History: Specific Events & Topics

There's nowhere quite like Piccadilly Circus.From the moment they emerge, blinking from the underground station, visitors to Piccadilly Circus face...

For almost 150 years until the late twentieth century, French Onion Johnnies (or Ingan Johnnies, as they were usually known in Scotland) were a fam...

The Highland Clearances was a dark episode in Scottish history when many thousands of people were forced off lands that they and their kin had live...

The 1853 memoir and slave narrative by Solomon Northup as told to and written by David Wilson. Northup, a black man who was born free in New York, ...

***THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER****A FINANCIAL TIMES, TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN AND TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR*'Excellent... first class... both ...

Through in-depth interviews with 60 U.S. graduate students from mainland China, Cynthia Baiqing Zhang explores how identity and social network infl...

A meticulously researched account of how the US Navy evolved between the War of 1812 and the Civil War.The 1830s is an overlooked period in America...

A meticulously researched account of how the US Navy evolved between the War of 1812 and the Civil War.The 1830s is an overlooked period in America...

'A remarkable oral history of black postwar British life Homecoming is an extraordinary and compelling book' Daily TelegraphHomecoming draws on ove...

It is now over four decades since the famed archaeologist and explorer Indiana Jones first appeared on our screens in Raiders of the Lost Ark. The ...