History: Specific Events & Topics

In the 1950s and 1960s, movie theatres across Thailand were important architectural statements and centres of social and cultural life. At a time w...

After The Second World War, Czeslaw Milosz was exiled for many years from his home country of Poland. In Native Realm, he evokes that homeland and ...

''[A] comprehensive and important history of black Britain . . . Written with a wonderful clarity of style and with great force and passion.'' Kwas...

At the centre of this extraordinary historical narrative are two linked themes: the grinding down of the aborigines during the long rivalries of th...

In Victorian London, the age of consent was just thirteen. Unwitting girls were regularly enticed, tricked and sold into prostitution. If not marke...

Eighteenth-century Britain was the worlds leading centre for the slave trade. Bury the Chains by Adam Hochschild, author of the Duff Cooper prize-w...

Transporting the reader to the heart-wrenching times of World War II, Some Sunny Day is an evocative memoir of love and courage in war-torn Asia by...

''I have discovered the secret that after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I have taken a moment here...

Just as America was observed in French literary and political commentary, we find representations of America in French music, dance, and theatre wh...

Por fin disponible en español, Ilegal es el aclamado libro de memorias de José Ángel N., un inmigrante indocumentado que se construyó una vida nuev...

When Charles Lindbergh landed at LeBourget Airfield on May 21, 1927, his transatlantic flight symbolized the new era-not only in aviation but also ...