Social & Cultural History

Emmeline and Frederick Pethick-Lawrence were an extraordinary couple and theirs is an extraordinary political and personal story. Emmeline was trea...

When the thirteen year old Margaret Tudor, eldest daughter of Henry VII and his wife Elizabeth of York, married King James IV of Scotland in a magn...

How much influence did notable wives have on the leading commanders in British military history? These women tend to be disregarded but, as Trina B...

Germany's defeat in the First World War and the Treaty of Versailles that followed were national disasters, with far-reaching consequences not just...

Have you ever found yourself watching a show or reading a novel and wondering what life was really like in the Middle Ages? What did people actuall...

Dickens and Christmas is an exploration of the 19th-century phenomenon that became the Christmas we know and love today and of the writer who chang...

The south east coastal town of Eastbourne is probably best known today for being a popular seaside holiday resort, frequented by the retired genera...

On the eve of the Second World War, Watford was a growing centre for light industry with close connections to London. These two facts would play an...

From the Financial Times's long-standing restaurant critic Nicholas Lander comes this celebration of the history, design and evolution of the world...

'Indispensable . . . Speaks of hope and courage' Observer'An ode to openness, offering a refreshing alternative to those accounts that treat migran...

A girl from a Yorkshire mining town is barely thirteen when her father kills himself her brother finds him dying. At sixteen shes spotted by a roc...

Swim out into the Pacific and look back to the shore. To the couple kissing in the hot afternoon, and the young girl rollerskating along the front,...

This is the never-before-told story of George Orwell's first wife, Eileen, a woman who shaped, supported, and even saved the life of one of the twe...

The first book to explore the historical role and residual impact of the Green Book, a travel guide for black motorists Published from 1936 to 19...

The Gift of Knowledge / Ttnuwit Atawish Nch''inch''imami is a treasure trove of material for those interested in Native American culture. Author Vi...

An unputdownable tale of one man''s quest to recover his family''s property, plundered by the Nazis. Menachem Kaiser''s brilliantly told story is ...

Jill Dudley writes about the arrival on the island from mainland Greece of the goddess Hera, and the great temple built in her honour on Samos. She...

Despite being only 21 years old, Lochranza Distillery on the Isle of Arran is the latest in a long line of distilleries that once existed there. Th...

Shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel Writing AwardsIn The Hidden Ways, Alistair Moffat traverses the lost paths of Scotland - its Roman roads...

A groundbreaking study of the fascinating yet largely unknown world of books in the first great age of print, 14501600  Selected by New York Times ...

In this collection, Hungarian literature is read together with canonical works of the Western literary tradition. The book studies the distinction ...

This volume brings together papers that examine American literary texts and cultural phenomena as manifestations and/or expressions of nostalgia. I...

While their role has been all too often overlooked by historians, cattle played an integral part in the economy, ecology and culture of Highland li...

A social history of the ordinary British soldier during World War IIReflects impressively wide reading, and commands respect for its shrewd judgmen...

History Today carried a feature in 2015, describing The Origin of Museums as a cult book [that] spawned a new discipline in the history of collecti...

With cities across the country adding miles of bike lanes and building bike-share stations, bicycling is enjoying a new surge of popularity in Amer...

As Meghan Markle once said: ''With fame comes opportunity, but it also includes responsibility - to advocate and share, to focus less on the glass ...

Persuasively argues that our fixation with writing by hand is driven more by emotion than evidence, as it is perceived to be inextricably linked to...

The Jewish Journey is unique in three respects. First, it is a short, accessible, affordable and illustrated history of the Jewish people. Most boo...

A rare look into the history, theory, and craft of the black mages and sorcerers of Russia Born in the Soviet Union and descended from a matrilinea...

Thirty-four essays and interviews with some of the greatest individuals, malcontents and free thinkers of the last 150 years - including Louise Bro...

Families are places of love, care, and fun; also of anger, anxiety, and quarrels. Not Speaking tells the story of a Greek matriarch, Rena, and her ...

Nursing is a complex profession steeped in tradition and history. Tried and tested ways of working have been the mainstay of how and why nurses do ...

There is an ancient and quite baseless myth that the use of torture has never been legal in Britain. This old wives'' tale arose because torture ha...

In House Histories, Britain''s leading house historian uncovers the hidden stories and secrets of ordinary and extraordinary houses across the coun...

Discover the maritime and human history of Floridas 30 awe-inspiring lighthouses along the East Coast, through the Keys, and up the west coast to t...

In 1977, the iconic Swindon Works was building locomotives. By 1986, it was shut down. In The End of the Line, Ron Bateman recounts the fight to sa...

The history of gibbeting is the story of one of Britain's most brutal forms of punishments, the hanging of criminals in a body shaped metal cage as...

Henry VIII is one of history's most memorable monarchs. Popularly known for his six wives, and the unfortunate fate which befell Anne Boleyn and Ca...

A Dark History of Tea looks at our long relationship with this most revered of hot beverages. Renowned food historian Seren Charrington-Hollins dig...

Paul Chrystal has written the first full length study of women and warfare in the Graeco Roman world. Although the conduct of war was generally mon...

The history of sexuality in Ireland remains relatively understudied when compared with the more well-worn paths of political and military history, ...

The ancient Cathedral Church of Saints Peter and Paul with Dyfrig, Teilo and Euddogwy saw its beginnings in the community that formed around the se...

Jean Harlow, the Godmother of Blondes, lit the torch for the blonde bombshell, creating an image and persona that would be passed on for generation...

For centuries, there have been children who have not lived with their birth parents for a range of reasons and have been taken into the care of the...