Social & Cultural History

John Bannerman (1932-2008) saw the history of Scotland from a Gaelic perspective, and his outstanding scholarship made that perspective impossible ...

Angus Edward MacInnes, born at Haun, Eriskay in the Outer Hebrides in 1925, returned in his imagination to the island of his birth to create what, ...

Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, has long been portrayed as one of historys romantically tragic figures. Devious, naïve, beautiful and sexually voracio...

In the glorious, boozy party after the first World War, a new being burst defiantly onto the world stage: the so-called flapper. Young, impetuous, ...

Licentious Worlds is a history of sexual attitudes and behaviour through 500 years of empire-building around the world. In a graphic and sometimes ...

'A gripping, heart-breaking account of the famine winter of 1847' - Rosemary Goring, The Herald Longlisted for the Highland Book Prize When Scotl...

Since Antiquity few trees have had a greater impact on the world''s culture and economy than the mulberry. The sole food of the silkworm, the leave...

The ingenious wartime tactics of some of history''s most powerful female leaders, from the stifling battlefields of ancient Egypt to the frigid wat...

The Declaration of Arbroath, 6 April, 1320, is one of the most remarkable documents to have been produced anywhere in medieval Europe. Signed by 51...

As 1872 opened, the New York Times headlined four stories that symptomized the decay in public morals that the editors so frequently decried: finan...

A glimpse into the markets, crafts, and signage of early modern Japan Kanban are the traditional signs Japanese merchants displayed on the street ...

A great read.Whoopi Goldberg, The ViewHow the clash between the civil rights firebrand and the father of modern conservatism continues to illuminat...

Why has there been no viable, independent labor party in the United States? Many people assert American exceptionalist arguments, which state a lac...

Freud said dreams were the royal road to the unconscious, and then along came a superhighway: psychedelics. Personally, we can access the psychedel...

Bonds and Fords Almshouses are as recognisable to citizens and visitors to Coventry in the 21st Century as they would have been when first founded,...

The Gullah culture, though borne of isolation and slavery, thrived on the US East Coast sea islands from pre-Civil War times until today, and nowhe...

An entertaining cultural history and a highly original take on the power of stories in societies past and present. Trish Nicholson brings us a uniq...

Originally passed in 1885, the law that had made homosexual relations a crime remained in place for 82 years. But during this time, restrictions on...

From the Vanguard to the Margins is dedicated to the work of the late British historian, Dr Mark Pittaway (1971-2010), a prominent scholar of post-...

After the war it was estimated that 230 current and former students and staff of Hulme Hall had served in the Armed Forces between 1914 and 1919. T...

Despite describing an Irish-Scottish childhood in Glasgow during the 1930s Depression in a period book-ended by two world wars The Facts of Life ...

Born just as the British Empire was taking its last breaths, Martin Adeney was part of the 'twilight generation' caught between the imperial and po...

Between the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century, Lady Augusta Gregory welcomed numerous distinguished literary and artistic friends to her ...

Gaelic Scotland is one of the world's great treasure-houses of song. In this anthology, Anne Lorne Gillies has gathered together music and lyrics f...

Rock music today is universal and its popular history is well known. Yet few know how and why it really came about. Taking a fresh look at events l...

In 1749, a newspaper advertisement appeared declaring that a man would climb inside a bottle on the stage of a London theatre. Although the crowds ...

A fresh, provocative history that renews our understanding of France in the world through short, incisive essays ranging from prehistoric frescoes ...

INCLUDES HUNDREDS OF NEW AND EXPANDED ENTRIES From Aald Rock to Zeenty-teenty, A Dictionary of Scottish Phrase and Fable is an unputdownable galli...

Gaelic Scotland is one of the world's great treasure-houses of song. In this anthology, Anne Lorne Gillies has gathered together music and lyrics f...

Few fictional characters have proven to be as enduringly popular as the legendary Count Dracula. First published in 1897, Bram Stoker''s gothic mas...

In November 1921, three friends met in a cafe on London Road in Leicester to discuss the formation of a drama society, with the aim of improving ar...

This book tells the story of five Irish women who were unusual in a variety of ways mostly because of their ruthlessness, political cunning or mer...