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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 Miranda Hart: The Biography by Sophie Johnson Cover image of book Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain by Portia de Rossi
(full list previewed - 2 books) - view booklist page

Alan Godfrey Maps   

Cover image of book Liverpool (Princes Park) 1905. Lancashire Sheet 113.03 (Facsimile of old Ordnance Survey Map) by Introduction by Naomi Evetts Cover image of book Toxteth (Mill Street) 1847. Liverpool Sheet 39 (Facsimile of old Ordnance Survey Map) by Introduction by Kay Parrott Cover image of book Speke & Garston Docks 1890. Lancashire Sheet 113.16a (Facsimile of old Ordnance Survey Map) by Introduction by Kay Parrott
(full list previewed - 3 books) - view booklist page

Barack and Michelle Obama   

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

Biography and Autobiography   

Cover image of book Jurgen Klopp: The Biography by Elmar Neveling
(full list previewed - 1 books) - view booklist page

Biography and Autobiography - Books for Children   

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

Biography and Autobiography - Books for Young Adults   

(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 American Women   

(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 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)

Charles Dickens   

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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 Cover image of book In Search of Fatima: A Palestinian Story by Ghada Karmi
(full list previewed - 2 books) - view booklist page

David Bowie   

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

Disability - Rights, Activism, Politics & History   

Cover image of book The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha Cover image of book Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally by Emily Ladau
(full list previewed - 2 books) - view booklist page

Disability Memoirs and Histories   

Cover image of book Living the Good Life With Autism by Edgar R. Schneider
(full list previewed - 1 books) - view booklist page

Fiction - Anti-Semitism and The Holocaust   

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

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 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

Irish History   
Jewish Lives   

Cover image of book The Jews of South Wales by Ursula R. Q. Henriques Cover image of book 163256: A Memoir of Resistance by Michael Englishman
(full list previewed - 2 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 and History   

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

Martin Luther King, Jr   

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

Music Memoirs and Biographies   

Cover image of book Patti Smith: American Artist by Frank Stefanko Cover image of book The Age of Bowie by Paul Morley Cover image of book Dazzling Stranger; Bert Jansch and the British Folk and Blues Revival by Colin Harper
(full list previewed - 3 books) - view booklist page

Paul Robeson   

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

Pirates   

Cover image of book Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia by David Graeber
(full list previewed - 1 books) - view booklist page

Political Biographies   

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Political Memoirs and Biographies   

Cover image of book Always Red by Len McCluskey Cover image of book Red Valkyries: Feminist Lessons From Five Revolutionary Women by Kristen Ghodsee Cover image of book Gerry Adams: An Unauthorised Life by Malachi O'Doherty Cover image of book The Long and Winding Road by Alan Johnson
(full list previewed - 4 books) - view booklist page

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)

Scottish Lives   

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Speeches   

Cover image of book A James Connolly Reader by James Connolly
(full list previewed - 1 books) - view booklist page

Spiritual Memoirs   

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

Spirituality Throughout History   

Cover image of book Exploring the World of the Druids by Miranda J. Green Cover image of book A Bewitched Land: Ireland's Witches by Bob Curran
(full list previewed - 2 books) - view booklist page

The Cold War   

Cover image of book Empire of Secrets: British Intelligence, the Cold War and the Twilight of Empire by Calder Walton
(full list previewed - 1 books) - view booklist page

The Suffragette Movement and the Fight for the Vote   

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

Transgender Lives and Histories   

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Trials   

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

Welsh Biography and Autobiography   

Cover image of book The Greatest Need: The Creative Life and Troubled Times of Lily Tobias by Jasmine Donahaye
(full list previewed - 1 books) - view booklist page

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 Welsh: The Biography by Terry Breverton
(full list previewed - 3 books) - view booklist page

Welsh Lives   

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

Witch Trials   

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

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 Repeal the 8th by Una Mullally (Editor) Cover image of book A Place Apart: Northern Ireland in the 1970s by Dervla Murphy
(full list previewed - 4 books) - view booklist page

Women in Wales   

Cover image of book Changing Times: Welsh Women Writing on the 1950s and 1960s by Edited by Deirdre Beddoe
(full list previewed - 1 books) - view booklist page

Working Class Lives, Art and Culture   

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

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 1916: A Global History by Keith Jeffery
(full list previewed - 5 books) - view booklist page

World History - Asia   

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

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