History: Specific Events & Topics

A fascinating and colourful social history of the nighttime.'A wonderful revelation of a vanished age of darkness' SPECTATOR'Fascinating' SUNDAY TI...

Angel, a Black tenth-grader at a New York City public school, self-identifies as a nerd and likes to learn. But shes troubled that her history clas...

'Engaging, absorbing and crammed with marvellous stories, Finding Endurance is a tale about exploring the cold, told with much warmth.' MICK HERRON...

Celebrated in the novels of Joseph Conrad and vintage films, tramp ships - the precursor of bulk carriers - are not well understood today. Yet, the...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal fiv...

When European missionaries arrived in East Asia in the sixteenth century, they entered ongoing conversations about cosmology and world geography. S...

The diaries and letters of siblings Joanna and George Boyce, and Joanna's husband Henry Wells (published as The Boyce Papers in 2019) give us a rar...

SHAKESPEARE: increasingly irrelevant or lone literary genius of the Western canon? 'Powerful and illuminating' James Shapiro, author of 1599: A...

We live in a world that is saturated with color, but how should we make sense of color's force and capacities? This book develops a theory of color...

Step back in time to 1964, a year of cultural upheaval and political transformation. From the rise of the Civil Rights movement in the United State...

Changes at the global, federal, state, and municipal level are pushing forward the reparations movement for people of African descent. The distingu...

An Irish Cuba on Britains doorstep? This book studies perceptions of the Soviet Union's influence over Irish revolutionaries during the Cold War. ...

Photography - A Queer History examines how photography has been used by artists to capture, create and expand the category 'Queer'. It bookmarks di...

The untold story of rural Britain revealed through its artefacts 'A really lovely, fascinating book. I dived stra...

'Compulsively readable' Times Literary Supplement 'An outstanding work' Philippa Gregory ...

'Compulsively readable' Times Literary Supplement 'An outstanding work' Philippa Gregory ...

The Antebellum Press: Setting the Stage for Civil War reveals the critical role of journalism in the years leading up to Americas deadliest conflic...

This book is the product of Donald Akenson's decades of research and writing on Irish social history and its relationship to the Irish diaspora - i...

It is commonly assumed that slavery came to an end in the nineteenth century. While slavery in the Americas officially ended in 1888, millions of s...