Social & Urban History Biographies

The South Country

By Edward Thomas, Eric Fitch Daglish, Robert Macfarlane, David Inshaw

T. G. Masaryk: Against the Current, 1882-1914

By H. Gordon Skilling

On Record: Rock, Pop and the Written Word

By Simon Frith, Andrew Goodwin

Law's Strangest Cases: Extraordinary but true tales from over five centuries of legal history

By Peter Seddon

Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History

By Philippa Gregory

Mary Warnock: A Memoir - People and Places

By Mary Warnock

When The Hills Ask For Your Blood: A Personal Stor

By David Belton

Fighting Back: A Memoir of Jewish Resistance in World War II

By Harold Werner, Mark Werner, Martin Gilbert

Great Women's Speeches: Empowering Voices that Engage and Inspire

By Anna Russell, Camila Pinheiro

That's Not English: Britishisms, Americanisms and What Our English Says About Us

By Erin Moore, Lynne Truss

Italian Life: A Modern Fable of Loyalty and Betrayal

By Tim Parks

Will In The World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare

By Stephen Greenblatt

Mad about Shakespeare: Life Lessons from the Bard

By Jonathan Bate

After the War was Over

By Michael Foreman

Censored 1998: The Year's Top 25 Censored Stories

By Peter Phillips, Project Censored, Danny Schechter, Tom Tomorrow

The Hong Kong Diaries

By Chris Patten

The Restless Republic: Britain without a Crown

By Anna Keay

Che Guevara: the definitive portrait of one of the twentieth century's most fascinating historical figures, by critically-acclaimed New York Times journalist Jon Lee Anderson

By Jon Lee Anderson

Pompeii: Lost and Found

By Mary Pope Osborne, Bonnie Christensen

Confessions of an English Opium Eater (Collins Classics)

By Thomas De Quincey

Portraits of American Women: From Settlement to the Present

By G. J. Barker-Benfield (Department of History, Department of History, State University of New York, Albany), Catherine Clinton (Fellow, W.E.B. DuBois Institute, Fellow, Harvard University)

Intellectuals

By Paul Johnson

Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America

By Gilbert King

Last Guardians: Crown Service in Sudan, Northern Rhodesia and Britain

By Philip Bowcock

The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Empire: Political Leaders From Lenin to Gorbachev

By Dmitri Volkogonov

Les Grandes Horizontales

By Virginia Rounding

My Battle of Hastings: Chronicle of a Year by the Sea

By Xiaolu Guo

Small Talk: Memories of an Edwardian Childhood

By Naomi Mitchison

Henry 'Chips' Channon: The Diaries (Volume 1): 1918-38

By Chips Channon

Ruffin

By David F. Allmendinger