books by subject
History of Books

No Dogs and Not Many Chinese: Treaty Port Life in China, 1843-1943

"Good Housekeeping" Traditional Gardening Hints and Tips (Good Housekeeping Cookery Club)

Witness History Witness History

A Concise History of Spain (Cambridge Concise Histories)

Japan: A Short History (Short Histories)

The Course of History: Ten Meals That Changed the World

21 Lessons for the 21st Century

Upper Fal in Old Photographs (Britain in Old Photographs)

The Floating Brothel: The Extraordinary True Story of an Eighteenth-century Ship and Its Cargo of Female Convicts

Natural Disasters That Changed The World

A History of Modern Britain

Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes: The Story of Women in the 1950s

At Home: A short history of private life (Bryson)

The Two Cities: Medieval Europe 1050–1320

Inheritance: The Story of Knole and the Sackvilles

The World of UCL, 1828-1990

Working Life in Britain 1900 - 1950

Memories of Roedean: The First Hundred Years

The Almost Nearly Perfect People: The Truth About the Nordic Miracle: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia

The Story of Work: A New History of Humankind

Centuries Of Childhood

Time's Witness: History in the Age of Romanticism

The Utopians: Six Attempts to Build the Perfect Society

At the Sign of the Plough: Allen and Hanburys and the British Pharmaceutical Industry, 1715-1990

Strange Days Indeed: The Golden Age of Paranoia

My East End: Memories of Life in Cockney London

Once in a House on Fire (Birthday Edition)

Journey to the Hebrides: A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland & the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides: "Journey to the Western Islands of ... (Canongate Classics) (Canongate Classics, 21)

She Was Aye Workin': Memories of Tenement Women in Edinburgh and Glasgow
