Social History

Social history is a branch of history that includes history of ordinary people and their way of life

At Home: A Short History of Private Life
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
How to Be a Victorian
The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
Inside the Victorian Home: A Portrait of Domestic Life in Victorian England
If Walls Could Talk: An Intimate History of the Home
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
How To Be a Tudor: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Tudor Life
A History of Private Life: From Pagan Rome to Byzantium
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
Along the way I kept running across wonderful bits of information about the women - virtually always women - who produced these textiles and about the values that different societies put on the products and their makers. When I talked about my work, people seemed especially eager for these vignettes, stories that told of women's lives thousands of years ago. ...more
Elizabeth Wayland Barber, Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times

Bill     Scott
To us children he (Mr Ewing) was our very own ‘Mr Chips’ and invariably we would each receive half a crown whenever we encountered him on his afternoon walk. If we were particularly lucky, he would send us to the ‘Big House’ for ice-cream – a rare treat in the early 1950s
Bill Scott

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