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History & Biography

Focussing on histories of the people not the powerful!

Most books can be ordered within 7-10 days, subject to availability. If you need a book urgently, or by a specific date, you can always contact us before ordering to ask how long it will take
Booklists in this category:
Actors and Actresses   

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Adoptee Experiences   

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Anarchist Lives & Histories   

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Art History   

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Barack and Michelle Obama   

Cover image of book Barack Obama: The Improbable Quest by John K. Wilson
(full list previewed - 1 books) - view booklist page

Biography and Autobiography   

Cover image of book Rebel Crossings: New Women, Free Lovers and Radicals in Britain and the United States by Sheila Rowbotham
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Biography and Autobiography - Books for Children   

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Black America - The Civil Rights Movement   

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Black American Women   

Cover image of book Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement by Tarana Burke
(full list previewed - 1 books) - view booklist page

Black and Asian Biography and Autobiography   

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Black British History   

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Black History   

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Bloody Sunday - Derry, 30th January 1972   

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Britain: Democracy & the Vote   

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British History - 21st Century   

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British History - Pre 20th Century   

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Charles Dickens   

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Che Guevara   

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Childhood Memoirs   

Cover image of book Under a Canvas Sky: Living Outside Gormenghast by Clare Peake
(full list previewed - 1 books) - view booklist page

Colonialism, Imperialism and Empire   

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Environmental Memoirs and Biographies   

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Fiction - Anti-Semitism and The Holocaust   

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France - Paris Uprising of May 1968   

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Gay Lives & Histories   

Cover image of book Geisha of a Different Kind: Race and Sexuality in Gaysian America by C. Winter Han Cover image of book The Oldest Gay in the Village by George Montague Cover image of book Moffies: Gay Life in Southern Africa by Bart Luirink
(full list previewed - 3 books) - view booklist page

Health and Wellbeing - Memoirs   

Cover image of book Getting Better: Life Lessons on Going Under, Getting Over It, and Getting Through It by Michael Rosen Cover image of book Behind the Mask: A Collection of Stories from Frontline Workers by Various authors Cover image of book All the Young Men: How One Woman Risked It All To Care For The Dying by Ruth Coker Burks and Kevin Carr O'Leary Cover image of book The Shapeless Unease: My Year in Search of Sleep by Samantha Harvey Cover image of book Insomnia by Marina Benjamin Cover image of book The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober: Discovering a happy, healthy, wealthy alcohol-free life by Catherine Gray
(full list previewed - 6 books) - view booklist page

Historical Fiction   
Hugo Chavez   

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Irish History: The Famine   

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Islam: History   

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Jewish Britain   

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Jewish Lives   

Cover image of book If I Am Not For Myself: Journey of an Anti-Zionist Jew by Mike Marqusee
(full list previewed - 1 books) - view booklist page

Justice and the Law: Memoirs   

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Leon Trotsky   

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Lesbian Lives & Histories   

Cover image of book In My Skin: My Life on and Off the Basketball Court by Brittney Griner Cover image of book The Disappearing L: Erasure of Lesbian Spaces and Culture by Bonnie J. Morris
(full list previewed - 2 books) - view booklist page

LGBTQ+ Lives, Histories and Biographies   

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Liverpool, Wirral and Merseyside during World War I and II   

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Local Lives: Liverpool   

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Malcolm X   

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Martin Luther King, Jr.   

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Music Memoirs and Biographies   

Cover image of book Dazzling Stranger; Bert Jansch and the British Folk and Blues Revival by Colin Harper
(full list previewed - 1 books) - view booklist page

Nelson Mandela   

Cover image of book Long Walk To Freedom by Nelson Mandela Cover image of book Halala Madiba: Nelson Mandela in Poetry by Edited by Richard Bartlett Cover image of book No Easy Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela Cover image of book In His Own Words: From Freedom to the Future by Nelson Mandela
(full list previewed - 4 books) - view booklist page

Paul Robeson   

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Radical Britain   

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Russian History   

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Science in History   

Cover image of book Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science by Jim al-Khalili
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Scottish Folklore and Mythology   

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Scottish History and Politics   

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Speeches   

Cover image of book A James Connolly Reader by James Connolly Cover image of book The Speech by Gary Younge
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Spiritual Memoirs   

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Sports Memoirs and Biographies   

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Steve Biko   

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The Cold War   

Cover image of book Empire of Secrets: British Intelligence, the Cold War and the Twilight of Empire by Calder Walton
(full list previewed - 1 books) - view booklist page

The Holocaust   

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The Holocaust - Books for Children & Young Adults   

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The Suffragette Movement and the Fight for the Vote   

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The Vietnam War   

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Trade Unions   

Cover image of book Champions of Equality: Trade Unions and LGBT Rights in Britain by Peter Purton
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Transgender Lives and Histories   

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Trials   

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USA: Democracy and the Vote   

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USA: History   

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Welsh History and Politics   

Cover image of book 20 Radical Steps to Welsh Independence by Jim Wingate and Jen Llywelyn Cover image of book Sarn Helen: A Journey Through Wales, Past, Present and Future by Tom Bullough, illustrated by Jackie Morris Cover image of book The History of Wales in Twelve Poems by M. Wynn Thomas Cover image of book The Welsh: The Biography by Terry Breverton Cover image of book A History of Wales by John Davies
(full list previewed - 5 books) - view booklist page

Welsh Lives   

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Witch Trials   

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Women in Ireland   

Cover image of book Bad Bridget: Crime, Mayhem and the Lives of Irish Emigrant Women by Elaine Farrell and Leanne McCormick Cover image of book Women of the Irish Revolution by Liz Gillis Cover image of book Repeal the 8th by Una Mullally (Editor) Cover image of book A Place Apart: Northern Ireland in the 1970s by Dervla Murphy Cover image of book A Month by the Sea: Encounters in Gaza by Dervla Murphy
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Working Class Lives, Art and Culture   

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World History   

Cover image of book Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It by Janina Ramirez (Author) Cover image of book Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia by David Graeber Cover image of book Sapiens: A Graphic History - The Birth of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari, David Vandermeulen and David Casanave Cover image of book Figuring by Maria Popova Cover image of book 1916: A Global History by Keith Jeffery Cover image of book Speechless: World History Without Words by Polyp
(full list previewed - 6 books) - view booklist page

World History - Latin America & Caribbean   

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World History - Middle East   

Cover image of book The Balfour Declaration: Empire, the Mandate and Resistance in Palestine by Bernard Regan Cover image of book The Balfour Declaration: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict by Jonathan Schneer
(full list previewed - 2 books) - view booklist page

World War I   

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World War II   

Cover image of book The Undertaking by Audrey Magee
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