Thoughty2 Presents: Stick A Flag In It
By Arran Lomas
1,000 years of bizarre history from Britain and beyond.
Eileen: The Making of George Orwell
By Sylvia Topp
The never before told story of George Orwell’s first wife, a woman who shaped, supported and even saved the life of one of the 20th century’s greatest writers.
The Paper Time Machine
By Wolfgang Wild and Jordan Lloyd
Imagine the past in colour? Now you don’t have to…
A Curious History of Sex
By Kate Lister
A cornucopia of giggles, gaffs, titillation, temptations, and exceptional expertise in all things historically sexual from Dr Kate Lister aka @Whores of Yore.
Gin Lane Gazette
By Adrian Teal
Heat magazine – 18th century style
Saving Bletchley Park
By Sue Black
The story of the saving of the home of modern computing
Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ay
By Simon Napier-Bell
A one-volume insider history of the whole damn music business
The Irish Pasha
By Louise Foxcroft
The astonishing private and public lives of a maverick Edwardian Egyptologist
Empire of Booze
By Henry Jeffreys
A history of the British Empire told through drink
The House of Fiction
By Phyllis Richardson
A cultural exploration of British houses in fiction
Second-Hand Stories
By Josh Spero
The amazing stories behind my second-hand books and the people who owned them
The Private Life of the Diary
By Sally Bayley
From Pepys to Tweets: a history of the diary as an art form