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The NHS: Britain's National Health Service, 1948-2020

By Susan Cohen

Wye College and Its World: A Centenary History

By Stewart Richards

Smart Machines and Service Work: Automation in an Age of Stagnation

By Jason E. Smith

Interrogation and Confession: A Study of Progress, Process and Practice

By Ian Bryan

Lewd Women & Wicked Witches

The Admirable Adventures and Strange Fortunes of Master Anthony Knivet: An English Pirate in Sixteenth-Century Brazil

By Anthony Knivet, Vivien Kogut Lessa de Sa (University of Cambridge)

Berkshire of One Hundred Years Ago (One Hundred Years Ago series)

By Buxton, David

Between the Wars: Britain in Photographs

By Julian Symons

People's Party: The History of the Labour Party

By Tony Wright

Yesterdays: v. 2: Yesterdays Our Finest Hours 1939-1953

By Eric Midwinter

Women and the Women's Movement in Britain, 1914-1959

By Martin Pugh

Cumberland Lodge

By Brian Hudson

Studies in Thai History

By David K. Wyatt (Cornell University, USA)

Everyday Life in Medieval England

By Christopher Dyer

Crisis and Decline in Bunyoro: Population and Environment in Western Uganda 1860-1955

By Shane Doyle

Sugar: A Bittersweet History

By Elizabeth Abbott

The Cultural Revolution: A People's History, 1962-1976

By Frank Dikoetter

Witches and Neighbours

By Robin Briggs

Alice Lakwena and the Holy Spirits: War in Northern Uganda, 1985-97

By Heike Behrend

Main Currents in Caribbean Thought: The Historical Evolution of Caribbean Society in Its Ideological Aspects, 1492 - 1900

By Gordon K. Lewis

Science and Innovation: The US Pharmaceutical Industry during the 1980s

By Alfonso Gambardella (Universita degli Studi di Urbino, Italy)

Marriage, Perversion, and Power: The Construction of Moral Discourse in Southern Rhodesia 1894-1930

By Diana Jeater (Lecturer in History, Lecturer in History, University of the West of England, Bristol)

African Women: A Modern History

By Beth Raps, Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch

On Becoming Cuban: Identity, Nationality, and Culture

By Louis A. Perez Jr.

War and Survival in Sudan's Frontierlands: Voices from the Blue Nile

By Wendy James (Professor Emeritus, University of Oxford)

We Need to Talk About Africa: The harm we have done, and how we should help

By Tom Young

It's Our Turn to Eat

By Michela Wrong

Industrial Politics and the 1926 Mining Lock-out: The Struggle for Dignity

By Alan Campbell, Keith Gildart, John McIlroy

Live Working or Die Fighting: How The Working Class Went Global

By Paul Mason

The World According to Physics

By Jim Al-Khalili