History: Specific Events & Topics

Vera Holme, known as Jack, left a career as a jobbing actress to become Emmeline Pankhurst's chauffeur and mechanic. Evelina Haverfield was a class...

The Lure of the South looks at the experience of British health seekers in the explosion of continental touring that occurred after the opening of ...

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platfo...

This book explores debates about East India Company colonialism that took place on the lecture circuits of Britain, in the meeting houses of Calcut...

Part of The Making of the Modern World series, this innovative textbook offers an introduction to the 19th-century world with a focus on human pers...

The Twentieth-Century World, 1914 to the Present introduces students to six distinct historical themes in 20th century history - politics, economic...

Part of The Making of the Modern World series, this innovative textbook offers an introduction to the 19th-century world with a focus on human pers...

The Twentieth-Century World, 1914 to the Present introduces students to six distinct historical themes in 20th century history - politics, economic...

Shortlisted for the 2024 Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing Longlisted for the 2023 Moore Prize for Human Rights Writing Rohingya men...

Perpetrators of genocidal violence have regularly orchestrated propaganda campaigns using newspapers, radio, televisions, the internet, and other m...

What are some of the most enduring and pernicious historical misconceptions about Jews and the practice and history of their faith?Examining many o...

The European left seemed to be in rude health during the 1970s. Never had so many political parties committed to representing the working class bee...

When fishing boats were numerous, Scotland was a wonderful place to see them. Even in later days, its still possible to see a hint of what used to ...