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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 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
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Afke's Tiental by Nienke van HichtumThe Technique of the Love Affair by Doris Langley MooreLet's Bring Back by Lesley M.M. BlumeLet's Bring Back by Lesley M.M. BlumeLet's Bring Back by Lesley M.M. Blume
Something Old That Still Rings True
7 books — 2 voters
Founding Gods, Inventing Nations by William McCantsAnnals of the Caliphs' Kitchens by Nawal NasrallahBaghdad during the Abbasid Caliphate from Contemporary Arabic... by Guy Le StrangeThe Last Pagans of Iraq by Jaakko Hämeen-AnttilaDaily Life in the Medieval Islamic World by James E. Lindsay
Abbasid Society
11 books — 2 voters

Hard Times by Studs TerkelLittle Heathens by Mildred Armstrong KalishCowboys, Cooks, and Catastrophes by Reba P. CunninghamWe Had Everything But Money by Deb MulveyAnybody Can Do Anything by Betty MacDonald
Everyday Lives in History: 1930s
44 books — 9 voters
Testament of Youth by Vera BrittainCripple Creek Days by Mabel Barbee LeeLost Voices of the Edwardians by Max ArthurLucky Jack by S. BaveyPeriod Piece by Gwen Raverat
Everyday Lives in History: 1890-1919
54 books — 9 voters

Quotes Tagged “Social History”

“ One odd thing Yencken noticed was how much blonder the nation had become. According to official statistics over 10 million packets of hair dye were sold in 1934 ”
― Julia Boyd, Travellers in the Third Reich
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Muriel Spark
“ The sparkle and morning-freshness of the shop, and the butter-conjuring girl, formed a mind-picture which accompanied the whole of my youth.(about the Buttercup Dairy) ”
― Muriel Spark, Curriculum Vitae: Autobiography
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Videos Tagged “Social History”

Medical Meddlers, Mediums and Magicians
Medical Meddlers, Mediums and Magicians
Victorian Street Life
Victorian Street Life
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Groups Tagged "Social History"

Ask Betty Kreisel Shubert ...April 11, 2013 to May 11, 2013...
4 members, last active 13 years ago
Early Modern History, 16th-18th Century This is a group for all those with an interest in Early Modern history (roughly from 1500-1800, …more
49 members, last active 3 years ago