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News From Nowhere Radical & Community Bookshop

not-for-profit - a workers'co-op - committed to social justice | 96 Bold Street, Liverpool L1 4HY - 0151 708 7270

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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   

(new book list waiting for books to be added - check back soon)

Adoptee Experiences   

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Barack and Michelle Obama   

(new book list waiting for books to be added - check back soon)

Biography and Autobiography - Books for Children   

(new book list waiting for books to be added - check back soon)

Black America - The Civil Rights Movement   

(new book list waiting for books to be added - check back soon)

Black and Asian Biography and Autobiography   

(new book list waiting for books to be added - check back soon)

Black British History   

(new book list waiting for books to be added - check back soon)

Black History   

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Che Guevara   

(new book list waiting for books to be added - check back soon)

Childhood Memoirs   

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

Environmental Memoirs and Biographies   

(new book list waiting for books to be added - check back soon)

Fiction - Anti-Semitism and The Holocaust   

(new book list waiting for books to be added - check back soon)

Gay Lives & Histories   

Cover image of book Geisha of a Different Kind: Race and Sexuality in Gaysian America by C. Winter Han
(full list previewed - 1 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 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 - 5 books) - view booklist page

Historical Fiction   

Cover image of book Blood Relatives by Stevan Alcock Cover image of book The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd Cover image of book Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens Cover image of book The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens
(full list previewed - 4 books) - view booklist page

Irish History: The Famine   

(new book list waiting for books to be added - check back soon)

Islam: History   

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Jewish Britain   

(new book list waiting for books to be added - check back soon)

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

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   

(new book list waiting for books to be added - check back soon)

Liverpool, Wirral and Merseyside during World War I and II   

(new book list waiting for books to be added - check back soon)

Local Lives: Liverpool   

(new book list waiting for books to be added - check back soon)

Music Memoirs and Biographies   

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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

Radical Britain   

(new book list waiting for books to be added - check back soon)

Science in History   

Cover image of book Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science by Jim al-Khalili
(full list previewed - 1 books) - view booklist page

Scottish Folklore and Mythology   

(new book list waiting for books to be added - check back soon)

Scottish History and Politics   

(new book list waiting for books to be added - check back soon)

Speeches   

Cover image of book A James Connolly Reader by James Connolly Cover image of book The Speech by Gary Younge
(full list previewed - 2 books) - view booklist page

Spiritual Memoirs   

(new book list waiting for books to be added - check back soon)

Sports Memoirs and Biographies   

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Steve Biko   

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The Cold War   

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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
(full list previewed - 1 books) - view booklist page

Transgender Lives and Histories   

(new book list waiting for books to be added - check back soon)

USA: Democracy and the Vote   

(new book list waiting for books to be added - check back soon)

USA: History   

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Welsh History and Politics   

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 - 2 books) - view booklist page

Welsh Lives   

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Witch Trials   

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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 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
(full list previewed - 4 books) - view booklist page

World History - Latin America & Caribbean   

(new book list waiting for books to be added - check back soon)

World History - Middle East   

(new book list waiting for books to be added - check back soon)

World War I   

Cover image of book The Guns of August: The Classic Bestselling Account of the Outbreak of the First World War by Barbara W. Tuchman
(full list previewed - 1 books) - view booklist page

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