Social and Cultural History
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The Crichel Boys: Scenes from England’s Last Literary Salon
Simon Fenwick
Read more ▸ Order ▸In 1945, Eddy Sackville-West, Desmond Shawe-Taylor and Eardley Knollys – writers for the New Statesman and a...
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Tribes: A Search for Belonging in a Divided Society
David Lammy
Read more ▸ Order ▸David was the first black Briton to study at Harvard Law School and practised as...
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Circles and Squares
Caroline Maclean
Read more ▸ Order ▸A spellbinding portrait of the Hampstead Modernists, threading together the lives, loves, rivalries and ambitions...
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Anti-Semitism Revisited: How the Rabbis Made Sense of Hatred
Delphine Horvilleur
Read more ▸ Order ▸Rabbi Delphine Horvilleur analyses the phenomenon of anti-semitism as it is viewed by those who...
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How to Be Animal: A New History of What it Means to Be Human
Melanie Challenger
Read more ▸ Order ▸Humans are the most inquisitive, emotional, imaginative, aggressive and baffling animals on the planet. But...
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The Eighth: Mahler and the World in 1910
Stephen Johnson
Read more ▸ Order ▸‘Thrilling.’ John Banville, Guardian The Eighth Symphony was going to be different from anything Mahler...
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The Wood Age: How one material shaped the whole of human history
Roland Ennos
Read more ▸ Pre-order ▸Roland Ennos’ The Wood Age is a love-letter to the world’s most vital and yet most threatened...
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Snakes and Ladders
Professor Selina Todd
Read more ▸ Order ▸Politicians claim social mobility is real – a just reward for ambition and hard work. This book...
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Biracial Britain: A Different Way of Looking at Race
Remi Adekoya
Read more ▸ Order ▸Mixed-race is the fastest-growing minority group in Britain. By the end of the century roughly...
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The Unsettling of Europe: The Great Migration, 1945 to the Present
Peter Gatrell
Read more ▸ Order ▸Migrants have stood at the heart of modern Europe’s experience, whether trying to escape danger,...
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The Ministry of Truth: A Biography of George Orwell’s 1984
Dorian Lynskey
Read more ▸ Order ▸Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2019
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30-Second Feminism
Jess McCabe
Read more ▸ Order ▸Feminism is a global movement, developing with each cut and thrust of history to form...
