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History & Biography

Focussing on histories of the people not the powerful!

The COVID-19 crisis is causing delays in delivery from our suppliers, and currently it takes at least 1-2 weeks for us to obtain most books at present, (subject to availability) - so if you need a book urgently, or by a specific date, we encourage you to contact us before placing an order to ask how long it may take
Booklists in this category:
Actors and Actresses   
Anarchist Lives & Histories   
Anne Frank   
Anti-Semitism & The Holocaust   
Art History   
Artist's Lives   
Barack and Michelle Obama   
Biography and Autobiography   
Biography and Autobiography - Books for Children   
Biography and Autobiography - Books for Young Adults   
Bisexual Lives and Histories   
Black America - The Civil Rights Movement   
Black American History   
Black American Women   
Black and Asian Biography and Autobiography   
Black British History   
Black History   
Bloody Sunday - Derry, 30th January 1972   

Cover image of book The Bloody Sunday Inquiry; The Families Speak Out by Eamonn McCann Cover image of book Desertion Bloody Sunday by Colin E. Demet Cover image of book Those Are Real Bullets, Aren't They? Bloody Sunday, Derry, 30 January 1972 by Peter Pringle and Philip Jacobson Cover image of book Eyewitness Bloody Sunday by Don Mullan Cover image of book Bloody Sunday: Scenes from the Saville Inquiry by Richard Norton-Taylor
(full list previewed - 5 books) - view booklist page

Britain: Democracy & the Vote   

Cover image of book The English Rebel: One Thousand Years of Trouble-making from the Normans to the Nineties by David Horspool Cover image of book Democracy: The Long Revolution by Edited by David Powell and Tom Hickey
(full list previewed - 2 books) - view booklist page

British History - 20th Century   
British History - 21st Century   

Cover image of book The Story of the British Isles in 100 Places by Neil Oliver Cover image of book Armchair Nation: An Intimate History of Britain in Front of the TV by Joe Moran Cover image of book Remember, Remember (The Fifth of November):The History of Britain in Bite-Sized Chunks by Judy Parkinson
(full list previewed - 3 books) - view booklist page

British History - Pre 20th Century   
Charles Dickens   
Che Guevara   
Childhood Memoirs   
Colonialism & Imperialism   
David Bowie   
Disability - Activism, Politics & History   
Disability Memoirs and Histories   
Drugs - History & Culture   
Environmental Memoirs and Biographies   
Explorers and Exploring   

Cover image of book Extraordinary Women Explorers by Frances Rooney Cover image of book This Everlasting Silence: The Love Letters of Paquita Delprat and Douglas Mawson, 1911-1914 by Paquita Delprat and Douglas Mawson Cover image of book Racing with Death: Douglas Mawson - Antarctic Explorer by Beau Riffenburgh
(full list previewed - 3 books) - view booklist page

Fiction - Anti-Semitism and The Holocaust   
Fiction - World War II   
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 Cover image of book 1968 - the Year That Rocked the World by Mark Kurlansky
(full list previewed - 2 books) - view booklist page

Gay Lives & Histories   
Geneaology and Tracing Your Family History   
Historical Feminism   
Historical Fiction   
History - Books for Children   
History - Books for Young Adults   

Cover image of book The Book Thief by Markus Zusak Cover image of book The Diary of a Young Girl (Abridged edition) by Anne Frank Cover image of book Corpse Talk: Season 1 by Adam Murphy Cover image of book Sovay by Celia Rees Cover image of book Blood Red, Snow White by Marcus Sedgwick
(full list previewed - 5 books) - view booklist page

History - North West England   

Cover image of book Cover image of book Worktown: The Astonishing Story of the Project That Launched Mass Observation by David Hall Cover image of book The Pit Brow Women of the Wigan Coalfield by Alan Davies Cover image of book Mersey Voices by Diana Pulson Cover image of book Mersey Ports: Liverpool and Birkenhead by Ian Collard
(full list previewed - 5 books) - view booklist page

Hugo Chavez   

Cover image of book Hugo Chavez Presents Simon Bolivar: The Bolivarian Revolution by Edited by Matthew Brown Cover image of book Hugo: The Hugo Chavez Story - from Mud Hut to Perpetual Revolution by Bart Jones Cover image of book Venezuela: Hugo Chavez and the Decline of an Exceptional Democracy by Miguel Tinker Cover image of book Changing Venezuela by Taking Power: The History and Policies of the Chavez Government by Gregory Wilpert Cover image of book Chavez: Venezuela and The New Latin America - An Interview with Hugo Chavez by Aleida Guevara by Hugo Chavez and Aleida Guevara
(full list previewed - 5 books) - view booklist page

Irish Biography and Autobiography   
Irish History   
Irish History: The Famine   

Cover image of book A Short History of Ireland's Famine by Ruan O'Donnell Cover image of book The Famine Plot: England's Role in Ireland's Greatest Tragedy by Tim Pat Coogan Cover image of book The Great Hunger; Ireland 1845-1849. by Cecil Woodham-smith
(full list previewed - 3 books) - view booklist page

Irish Women   
Islam: History   

Cover image of book Islamic History: A Very Short Introduction by Adam J. Silverstein Cover image of book Muslims in Spain, 1500-1614 by L. P. Harvey
(full list previewed - 2 books) - view booklist page

Jewish Britain   

Cover image of book Jewish Lives: Britain 1750-1950 by Melody Amsel-Arieli Cover image of book Jews in Britain by Michael Leventhal Richard Goldstein Cover image of book The Tiger in the Attic; Memories of the Kindertransport and Growing up English. by Edith Milton Cover image of book The British Government and the Holocaust: The Failure of Anglo-Jewish Leadership? by Meier Sompolinsky Cover image of book Passionate Renewal: Jewish Poetry in Britain Since 1945 by Peter Lawson (ed) Cover image of book East End Jewish Radicals 1875-1914 by William J Fishman
(full list previewed - 6 books) - view booklist page

Jewish History   
Jewish Lives   
Justice and the Law: Memoirs   

Cover image of book Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson Cover image of book Jailhouse Lawyers: Prisoners Defending Prisoners Vs the USA by Mumia Abu-Jamal, Foreword by Angela Y. Davis, Introduction by Selma James Cover image of book Memoirs of a Radical Lawyer by Michael Mansfield Cover image of book Five Years of My Life: An Innocent Man in Guantanamo by Murat Kurnaz Cover image of book And Still I Rise: Seeking Justice for Stephen by Doreen Lawrence Cover image of book The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions by Helen Prejean
(full list previewed - 6 books) - view booklist page

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 Cover image of book Stalin's Nemesis: The Exile and Murder of Leon Trotsky by Bertrand M. Patenaude Cover image of book An Appeal to the Toiling, Oppressed and Exhausted Peoples of Europe by Leon Trotsky
(full list previewed - 4 books) - view booklist page

Lesbian Lives & Histories   
LGBTQ+ Lives and History   
Liverpool History   
Liverpool, Wirral and Merseyside during World War II   

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 Liverpool's Children in the Second World War by Pamela Russell Cover image of book The Rescue Man by Anthony Quinn
(full list previewed - 5 books) - view booklist page

Local Lives: Liverpool   
Malcolm X   

Cover image of book X: A Novel by Ilyasah Shabazz, with Kekla Magoon; Cover image of book The Cambridge Companion to Malcolm X by Robert E. Terrill (editor) Cover image of book Malcolm X Speaks by Malcolm X, edited by George Breitman Cover image of book The Last Year of Malcolm X: Evolution of a Revolutionary by George Breitman Cover image of book Malcolm X for Beginners by Bernard Aquina Doctor Cover image of book The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
(full list previewed - 6 books) - view booklist page

Martin Luther King, Jr.   
Miners and Miners' Strikes   
Music Memoirs and Biographies   
Nelson Mandela   
Paul Robeson   
Philosopher's Lives and Histories   

Cover image of book Nietzsche: A Very Short Introduction by Michael Tanner Cover image of book Kierkegaard: A Very Short Introduction by Patrick Gardiner Cover image of book Foucault: A Very Short Introduction by Gary Gutting Cover image of book Nietzsche for Beginners by Marc Sautet and Patrick Boussignac
(full list previewed - 4 books) - view booklist page

Pirates   

Cover image of book Granuaile: Queen of Storms by Dave Hendrick, illustrated by Luca Pizzari Cover image of book Silver by Andrew Motion Cover image of book The Scar by China Mieville Cover image of book The Stolen Village: Baltimore and the Barbary Pirates by Des Ekin Cover image of book The Confusion (Volume Two of the Baroque Cycle) by Neal Stephenson Cover image of book Quicksilver (Volume One of the Baroque Cycle) by Neal Stephenson
(full list previewed - 6 books) - view booklist page

Political Memoirs and Biographies   
Politics of Health   
Radical Britain   
Russian History   
Science in History   
Scottish Folklore and Mythology   

Cover image of book Swimming with Seals by Victoria Whitworth Cover image of book The Lore of Scotland: A Guide to Scottish Legends by Jennifer Westwood and Sophia Kingshill Cover image of book Pilgrims of the Mist: The Stories of Scotland’s Travelling People by Sheila Stewart Cover image of book The Traveller's Guide to Fairy Sites by Janet Bord
(full list previewed - 4 books) - view booklist page

Scottish History and Politics   
Scottish Lives   
Slavery & the Slave Trade   
Socialist Biographies & Autobiographies   
Speeches   
Spiritual Memoirs   
Spirituality Throughout History   
Sports Memoirs and Biographies   
Steve Biko   

Cover image of book Biko Lives! Contesting the Legacies of Steve Biko by Edited by Andile Mngxitama, Amanda Alexander and Nigel C. Gibson Cover image of book I Write What I Like: A Selection of Writings by Steve Biko
(full list previewed - 2 books) - view booklist page

The Cold War   

Cover image of book The Cold War: A New Oral History of Life Between East and West by Bridget Kendall Cover image of book Last Soldiers of the Cold War: The Story of the Cuban Five by Fernando Morais Cover image of book Red Joan by Jennie Rooney Cover image of book Empire of Secrets: British Intelligence, the Cold War and the Twilight of Empire by Calder Walton
(full list previewed - 4 books) - view booklist page

The Holocaust - Books for Children & Young Adults   
The Lancashire / Pendle Witches   

Cover image of book The Lancashire Witches: A Chronicle of Sorcery and Death on Pendle Hill by Philip C. Almond Cover image of book The Daylight Gate by Jeanette Winterson Cover image of book The Wonderful Discovery of Witches in the County of Lancaster by Modernised and Introduced by Robert Poole Cover image of book 1612: The Lancashire Witch Trials by Christine Goodier
(full list previewed - 4 books) - view booklist page

The Peterloo Massacre, 16 August 1819   

Cover image of book Peterloo: Witnesses to a Massacre by Polyp, Poole and Schlunke Cover image of book Peterloo: The Story of the Manchester Massacre by Jacqueline Riding Cover image of book The Peterloo Massacre by Robert Reid Cover image of book Return to Peterloo by Robert Poole Cover image of book The Peterloo Massacre by Joyce Marlow Cover image of book Peterloo: Voices, Sabres and Silence by Graham Phythian
(full list previewed - 6 books) - view booklist page

The Spanish Civil War   
The Suffragette Movement and the Fight for the Vote   
The Vietnam War   
The Women's Land Army   

Cover image of book The Women's Land Army by Bob Powell and Nigel Westacott Cover image of book They Fought in the Fields: The Women's Land Army by Nicola Tyrer
(full list previewed - 2 books) - view booklist page

Trade Unions   
Transgender Lives & Histories   
Trials   
USA: Democracy and the Vote   

Cover image of book The Declaration of Independence (with Introduction by Michael Hardt) by Thomas Jefferson Cover image of book Conned: How Millions Went to Prison, Lost the Vote and Helped Send George W. Bush to the White House by Sasha Abramsky
(full list previewed - 2 books) - view booklist page

USA: History   
Very Short Introductions...   
Welsh Biography and Autobiography   
Welsh History and Politics   
Wirral History   

Cover image of book Merseyside Blitzed by Neil Holmes Cover image of book Birkenhead from Old Photographs by Ian Collard Cover image of book The Wyrm of Kilgwry by Brian Mitchell Cover image of book Wallasey from Old Photographs by Ian Collard
(full list previewed - 4 books) - view booklist page

Women's Biography and Autobiography   
Women's History - 20th Century   
Women's History - Pre-20th Century   
Women's History and Biography: Books for Young Adults   
Workers' Struggles   
Working Class Lives, Art and Culture   
World History   
World History - Africa   
World History - Asia   
World History - Europe   
World History - Latin America & Caribbean   
World History - Middle East   
World War I   
World War II   
Writers and Poet's Lives and Works   
Young Women's Lives   

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