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Dear Zari: Hidden Stories from Women of Afghanistan

By Kargar, Zarghuna

The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia

By Booth, Michael

The Scourging Angel: The Black Death in the British Isles

By Gummer, Benedict

The Last Days of Detroit: Motor Cars, Motown and the Collapse of an Industrial Giant

By Binelli, Mark

Into The Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest

By Davis, Wade

Littlejohn's Lost World

By Littlejohn, Richard

The Marches: Border walks with my father

By Stewart, Rory

The Justice Game

By Robertson, Geoffrey

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

By Yuval Noah Harari, Harari, Yuval Noah

When Daddy Came Home: How War Changed Family Life Forever

By Turner, Barry, Rennell, Tony

The Button Box: The Story of Women in the 20th Century Told Through the Clothes They Wore

By Knight, Lynn

The Mistresses of Cliveden: Three Centuries of Scandal, Power and Intrigue in an English Stately Home

By Livingstone, Natalie

Making Sense of the Census: The Manuscript Returns for England and Wales, 1801-1901 - Public Record Office Handbooks

By Edward Higgs

The Public Record Office, 1838-1958

By Cantwell, John D., Great Britain, Public Record Office

One Pair of Hands

By Dickens, Monica

The Highland Clearances

By Prebble, John

The Enormous Room

By Cummings, E.

Against Our Will: Men, Women And Rape

By Susan Brownmiller

Life in the English Country House: A Social and Architectural History

By Girouard, Mark

Christ Stopped at Eboli (King Penguin)

By Levi, Carlo, Frenaye, F., Carlo; Frenaye, Frances (trans.).

White Tribe Dreaming: Apartheid's Bitter Roots As Witnessed By Eight Generations of an Afrikaner Family

By Villiers, Marq de

Shots from the Hip (Penguin originals)

By Murray, Charles Shaar, Charles Shaar Murray

The Penguin Social History of Britain: Private Lives, Public Spirit: Britain 1870-1914: Private Lives, Public Spirit: Britain 187-1914

By Harris, Jose

Customs in Common (Penguin history)

By Thompson, E. P.

Victorian Things

By Briggs, Asa

Victorian People: A Reassessment of Persons and Themes 1851-1867

By Briggs, Asa

Parnell And the Englishwoman: A Love Story

By Leonard, Hugh

The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, And Its Prospects (Penguin history)

By Mumford, Lewis

The History of Sexuality: 2: The Use of Pleasure

By Foucault, Michel, Hurley, Robert

The Care of the Self

By Michel Foucault, Robert Hurley