History

Winner of the 2015 National Jewish Book Award in Education and Jewish Identity from the Jewish Book Council The history of an iconic food in Jewis...

A gripping history of Britains Special Boat Squadron in World War II, drawing on veteran interviews and including rare photographs from the SAS Reg...

'If I by miracle can be This livelong minute true to thee 'Tis all that heav'n allows.' The Earl of Rochester was England's first celebrity poet,...

Bletchley Park, known to those who worked there as Station X, was the scene of one of the greatest Allied triumphs of the Second World War. The bre...

INTRODUCTION: Belfast, the capital of Northern Ireland sits astride the river Lagan as it makes its way towards Belfast Lough and the Irish Sea. Th...

The source of tremendous power and the focus of incredible devotion, throughout history notions of beauty have been integral to social life and cul...

Read any history of New York City and you will read about men. You will read about men who were political leaders and men who were activists and cu...

From bestselling author Simon Winchester, the extraordinary story of how America was united into a single nation. For more than two centu...

The New Iranian Cinema is considered by many to be the most fascinating cultural phenomenon produced within the Islamic Republic of Iran. Containin...

In 1963 Richard Hofstadter published his landmark book Anti-Intellectualism in American Life. Today, Matt Lewis argues, America's inclination towar...

In the Western world, coffee consumption is around one-third that of tap water. After petroleum, coffee is the second-most traded commodity in the ...

This fascinating new study traces traditions and memories relating to the twelfth-century Indian ruler Prithviraj Chauhan; a Hindu king who was def...

Born in China, Benedict Anderson spent his childhood in California and Ireland, was educated in England and finally found a home at Cornell Univers...

Italian performance in the First World War has been generally disparaged or ignored compared to that of the armies on the Western Front, and troop ...

Ever since the dawn of human history, islands have been at the heart of our desires - and our fears. Drawing on anthropology, literature, biology...

Standing as I was between the guns and the trenches... Henry Gill SJ Life here is very pleasant and interesting, provided one does not mind being k...