History: Specific Events & Topics

There is still a great fascination with the British Empire. Opinions vary widely about Great Britains imperial past, and about the extraordinary ch...

Letters, postcards, notes and telegraphs from the great and the good, the notorious and the downright wicked, shine a spotlight on a range of histo...

Now in paperback, a riveting true-life thriller and revealing memoir from the daughter of an American intelligence officerthe astonishing true stor...

A quirky and literary book about the umbrella, exploring its history and cultural and literary significance. You will never think of the humble bro...

The Royal College of Physicians celebrates its 500th anniversary in 2018, and to observe this landmark is publishing this series of ten books. Each...

In this enthralling celebration of the places and people that make the country unique, Richard Killeen takes the reader on a tour of Ireland that r...

Mark Girouard has, he claims, scarcely ever thrown away a letter that he has received, and here he selects and reproduces 29 of them, ranging from ...

The epic story of the British construction of the railways in India, as told by Britain''''s bestselling transport historian.''''Christian Wolmar i...

Do you remember getting up on a Saturday morning to watch Going Live? A time when scrunchies and curtains were the height of cool? Playing Sonic th...

From a renowned foreign-policy expert, a new paradigm for strategy in the twenty-first century In 1961, Thomas Schellings The Strategy of Conflict ...

Salvador Dalí once asked room service at Le Meurice in Paris to send him up a flock of sheep. When they were brought to his room he pulled out a gu...

The Beatles provided the soundtrack for the `Swinging Sixties, wrote and recorded groundbreaking albums, made films and were adored by fans univers...

1983 was a supremely dangerous year - even more dangerous than 1962, the year of the Cuban Missile Crisis. In the US, President Reagan massively in...

1983 was a supremely dangerous year - even more dangerous than 1962, the year of the Cuban Missile Crisis. In the US, President Reagan massively in...

In this volume well-known scholars from India and Latin America Enrique Dussel, Madhu Dubey, Walter D. Mignolo, and Sudipta Sen, to name a few di...

In modern-day media, depictions of ancient Egyptian society are of a highly sexualised, lustful culture, but how accurate are these depictions of a...

Just in time for the one-hundredth anniversary of Miami Beach, It Happened in Miami, the Magic City: An Oral History features nearly seventy fabulo...

Buck Ewing (1859-1906) was regarded by contemporaries as the greatest catcher and all-around player of his era. A lifetime .300-hitter, he playe...

This reference work is in two parts. The first is a biographical dictionary of the 325 men who played in the National Association between 1871 a...

The openings and closings to radio programs of all types, from comedies (Blondie, The Jack Benny Program, Lum and Abner) to mysteries (Inner San...

At the close of the 19th century, more than 2 million American children under age 16--some as young as 4 or 5--were employed on farms, in mills,...