Social & Cultural History

'Rich and funny' Julian Barnes, Guardian 'Poirier's hugely enjoyable, quick-witted and richly anecdotal book is magnifique' The Times A captivati...

He wrote one of the most quintessentially English books, yet Kenneth Grahame (1859 -1932) was a Scot. He was four years old when his mother died an...

_A Dark History of Chocolate_ looks at our long relationship with this ancient ''food of the Gods''. The book examines the impact of the cocoa bean...

In February 1685, James II succeeded his brother Charles II on the English throne. His popularity had soared and fallen during his brother's reign....

In Georgian England, few men were more fashionable or more eligible than George, Prince of Wales. Wild, glamorous, and with a penchant for beautifu...

Few writers have had a greater impact upon British society than Charles Dickens. His stories, and, in particular, his many memorable characters, hi...

In The Sanctuary City, Domenic Vitiello argues that sanctuary means much more than the limited protections offered by city governments or churches ...

In The Sanctuary City, Domenic Vitiello argues that sanctuary means much more than the limited protections offered by city governments or churches ...

Travel through time and across the country with this state-by-state tour of the United States over the past 100 years. Following on from the critic...

In 1968 a group of young people took over a derelict trouser factory in a rundown part of Leeds and set about producing programmes that were to def...

Among the fiercest opponents of the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II was journalist James Jimmie Matsumoto Omura. In hi...

In The Tribe, Caitríona Perry is on familiar ground, returning to Washington and the green strongholds of the United States. Irish Americans were ...

What would you wear to war? How would you dress for a winter mission in the open cockpit of a Russian bomber plane? At a fashion show in Occupied ...

In the wake of Germany's unconditional surrender in May 1945 and Japan's subsequent surrender later that July, across the world the Allied press pr...

When Dickens died on 9 June 1870, he was halfway through writing his last book, _The Mystery of Edwin Drood_. Since that time, hundreds of academic...

Witch' is a powerful word with humble origins. Once used to describe an ancient British tribe known for its unique class of female physicians and p...

What was life like for the Victorian bobby? Gaynor Haliday became fascinated with the history of the early police forces when researching the life ...

The Great War was the first Total War; a war in which human and material resources were pitched into a life-and-death struggle on a colossal scale....

The records of the Sheffield Workhouse were destroyed in the bombing of Sheffield during the Second World War. However, using archive material, new...

A book of stunning black and white photographs by celebrated Welsh photojournalist Geoff Charles (1909-2002), depicting Wales and the border areas ...

On 3 September 1939, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain sat tensely at a microphone, using radio to declare that this country is at war with German...

Bathhouses (hamams) play a prominent role in Turkish culture, because of their architectural value and social function as places of hygiene, relaxa...

This book brings together leading historians and writers on British and Irish rural history, to consider the role of the land agent, or estate mana...

'Swimming with Dr Johnson and Mrs Thrale' challenges the popular image of Samuel Johnson as a man who favoured energetic discussion over physical e...

A history of Toxic Shock Syndrome In 1978, doctors in Denver, Colorado observed several healthy children who suddenly and mysteriously developed a...

What is meant by Jewish Spain? The term itself encompasses a series of historical contradictions. No single part of Spain has ever been entirely Je...

What would you wear to war? How would you dress for a winter mission in the open cockpit of a Russian bomber plane? At a fashion show in Occupied ...

British luxury rail travel was not just the domain of the Pullman Company. In fact, they were far from the only providers as railway companies in B...

The First World War ushered in many new and increasingly deadly weapons, along with strategies for using them. No more so than Germany's sustained ...

Take a romp through the long eighteenth-century in this collection of 25 short tales. Marvel at the Queen's Ass, gaze at the celestial heavens thr...

Based on extensive research, Cinderella Soldiers uncovers the experiences of the Liverpool Irish Battalion during the Great War. The ethnic core of...

This is the other side of the story. Before the Second World War, Ann Basus family of Jewish tailors lived where the BT Tower stands today. At that...

Katey Dickens was born into a house of turbulent celebrity and grew up surrounded by fascinating, famous, and infamous people. From a very young ag...

In this fascinating book, the reader is taken on a journey of real life accounts of Victorian children, how they lived, worked, played and ultimate...

Drawing on the archives of Mary Evans Picture Library, Images of the Past The British Seaside is a nostalgic promenade through the history of Bri...

The battle to keep the nation fed during the Second World War was waged by an army of workers on the land and the resourcefulness of the housewives...

Welsh saints continue to fascinate many with an interest in Welsh history and tradition, and none more so than Dewi Sant / Saint David, who especia...

This is a book about the conflict between history and poetry and historians and poets in Atlantic World society from the end of the seventeenth c...

The story of the struggle for women's suffrage is not just that of the Pankhursts and Emily Davison. Thousands of others were involved in peaceful...

In the late medieval period, manuscripts galore circulated in Middle Eastern libraries. Yet very few book collections have come down to us as such ...

A wonderful overview of tactical development in European football Matthew Syed, The Times A fascinat...