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Helen Macfarlane: A Feminist, Revolutionary Journalist, and Philosopher in Mid-Nineteenth-Century England

By David Black

Herbert Spencer and the Invention of Modern Life

By Mark Francis (University of Canterbury - Christchurch, New Zealand)

Mondays at Gaj's: The Story of the Irish Women's Liberation Movement

By Anne Stopper

Reflected Glory

By Carney Lake

John Grote, Cambridge University and the Development of Victorian Thought

By John R. Gibbins

Meditations

By Marcus Aurelius

From Civil Rights to Human Rights: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Struggle for Economic Justice

By Thomas F. Jackson

The Chinese

By Lorien Kite

The Real Diana Dors

By Anna Cale

The Secret Diary of Sarah Thomas: A Victorian Lady, 1860-65

By Sarah Thomas, June R. Lewis

Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History

By Nicolson, Adam

Wildland: The Making of America's Fury

By Evan Osnos

Goodbye East End

By David Merron

Miss Muriel Matters: The fearless suffragist who fought for equality

By Robert Wainwright (Author)

Emperors of Rome

By David Potter

It Takes Two: A History of the Couples Who Dared to be Different

By Cathy Newman

Kashmir: The Untold Story

By Quraishi, Humra

An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth

By Mahatma Gandhi, M. Desai, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, M.K.Gandhi

Monarchs of the Nile

By Aidan Dodson

Just Capital

By Adair Turner

The Quest

By Tom Brown

Escape North! The Story of Harriet Tubman

By Monica Kulling, Teresa Flavin

Melbourne

By Sophie Cunningham

Infamous Essex Women

By Dee Gordon

Gur Cake and Coal Blocks

By Eamonn MacThomais

Maud Gonne: Lucky Eyes and a High Heart

By Nancy Cardozo

Knight's Cross: A Life of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel

By Fraser, David

Lost Voices of the Edwardians: 1901-1910 in Their Own Words

By Max Arthur

Insider: Gerry Bradley's Life in the IRA

By Gerry Bradley, Brian Feeney

Why Europe Will Run the 21st Century

By Mark Leonard