Social and Cultural History
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The Invention of Essex
Tim Burrows
Read more ▸ Order ▸The Making of an English County
Essex. A county both famous and infamous: the stuff of...
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Piccadilly
Midge Gillies
Read more ▸ Pre-order ▸The Circus at the Heart of London
There’s nowhere quite like Piccadilly Circus. From the moment...
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The Middle Kingdoms
Martyn Rady
Read more ▸ Order ▸A New History of Central Europe
Central Europe is not just a space on a map...
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Attack Warning Red!
Julie McDowall
Read more ▸ Order ▸How Britain Prepared for Nuclear War
The atomic bombs of 1945 changed war forever. The awesome...
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The King is Dead, Long Live the King!
Martin Williams
Read more ▸ Order ▸Majesty, Mourning and Modernity in Edwardian Britain
Unforgettable as it was, the public response to the...
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The Journey of Humanity
Oded Galor
Read more ▸ Order ▸And the Keys to Human Progress
This breakthrough scientific masterwork – and INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER – reveals...
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Five Love Affairs and a Friendship
Anne de Courcy
Read more ▸ Order ▸The Paris Life of Nancy Cunard, Icon of the Jazz Age
Dazzlingly beautiful, highly intelligent and...
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The Premonitions Bureau
Sam Knight
Read more ▸ Order ▸What if you had a vision that something terrible was going to happen? A train...
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How Religion Evolved
Robin Dunbar
Read more ▸ Order ▸And Why It Endures
A fascinating analysis of the evolution of religion from the internationally renowned...
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Portable Magic
Emma Smith
Read more ▸ Order ▸A History of Books and their Readers
Most of what we say about books is really...
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Luck
David Flusfeder
Read more ▸ Order ▸A Personal Account of Fortune, Chance and Risk in Thirteen Investigations
A fascinating, enchanting and painfully...
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Forgotten Women
Zing Tsjeng
Read more ▸ Order ▸Forgotten Women reaches around the world and its history to rediscover, retell and reinstate the...