Social & Urban History Biographies

Relish: The Extraordinary Life of Alexis Soyer, Victorian Celebrity Chef

By Ruth Cowen

A Field Guide to the English Clergy: A Compendium of Diverse Eccentrics, Pirates, Prelates and Adventurers; All Anglican, Some Even Practising

By The Revd Fergus Butler-Gallie

Those Wild Wyndhams: Three Sisters at the Heart of Power

By Claudia Renton

The Little Book of Pride: The History, the People, the Parades

By Lewis Laney

Hypatia's Heritage: A History of Women in Science from Antiquity to the Late Nineteenth Century

By Margaret Alic

To Obama

By Jeanne Marie Laskas

Reed Hastings: Building Netflix

By Matt Burgess

YouTubers: How YouTube Shook Up TV and Created a New Generation of Stars

By Chris Stokel-Walker

West from Home

By Laura Ingalls Wilder

Please, Mister Postman

By Johnson, Alan

Fall Out: A Year of Political Mayhem (Brexit Trilogy 2)

By Shipman, Tim

The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

By Professor Michael Lewis, PhD (University of Bath UK)

Descartes: The Project of Pure Enquiry (Penguin philosophy)

By Williams, Bernard

Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village

By Dr. Ronald Blythe

On Hegel

By Alison Brown

Pushing Time Away: My Grandfather and the Tragedy of Jewish Vienna

By Peter Singer

Wake Up: Why the world has gone nuts

By Morgan, Piers

Heresies and Heretics: Memories of the Twentieth Century

By George Watson

The Admirable Adventures and Strange Fortunes of Master Anthony Knivet: An English Pirate in Sixteenth-Century Brazil

By Anthony Knivet, Vivien Kogut Lessa de Sa (University of Cambridge)

But You Did Not Come Back

By Marceline Loridan-Ivens, Sandra Smith

Princess Sultana's Circle

By Jean Sasson

Please Don't Take My Baby

By Cathy Glass

Ernest Gellner: An Intellectual Biography

By John A Hall

With God on Our Side: One Man's War Against an Evangelical Coup in America's Military

By Michael L Weinstein, Davin Seay

Picturing Algeria

By Pierre Bourdieu (SSRC), Craig Calhoun, Franz Schultheis, Christine Frisinghelli

Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell): My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement

By Jane McAlevey, Bob Ostertag

Saddam Hussein: An American Obsession

By Cockburn, Andrew, Cockburn, Patrick

A Tale of Love and Darkness

By Amos Oz

Soldier of the Cuban Revolution: From the Cane Fields to General of the Revolutionary Armed Forces

By Luis Alfonso Zayas

It's Our Turn to Eat

By Michela Wrong