Social & Cultural History

In 1881, a writer in the Saturday Review called tattooing an art without a history. No-one, it went on, has made it the business of his life to stu...

This is the extraordinary story of how salt fish from Shetland became one of the staple foods of Europe, powered an economic boom and inspired arti...

''Funny, stark, fascinating'' THE INDEPENDENT''An extraordinary celebration of a bygone era'' KATE THOMPSON, author of The Stepney Doorstep Society...

A photography book that is a vital accompaniment to the many fans of Hilary Mantels bestselling Wolf Hall Trilogy ...

16 Panel pull-out of detailed full-colour timelines of Indian History, from the Palaeolithic Age to the present day. A fascinating panorama of almo...

How four American cities shaped Poe's life and writingsEdgar Allan Poe (18091849) changed residences about once a year throughout his life. Driven ...

A new edition for HL Option 2, History of the Americas, Topic 17: Civil rights and social movements in the Americas post-1945The renowned IB Diplom...

Behind the façade of politics and pageantry at the Tudor court, there was a family drama. Nothing drove Henry VIII, England's wealthiest and most...

Beyond the patrician vision of Victorian Britain traditionally advanced in our textbooks, there always existed another, more diverse Britain, popul...

In the familiar tale of mass migration to France from 1880 onward, we know very little about the hundreds of thousands of women who formed a critic...

From the first encounters between the Portuguese and indigenous peoples in 1500 to the current political turmoil, the history of Brazil is much mor...

The story of Canadian Pacific is one of the greatest stories in the world. Straddling the continent for more than a century and globe for more than...

Celebrated novelist, biographer and critic Peter Ackroyd paints a vivid picture of one of the world's greatest cities in this brilliant and origina...

Winner of the 2020 Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger, France's best foreign book of the year.In this genre-defying book, best-selling memoirist and c...

For many Americans, the birth certificate is a mundane piece of paper, unearthed from deep storage when applying for a driver's license, verifying ...

First time in paperback and e-book! The jazz musician-composer-arranger Mary Lou Williams spent her sixty-year career working inand stretching beyo...

The roots of monasticism may go back as far as 1700 BCE, to ascetic practices in ancient India. Since that time, the monastic world has naturally d...

In 1822, settlers pushed north from Massachusetts and other parts of New England into Monson, Maine. On land taken from the Penobscot people, they ...

The 1980s was the era when affordable computers came to UK homes. They were known as microcomputers as their ''brain'' was a microprocessor chip. B...

Over the course of more than twenty years, James D. Richardson and his wife, Lori, retraced the steps of his ancestor, George Richardson (1824-1911...

Sharp, angry, punchily philosophical and often funny. It basically invents a new type of lifestyle aspiration: deathstyle. The Times Callenders jo...

This book focuses on the lives and works of two of the very first women of European American ancestry to practice architecture in North America dur...

A refreshed reissue of the 1952 classic Treasure on Earth, this is the vivid and charming account of Christmas in an Edwardian country house. Phyll...

The debate over the affair between Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings rarely rises above the question of 'Did they or didn't they?' But lost in the...

Scandal existed long before celebrity gossip columns, often hidden behind the closed doors of the Georgian aristocracy. But secrets were impossible...

In February 1913 young firebrand activist General Rosalie Gardiner Jones defied convention and the doubts of better-known suffragists such as Al...

Edward Alleyn was a man of many talents and great energy. He was the actor who created the roles of Tamburlaine, Dr Faustus, and Barabas, the Jew o...

The Great Western Trail (GWT) is a nineteenth-century cattle trail that originated in northern Mexico, ran west parallel to the Chisholm Trail, tra...

Gospel music evolved in often surprising directions during the post-Civil Rights era. Claudrena N. Harold's in-depth look at late-century gospel fo...