History: Specific Events & Topics

Shaping Modern Shanghai provides a new understanding of colonialism in China through a fresh examination of Shanghai's International Settlement. Th...

Planting Empire, Cultivating Subjects examines the stories of ordinary people to explore the internal workings of colonial rule. Chinese, Indians, ...

A delicious taste of the secret, exciting and often dangerous history of illicit spirits; Britain has always been a nation of enthusiastic drinkers...

The #1 NYT BESTSELLER A personal and urgent examination of Fascism in the twentieth century and how its legacy shapes toda...

Longford Castle is a fine Elizabethan country house, home to a world-class collection of art built up in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by...

'Brilliant, hilarious... My book of the year' INDIA KNIGHT'A wonderful book' CRAIG BROWN, Mail on Sunday'Funny, bloodcurdling and moving' Daily Ma...

This book recounts the efforts over many years to dive wrecks that contained treasure in one form or another. The often prolonged and sometimes dan...

600 years old, aware of its past, but facing forward, the University of St Andrews remains distinct. Now, more than ever throughout its long, somet...

When journalist Scott Tong moved to Shanghai, his assignment was to start up the first full-time China bureau for Marketplace, the daily business a...

Beginning in the 1920s thousands of Chinese revolutionaries set out for Soviet Russia. Once there, they studied Russian language and experienced So...

In Metis Pioneers, Doris Jeanne MacKinnon compares the survival strategies of two Metis women born during the fur tradeone from the French-speaking...

There is currently much concern about our trees and woodlands. The terrible toll taken by Dutch elm disease has been followed by a string of furthe...

Although hints of a crisis appeared as early as the 1570s, the temperature by the end of the sixteenth century plummeted so drastically that Medite...

On a cold, rainy dawn in late November 1872, Lieutenant Frazier Boutelle and a Modoc Indian nicknamed Scarface Charley leveled firearms at each oth...

The rich history of the P&O Line began in the 1830s when steam power was still in its infancy, and this, coupled with longer voyages, meant tha...

The archive has assumed a new significance in the history of sex, and this book visits a series of such archives, including the Kinsey Institutes e...

Lighthouses have always unsettled and attracted in equal measure, highlighting the triumphs and failures in humanity''s battle with the forces of n...

From the early nineteenth century through to the 1960s, the Greeks formed the largest, most economically powerful, and geographically and socially ...

Elizabeth's Sea Dogs investigates the rise and fall of a unique group of adventurers men like Francis Drake, John Hawkins, Martin Frobisher and Wa...