Social & Cultural History

Hugely readable and entertaining JIM AL-KHALILI An accessible and crystal-clear portrait of this disciplines breadth, largel...

Recipes and menus from the novels and the household of Charles Dickens, one of the world's favourite authors. Dinner with Dickens celebrates the f...

For thousands of years bloodlines have been held as virtually unassailable credentials for leadership, with supreme political power perceived as a ...

A beautifully illustrated, visually lush and intriguing book about the world's most popular and most powerful flower. The daffodil is the beautifu...

Empire of Sin is a vibrant account of New Orleans in the early 1920s, a time when commercialised vice, jazz culture and endemic crime formed the ba...

This sumptuously illustrated history presents, in an updated new edition, an in-depth account of Britain's most important buildings, from castles, ...

The office of Archbishop of Canterbury is the oldest continuous institution in Britain older than the English crown and much older than Parliament...

The very name Black Death sends shivers up spines, and summons up the worst nightmares. In the Middle Ages, the onset of this mysterious plague tha...

Since the Enlightenment, western culture has written off ecstatic experience as a form of mental illness. But why should rationality be considered ...

Rez Metal captures the creative energy of Indigenous youth culture in the twenty-first century. Bridging communities from disparate corners of Indi...

Transportation is the unsung hero in America's story. Stagecoaches, waterways, canals, railways, busses, and airplanes revolutionized much more tha...

Zeppelin Nights is social history at its best White creates a vivid picture of a city changed forever by war The Times2018 marks the centenary of t...

History records that the Olympic Games originated in ancient Greece nearly three thousand years ago, died out around 393 AD, and were triumphantly ...

An entertaining collection of true stories that feature just a few of the products manufactured by the Austin Motor Company from 1906 until the out...

PLAYING CARDS IN CAIRO is a fly-on-the-wall account - like THE BOOKSELLER OF KABUL - of life (for western readers) in a strange and exotic environm...

Freemasonry bears the imprint of the society in which it exists, and Freemasonry in North America is no exception. While keeping close ties to Fren...

Hugely readable and entertaining JIM AL-KHALILI An accessible and crystal-clear portrait of this disciplines breadth, largel...

Shortlisted, Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical WritingOn a frigid February evening in 1805, Amos Babcock brutally murdered Mercy Hal...

A bold new interpretation of Nat Turner and the slave rebellion that stunned the American SouthIn 1831 Virginia, Nat Turner led a band of Southampt...

We are a trading community, a commercial people. Murder is doubtless a very shocking offence, nevertheless as what is done is not to be undone, let...

By the end of the eighteenth century London was the second largest city in the world, its relentless growth fuelled by Britains expanding empire. B...

When Marjory Wardrop joined her diplomat brother, Oliver, in Georgia in 1894, they found themselves witnessing the birth pangs of a modern nation. ...

Shows vividly how the Great Fire of 1835, which nearly leveled Manhattan also created the ashes from which the city was reborn. On a freezing Dece...

What constituted a secret or a scandal in times gone by? This entertaining title in this new series gives an overview of the times and attitudes to...

The word 'workhouse' has a grim resonance even today, conjuring up a vision of the darker side of Victorian Britain. Almost every town had at least...

An illustrated guide to the Normans the invaders of 1066 who changed English life forever The 1066 Norman conquest of England, led by William, Duk...

Alec Forshaws latest volume covers the troubled decade of 1980s London, the Thatcher years, a time of political and civil unrest and protest, dereg...

Secret Diary of a 1970s Secretary is the diary of Sarah Shaw for the year of 1971, which she recently uncovered whilst clearing out her loft. Worki...

Ach cérbh í Peig Sayers? Níorbh í in aon chor an tseanbhean ologónach í ar chuir na glúnta de dhaltaí scoile aithne uirthi. Is léir ó chuntais uat...

Award-winning commentator Michael Schiavello examines the greatest sports commentators in history, the best calls ever heard, and offers stories fr...

From a Bancroft Prizewinning historian, the fascinating story of how an obscure Puritan sermon was remade into a founding document of American iden...

When Dreams Collide is Nicholas Allan''s intimate pilgrimage across the former states of Yugoslavia. Shedding the received knowledge of headlines, ...

  Sailor-y-Pent is a narrative poem that describes the sad, strange, silly and often slightly sinful inhabitants of a small Welsh seaside town in ...

In Lead White Zarina Bhimji explores the history of Zanzibar. Her expert curatorial eye has scoured national archives and found documents bearing w...