books by subject
British Historical Social & Urban History Biographies

Memoirs of a Surrey Labourer (Working class biography)

Are You Still Circumcised?: East End Memories

Sultan of Zanzibar, The : The Bizarre World and Spectacular Hoaxes of Horace de Vere Cole

Stuff and Nonsense: Observations of a Norfolk Scot

Bash the Rich: True Life Confessions of an Anarchist in the UK

Subaltern Lives: Biographies of Colonialism in the Indian Ocean World, 1790–1920 (Critical Perspectives on Empire)

Cities of God: The Bible and Archaeology in Nineteenth-Century Britain

England and Its Rulers 1066-1307 (Blackwell Classic Histories of England)

Stephen Hawking (A Life Story)

Did She Kill Him? A Victorian Tale of Deception, Adultery & Arsenic: A Victorian tale of deception, adultery and arsenic

Mrs Robinson's Disgrace: The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady

A Spy Among Friends: Philby and the Great Betrayal

Queen Victoria's Matchmaking: The Royal Marriages that Shaped Europe

Mudlarking: The Sunday Times Bestseller

The Haunting of Alma Fielding: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2020

Mohandas Gandhi (TIME FOR KIDS(R) Nonfiction Readers)

Trains and Buttered Toast

The Prince, the Princess and the Perfect Murder: An Untold History

Watching the English: The International Bestseller Revised and Updated

Suffragettes and the Fight for the Vote

Isambard Kingdom Brunel: The Life of an Engineering Genius

King of All Balloons: The Adventurous Life of James Sadler, The First English Aeronaut

What the Grown-Ups Were Doing

The Secret History of the Blitz

The Co-Op's Got Bananas: A Memoir of Growing Up in the Post-War North

Flesh and Blood: A History of My Family in Seven Maladies

A Woman Lived Here: Alternative Blue Plaques, Remembering London's Remarkable Women

Out of Time: 1966 and the End of Old-Fashioned Britain (Wisden Sports Writing)

The Women Who Shaped Politics: Empowering stories of women who have shifted the political landscape
