Social & Urban History Biographies

The Big House: The Story of a Country House and its Family

By Christopher Simon Sykes

Coronation: From the 8th to the 21st Century

By Roy Strong

Catherine the Great: Life and Legend

By John T. Alexander (Professor of History and Soviet and East European Studies at the University of Kansas, Professor of History and Soviet and East European Studies at the University of Kansas)

Edward Burne-Jones

By Ann S Dean

The "Times" Royal Handbook

By Alan Hamilton

Conundrum

By Jan Morris

Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time

By Clive James

Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle

By Clare Hunter

Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption

By Jennifer Thompson-Cannino, Ronald Cotton

Dead Famous: An Unexpected History of Celebrity from Bronze Age to Silver Screen

By Greg Jenner

London: The Concise Biography

By Peter Ackroyd

Old Age Comes at A Bad Time : " Wit And Wisdom For The Young At Heart " t

By Katz, Eliakim

Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle

By Clare Hunter

Short Skirts and Shorthand: Secretaries in the 1970s

By Sarah Shaw

Crowns in a Changing World: The British and European Monarchies, 1901-36

By John Van der Kiste

What's Tha Up To Nah?

By Martyn Johnson

Coronation Cups and Jam Jars: Portrait of an East End Family Through Three Generations

By Ron Barnes

Analogia: The Entangled Destinies of Nature, Human Beings and Machines

By George Dyson

Rose: My Life in Service to Lady Astor

By Rosina Harrison

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

By Volkogonov, Dmitri, Dmitri Volkogonov

Dawn of Art: The Chauvet Cave: the Oldest Known Paintings in the World

By Jean-Marie Chauvet, Eliette Brunel Deschamps, Christian Hillaire, Paul G. Bahn

Dark Skies: A Journey into the Wild Night

By Tiffany Francis-Baker

The New New Journalism: Conversations with America's Best Nonfiction Writers on Their Craft

By Robert Boynton

Call The Midwife: A True Story Of The East End In The 1950s

By Jennifer Worth, SRN, SCM

Lady Catherine and the Real Downton Abbey

By The Countess Of Carnarvon

Byrhtnoth: Anglo-Saxon warrior

By John McSween

Storm Command: A Personal Account of the Gulf War

By Gen. Sir Peter de la Billiere

17 Carnations: The Windsors, The Nazis and The Cover-Up

By Andrew Morton

London Made Us: A Memoir of a Shape-Shifting City

By Robert Elms

The King is Dead, Long Live the King!: Majesty, Mourning and Modernity in Edwardian Britain

By Martin Williams