History: Specific Events & Topics

Georgian London evokes images of elegant buildings and fine art, but it was also a city where prostitution was rife, houses of ill repute widesprea...

Mahmud Modibbo Tukur's work challenges fundamental assumptions and conclusions about European colonialism in Africa, especially British colonialism...

In the tradition of Dava Sobel's Longitude comes sailing expert David Barrie's compelling and dramatic tale of invention and discovery an eloquent...

Caerlaverock Castle - in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland - is the ancestral home of the Maxwell family. Reproduced here in facsimile, with half-ton...

The adventurous young women who sailed to India during the Raj in search of husbands.From the late 19th century, when the Raj was at its height, ma...

In 1770 a handful of European nations ruled the Americas, drawing from them a stream of products, both everyday and exotic. Some two and a half mil...

Peace at last, after Lloyd George declared it had been 'the war to end all wars', would surely bring relief and a renewed sense of optimism? But th...

This official history of NUPE covers its years of membership expansion, growing recognition and entry onto the national industrial and political st...

Two days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt addressed the nation by radio, saying, 'We are all in it - all the way. Every single...

Already a classic, this landmark account of early Western thought now appears in a new edition with expanded coverage of the Middle Ages. The Dream...

Anwyn Moyle was born at the end of the First World War in a small mining village in Wales. At the age of sixteen, she was sent to London to earn he...