Social & Cultural History

2024 Best Indigenous Studies Award, The Mormon History Association 2024 Southwest Book of the Year, Pima County Public Library A history of how the...

Once an obscure piece of World War II history, the Tuskegee Airmen are now among the most celebrated and documented aviators in military history. W...

What was it like to participate in the Womens Liberation Movement? What made millions of women step forward from the 1960s onwards and join it in d...

This book explores Wordsworths extraordinary influence on the tourist landscapes of the Lake District throughout the age of railways, motorcars and...

Established in 1935, the Federal Writers' Project (FWP) sent around 6,500 unemployed historians, teachers, writers, and librarians out to document ...

Expanding upon the 2017 Radio 4 series Britains Black Past, this book presents those stories and analyses through the lens of a recovered past. Eve...

Expanding upon the 2017 Radio 4 series Britains Black Past, this book presents those stories and analyses through the lens of a recovered past. Eve...

'This riveting behind-the-scenes story of the clothes on our backs is a must-read for clotheshorses everywhere' Harper's Bazaar 'Extraordinary . ....

THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR*Shortlisted for the 2021 Financial Times and McKinsey & Company Business Book of the Year Award*'This unique and fas...

This book explores Wordsworths extraordinary influence on the tourist landscapes of the Lake District throughout the age of railways, motorcars and...

The large number of Vietnamese refugees that resettled in the United States since the fall of Saigon have become Americas fastest growing immigran...

Scions of a once-great southern Chinese family that produced the tutor of the last emperor, Jun and Hong were each others best friends until, in th...

Burial places were of prime importance for Jewish communities throughout history, even more essential than synagogue buildings. For this reason, th...

An urban history of modern Britain, and how the built environment shaped the nations politicsFoundations is a history of twentieth-century Britain ...

One of the Best Nonfiction Books of 2022, Kirkus Reviews A righteous indictment of racism and misogyny.Publishers WeeklyA powerful account of viole...

French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote, the general effect of the theatre is to strengthen the national character to augment the national i...

In the summer of 2016, Disney introduced its first Latina princess, Elena of Avalor. Princesa of the Periphery explores this Disney property using ...

Caterina Vigri (later Saint Catherine of Bologna) was a mystic, writer, teacher and nun-artist. Her first home, Corpus Domini, Ferrara, was a house...

Departing from conventional narratives of the United States and the Americas as fundamentally continental spaces, the contributors to Archipelagic ...

One of the worlds most multicultural cities, twentieth-century Cairo was a magnet for the ambitious and talented. During the 1920s and 30s, a vibra...

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth... In 1968 the world watched as Earth rose over the moonscape, televised from the orbiting A...

With the support of the Race Today collective, squatters formed the Bengali Housing Action Group (BHAG), which organised support and vigilante grou...