Man and Horse: Four thousand years of the mounted warrior, Andrew Sinclair (The History Press)

A history of the spread of equine culture from Asia through Europe to Africa and the Americas, which reveals the significance of the bond between human and horse and the different ways the horse has impacted on war, culture and society.

Eat My Dust: Early Women Motorists, Georgine Clarsen (The John Hopkins University Press)

Focusing on the personal stories of women from the United States, Britain, Australia and colonial Africa from the early days of motoring until 1930, a study of the influence of the car on the lives and careers of women in the earliest decades of the twentieth century, which locates these women motorists within wider twentieth-century debates about class, gender, sexuality race and nation.

Queens Consort: England’s Medieval Queens, Lisa Hilton (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)

An account of the lives of twenty women who were crowned queen between 1066 and 1503 and of their influence on the nature of the monarchy and direction of the state.

The Diary of Edmund Harrold, Wigmaker of Manchester 1712-15, ed. Craig Horner (Ashgate)

A transcription of the diary of Edmund Harrold, who was born in 1678 and seemingly lived and worked his whole life in Manchester as a barber and wigmaker, which offers an insight into the social, professional and private life of an impoverished inhabitant of Manchester during a time of economic and social change.

A Companion to the Anglo-Zulu War, Ian Knight (Pen & Sword)

A reference guide to the Anglo-Zulu War, a defining moment in British imperial history, which provides summaries of the issues, events, armies and individuals involved and examines the impact of the war on popular culture.