History: Specific Events & Topics

Back to Black traces the long and eminent history of Black radical politics. Born out of resistance to slavery and colonialism, its rich past encom...

A thick, tangled and deliciously idiosyncratic history of hair. Times Literary Supplement In the period 1450 to 1650 in Europe, hair was braided, ...

A thick, tangled and deliciously idiosyncratic history of hair. Times Literary Supplement The Middle Ages were a time of great innovation, artisti...

Out of the Depths explores all aspects of shipwrecks across 4,000 years, examining their historical context and significance, and showing how shipw...

Stalinism, that particularly brutal phase of communism, came to an end in most of Eastern Europe with the death of Josef Stalin in 1953 or at least...

This volume tackles the role of smell, under-explored in relation to the other senses, in the modern rejection, reappraisal and idealisation of ant...

How did writers convey ideas under the politically repressive conditions of state socialism? Did the perennial strategies to outwit the censors fos...

Cinema Memories brings together and analyses the memories of almost a thousand people of going to the cinema in Britain during the 1960s. It offer...

Recent years have seen a re-examination of Britains imperialist past, with changes to how its citizens understand, study and scrutinize its history...

What does it mean to be a social and cultural historian today? In the wake of the cultural turn, and in an age of digital and public history, what...

Since the publication of The Wretched of the Earth in 1961, Fanon’s work has been deeply significant for generations of intellectuals and activists...

Over recent decades, almost every area of historical study has seen its global turn from consumption to finance, from politics to migration, from ...

Many missionary societies established mission schools in the nineteenth century in the British Empire as a means to convert non-Europeans to Christ...

Expertly contextualized by two leading historians in the field, this unique collection offers 13 accounts of individual experiences of World War II...

In 2011, capitals crisis erupted in Egyptian society. This eruption, and subsequent politics, have been misrepresented as revolutionary, as the wor...

Every culture has monsters that eat us, and every culture repels in horror when we eat ourselves. From Grendel to Sawney Bean, and from the Ghuls o...

During World War II, Britain enjoyed spectacular success in the secret war between hostile intelligence services, enabling a substantial and succes...

Frantz Fanon was one of the twentieth-century's most influential theorists and activists, whose work fighting against colonialism and imperialism h...

Virginia Woolf's novel famously begins - 'Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.' Of course she would: why would anyone surrender the...

In October 2013, one of the largest anti-migrant riots took place in Moscow. Clashes and arrests continued late into the night. Some in the crowd, ...

What were the origins of commedia dellarte and how did it evolve as a dramatic form over time and as it spread from Italy? How did its relationship...

This major history of Hong Kong tells the remarkable story of how a cluster of remote fishing villages grew into an icon of capitalism. The story b...

The Private Lives of Pictures offers a new history of British art, seen from the perspective of the home. Focusing on the nineteenth- and early twe...

From cinemas silent beginnings, fashion and interior design have been vital to character development and narrative structure. Despite spectacular t...

In this astonishing new history of wartime Britain, historian Stephen Bourne unearths the fascinating stories of the gay men who served in the arme...

Weaving connections between indigenous modes of oral storytelling, visual depiction, and contemporary American Indian literature, Deep Waters demon...

The five films the Beatles worked on during their time together (A Hard Days Night, Help!, Magical Mystery Tour, Yellow Submarine, Let It Be) all r...

Juri Lotman (19221993), the Russian-Estonian literary scholar, cultural historian and semiotician, was one of the most original and important cultu...

The Battle of Marathon changed the course of history in ancient Greece. To many, the impossible seemed to have been achieved - the mighty Persian E...

He didnt know it at the time, but Tim Ghiannis love affair with Nashville and its musical artists began on a steamy night in 1972, when the twenty-...

The story of how one ethnic neighborhood came to signify a shared Korean American identity. At the turn of the twenty-first century, Los Angeles Co...

In 2004, Jean Chrétiens Liberals banned unions andcorporations from contributing financially to political parties. In2008, opposition leaders were ...

Media for diasporic communities have emerged in major cities, such as Vancouver and Los Angeles, and reflect a multicultural, multiethnic, and mult...

As Julia Harrisons first summer living in Ontario approached, she became aware of the culture of the cottage. While friends and family talked of no...

The cancellation of the CF-105 Arrow in 1959 holds such a grip on the imagination of Canadians that earlier developments in defence procurement rem...

The rodeo cowboy is one of the most evocative images of the Wild West. The master of the frontier, he is renowned for his masculinity, toughness, a...

Across the British Empire and the world, the 1920s and 1930s were a time of unprecedented social and cultural change. Girls and young women were at...

While popular trends, cuisine, and long-standing political tension have made Korea familiar in some ways to a vast English-speaking world, its reco...

The electoral behaviour of racialized voters and politicians has captured little attention outside the United States. Identities and Interests offe...

Cultural pastime, profitable industry, or harmful influence on the nation? Liquor was a tricky issue for municipal, provincial, and federal governm...

In the early nineteenth century, governments developed kindergartens and infant schools to give children a head start in life. These programs hinge...

The story of how one ethnic neighborhood came to signify a shared Korean American identity. At the turn of the twenty-first century, Los Angeles Co...

A historical overview of Mexican Americans' social and economic experiences in Texas For hundreds of years, Mexican Americans in Texas have fought ...

Women's Activism in Latin America and the Caribbean brings together a group of interdisciplinary scholars who analyze and document the diversity, v...

When wielded by the white majority, ethnic humor can be used to ridicule and demean marginalized groups. In the hands of ethnic minorities themselv...