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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   
Adoptee Experiences   

Cover image of book Red Dust Road by Jackie Kay
(full list previewed - 1 books) - view booklist page

Anarchist Lives & Histories   

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

Art History   

Cover image of book Women Art Workers and the Arts and Crafts Movement by Zoe Thomas Cover image of book Frida: The Biography of Frida Kahlo by Hayden Herrera Cover image of book Broad Strokes: 15 Women Who Made Art and Made History (in That Order) by Bridget Quinn, illustrated by Lisa Congdon Cover image of book Picasso: Challenging the Past by Cowling, Cox, Fraquelli, Galassi, Ripopelle and Robbins
(full list previewed - 4 books) - view booklist page

Artist's Lives   

Cover image of book The Invisible Painting: My Memoir of Leonora Carrington by Gabriel Weisz Carrington Cover image of book Frida: The Biography of Frida Kahlo by Hayden Herrera Cover image of book Frida Kahlo: The Story of Her Life by Vanna Vinci
(full list previewed - 3 books) - view booklist page

Barack and Michelle Obama   

Cover image of book Barack Obama and African Diasporas: Dialogues and Dissensions by Edited by Paul Tiyambe Zeleza Cover image of book Barack Obama: The Improbable Quest by John K. Wilson
(full list previewed - 2 books) - view booklist page

Biography and Autobiography   
Biography and Autobiography - Books for Children   

Cover image of book Young, Gifted and Black: Meet 52 Black Heroes from Past and Present by Jamia Wilson, illustrated by Andrea Pippins Cover image of book Inspirational Lives: Nelson Mandela by Kay Barnham Cover image of book Through My Eyes: Naveed by John Heffernan, edited by Lyn White Cover image of book Benjamin Zephaniah: My Story by Benjamin Zephaniah, illustrated by Victor Ambrus.
(full list previewed - 4 books) - view booklist page

Black America - The Civil Rights Movement   

Cover image of book Civil Rights for Beginners by Paul Von Blum, illustrated by Frank Reynoso Cover image of book It's Been Beautiful: Soul! and Black Power Television by Gayle Wald
(full list previewed - 2 books) - view booklist page

Black American Women   

Cover image of book This is Your Time by Ruby Bridges Cover image of book Michelle Obama: Quotes to Live By by Michelle Obama Cover image of book The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers by Various writers, edited by Hollis Robbins and Henry Louis Gates Cover image of book A Piece of Cake: A Memoir by Cupcake Brown
(full list previewed - 4 books) - view booklist page

Black and Asian Biography and Autobiography   

Cover image of book African Activists of the Twentieth Century: Hani, Maathai, Mpama/Palmer, Saro-Wiwa by Hugh Macmillan, Tabitha Kanogo, Robert R. Edgar, Roy Doron and Toyin Falola
(full list previewed - 1 books) - view booklist page

Black British History   

Cover image of book Windrush: 75 Years of Modern Britain by Mike Phillips and Trevor Phillips Cover image of book CLR James: A Life Beyond the Boundaries by John L Williams Cover image of book Black and British: A Forgotten History by David Olusoga Cover image of book We're Here Because You Were There: Immigration and the End of Empire by Ian Sanjay Patel
(full list previewed - 4 books) - view booklist page

Black History   

Cover image of book Decolonising My Body: A Radical Exploration of Rituals and Beauty by Afua Hirsch Cover image of book The Black History Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained by DK, with a Foreword by David Olusoga Cover image of book Back to Black: Black Radicalism for the 21st Century by Kehinde Andrews Cover image of book It's Been Beautiful: Soul! and Black Power Television by Gayle Wald Cover image of book A Just Defiance: The Bombmakers, the Insurgents and a Legendary Treason Trial by Peter Harris
(full list previewed - 5 books) - view booklist page

British History   

Cover image of book Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech by Brian Merchant
(full list previewed - 1 books) - view booklist page

British History - 21st Century   

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

Charles Dickens   

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

Che Guevara   

Cover image of book Remembering Che: My Life with Che Guevara by Aleida March Cover image of book The Young Che: Memories of Che Guevara by Ernesto Guevara Lynch
(full list previewed - 2 books) - view booklist page

Childhood Memoirs   
Colonialism, Imperialism and Empire   

Cover image of book These Bodies of Water: A Personal History of the British Empire in the Middle East by Sabrina Mahfouz Cover image of book Settler Colonialism: An Introduction by Sai Englert Cover image of book Edge of Empire: Conquest & Collecting in the East 1750-1850 by Maya Jasanoff
(full list previewed - 3 books) - view booklist page

Disability Memoirs and Histories   
Environmental Memoirs and Biographies   
Explorers and Exploring   

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

France - Paris Uprising of May 1968   

Cover image of book May Made Me: An Oral History of the 1968 Uprising in France by Mitchell Abidor
(full list previewed - 1 books) - view booklist page

Gay Lives & Histories   
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
(full list previewed - 5 books) - view booklist page

Irish History: The Famine   

Cover image of book A Short History of Ireland's Famine by Ruan O'Donnell Cover image of book The Great Hunger; Ireland 1845-1849. by Cecil Woodham-smith
(full list previewed - 2 books) - view booklist page

Islam: History   

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

Jewish Lives   

Cover image of book A Century of Wisdom: Lessons from the Life of Alice Herz-Sommer by Caroline Stoessinger Cover image of book If I Am Not For Myself: Journey of an Anti-Zionist Jew by Mike Marqusee Cover image of book 163256: A Memoir of Resistance by Michael Englishman Cover image of book My Wounded Heart: The Life of Lilli Jahn 1900-1944 by Martin Doerry
(full list previewed - 4 books) - view booklist page

Justice and the Law: Memoirs   

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

Leon Trotsky   

Cover image of book Trotsky in 1917 by Leon Trotsky Cover image of book Terrorism and Communism: A Reply to Karl Kautsky by Leon Trotsky, with an introduction by Slavoj Žižek
(full list previewed - 2 books) - view booklist page

Lesbian Lives & Histories   
LGBTQ+ Lives and History   

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

LGBTQ+ Lives, Histories and Biographies   

Cover image of book Fat and Queer: An Anthology of Queer and Trans Bodies and Lives by Edited by Bruce Owens Grimm, Miguel M. Morales and Tiff Joshua TJ Ferentini Cover image of book Neuroqueer: A Neurodivergent Guide to Love, Sex, and Everything in Between by CJ DeBarra Cover image of book Love from the Pink Palace: Memories of Love, Loss and Cabaret through the AIDS Crisis by Jill Nader Cover image of book Queer Ukraine: An Anthology of LGBTQI+ Ukrainian Voices During Wartime by Edited & translated by the DVIJKA collective Cover image of book Gender Euphoria: Stories of Joy from Trans, Non-Binary and Intersex Writers by Laura Kate Dale (Editor)
(full list previewed - 5 books) - view booklist page

Liverpool, Wirral and Merseyside during World War I and II   

Cover image of book Great War Britain Liverpool: Remembering 1914-18 by Pamela Russell Cover image of book Merseyside War Years: Then & Now by Daniel K. Longman Cover image of book Liverpool Blitzed by Neil Holmes Cover image of book Merseyside Blitzed by Neil Holmes Cover image of book The Rescue Man by Anthony Quinn
(full list previewed - 5 books) - view booklist page

Local Lives: Liverpool   
Malcolm X   

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

Martin Luther King, Jr.   

Cover image of book The Speech by Gary Younge
(full list previewed - 1 books) - view booklist page

Music Memoirs and Biographies   
Political Biographies   

Cover image of book Winston Churchill: His Times, His Crimes by Tariq Ali
(full list previewed - 1 books) - view booklist page

Radical Britain   

Cover image of book A Radical History of Britain: Visionaries, Rebels and Revolutionaries ... by Edward Vallance
(full list previewed - 1 books) - view booklist page

Russian History   

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

Science in History   

Cover image of book Alan Turing: The Life of a Genius by Dermot Turing
(full list previewed - 1 books) - view booklist page

Scottish History and Politics   

Cover image of book Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America by James Webb
(full list previewed - 1 books) - view booklist page

Spiritual Memoirs   

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

Sports Memoirs and Biographies   

Cover image of book Black, White and Gold: My Autobiography by Kelly Holmes with Fanny Blake
(full list previewed - 1 books) - view booklist page

The Cold War   

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

The Holocaust   
The Holocaust - Books for Children & Young Adults   

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

The Suffragette Movement and the Fight for the Vote   

Cover image of book Sylvia Pankhurst: Natural Born Rebel by Rachel Holmes
(full list previewed - 1 books) - view booklist page

The Vietnam War   

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

Transgender Lives & Histories   

Cover image of book Pageboy: A Memoir by Elliot Page Cover image of book Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary by Miss Major Griffin-Gracy and Toshio Meronek Cover image of book A Trans Man Walks Into a Gay Bar: A Journey of Self (and Sexual) Discovery by Harry Nicholas Cover image of book Gender Euphoria: Stories of Joy from Trans, Non-Binary and Intersex Writers by Laura Kate Dale (Editor) Cover image of book Finding Masculinity: Female to Male Transition in Adulthood by Alexander Walker and Emmett J.P. Lundberg (Editors)
(full list previewed - 5 books) - view booklist page

Trials   

Cover image of book Friends of Alice Wheeldon: The Anti-War Activist Accused of Plotting to Kill Lloyd George by Sheila Rowbotham Cover image of book Did She Kill Him? A Victorian Tale of Deception, Adultery and Arsenic by Kate Colquhoun Cover image of book Final Verdict: What Really Happend in the Rosenberg Case by Walter Schneir
(full list previewed - 3 books) - view booklist page

USA: Democracy and the Vote   

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

Welsh Lives   

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

Witch Trials   
Women in Wales   

Cover image of book One Woman Walks Wales by Ursula Martin
(full list previewed - 1 books) - view booklist page

Women's Biography and Autobiography   
Women's History - Pre-20th Century   

Cover image of book An Almost Impossible Thing: The Radical Lives of Britain's Pioneering Women Gardeners by Fiona Davison Cover image of book In Defence of Witches: Why Women Are Still on Trial by Mona Chollet Cover image of book Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials by Marion Gibson Cover image of book Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation by Silvia Federici Cover image of book The Language of the Goddess: Unearthing the Hidden Symbols of Western Civilization by Marija Gimbutas
(full list previewed - 5 books) - view booklist page

Worker's Lives   

Cover image of book The Great Post Office Scandal by Nick Wallis
(full list previewed - 1 books) - view booklist page

Working Class Lives, Art and Culture   

Cover image of book No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy: Memoirs of a Working-Class Reader by Mark Hodkinson Cover image of book Diamonds in the Mud by Brian Reade Cover image of book Skint Estate: A Memoir of Poverty, Motherhood and Survival by Cash Carraway Cover image of book All Together Now? One Man's Walk in Search of a Lost England by Mike Carter Cover image of book Common People: An Anthology of Working-Class Writers by Kit de Waal (Editor) Cover image of book The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell
(full list previewed - 6 books) - view booklist page

World History - Latin America & Caribbean   
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 Cover image of book Eurocentrism: Modernity, Religion and Democracy - A Critique of Eurocentrism and Culturalism by Samir Amin Cover image of book Islamic History: A Very Short Introduction by Adam J. Silverstein Cover image of book Palestine Papers: 1917-1922: Seeds of Conflict by Doreen Ingrams Cover image of book Iraqi Jews: A History of Mass Exodus by Abbas Shiblak
(full list previewed - 6 books) - view booklist page

World War I   

Cover image of book The Great Explosion: Gunpowder, the Great War, and a Disaster on the Kent Marshes by Brian Dillon Cover image of book The Heroes' Welcome by Louisa Young Cover image of book Merseyside at War by Anthony Hogan Cover image of book Dynamic of Destruction: Culture and Mass Killing in the First World War by Alan Kramer Cover image of book The Great War (Fold-Out Panorama) by Joe Sacco Cover image of book We Will Not Go to War: Conscientious Objection During the World Wars by Felicity Goodall
(full list previewed - 6 books) - view booklist page

Writers and Poet's Lives and Works   

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