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
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
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

Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper by Fuchsia DunlopThe Food of China by E.N. AndersonThe Fortune Cookie Chronicles by Jennifer 8. LeeThe Food of Sichuan by Fuchsia DunlopChop Suey, USA by Yong Chen
Chinese Food Culture
45 books — 4 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

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

A.E. Samaan
Theoreticians attempting to dissect human history by force fitting contrived definitions about “modernism” and “post-modernism” are toiling in vain, effectively emptying buckets into the river rapids of flowing time.
A.E. Samaan

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