Social and Cultural History
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In Pursuit of Civility: Manners and Civilization in Early Modern England
Keith Thomas
Read more ▸ Order ▸What did it mean to be ‘civilized’ in Early Modern England? Keith Thomas’s seminal studies...
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The Promise: Love and Loss in Modern China
Xinran Xue
Read more ▸ Order ▸At the start of the twentieth century in China, the Hans were married in an...
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Partition Voices: Untold British Stories
Kavita Puri
Read more ▸ Order ▸The division of the Indian subcontinent in 1947 into India and Pakistan saw millions uprooted...
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Prisoners of History
Keith Lowe
Read more ▸ Order ▸What happens when our values change, but what we have set in stone does not?
Humankind...
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Palace of Palms: Tropical Dreams and the Making of Kew
Kate Teltscher
Read more ▸ Order ▸Daringly innovative when it opened in 1848, the Palm House in Kew Gardens remains one...
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Court Number One
Thomas Grant
Read more ▸ Order ▸Court Number One of the Old Bailey is the most famous court room in the...
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Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown
Anne Glenconner
Read more ▸ Order ▸The remarkable life of Lady in Waiting to Princess Margaret who was also a Maid...
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Black and British: A Forgotten History
David Olusoga
Read more ▸ Order ▸In this vital re-examination of a shared history, historian and broadcaster David Olusoga tells the...
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The Address Book
Deirdre Mask
Read more ▸ Order ▸What Street Addresses Reveal about Identity, Race, Wealth and Power
Starting with a simple question, ‘what...
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Sixty Somethings
Nicola Madge
Read more ▸ Order ▸The ‘Swinging Sixties’ are commonly depicted as hedonistic days. A point in history remembered for...
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Double Lives: A History of Working Motherhood
Helen McCarthy
Read more ▸ Order ▸A groundbreaking history of mothers who worked for pay that will change the way we...
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Love in the Blitz: The Greatest Lost Love Letters of the Second World War
Eileen Alexander
Read more ▸ Order ▸With the intimacy and wit of a Second World War Bridget Jones, Eileen Alexander offers...