Social & Cultural History

The 1990s was the decade in which the Soviet Union collapsed and Francis Fukuyama declared the end of history. Nelson Mandela was released from pri...

Norfolk is a county sadly rich in lost country houses; this account and gazetteer offer a comprehensive account of them. Winner of the general non...

Take a look back at the Golden Era of wrestling with some of the spectacular merchandise from that awesome time. Featured here is the story of the ...

For nearly thirty years Annie Tempest has entertained Country Life magazine readers with her weekly strip cartoon, Tottering-by-Gently, reaching mu...

Poverty in Modern Europe explores the spatial dimensions of poverty in nineteenth and twentieth-century Europe. Its essays focus on a variety of re...

A captivating glimpse of Britain then and now, seen from behind the steering wheel. In 1951, the Festival of Britain commissioned a series of sh...

A major new history of how democracy became the dominant political force in Europe in the second half of the twentieth centuryWhat happened in the ...

How did a venerable Indian spiritual discipline turn into a £20 billion-a-year mainstay of the wellness industry? What happened along yogas winding...

A bold new account of how celebrity worksWhy do so many people care so much about celebrities? Who decides who gets to be a star? What are the priv...

Windharp: Niall MacMonagle's essential anthology of the last century of Irish poetryThe Easter Rising of 1916 was a foundational moment of the inde...

Tucumcari, New Mexico, was founded in 1901 by the Rock Island Railroad and soon had major railroad lines converging there from Chicago, Los Angeles...

'Ian Stone has one of the sharpest comic minds in the country. I would read anything hes written about anything. This book made me start listening ...

'Entertaining, shocking, uproarious, hilarious . . . like eavesdropping on a wake, as the mourners get gradually more drunk and tell ever more outr...

A fascinating, lively account of the making of the King James Bible. James VI of Scotland now James I of England came into his new king...

In the second edition of this book, the author has added new material to an already illuminating record of the milestones and turning points in Pak...

By subverting comedy's rules and expectations, African American satire promotes social justice by connecting laughter with ethical beliefs in a rev...

By subverting comedy's rules and expectations, African American satire promotes social justice by connecting laughter with ethical beliefs in a rev...

A celebration of the life of Queen Elizabeth II, showing us that the Queen's qualities of duty, self-sacrifice and love of country were present in ...

Now a Major Feature Length Documentary: 'Cassius X: Becoming Ali (Cinema release Spring 2023)  Miami, 1963. A young boy from Louisville, Kentucky,...

''Coffin roads'' along which bodies were carried for burial are a marked feature of the landscape of the Scottish Highlands and islands - many are ...

A completely new look at plants - not only in food, drink and commerce, and how they have created civilisation, trade and empires, but also in love...

A collaboration exploring the importance of the Ojibway-Anishinabe worldview, use of ceremony, and language in living a good life, attaining true r...

Tourism in Sardinia is booming, yet there is nothing else in print that deals with the island''s incredibly rich history and culture, which stretch...

Settlers at the end of empire traces the development of racialised migration regimes in South Africa, Rhodesia (present-day Zimbabwe) and the Unite...

Commemorating the 90th anniversary of the first South African public social research organization, the National Bureau for Education and Social Res...

McMillan's Galloway, a witty and irreverent look at contemporary Dumfries and Galloway, provides a suitably individualistic snapshot of a place whi...

Following the birth of democracy in South Africa in 1994, Robben Island, once a symbol of pain, injustice, and closed spaces, became a UNESCO World...

The creation of large new tracts of forest, together with the development of a modern wood processing sector, was the single biggest transformation...

The Gilded Age is in the air! This beautifully designed, fully illustrated, insightful book by noted historian Alan Axelrod provides a vivid view o...

Traditionally, in British society, the milkman has been a family friend, a sex symbol and a cheerful chappie. He has been the eyes and ears of the ...

The Great, the Pious, the Fair; the Wise, the Lame, the Mad. Imprisoned, deposed, exiled. Excommunicated, assassinated; devout, debauched; loved, l...

. . . I have sailed the seas and come To the holy city of Byzantium. W. B. Yeats From the foundation of Constantinople in 330 to its fall in 1453...

This wide-ranging collection of scholarly essays explores the hybrid cultures, intellectual clashes, and dynamic exchanges of the transpacific regi...