books by subject
British Historical Social & Urban History Biographies

The Thieves' Opera: The Remarkable Lives and Deaths of Jonathan Wild, Thief-taker and Jack Sheppard, House-breaker

An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo

British As A Second Language

Young Bloomsbury: the generation that reimagined love, freedom and self-expression

Introducing Thatcherism: A Graphic Guide

Modern British History: The Essential A-Z Guide

Who Are We?: How Identity Politics Took Over the World

The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: How a Remarkable Woman Crossed Seas and Empires to Become Part of World History

All The King's Women

Bertrand Russell: v.2: 1921-70 The Ghost of Madness

Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers

The Middle Class: A History

Bertrand Russell: v. 1: 1872-1920 The Spirit of Solitude

Colour Bar: The Triumph of Seretse Khama and His Nation

Richard Owen: Victorian Naturalist

The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe

Wild Life in a Southern County (Nature Classics Library)

Religion, Business and Wealth in Modern Britain

Lincolnshire Women

A Tudor Christmas

Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History

The Corner Shop: A BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club Pick

Helen Macfarlane: A Feminist, Revolutionary Journalist, and Philosopher in Mid-Nineteenth-Century England

Herbert Spencer and the Invention of Modern Life

The Real Diana Dors

The Secret Diary of Sarah Thomas: A Victorian Lady, 1860-65

Infamous Essex Women

Why Europe Will Run the 21st Century

Lost Voices of the Edwardians: 1901-1910 in Their Own Words
