books by subject
Social & Cultural History

The Arts in the West since 1945

Cavalier: A Tale of Chivalry, Passion and Great Houses

Coffers, Clysters, Comfrey and Coifs: the Lives of Our Seventeenth Century Ancestors

Tudor Monastery Farm: Life in rural England 500 years ago

Women in Medieval Life

Life, Death and Biscuits

Milton and the English Revolution

Conspiracy: A History of Boll*cks Theories, and How Not to Fall for Them

The Five Giants: A Biography of the Welfare State

Medicine's Strangest Cases: Extraordinary but true stories from over five centuries of medical history

Francis Frith's Norfolk Living Memories

Huguenot Ancestry

Engines of Privilege: Britain's Private School Problem

The Age of Scandal: An Amusing Foray into Literature

Through the Palace Keyhole

Relish: The Extraordinary Life of Alexis Soyer, Victorian Celebrity Chef

Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women

The Little Wonder: The Remarkable History of Wisden

Those Wild Wyndhams: Three Sisters at the Heart of Power

Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First

Country House Society: The Private Lives of England's Upper Class After the First World War

The English and their History

Masters of the Word: How Media Shaped History

Havana: Autobiography of a City

The Passion Of The Western Mind: Understanding the Ideas That Have Shaped Our World View

ON THE SPARTACUS ROAD: A Spectacular Journey through Ancient Italy

The Music Of The Spheres: Music, Science and the Natural Order of the Universe

Sweet Memories

England's Thousand Best Churches
