books by subject
Social & Cultural History

The Warrior Queens: Boadicea's Chariot

Dancing into Battle: A Social History of the Battle of Waterloo

A Balkan Summer

Two Brothers

Two Brothers

One Morning In Sarajevo: The true story of the assassination that changed the world

Thoroughly Modern: The pioneering life of Barbara Ker-Seymer, photographer, and her brilliant Bohemian friends

One Morning In Sarajevo: The true story of the assassination that changed the world

Antigone Rising: The Subversive Power of the Ancient Myths

Les Parisiennes: How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved and Died in the 1940s

Rations: A Very Peculiar History

A Million Years in a Day: A Curious History of Daily Life

Young Elizabeth: The Making of our Queen

The Woman's Hour

The Anatomy of Manchester United: A History in Ten Matches

Before and After: the heartbreaking true stories of a notorious adoption scandal

A New World: England's First View of America

The Ancient Olympic Games

Children of Bondage: A Social History of the Slave Society at the Cape of Good Hope, 1652-1838

The Home Front: Civilian Life in World War Two

Breaking the Chains: Slavery and Its Legacy in the Nineteenth-century Cape Colony

William Blake vs the World

Gresford: The Anatomy of a Disaster

A Merciless Place: The Lost Story of Britain's Convict Disaster in Africa

Community, Empire and Migration: South Asians in Diaspora

Under Every Leaf: How Britain Played the Greater Game from Afghanistan to Africa

Disciplines in the Making: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Elites, Learning, and Innovation

The Colonisation of Time: Ritual, Routine and Resistance in the British Empire

Ladies of Influence: Women of the Elite in Interwar Britain
