Read-alikes and related books

Books like Sotheby’s Bidding for Class

Across c 1700 to c 1800, c 1800 to c 1900, England, and Social History — 24 books that belong on the same shelf as Sotheby’s Bidding for Class by Robert Lacey.

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Top related books to Sotheby’s Bidding for Class

Handpicked for thematic and literary overlap — the best shelf companions to Sotheby’s Bidding for Class.

Island Women Photographs of East End Women 1897 to 1983

Eve Hostettler

Themes: c 1800 to c 1900 • England • Social History

Journal of Emily Pepys

Emily Pepys

Themes: c 1800 to c 1900 • England • Social History

Road to the Isles

Derek Cooper

Themes: c 1700 to c 1800 • c 1800 to c 1900 • 20th Century

The Passion for Fashion; Three Centuries of Changing Styles

Adrian Bailey

Themes: c 1700 to c 1800 • c 1800 to c 1900 • 20th Century

The Village London Atlas The Growth of Victorian London, 1822-1903

B.R. Bruff

Themes: c 1800 to c 1900 • England • 20th Century

Stanley Spencer

Duncan Robinson

Themes: c 1800 to c 1900 • England • 20th Century

A History of the County Cricket Championship

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Themes: c 1800 to c 1900 • England • 20th Century

The Resurrection Men A History of the Trade in Corpses

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Themes: c 1700 to c 1800 • c 1800 to c 1900

Indian Court Painting, 16th-19th Century

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Themes: c 1700 to c 1800 • c 1800 to c 1900

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Goya Painter of Terror and Splendour

Jeannine Baticle

Themes: c 1700 to c 1800 • c 1800 to c 1900

#11

The Mardler’s Companion A Dictionary of East Anglian Dialect

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Themes: England • Social History

#12

The Illustrated Portrait of Wiltshire

Pamela Street

Themes: England • Social History

#13

Something in Linoleum

Paul Vaughan

Themes: England • Social History

#14

From Corner Shop to Corner Shop in Five Generations A History of William Jackson and Son Plc

Alan Wilkinson

Themes: England • Social History

#15

The Blue Death

Judy Allen

Themes: c 1800 to c 1900 • Social History

#16

The Quacks of Old London

Charles John Samuel Thompson

Themes: England • Social History

#17

Collotype in a Cotswold Town

Donald Emes

Themes: England • Social History

#18

Chevington: A Social Chronicle of a Suffolk Village

Frank Cooper

Themes: England • Social History

#19

Look Inside a Victorian House

Richard Wood

Themes: c 1800 to c 1900 • Social History

#20

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd A Hercule Poirot Mystery

Agatha Christie

Themes: England • 20th Century

#21

On Her Majesty’s Secret Service A James Bond Novel

Ian Fleming

Themes: England • 20th Century

#22

The History of Middle-Earth, Part Three

Christopher Tolkien

Themes: England • 20th Century

#23

The Last Train to London A Novel

Meg Waite Clayton

Themes: England • 20th Century

#24

Victorian Britain, 1837 to 1901

Andrew Langley

Themes: c 1800 to c 1900 • 20th Century

This list brings together 24 books that share meaningful common ground with Sotheby’s Bidding for Class by Robert Lacey. Connected by c 1700 to c 1800, c 1800 to c 1900, England. Authors featured include Eve Hostettler, Emily Pepys, Derek Cooper, Adrian Bailey, and others. Each pick was selected for thematic and literary overlap — not just genre similarity.