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The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean

By David Abulafia

How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower

By Research Fellow Adrian Goldsworthy (University of Wales, Cardiff)

The End of Empire: Attila the Hun and the Fall of Rome

By Christopher Kelly

Freedom and Confinement in Modernity: Kafka's Cages

By A. Kordela, D. Vardoulakis

1968: The Year that Rocked the World

By Mark Kurlansky

Books between Europe and the Americas: Connections and Communities, 1620-1860

By L. Howsam, J. Raven

The Emergence of Russian Liberalism: Alexander Kunitsyn in Context, 1783-1840

By J. Berest

After The Bomb: Civil Defence and Nuclear War in Britain, 1945-68

By M. Grant

Refugees and the End of Empire: Imperial Collapse and Forced Migration in the Twentieth Century

By P. Panayi, P. Virdee

A History of Craft Freemasonry in Sheffield 1761-2017

By John Wade

The Decision to use the Atomic Bomb

By Gar Alperovitz

The Changing Agenda: World Politics Since 1945

By Sylvia Babus Woodby, Martha Cottam

The Spirit of London

By Johnson, Boris

The Times Millennium Quiz Book

By Howard Robin

The Madman's Library: The Greatest Curiosities of Literature

By Edward Brooke-Hitching

What on Earth Happened?: The Complete Story of the Planet, Life and People from the Big Bang to the Present Day

By Christopher Lloyd

A Savage War Of Peace

By Alistair Horne

Barbarian Migrations and the Roman West, 376-568

By Guy Halsall (University of York)

On Living in an Old Country: The National Past in Contemporary Britain

By Patrick Wright

A Companion to the Hellenistic World

By Andrew Erskine (University of Edinburgh)

Slave Empire: How Slavery Built Modern Britain

By Padraic X. Scanlan

Vandals, Romans and Berbers: New Perspectives on Late Antique North Africa

By Andrew Merrills

Trans-Saharan Africa in World History

By Ralph A Austen (Professor Emeritus of African History, Professor Emeritus of African History, University of Chicago)

Greek and Roman Calendars

By Robert Hannah

Precolonial Nigeria: Essays in Honour of Toyin Falola

By Akinwumi Ogundiran

Ijeshas and Nigerians: The Incorporation of a Yoruba Kingdom, 1890s-1970s

By J. D. Y. Peel

The End of Empire in French West Africa: France's Successful Decolonization

By Tony Chafer

History in the Making

By J. H. Elliott

Jews of a Saharan Oasis

By John Hunwick

Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World

By Nicholas Ostler