Social & Cultural History

The Mad Emperor: Heliogabalus and the Decadence of Rome

By Harry Sidebottom

The White Image in the Black Mind: African-American Ideas about White People, 1830-1925

By Mia Bay (Assistant Professor of History, and Co-Director of the Center for Historial Analysis, Assistant Professor of History, Rutgers University)

Secular Cycles

By Peter Turchin, Sergey A. Nefedov

On Freedom

By Timothy Snyder

Sad Little Men: The revealing book about the world that shaped Boris Johnson

By Richard Beard

A Critical Woman: Barbara Wootton, Social Science and Public Policy in the Twentieth Century

By Ann Oakley

After the Fall: The Rise of Authoritarianism in the World We've Made

By Ben Rhodes

Working Toward Whiteness: How America's Immigrants Became White: The Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs

By David Roediger

1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed: Revised and Updated

By Eric H. Cline

Naples 1944: War, Liberation and Chaos

By Keith Lowe

Empire of Booze: British History Through the Bottom of a Glass

By Henry Jeffreys

Treasures of the Great Silk Road

By Edgar Knobloch

A View into Essex

By S. M. Jarvis

The Assassin's Cloak: An Anthology of the World's Greatest Diarists

By Irene Taylor, Alan Taylor

English Eccentrics

By Dame Edith Sitwell

Scouting for Boys: A Handbook for Instruction in Good Citizenship

By Robert Baden-Powell, Elleke Boehmer (Professor of World Literature in English, University of Oxford)

1930s Britain

By Robert Pearce

An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo

By Richard Davenport-Hines

Sex Before the Sexual Revolution: Intimate Life in England 1918-1963

By Simon Szreter (University of Cambridge), Kate Fisher (University of Exeter)

The Magic Box: Viewing Britain through the Rectangular Window

By Rob Young

The Vital Century: England's Developing Economy, 1714-1815 (Social and Economic History of England)

By John Rule

Companion to the Industrial Revolution

By C.J. Lines, Barrie Trinder

Was the Industrial Revolution Necessary?

By Graeme Snooks

The House of Nomura: The Rise to Power of the World's Most Powerful Company

By Al Alletzhauser

THE WOMEN’S HISTORY OF THE WORLD (Paladin Books)

By Miles

Popular Culture: Past and Present

By Tony Bennett, Graham Martin, Bernard Waites

The Son Also Rises: Surnames and the History of Social Mobility

By Gregory Clark, Neil Cummins, Yu Hao, Daniel Diaz Vidal

Sex in History

By Reay Tannahill

Diaspora: A Very Short Introduction

By Kevin Kenny (Professor of History, Professor of History, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA)

Introducing Thatcherism: A Graphic Guide

By Peter Pugh, Carl Flint