Social & Cultural History

Danubia: A Personal History of Habsburg Europe

By Simon Winder

Hot Flushes, Cold Science: A History Of The Modern Menopause

By Louise Foxcroft

British Chimney Sweeps: Five Centuries of Chimney Sweeping

By Benita Cullingford

Back to the Broads: Britain in Old Photographs

By David Holmes

Critical Ethnic Studies: A Reader

By Nada Elia, David M. Hernandez, Jodi Kim, Shana L. Redmond, Dylan Rodriguez

Sorrow of the Earth: Buffalo Bill, Sitting Bull and the Tragedy of Show Business

By Eric Vuillard, Ann Jefferson

My Secret Sister: Jenny Lucas and Helen Edwards' family story

By Helen Edwards, Jenny Lee Smith

Soul of the City: The Pike Place Public Market

By Alice Shorett, Murray Morgan

Coyer and the Enlightenment: 1974

By Leonard Adams

Protected Children, Regulated Mothers: Gender and the "gypsy Question" in State Care in Postwar Hungary, 1949-1956

By Eszter Varsa

Live Working or Die Fighting

By Mason, Paul

China: The Stealth Empire: Why the World is Not Chinese Yet

By Edward Burman

British Summer Time Begins: The School Summer Holidays 1930-1980

By Maxtone Graham, Ysenda

Welsh Cottage, The - Building Traditions of the Rural Poor, 1750-1900

By Eurwyn Wiliam

Debating the Death Penalty: Should America Have Capital Punishment? The Experts on Both Sides Make Their Best Case

By Hugo Adam Bedau (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, Tufts University (Emeritus)), Paul G. Cassell (Professor of Law, Professor of Law, University of Utah College of Law)

Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet

By Hannah Ritchie

Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture

By Huizinga, Johan

Agrarian Sectarianism: Culture and the Farmers' Revolt in Texas

By King, Keith

A History of Humanity: The Evolution of the Human System

By Patrick Manning (University of Pittsburgh)

Mary, Queen of Scots

By Jenny Wormald, Anna Groundwater

To the Letter: A Curious History of Correspondence

By Simon Garfield

1970s Childhood: 859 (Shire Library)

By Hollinghurst, Liza

Sylvia Pankhurst: Sexual Politics and Political Activism

By Barbara Winslow, Sheila Rowbotham

Inventing the Victorians

By Matthew Sweet

In War and Peace: The Story of Corrymeela

By Alf McCreary

Suffragettes: How Britain's Women Fought & Died for the Right to Vote

By Frank Meeres

The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community

By William H. McNeill

Making a Noise: Getting It Right, Getting It Wrong in Life, Arts and Broadcasting

By Sir John Tusa

The Fall and Rise of the Stately Home

By Peter Mandler

The Life and Times of Evita