History: Specific Events & Topics

Technology and Society: A World History explores the creative power of humanity from the age of stone tools to the digital revolution. It introduce...

Through its study of diabetes care in twentieth-century Britain, Managing diabetes, managing medicine offers the first historical monograph to expl...

Today, no one really thinks of Britain as a land of camps. Camps seem to happen 'elsewhere', from Greece, to Palestine, to the global South. Yet ov...

For more than a century the skies have been filled with aircraft, and thousands of these aircraft have been reproduced in model form, allowing coll...

Dissonant Lives is not a standard 'history of Germany' in the twentieth century, or even of the German dictatorships. It is concerned with the ways...

Shen Fu's Six Records of a Life Adrift is the most intimate document at our disposal of private life in late imperial China. Graham Sanders now pro...

'The most ingenious, informative, inimitable, individual, innovative, insightful, inspiring, instructive, intelligible, intoxicating, intricate gui...

The city of Oxford has a long and prosperous history. First mentioned by name in the early tenth century as one of the burhs, or fortified places, ...

A unique, colorful view of Victorian London when residents both famous and now-forgotten endured the Great Stink across one hot summer While 1858 i...