books by subject
Social & Cultural History

Pop Goes the Weasel: The Secret Meanings of Nursery Rhymes

The Triumph of Music: Composers, Musicians and Their Audiences, 1700 to the Present

The Old Dog and Duck: The Secret Meanings of Pub Names

A Natural History of Ghosts: 500 Years of Hunting for Proof

Shakespeare's Restless World: An Unexpected History in Twenty Objects

Seashaken Houses: A Lighthouse History from Eddystone to Fastnet

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

THE SIXTIES (Big Ideas)

On Roads: A Hidden History

Clean: An Unsanitised History of Washing

The Great Indoors: At home in the modern British house

The Great Migrations: from the earliest humans to the age of globalisation

Visions of England

Into The Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest

The Hungry Empire: How Britain’s Quest for Food Shaped the Modern World

Origins: How the Earth Shaped Human History

Appeasing Hitler: Chamberlain, Churchill and the Road to War

Barbara Cartland's Etiquette Handbook

A Time to Dance, a Time to Die: The Extraordinary Story of the Dancing Plague of 1518

Together: How small groups achieve big things

The People: The Rise and Fall of the Working Class, 1910-2010

The Royal Over-Seas League: From Empire into Commonwealth, A History of the First 100 Years

The Golden Thread: The Story of Writing

Veni, Vidi, Vici: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Romans But Were Afraid to Ask

The House of Borgia

Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History

Pauperland: Poverty and the Poor in Britain

On Germany

Turn Back Time: The High Street - 100 Years of British Life Through the Shop Window
