of North Georgia)

The End of Outrage: Post-Famine Adjustment in Rural Ireland

By Breandan Mac Suibhne (Professor of History, Professor of History, Centenary College, New Jersey)

For the Common Good and Their Own Well-Being: Social Estates in Imperial Russia

By Alison K. Smith (associate professor of history, Associate Professor of History, University of Toronto, Toronto)

Writing and Script: A Very Short Introduction

By Andrew Robinson (Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College, Cambridge)

An Ancient Dream Manual: Artemidorus' The Interpretation of Dreams

By Peter Thonemann (Forrest-Derow Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History, Forrest-Derow Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History, Wadham College, Oxford)

The Arsenic Century: How Victorian Britain was Poisoned at Home, Work, and Play

By James C. Whorton (Professor Emeritus of the History of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle)

The London Restaurant, 1840-1914

By Brenda Assael (Senior Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research, Lecturer in Modern History, Swansea University)

This Sporting Life: Sport and Liberty in England, 1760-1960

By Robert Colls (Professor of Cultural History, Professor of Cultural History, De Montfort University)

Jung: A Very Short Introduction: 40 (Very Short Introductions)

By Stevens, Anthony

Hannah Arendt: A Very Short Introduction

By Dana Villa (Packey J. Dee Professor of Political Theory, Packey J. Dee Professor of Political Theory, University of Notre Dame)

Malthus: A Very Short Introduction

By Donald Winch (Emeritus Professor of Intellectual History at the University of Sussex)