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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:
Adoptee Experiences   

Cover image of book Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew by Sherrie Eldridge Cover image of book My Name Is Why: A Memoir by Lemn Sissay Cover image of book Red Dust Road by Jackie Kay Cover image of book Why be Happy When You Could be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson
(full list previewed - 4 books) - view booklist page

Alan Godfrey Maps   
Anarchist Lives & Histories   
Anne Frank   

Cover image of book Little People, Big Dreams: Anne Frank by Isabel Sanchez Vegara, illustrated by Sveta Dorosheva Cover image of book Anne Frank: The Biography by Melissa Müller Cover image of book Eva's Story by Eva Schloss
(full list previewed - 3 books) - view booklist page

Barack and Michelle Obama   
Biography and Autobiography   
Biography and Autobiography - Books for Children   
Biography and Autobiography - Books for Young Adults   

Cover image of book History Makers: Asian People Who Changed History by Adam Sutherland Cover image of book The Diary of a Young Girl (Abridged edition) by Anne Frank Cover image of book The Isobel Journal: Just a Northern Girl from Where Nothing Really Happens by Isobel Harrop Cover image of book Touch and Go Joe: A Adolescent's Experience of OCD by Joe Wells
(full list previewed - 4 books) - view booklist page

Black America - The Civil Rights Movement   
Black American History   
Black American Women   
Black, Asian and Middle Eastern Biography and Autobiography   
Bloody Sunday - Derry, 30th January 1972   

Cover image of book On Bloody Sunday: A New History Of The Day And Its Aftermath - By The People Who Were There by Julieann Campbell Cover image of book Desertion Bloody Sunday by Colin E. Demet Cover image of book Eyewitness Bloody Sunday by Don Mullan Cover image of book Those Are Real Bullets, Aren't They? Bloody Sunday, Derry, 30 January 1972 by Peter Pringle and Philip Jacobson
(full list previewed - 4 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 Borderland: Identity and Belonging at the Edge of England by Phil Hubbard Cover image of book Rag and Bone: A History of What We've Thrown Away by Lisa Woollett 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 - 4 books) - view booklist page

British History - Pre 20th Century   
Charles Dickens   
Che Guevara   
Childhood Memoirs   
Colonialism, Imperialism and Empire   
Drugs - History & Culture   

Cover image of book Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs by Johann Hari Cover image of book Drug War Capitalism by Dawn Paley Cover image of book Drugs - Without the Hot Air by David Nutt Cover image of book Shroom: A Cultural History of the Magic Mushroom. by Andy Letcher Cover image of book I Have America Surrounded: The Life of Timothy Leary by John Higgs
(full list previewed - 5 books) - view booklist page

Environmental Memoirs and Biographies   
Explorers and Exploring   

Cover image of book Extraordinary Women Explorers by Frances Rooney
(full list previewed - 1 books) - view booklist page

Fiction - Anti-Semitism and The Holocaust   

Cover image of book The Librarian of Auschwitz by Antonio Iturbe Cover image of book Mischling by Affinity Konar Cover image of book Mendelssohn is on the Roof by Jiri Weil Cover image of book Day After Night by Anita Diamant Cover image of book The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman
(full list previewed - 5 books) - view booklist page

Graphic Novels and Cartoons - Non-Fiction   
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 Sovay by Celia Rees Cover image of book Blood Red, Snow White by Marcus Sedgwick
(full list previewed - 4 books) - view booklist page

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

Islam: History   

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

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 East End Jewish Radicals 1875-1914 by William J Fishman
(full list previewed - 4 books) - view booklist page

Jewish Lives   
Justice and the Law: Memoirs   
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
(full list previewed - 3 books) - view booklist page

Lesbian Lives & Histories   
LGBTQ+ Lives, Histories and Biographies   
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   
Martin Luther King, Jr.   

Cover image of book Letter from Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King, Jr. Cover image of book A Rebel's Guide To Martin Luther King by Yuri Prasad Cover image of book Coretta: My Life, My Love, My Legacy by Coretta Scott King and Rev. Dr. Barbara Reynolds Cover image of book Protest at Selma: Martin Luther King, Jr, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 by David J. Garrow Cover image of book The Speech by Gary Younge
(full list previewed - 5 books) - view booklist page

Miners and Miners' Strikes   
Music Memoirs and Biographies   
Nelson Mandela   
Paul Robeson   

Cover image of book Paul Robeson: The Artist as Revolutionary by Gerald Horne Cover image of book Paul Robeson: The Years of Promise and Achievement by Sheila Tully Boyle and Andrew Buni Cover image of book Here I Stand by Paul Robeson Cover image of book Call Mr. Robeson by Tayo Aluko Cover image of book Paul Robeson: A Watched Man by Jordan Goodman
(full list previewed - 5 books) - view booklist page

Political Memoirs and Biographies   
Politics of Health   
Radical Britain   

Cover image of book Cover image of book Restless Revolutionaries: A History of Britain's Fight for a Republic by Clive Bloom Cover image of book Utopia Britannica: British Utopian Experiments 1325-1945 by Chris Coates Cover image of book The English Rebel: One Thousand Years of Trouble-making from the Normans to the Nineties by David Horspool
(full list previewed - 4 books) - view booklist page

Russian History   

Cover image of book Russia: From Revolution to Counter-Revolution by Ted Grant Cover image of book Nothing is True and Everything is Possible: Adventures in Modern Russia by Peter Pomerantsev Cover image of book The Russian Revolution: A Beginner's Guide by Abraham Ascher Cover image of book Red Princess: A Revolutionary Life by Sofia Zinovieff Cover image of book Comrade Pavlik: The Rise and Fall of a Soviet Boy Hero by Catriona Kelly
(full list previewed - 5 books) - view booklist page

Science in History   
Scottish Folklore and Mythology   

Cover image of book Swimming with Seals by Victoria Whitworth
(full list previewed - 1 books) - view booklist page

Scottish History and Politics   
Slavery & the Slave Trade   
Socialist Biographies & Autobiographies   

Cover image of book Street-fighting Years: An Autobiography of the Sixties by Tariq Ali Cover image of book The Greatest Need: The Creative Life and Troubled Times of Lily Tobias by Jasmine Donahaye Cover image of book Ed: the Milibands and the Making of a Labour Leader by Mehdi Hasan Cover image of book A Walk-On Part: Diaries 1994-1999 by Chris Mullin Cover image of book Hugo Chavez and the Bolivarian Revolution (2nd edition) by Richard Gott Cover image of book Edward Carpenter 1844-1929: Prophet of Human Fellowship by Chushichi Tsuzuki
(full list previewed - 6 books) - view booklist page

Speeches   
Spiritual Memoirs   
Spirituality Throughout History   
Sports Memoirs and Biographies   
Steve Biko   

Cover image of book I Write What I Like: A Selection of Writings by Steve Biko
(full list previewed - 1 books) - view booklist page

The Cold War   

Cover image of book The War of Nerves: Inside the Cold War Mind by Martin Sixsmith Cover image of book The Cold War: A New Oral History of Life Between East and West by Bridget Kendall Cover image of book Empire of Secrets: British Intelligence, the Cold War and the Twilight of Empire by Calder Walton
(full list previewed - 3 books) - view booklist page

The Holocaust   
The Holocaust - Books for Children & Young Adults   
The Spanish Civil War   
The Suffragette Movement and the Fight for the Vote   
The Vietnam War   

Cover image of book Rethinking Camelot: JFK, the Vietnam War, and U.S. Political Culture by Noam Chomsky Cover image of book Kill Anything That Moves by Nick Turse Cover image of book A Vietnam War Reader: American and Vietnamese Perspectives by Michael Hunt Cover image of book Walden Bello presents Ho Chi Minh: Down with Colonialism! by Walden Bello Cover image of book Even the Women Must Fight: Memories of War from North Vietnam by Karen Gottschang Turner with Phan Thanh Hao
(full list previewed - 5 books) - view booklist page

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

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 - 1 books) - view booklist page

USA: History   
Welsh History and Politics   
Wirral History   

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 - 2 books) - view booklist page

Witch Trials   
Women in Ireland   
Women's History - 20th Century   
Women's History - Pre-20th Century   
Women's History and Biography: Books for Young Adults   

Cover image of book The Mighty Women Of Science by Clare Forrest, Fiona Gordon and Kate Livingston Cover image of book Girls Can Do Anything: The Incredible Girl-o-Pedia of Astounding Achievements by Caitlin Doyle, illustrated by Chuck Gonzales Cover image of book Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World by Rachel Ignotofsky Cover image of book The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition by Anne Frank Cover image of book My Secret Diary: Dating, Dreams and Dilemmas by Jacqueline Wilson
(full list previewed - 5 books) - view booklist page

Workers' Struggles   
World History   
World History - Africa   
World History - Asia   
World History - Latin America & Caribbean   
World History - Middle East   
World War II   

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