Social & Urban History Biographies

Basingstoke and Its Contribution to World Culture

Letters of Engagement 1884-1888: The Love Letters of Adrian Hope and Laura Troubridge

By Hope, Adrian, Troubridge, Laura, Lancaster, Marie-Jaqueline

Driving Over Lemons: An Optimist in Andalucia

By Stewart, Chris

Bash the Rich: True Life Confessions of an Anarchist in the UK

By Ian Bone, Richard Jones, Trevor Wyatt

Princess Sultana's Daughters

By Sasson, Jean P., Sasson, Jean

The First Communist in Fort Jameson: Recollections of Africa and other places 1955-2018

By Watt, Nigel

Mixed Blessings from a Cambridge Union

By Anionwu, Elizabeth N

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Tales of Extraordinary Women

By Favilli, Elena

Good Night Stories For Rebel Girls 2

By Elena Favilli, Francesca Cavallo, Favilli, Elena, Cavallo, Francesca, Rebel Girls

Text Me When You Get Home The Evolution and Triumph of Modern Female Friendship

By Schaefer, Kayleen

Subaltern Lives: Biographies of Colonialism in the Indian Ocean World, 1790–1920 (Critical Perspectives on Empire)

By Anderson, Clare

Tiananmen Exiles: Voices of the Struggle for Democracy in China (Palgrave Studies in Oral History)

By He, R., Link, Perry

Cities of God: The Bible and Archaeology in Nineteenth-Century Britain

By Gange, David

A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa (Vintage)

By French, Howard W

Through the Children's Gate: A Home in New York

By Gopnik, Adam

Burn Journals (Vintage)

By Runyon, Brent

Grey Wolf: The Escape of Adolf Hitler

By Simon Dunstan, Gerrard Williams

The Letter of Violence: Essays on Narrative, Ethics, and Politics (New Directions in Latino American Cultures)

By Avelar, Idelber

Long Walk to Freedom: Illustrated Children's edition

By Nelson Mandela, Chris Van Wyk, Paddy Bouma

England and Its Rulers 1066-1307 (Blackwell Classic Histories of England)

By Clanchy, M. T.

The Philosophy Book

By Will Buckingham, Peter J. King, Douglas Burnham, Marcus Weeks, Clive Hill, John Marenbon, DK, Sarah Tomley

Stories of Women in the 1960s: Fighting for Freedom (Women's Stories from History)

By Cath Senker

Stephen Hawking (A Life Story)

By Sheehan, Nikki

The Perfect Theory: A Century of Geniuses and the Battle over General Relativity

By Ferreira, Professor Pedro G.

Did She Kill Him? A Victorian Tale of Deception, Adultery & Arsenic: A Victorian tale of deception, adultery and arsenic

By Colquhoun, Kate

The Riviera Set

By Lovell, Mary S.

Mrs Robinson's Disgrace: The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady

By Summerscale, Kate

Cairo: My City, Our Revolution

By Soueif, Ahdaf

A Spy Among Friends: Philby and the Great Betrayal

By MacIntyre, Ben

Queen Victoria's Matchmaking: The Royal Marriages that Shaped Europe

By Cadbury, Deborah