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Women Who Ruled: History's 50 Most Remarkable Women

By Claudia Gold, MD

Out of the Woods

By Luke Turner

Foot Work: What Your Shoes Tell You About Globalisation

By Tansy E. Hoskins

The Little Field Marshal: A Life of Sir John French

By Richard Holmes

The Horror of Love: Nancy Mitford and Gaston Palewski in Paris and London

By Lisa Hilton

The Girl in Rose: A Musical Affair in Georgian London

By Peter Hobday

Daughter of Empire: Life as a Mountbatten

By Lady Pamela Hicks

Great Archaeologists

By Paul G Bahn

Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics

By Jonathan Wilson

London: Immigrant City

By Nazneen Khan-Ostrem, Alison McCullough

Rebel Englishwoman: The Remarkable Life of Emily Hobhouse

By Elsabe Brits

Don't Shoot The Clowns: War and the Circus in Iraq

By Jo Wilding

Kings of Shanghai

By Jonathan Kaufman

Gentlemen's Gentlemen: From Boot Boys to Butlers, True Stories of Life Below Stairs

By Rosina Harrison

Fever Pitch: The Rise of the Premier League 1992-2004

By Paul McCarthy, Alan Shearer

Rebel Voices: The Rise of Votes for Women

By Louise K Stewart, Eve Lloyd Knight

Stories of Women in the 1960s: Fighting for Freedom

By Cath Senker

Rising After the Fall: Afghan Women Share Their Stories

By lucy hannah, Zarghuna Kargar, Sara Rahmani

I Want to Go Home

By Catherine Jacobs

Mixed/Other: Explorations of Multiraciality in Modern Britain

By Natalie Morris

The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave

By Mary Prince, Sara Salih

The Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities And Meaning of Table Manners: Visser, Margaret

By Visser, Margaret

Glorious Goodwood: A Biography of England's Greatest Sporting Estate

By James Peill

Recovering Dorothy: The Hidden Life of Dorothy Wordsworth

By Polly Atkin

Portland Place: Secret Diary of a BBC Secretary

By Sarah Shaw

Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in History

By Sir Richard J. Evans

Red Sauce Brown Sauce: A British Breakfast Odyssey

By felicity cloake

The Great Archaeologists

By Brian Fagan

The Prime Ministers: Winner of the PARLIAMENTARY BOOK AWARDS 2020

By Iain Dale

Archaeologists in Print: Publishing for the People

By Amara Thornton