Social & Cultural History

History of Germany 1780-1918: The Long Nineteenth Century

By David Blackbourn (Harvard University, USA)

The Big Book of Pain: Torture and Punishment Through History

By Mark P Donnelly, Daniel Diehl

The Greek World 479-323 BC

By Simon Hornblower

Greek Tragedy

By H. D. F. Kitto

The Hellenistic World

By F. W. Walbank

The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity

By Roy Porter, Porter, Roy

The Roman Republic (Fontana History of the Ancient World)

By Crawford, Michael

Bully for Brontosaurus

By Gould, Stephen Jay

A Strange Business: Making Art and Money in Nineteenth-Century Britain

By James Hamilton (Author)

The Victorians

By Paxman, Jeremy

The Invisibles: Tale of the Eunuchs of India

By Zia Jaffrey

Bloody Foreigners: The Story of Immigration to Britain

By Robert Winder

Access to History: Poverty and Welfare 1815-1950: Second edition

By Murray, Peter

Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts

By Rebecca Hall, Hugo Martinez

Her Brilliant Career: Ten Extraordinary Women of the Fifties

By Rachel Cooke

Japan: A Short History

By Mikiso Hane

The Hidden History of Burma: A Crisis of Race and Capitalism

By Thant Myint-U

Hungry Nation: Food, Famine, and the Making of Modern India

By Benjamin Robert Siegel (Boston University)

Eat Thy Neighbour: A History of Cannibalism

By Daniel Diehl, Mark P Donnelly

The Creation of Inequality: How Our Prehistoric Ancestors Set the Stage for Monarchy, Slavery, and Empire

By Kent Flannery, Joyce Marcus

Anything Goes: A Biography of the Roaring Twenties

By Lucy Moore

Gods of Noonday: A White Girl's African Life

By Elaine Neil Orr

Emily Wilding Davison

By Lucy Fisher

Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

By David W. Blight

The Moral Economy and Popular Protest: Crowds, Conflict and Authority

By Andrew Charlesworth, Adrian Randall

The Price of Prosperity: Why Rich Nations Fail and How to Renew Them

By Todd G Buchholz

Out of Our Minds: What We Think and How We Came to Think It

By FELIPE FERNANDEZ-ARMESTO

Tracing Your Ancestors' Lives

By Barbara J. Starmans

The British Empire in Colour: Unique Images of the British Empire

By Binns, Stewart

Archaeology: A Very Short Introduction

By Paul Bahn (Freelance writer, translator, and broadcaster in archaeology)