Genres

Social History

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

Social History Books

At Home: A Short History of Private Life

The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century

The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

How to Be a Victorian

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

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The Contract State by John and O’Neill Alford

Time, Tide and the Tyrrell by Jennifer McLennan

Catch and Kill by Joel Deane

Cliffy by Julietta Jameson

The Arsonist by Chloe Hooper

Non-fiction about Victoria (state), Australia

40 books — 1 voter

From the Erzgebirge to Potosi by Sean Daly

The Greeks by H.D.F. Kitto

The Age of Constantine the Great by Jacob Burckhardt

The Greeks and Greek Civilization by Jacob Burckhardt

The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob Burckhardt

Social History by Pelican Books

14 books — 6 voters

Hard Times by Studs Terkel

Little Heathens by Mildred Armstrong Kalish

Cowboys, Cooks, and Catastrophes by Reba P. Cunningham

We Had Everything But Money by Deb Mulvey

Anybody Can Do Anything by Betty MacDonald

Everyday Lives in History: 1930s

44 books — 9 voters

Founding Gods, Inventing Nations by William McCants

Annals of the Caliphs' Kitchens by Nawal Nasrallah

Baghdad during the Abbasid Caliphate from Contemporary Arabic... by Guy Le Strange

The Last Pagans of Iraq by Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila

Daily Life in the Medieval Islamic World by James E. Lindsay

Abbasid Society

11 books — 2 voters

Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain

Cripple Creek Days by Mabel Barbee Lee

Lost Voices of the Edwardians by Max Arthur

Lucky Jack by S. Bavey

Period Piece by Gwen Raverat

Everyday Lives in History: 1890-1919

54 books — 9 voters

King's Cross Kid by Victor Gregg

Below Stairs by Margaret Powell

Singled Out by Virginia Nicholson

Woodsmoke and Pigeon Pie by Joan Kent

The Egg and I by Betty MacDonald

Everyday Lives in History: 1920s

60 books — 10 voters

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― Andrew Ewing

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