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
Elvis in the Twilight of Memory by June JuanicoEastern Sun, Winter Moon by Gary PaulsenA House in Flanders by Michael JenkinsClap Hands for the Singing Molecatcher by Roderick GrantMy Life As a Cartoonist by Harvey Kurtzman
Everyday Lives in History: 1950s
32 books — 7 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

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeAgainst Nature by Joris-Karl HuysmansLes Fleurs du Mal by Charles BaudelaireThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldHeart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Decadence & the Fin-de-Siècle
240 books — 201 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

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

What a phoney sense of belonging all this is, this which is offered by the public pals of this publicly gregarious age; it would be better to feel anonymous; one might then be moved to some useful action to improve matters.
Hoggart, Richard

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