Social & Cultural History

At a time when female architects were still as rare as hens teeth, a seemingly unlikely entrant to the profession, a middle-aged vicars wife Annab...

All they wanted was land: land for crofting and land on which to build a house. In 1908, ten desperate men from the islands of Barra and Mingulay ...

Visual Culture of Post-Industrial Europe investigates visual cultural projects in Europe from the 1970s onwards in response to industrial closures,...

The main articles of Marian Malowist are collected together for the first time. Malowist, who is one of the major economic historians of the twenti...

In the U.S, Woolworth's department store was the Wal-Mart of the early 20th century. The women who worked the counters, cash registers and storeroo...

The Gulag remains one of the key symbols of twentieth-century mass political violence. Thanks to recent archive-based investigations, we now unders...

Charting the construction of sexual perversions in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century medical, psychiatric and psychological discourse, Schaff...

Is it possible for football matches or players to help forge a collective European identity? Pyta and Haverman seek to answer this question through...

An exploration of how educational institutions have been portrayed in horror film, this book examines the way that scary movies have dealt with the...

If societies have only memories of war, of cruelty, of violence, then why are we called humankind? This book marks a new trajectory in Memory Studi...

In 1985, the Kairos Document emerged out of the anti-apartheid struggle as a devastating critique of apartheid and a challenge to the church in tha...

Jean Gerson and Gender examines the deployment of gendered rhetoric by the influential late medieval politically active theologian, Jean Gerson (13...

Brimming with life and drama, this is the first book to explore two thousand years of European history through one the greatest imperial networks e...

The last major mine in the North East region closed in 2005 and with it went a way of life. Through dialect words, humour, stories and songs Pitmat...

At the beginning of the twentieth century, for many English men and women of Welsh origin the idea of being in some part 'Welsh' reaffirmed their o...

We need to talk about racism before it destroys our democracy. And that conversation needs to start with an acknowledgement that racism is coded in...

We need to talk about racism before it destroys our democracy. And that conversation needs to start with an acknowledgement that racism is coded in...

This study examines representations of early modern female consorts and regnants via extra-literary emblematics such as paintings, jewelry, miniatu...

Proposing the novel concept of the literary NGO, this study combines interviews with contemporary East African writers with an analysis of their pr...

The five queens of Navarre were the largest group of female sovereigns in one European realm during the Middle Ages, but they are largely unknown b...

The Media of Testimony explores testimony relating to the Stasi in different cultural forms: autobiographical writing, memorial museums and documen...