Material Culture

According to current thinking, anyone who fails to succeed must have something wrong with them. The pressure to achieve and be happy is taking a he...

A fresh and entertaining perspective on materials science involving the craftspeople who have built their careers around working with materials...

White Star Line was originally founded in Liverpool in 1845 for travel to Australia but was eventually purchased by Thomas Ismay and transformed in...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. From its origins in the late 19th cent...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Who ponders the sock? This common objec...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Desert nomads tested their vision by d...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. One in two men and one in three women ...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The electric candle and faux fur, coffe...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. When the Sony Walkman debuted in 1979,...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. For as long as people have traveled to d...

Winner of the Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing 2017 Journeying around the globe, through past and present, Emma Tarlo unravels the int...

A vivid account of Dutch seventeenth-century art and material culture against the backdrop of the geopolitics of the early modern worldThe seventee...

 I tore through the pages. A book Ill read over and over again CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS, author of Queenie __________________________________________...

'Extraordinary and thrilling ... This story should be known to every man, woman and child' - Lemn SissayIn 1868, British troops charged into the mo...

On 15 April 1912, passengers stood on a dimly lit Boat Deck, looking down at the lifeboats they were told to enter. In the freezing air, away from ...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Jet lag is a momentary condition resul...

This stunning and powerfully relevant book tells the history of Antarctica through 100 varied and fascinating objects drawn from collections around...

In The Glass Cage, best-selling author Nicholas Carr digs behind the headlines about factory robots and self-driving cars, wearable computers and d...

Before Winston Churchill made history, he made news. To a great extent, the news made him too. If it was his own efforts that made him a hero, it w...

How product design criticism has rescued some products from the trash and consigned others to the landfill. Product design criticism operates at...

A delightful, entertaining and illuminating investigation into our peculiar fascination with making things small, and what small things tell us abo...

Bricks such small and seemingly uninteresting things have helped to build the way we live as society has evolved, from the feudal system of early...

Through much of its history, Italy was Europes heart of the arts, an artistic playground for foreign elites and powers who bought, sold, and someti...

From the pencil to the puppet to the drone--the humanities and the social sciences continue to ride a wave of interest in material culture and the ...

With a background in painting billboards, James Rosenquist had a unique perspective on the dual effects of imagery and scale on the viewing experie...

In this collection British and Argentinian historians analyze the Asiatic, Germanic, peasant, slave, feudal, and tributary modes of production by e...

The inventions, the innovations, the stories, the surprises. A combination of history, reference and entertainment something for every seafarer an...

In Lead White Zarina Bhimji explores the history of Zanzibar. Her expert curatorial eye has scoured national archives and found documents bearing w...

Beads are one of the great New Orleans symbols, as much a signifier of the city as a pot of scarlet crawfish or a jazzman's trumpet. They are Louis...

This is the book on porcelain we have been waiting for. . . . A remarkable achievement.Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with Amber EyesA sweeping...

An Alternative History of Bicycles and Motorcycles: Two-Wheeled Transportation and Material Culture accounts for the nineteenth-century creation an...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Smokers, survivalists, teenagers, co...

'A remarkable achievement' - Stephen FryIn 2015 #thedress captured the worlds imagination. Was the dress in the picture white and gold or blue and ...

Explore Britains dark criminal history through the fascinating objects that have been hidden away in the Crime Museum at Scotland Yard, a collectio...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. We all wear hoods: the Grim Reaper, Re...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Its happening all the time, all around ...

From the Stone Age to the present day, no technology has had a more profound impact on mankind than watercraft. Boats and ships made possible the s...

This book is a record of the 50 years Widad Kawar spent researching, collecting and preserving part of the heritage of Palestine. This endeavor evo...

From dime novels to Wild West movies, from cowboy heroes to tribal villains, from masculine mystique to female virtue: the nineteenth-century Ameri...