Ian Sansom

Ireland’s Lost Generation

Missing Persons, Or My Grandmother’s Secrets

By Clair Wills

Rosemary Ashton

Crape Expectations

Rites of Passage: Death and Mourning in Victorian Britain

By Judith Flanders

Gordon Marsden

Blast Furnaces, Black Pudding & Bede

Northerners: A History – from the Ice Age to the Present Day

By Brian Groom

J W M Thompson

Not So Quaint As It Seems

A Social History of the English Countryside

By G E Mingay

Duncan Minshull

History of Idleness

The Beach: The History of Paradise on Earth

By Lena Lencek & Gideon Bosker

Joan Smith

Oprah, Di and Hillary

Inventing Herself: Claiming a Feminist Intellectual Heritage

By Elaine Showalter

Andrew Billen

The Reason Why Counts Became Earls

Swearing: A Social History of Foul Language, Oaths and Profanity in English

By Geoffrey Hughes

Roger Crowley

Micklegarth by Sea

Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities

By Bettany Hughes

Gill Hornby

All Hellbent on their Own Destruction

Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women

By Elizabeth Wurtzel

Colin Wilson

Murder Mile

Soho: A History of London's Most Colourful Neighbourhood

By Judith Summers

Paul Addison

Are We Declining?

From Anger to Apathy: The British Experience since 1975

By Mark Garnett

Richard Overy

War and Progress

Liberation or Catastrophe? Reflections on the History of the Twentieth Century

By Michael Howard

Dominic Sandbrook

Dark Content

Barbarism and Civilisation: A History of Europe in Our Time

By Bernard Wasserstein

Alice Pitman

Anarchy in the Aisles

Trolley Wars: The Battle of the Supermarkets

By Judi Bevan

The Farm: The Story of One Family and the English Countryside

By Richard Benson

Jonathan Mirsky

What The Dark Is For

At Day's Close: A History of Nighttime

By A Roger Ekirch

Piers Brendon

Never the Twain Shall Meet

A Dance with the Dragon: The Vanished World of Peking’s Foreign Colony

By Julia Boyd

Eric Kaufmann

What’s in a Name?

The Son Also Rises: Surnames and the History of Social Mobility

By Gregory Clark