books by subject
Social & Cultural History

A Brief History of the Caribbean: Indispensable for Travellers

The Seed Detective: Uncovering the Secret Histories of Remarkable Vegetables

A Century in Oil : The "Shell" Transport and Trading Company 1897-1997

Don't Shoot The Clowns: War and the Circus in Iraq

Kings of Shanghai

Gentlemen's Gentlemen: From Boot Boys to Butlers, True Stories of Life Below Stairs

Security, Territory, Population: Lectures at the College De France, 1977 - 78

A Just Measure of Pain

The Sociology of Deviance

The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century

The New Book of Snobs: A Definitive Guide to Modern Snobbery

Alistair Cooke's American Journey: Life on the Home Front in the Second World War

A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks

Lists of Note

Letters of Note: Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience

Bees and Their Keepers: From waggle-dancing to killer bees, from Aristotle to Winnie-the-Pooh

City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles

Regulating Womanhood

Milk: An Intimate History of Breastfeeding

Hope In The Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities (Canons)

Out Skerries: An Island Community

From Plain Fare to Fusion Food: British Diet from the 1890s to the 1990s

The Underworld

Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the birth of agriculture

LOCHS & GLENS

Get Her Off the Pitch!: How Sport Took Over My Life

A Square Meal: A Culinary History Of The Great Depression

Victorian Cities: Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham, Middlesbrough, Melbourne, London

The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
