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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   

Cover image of book Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain by Portia de Rossi
(full list previewed - 1 books) - view booklist page

Adoptee Experiences   

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Anarchist Lives & Histories   

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Art History   

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Biography and Autobiography   

Cover image of book Jurgen Klopp: The Biography by Elmar Neveling Cover image of book Rebel Crossings: New Women, Free Lovers and Radicals in Britain and the United States by Sheila Rowbotham
(full list previewed - 2 books) - view booklist page

Biography and Autobiography - Books for Children   

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

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 British History   

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Black History   

Cover image of book Black History for Every Day of the Year by David Olusoga, Yinka Olusoga and Kemi Olusoga
(full list previewed - 1 books) - view booklist page

Bloody Sunday - Derry, 30th January 1972   

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

Britain: Democracy & the Vote   

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British History - 21st Century   

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British History - Pre 20th Century   

Cover image of book The Origins of the British: The New Prehistory of Britain by Stephen Oppenheimer
(full list previewed - 1 books) - view booklist page

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 How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir by Saeed Jones 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 - 4 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   

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

Irish History: The Famine   

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Islam: History   

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Jewish Britain   

Cover image of book The Tiger in the Attic; Memories of the Kindertransport and Growing up English. by Edith Milton
(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
(full list previewed - 1 books) - view booklist page

Local Lives: Liverpool   

Cover image of book Said and Done: The Autobiography by Roger McGough
(full list previewed - 1 books) - view booklist page

Malcolm X   

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

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 Halala Madiba: Nelson Mandela in Poetry by Edited by Richard Bartlett Cover image of book No Easy Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
(full list previewed - 2 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
(full list previewed - 1 books) - view booklist page

Scottish Folklore and Mythology   

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Scottish History and Politics   

Cover image of book Insurrection: Scotland's Famine Winter by James Hunter
(full list previewed - 1 books) - view booklist page

Speeches   

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

Spiritual Memoirs   

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Sports Memoirs and Biographies   

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Steve Biko   

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The Cold War   

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

Transgender Lives and Histories   

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Trials   

Cover image of book Friends of Alice Wheeldon: The Anti-War Activist Accused of Plotting to Kill Lloyd George by Sheila Rowbotham
(full list previewed - 1 books) - view booklist page

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 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   

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

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 A Month by the Sea: Encounters in Gaza by Dervla Murphy
(full list previewed - 3 books) - view booklist page

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 Speechless: World History Without Words by Polyp
(full list previewed - 5 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   

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 Palestine Papers: 1917-1922: Seeds of Conflict by Doreen Ingrams
(full list previewed - 3 books) - view booklist page

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

World War II   

Cover image of book The Undertaking by Audrey Magee
(full list previewed - 1 books) - view booklist page

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