History: Specific Events & Topics

Epitaphs of the Great War: The Somme is an edited collection of one hundred headstone inscriptions from those who paid the ultimate price during th...

This book tells the story of Robert Walker Haulage. Established in 1935, Robert Walker never intended to run a haulage business; he initially bough...

The utopian propensity, the impulse to a better world, is found throughout human culture. However, its expression is necessarily historically and c...

Published twenty years ago, Leela Gandhis Postcolonial Theory was a landmark description of the field of postcolonial studies in theoretical terms ...

Published twenty years ago, Leela Gandhis Postcolonial Theory was a landmark description of the field of postcolonial studies in theoretical terms ...

The definitive study of the topic. --Prof. Antony Polonsky, Emeritus Professor of Holocaust Studies, Brandeis University, and Chief Historian, POL...

W.G. Hoskins was one of the most original and influential British historians of the twentieth century. He realised that landscapes are the richest ...