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Social & Cultural History

The Right Stuff

Getting Rich First: Life in a Changing China

The Brother Gardeners: Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obsession

Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother: Stories of Loss and Love

Dear Zari: Hidden Stories from Women of Afghanistan

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

The Scourging Angel: The Black Death in the British Isles

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

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

Littlejohn's Lost World

The Marches: Border walks with my father

The Justice Game

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

When Daddy Came Home: How War Changed Family Life Forever

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

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

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

The Public Record Office, 1838-1958

One Pair of Hands

The Highland Clearances

The Enormous Room

Against Our Will: Men, Women And Rape

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

Christ Stopped at Eboli (King Penguin)

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

Shots from the Hip (Penguin originals)

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

Customs in Common (Penguin history)

Victorian Things
