Social & Cultural History

This project is an attempt to bring together the many fragments of history concerning the Yoruba religious community and their rise to prominence i...

Colonial Girlhood in Literature, Culture and History, 1840-1950 explores a range of real and fictional colonial girlhood experiences from Jamaica, ...

'Superb on the human consequences of war, ravishing in its evocations of wartime life' The Times'Compassionate and thought-provoking history' Daily...

'GRIPPING AND FIERCELY URGENT.' - FINTAN O'TOOLE'FASCINATING, TIMELY, AND DEEPLY RESEARCHED.' - THE SPECTATOR'AN ABSORBING, NECESSARY BOOK.' - AYAD...

A Times Best Sports Book of 2023'Fascinating' Daily Telegraph 'Lively, rich and readable' The Spectator 'Thoughtful and entertaining' Guardian 'Co...

A suspense filled tale of murder on the American frontiershedding new light on a family of serial killers in Kansas, whose horrifying crimes grippe...

Alistair Moffat tells the extraordinary story of the Highlands in the most detailed book ever written about this remarkable part of Scotland. Thi...

This volume is the first to bring together the entire extant correspondence of one of the most significant women in early modern Ireland, Elizabeth...

Recasting the birth of fascism, nationalism, and the fall of empire after World War I, Dominique Kirchner Reill recounts how the people of Fiume tr...

Understanding how Covid-19 started is more important than we know for the future of humankind.  Determining wheth...

A beautifully illustrated and thoroughly engaging cultural history of beekeeping - packed with anecdote, humour and enriching historical detail. Th...

In Eleanor, Gray Jacobik presents sixty-two poems written in the voice of former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt. Set against the backdrop of many of ...

The Maamtrasna Murders provides a cultural history of the events and subsequent impact of the renowned Maamtrasna murders from the perspective of l...

In the midst of the freezing winter of 197879, more than 2,000 strikes, infamously coined the Winter of Discontent, erupted across Britain as worke...

Road to Repeal: 50 Years of Struggle in Ireland for Contraception and Abortion opens in 1970 when the Irish Womens Liberation Movement burst onto t...

A Sculpture that Sings is a unique book about church bells, bell-ringing and the place of the tradition in the English landscape and its communitie...

In an original, and highly interdisciplinary, mixed method approach, Green and Janmaat identify four major traditions of social cohesion in develop...

This is a must read book for all those who love America and want it to be healed. -- Justin Webb, presenter of the BBCs Today programme and America...

This book offers a ground-breaking analysis of how women's movements have been remaking citizenship in multicultural Europe. Presenting the finding...

Lesbians are a people without a home. Perhaps that's why the ones we make for ourselves are so important.A highly readable cultural history of quee...

This work offers a unique contribution to gender and Scottish history breaking new ground on several fronts: there is no history of inter-war women...

Lesbians are a people without a home. Perhaps that's why the ones we make for ourselves are so important.A highly readable cultural history of quee...