books by subject
Social & Cultural History

The Thirties: An Intimate History of Britain

Problems of Everyday Life: And Other Writings on Culture and Science

The Offshore Islanders: A History of the English People

The Story of England

Being British: The Search for the Values That Bind the Nation

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

Garlands, Conkers and Mother-Die: British and Irish Plant-Lore

The Much-lamented Death of Madam Geneva: The Eighteenth-century Gin Craze

1970s Britain: 1970-1979

Bloc Life: Stories from the Lost World of Communism

On a Chinese Screen

Tribes: A Search for Belonging in a Divided Society

Carpe Diem Regained: The Vanishing Art of Seizing the Day

Rational Optimist

Early Business Contacts

Women of the 1960s

Bachelor Girl: The Secret History of Single Women in the 20th Century

Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing

Culture and Imperialism

The Reinvention of Humanity: A Story of Race, Sex, Gender and the Discovery of Culture

The Female Eunuch

More Than A Game: The Story of Cricket's Early Years

Early Broadstairs and St. Peter's in Old Photographs

Growing Up: Sex in the Sixties

The Bin Ladens: Oil, Money, Terrorism and the Secret Saudi World

Photography, Humanitarianism, Empire

Curry: A Tale of Cooks and Conquerors

Love Among the Ruins: A memoir of life and love in Hamburg, 1945

Aristocrats: Caroline, Emily, Louisa and Sarah Lennox 1740 - 1832
