Social & Urban History Biographies

Art, Enterprise, and Ethics: The Life and Works of William Morris

By Charles Harvey, Jon Press

Arthur Ashe: A Life

By Raymond Arsenault

Fred; The Definitive Biography Of Fred Dibnah

By David Hall

Suet and soufflé

By Joyce Horlock

Jerusalem: The Biography

By Simon Sebag Montefiore

Stories for Boys Who Dare to Be Different: True Tales of Amazing Boys Who Changed the World without Killing Dragons

By Ben Brooks

The Men Commandments

By Christian O'Connell

Willie Gavin, Crofter Man: A Portrait of a Vanished Lifestyle

By David Kerr Cameron

King: The Life of Martin Luther King

By Jonathan Eig

Married To A Bedouin

By Marguerite van Geldermalsen

D-Day to Victory: The Diaries of a British Tank Commander

By Sgt Trevor Greenwood, S. V. Partington

Bullet Magnet: Britain's Most Highly Decorated Frontline Soldier

By Flynn, Mick

An Immigrant's Love Letter to the West

By Konstantin Kisin, Peter Lloyd

The Good Sharps: The Eighteenth-Century Family that Changed Britain

By Hester Grant

The Republic of Pirates: Being the true and surprising story of the Caribbean pirates and the man who brought them down

By Colin Woodard

Chained to the Land: Voices from Cotton & Cane Plantations

By Lynette Ater Tanner

The Oxford Book of Theatrical Anecdotes

By Gyles Brandreth

Henry VII's New Men and the Making of Tudor England

By Steven Gunn (Fellow and Tutor in History, Fellow and Tutor in History, Merton College, Oxford)

Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History

By Philippa Gregory

Son of Escobar: First Born

By Roberto Sendoya Escobar

Brassey's Encyclopedia of Military History and Biography

By Franklin D. Margiotta, John Keegan

The Big Book of Celebrity Inventions

By Champkins, Mark, Jones, Peter

Shakespeare and Company, Paris: A History of the Rag & Bone Shop of the Heart

By Krista Halverson

Where I Was From

By Joan Didion

The Flame Trees Of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood

By Elspeth Huxley

When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt

By Kara Cooney

The Castrato and His Wife

By Helen Berry (Reader in Early Modern History, Newcastle University)

Boy Soldiers of the Great War

By Van Emden, Richard

The Picture Man: Photographs by Paul Buchanan

By Bruce Morton

The Mystery of Easter Island

By Katherine Pease Routledge