books by subject
Social & Cultural History
Close to Shore
Geisha: The Remarkable Truth Behind the Fiction
The Floating Brothel: The extraordinary true story of an 18th-century ship and its cargo of female convicts
The Lion in the Sand
When We Were Young: A Compendium of Childhood
Medical Muses: Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century Paris
The North: (And Almost Everything In It)
Austerity Britain 1945-51
Servants: A Downstairs View of Twentieth-century Britain
Taste: The Story of Britain Through Its Cooking
Football Nation: Sixty Years of the Beautiful Game
Twenty Chickens for a Saddle: The Story of an African Childhood
The English Lakes: A History
The Victorian Schoolroom (Shire Album) (Shire Album S.)
Early Plastics (Shire Album S.)
Automatic Vending Machines
Victorian Undertaker (Shire Album) (Shire Album S.)
The Victorian Workhouse (Shire Album) (Shire Album S.)
The Victorian Domestic Servant (Shire Album) (Shire Album S.)
Gas Lighting (Shire Album) (Shire Album S.)
The Victorian Ironmonger (Shire Album)
The Village Shop (Shire Library)
The Victorian Home: No. 573 (Shire Library)
Scotland in the Age of Improvement
The Identity of the Scottish Nation: A Historic Quest
The Democratic Intellect: Scotland and Her Universities in the Nineteenth Century (Edinburgh University publications)
An Intimate History of Humanity
The Curious Cures Of Old England: Eccentric treatments, outlandish remedies and fearsome surgeries for ailments from the plague to the pox
Sugar (The Story of Food)
