books by subject
Social & Cultural History

Popular Culture in Ancient Rome

1603: A Turning Point in British History

Close to Shore

Geisha: The Remarkable Truth Behind the Fiction

The Floating Brothel: The extraordinary true story of an 18th-century ship and its cargo of female convicts

The Lion in the Sand

When We Were Young: A Compendium of Childhood

Medical Muses: Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century Paris

The North: (And Almost Everything In It)

Austerity Britain 1945-51

Servants: A Downstairs View of Twentieth-century Britain

Taste: The Story of Britain Through Its Cooking

Football Nation: Sixty Years of the Beautiful Game

Twenty Chickens for a Saddle: The Story of an African Childhood

The English Lakes: A History

The Victorian Schoolroom (Shire Album) (Shire Album S.)

Early Plastics (Shire Album S.)

Automatic Vending Machines

Victorian Undertaker (Shire Album) (Shire Album S.)

The Victorian Workhouse (Shire Album) (Shire Album S.)

The Victorian Domestic Servant (Shire Album) (Shire Album S.)

Gas Lighting (Shire Album) (Shire Album S.)

The Victorian Ironmonger (Shire Album)

The Village Shop (Shire Library)

The Victorian Home: No. 573 (Shire Library)

Scotland in the Age of Improvement

The Identity of the Scottish Nation: A Historic Quest

The Democratic Intellect: Scotland and Her Universities in the Nineteenth Century (Edinburgh University publications)

An Intimate History of Humanity
