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The Great Migration in Historical Perspective: New Dimensions of Race, Class, and Gender

By Joe William Trotter, Jr.

The Passion of Michel Foucault

By James Miller

Liberty: The Lives and Times of Six Women in Revolutionary France

By Moore, Lucy

Pietro's Book: The Story of a Tuscan Peasant

By Pietro Pinti, Jenny Bawtree

The Grand Quarrel: Women's Memoirs of the English Civil War

By Hudso Roger, Roger Hudson

Mick's Archaeology

By Michael Aston

Roundhead General: Campaigns of Sir William Waller

By John Adair

Life, Death and Biscuits

By Anthea Allen

Milton and the English Revolution

By Hill, Christopher

The Five Giants: A Biography of the Welfare State

By Nicholas Timmins

Engines of Privilege: Britain's Private School Problem

By David Kynaston, Francis Green

Through the Palace Keyhole

By Ann Sawalha

Relish: The Extraordinary Life of Alexis Soyer, Victorian Celebrity Chef

By Ruth Cowen

A Field Guide to the English Clergy: A Compendium of Diverse Eccentrics, Pirates, Prelates and Adventurers; All Anglican, Some Even Practising

By The Revd Fergus Butler-Gallie

Those Wild Wyndhams: Three Sisters at the Heart of Power

By Claudia Renton

The Little Book of Pride: The History, the People, the Parades

By Lewis Laney

Hypatia's Heritage: A History of Women in Science from Antiquity to the Late Nineteenth Century

By Margaret Alic

To Obama

By Jeanne Marie Laskas

Reed Hastings: Building Netflix

By Matt Burgess

YouTubers: How YouTube Shook Up TV and Created a New Generation of Stars

By Chris Stokel-Walker

West from Home

By Laura Ingalls Wilder

Please, Mister Postman

By Johnson, Alan

Fall Out: A Year of Political Mayhem (Brexit Trilogy 2)

By Shipman, Tim

The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

By Professor Michael Lewis, PhD (University of Bath UK)

Descartes: The Project of Pure Enquiry (Penguin philosophy)

By Williams, Bernard

Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village

By Dr. Ronald Blythe

On Hegel

By Alison Brown

Pushing Time Away: My Grandfather and the Tragedy of Jewish Vienna

By Peter Singer

Wake Up: Why the world has gone nuts

By Morgan, Piers

Heresies and Heretics: Memories of the Twentieth Century

By George Watson