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
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
From the Erzgebirge to Potosi by Sean   DalyThe Greeks by H.D.F. KittoThe Age of Constantine the Great by Jacob BurckhardtThe Greeks and Greek Civilization by Jacob BurckhardtThe Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob Burckhardt
Social History by Pelican Books
14 books — 6 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
King's Cross Kid by Victor GreggBelow Stairs by Margaret PowellSingled Out by Virginia NicholsonWoodsmoke and Pigeon Pie by Joan KentThe Egg and I by Betty MacDonald
Everyday Lives in History: 1920s
60 books — 10 voters

Dinner is the most like jazz of all the meals, in that jazz is part form and part improvisation. You decide what you’re going to have, and then while you’re preparing it – because it’s the end of the day and you have the time – you have the room to consider things about it, to change things about it. You make it something new. “I think I’ll add a little chili powder.” ~ Seth Asa, age 37 From Dinnertimes: Stories of American Life, 1912 to 2012
Deborah L Halliday

George Orwell
When a quarter of a million miners are unemployed, it is a part of the order of things that Alf Smith, a miner living in the back-streets of Newcastle, should be out of work. But no human being finds it easy to regard himself as a statistical unit. So long as Bert Jones across the street is still at work, Alf Smith is bound to feel himself dishonoured and a failure.
George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier

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