Social & Cultural History

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

Queens and princesses have always shown care and compassion, but many went much further. They were not afraid to roll up their sleeves, work in war...

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

The story of the English marriage is unique and eccentric. Long after the rest of Europe and neighbouring Scotland had reformed their marriage laws...

In this gloriously original social history, Travis Elborough argues that our national character - our snobbishness and willingness to laugh at ours...

The remarkable story of the money sent by the Choctaw to the Irish in 1847 is one that is often told and remembered by people in both nations. This...

South Carolina is a state of incredible African American history: from the lunch counter in Rock Hill where the Friendship Nine began their Jail, N...

Feminism's Empire investigates the complex relationships between imperialisms and feminisms in the late nineteenth century and demonstrates the cha...

Feminism's Empire investigates the complex relationships between imperialisms and feminisms in the late nineteenth century and demonstrates the cha...

Acclaimed historian Stephen Robinson brings to life a legendary last stand.Shanghai 1937. With invading Japanese troops poised to capture one of th...

A New York Times Notable Book Best Books of 2021: TIME, Smithsonian New York Times B...

Belfast punk and the Troubles is an oral history of the punk scene in Belfast from the mid-1970s to the mid-80s. The book explores what it was like...

A compelling memoir of post-war Britain. Jackie Skingley grew up with limited career choices but joining the Womens Royal Army Corps offered her a ...

Among the more intriguing documentary sources from late medieval Europe are pardon letterspetitions sent by those condemned for serious crimes to m...

State of Emergency : Britain 1970-74 is a brilliant history of the gaudy, schizophrenic atmosphere of the early Seventies. The early 1970s were th...

The bullets didn't just travel in distance, they travelled in time. Some of those bullets never stop travelling. Jack Kennedy, father of James Kenn...

In 1797 Jeremy Bentham prepared a map of poverty in Britain, which he called 'Pauperland.' More than two hundred years later, poverty and social de...

During the nineteenth century, Londons population grew by more than five million as people flocked from the countryside to the city to take up jobs...

James M. Dorsey introduces the reader to the world of Middle Eastern and North African football - an arena where struggles for political control, p...

It is hard to imagine that the busy townscape of South London was once a great wood, stretching almost seven miles from Croydon to Deptford or that...

What Happened to the Soviet University? explores how one of the largest geopolitical changes of the twentieth centurythe dissolution of the Soviet ...

Surrey is one of the smallest of the English counties, but also one of the most populous. However, it has managed to retain much of its open spaces...

For many women the 1920s was a time of change after the pressures - and opportunities - of the First World War. For a number, war casualties me...

'A moving series of portraits honouring the lives of Grenfell's victims' Vogue In the early hours of 14 June 2017, a fire broke out in Grenfell tow...

The debate on Athenian democratic ideology has long been polarised around two extremes. A Marxist tradition views ideology as a cover-up for Athens...

Dont leave yet. Let there be one more piece of magic to remember the place by.Is there something especially Irish about Irish gardens? The climate,...

DJ Screw, a.k.a. Robert Earl Davis Jr., changed rap and hip-hop forever. In the 1990s, in a spare room of his Houston home, he developed a revoluti...

A glorious illustrated history of sixteen of the world's greatest cathedrals, interwoven with the extraordinary stories of the people who built the...

Published by the Salish Kootenai College Press Peter Ronan (183993) was the government agent for the Salish and Kootenai tribes of the Flathead Ind...

Tyneside means much more than a riverside conurbation to the almost one million people who live and work there, tied in affection to their collecti...

Pageantry and power is the first full and in-depth cultural history of the Lord Mayors Show in the early modern period. It provides new insight int...

Dancing in the English style explores the development, experience, and cultural representation of popular dance in Britain from the end of the Firs...

This is the first study of the Anglo-Welsh border region in the period before the Norman arrival in England, from the fifth to the twelfth centurie...

In July 1815, six Iranian students arrived in London under the escort of their chaperone, Captain Joseph D'Arcy. Their mission was to master the mo...