books by subject
Social & Cultural History

The Stasi Poetry Circle: The Creative Writing Class that Tried to Win the Cold War

The Nation's Favourite: A Book of the UK's Best-loved Things

Endeavour: The Sunday Times bestselling biography of Captain Cook’s recently discovered ship

Land of My Fathers

The Secret Rooms: A Castle Filled with Intrigue, a Plotting Duchess and a Mysterious Death

They Belonged to Glasgow: The City from the Bottom Up

Bold Ventures: Thirteen Tales of Architectural Tragedy

Battles of Conscience: British Pacifists and the Second World War

Authenticity: How economics, evolution and technology drive us to deceive – and how we can fight back

An Underworld at War: Spivs, Deserters, Racketeers and Civilians in the Second World War

A Strange Eventful History: Democratic Socialism in Britain

Portraiture (Oxford History of Art)

Strapless: John Singer Sargent and the Fall of Madame X

The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris

'A Veritable Eden'. The Manchester Botanic Garden: A History

Dickens's England: Life in Victorian Times

Obama: From Promise to Power

Alma Mahler-Werfel: Diaries 1898-1902

Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush

The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World

Dickens' Artistic Daughter Katey: Her Life, Loves and Impact

Shopping in the Renaissance: Consumer Cultures in Italy, 1400-1600

National Art Collecting: A Celebration of the National Art Collections Fund

The Raj at Table: A Culinary History of the British in India

Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe

Women and Madness: Incarceration of Women in Nineteenth-century France (Feminist Perspectives)

Letters To My Grandchildren: Thoughts on the Future

Beyond the Myths: Mother-Daughter Relationships in Psychology,History,Literature And Everyday Life

Ladies Can’t Climb Ladders: The Pioneering Adventures of the First Professional Women
