books by subject
Social & Urban History Biographies

Shadows Of The Workhouse: The Drama Of Life In Postwar London

My History: A Memoir of Growing Up

The Many Not the Few: An Illustrated History of Britain Shaped By the People

Way of the Wanderers: The Story of Travellers in Scotland

Keep Smiling Through: My Wartime Story

A Galaxy of Her Own: Amazing Stories of Women in Space

The Greedy Queen: Eating with Victoria

Army Wives: From Crimea to Afghanistan: the Real Lives of the Women Behind the Men in Uniform

Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution

The Melancholy Science: An Introduction to the Thought of Theodor W. Adorno: 8 (Radical Thinkers)

Young Winstone

Timekeepers: How the World Became Obsessed With Time

The Outrun

Letters of Note: Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience

White Boots and Miniskirts: A True Story of Life in the Swinging Sixties

Tsunami Kids: Our Journey from Survival to Success

Fire Woman: The Extraordinary Story of Britain's First Female Firefighter

Why We Think the Things We Think: Philosophy in a Nutshell

Abandoning America: Life-stories from early New England

Last Landlady: An English Memoir

All The Devils Are Here (Granta Editions)

The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

Casting off the Veil: The Life of Huda Shaarawi, Egypt's First Feminist

Inside the Seraglio: Private Lives of the Sultans in Istanbul (International Library of Historical Studies)

Outside the Wire: A Foreign Service Officer in Southern Iraq

When Breath Becomes Air

Genghis Khan: The Man Who Conquered the World

Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China

Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging
