Social & Urban History Biographies

Living with Africa

It’s Our Turn to Eat

By Wrong, Michela

Life and Times of a Dovorian: Lillian Kay

By Kay, Lilian

Emma’s War: Love, Betrayal and Death in the Sudan

By Scroggins, Deborah

African's Life, 1745-1797: The Life and Times of Olaudah Equiano

By James Walvin (University of York, UK)

Servitude in Modern Times

By M. L. Bush (Manchester Metropolitan University)

I Never Said Goodbye: A Mother's Memoir of Love and Brutal Loss Inside Saddam's Regime

By Pauline Knowles-Samarraie, Karen O'Brien

War of Words: Memoir of a South African Journalist

By Benjamin Pogrund, Harold Evans

Aishah, the Beloved of Mohammed

By Nabia Abbott

Quotations of Martin Luther King (Quotations of Great Americans)

By King, Martin

General of God's Army: The Authorized Biography of General Eva Burrows

By Henry Gariepy

Egyptians (Usborne Beginners) (Beginners Series)

By Turnbull, Stephanie, King, Colin

The Sunday Times Sporting Century: 50 Momentous Stories in Sports History

By Alan English

The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry

By Jon Ronson (Jon Ronson)

Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture

By Sudhir Hazareesingh

The Seed is Mine: The Life of Kas Maine, a South African Sharecropper, 1894-1985

By Charles van Onselen

Letters from Russia, 1919

By P. D. Ouspensky

A World with a Human Face: A Voice from Africa

By Njongonkulu Ndungane

Biko: A Life

By Xolela Mangcu, Nelson Mandela

Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero

By Timothy Egan

The Economics of Emancipation: Jamaica and Barbados, 1823-1843

By Kathleen Mary Butler

Citizen Lord: Edward Fitzgerald 1763-1798

By Stella Tillyard

Hidden Figures: The Untold Story of the African American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race

By Margot Lee Shetterly

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks: Rebecca Skloot (Picador Classic, 79)

By Skloot, Rebecca, Moss, Sarah

The Strangest Family: The Private Lives of George III, Queen Charlotte and the Hanoverians

By Janice Hadlow

One Hundred Years of Protest

By Christopher Catherwood (Author)

The Speckled People

By Hamilton, Hugo

The Asquiths

By Colin W. G. Clifford

A History of the World in 21 Women: A Personal Selection

By Jenni Murray

Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the British Academy, XIX

By Ron Johnston FBA (, University of Bristol, United Kingdom)