Social & Cultural History

The exquisite sound of a lone chorister singing Once in Royal Davids City amid the candlelit chapel of Kings College, Cambridge, marks the start of...

In 1996, in the middle of watching an ill-tempered football match between England and Germany, Philip Oltermann's parents tell him that they are go...

There is no single go-to illustrated guide to the history of the Library of Congress for scholars, researchers and general visitors; this new volum...

'Football is a pleasure that hurts'This unashamedly emotional history of football is a homage to the romance and drama, spectacle and passion of a ...

Unlike many other small villages in the UK, Lesmahagow has many claims to fame because of its location and geological heritage and due to many of i...

Read any history of New York City and you will read about men. You will read about men who were political leaders and men who were activists and cu...

The West and Islam--the sword and the scimitar--have clashed since the mid-seventh century, when, according to Muslim tradition, the Byzantine empe...

'Gripping and all too timely' James Hawes 'A brilliant mix of detailed research and vivid storytelling' Julia Boyd 'History at its very best and...

This story of a middle-class white South African family unfolds between the years 1939 and 1964 - a transformative period in South Africa's politic...

In the winter of 1913, Grand Central Station was officially opened and immediately became one of the most beautiful and recognizable Manhattan land...

First published in 1920, Jailed for Freedom is the courageous, true story of the militant suffragists who organised some of the first-ever, large s...

A splendid and necessary publicationa great resource Iain SinclairCharles Booths landmark survey of life in late-19th-century London, published f...

Logical, lucid, and direct, Technological Slavery radically reinvigorates and reforms the intellectual foundations of an age-old and resurgent worl...

There is no escaping the Jerusalem of the religious imagination. Not once but three times holy, its overwhelming spiritual significance looms large...

Every year, in the heart of the Nile Delta, a festival takes place that was for centuries the biggest in the Muslim world: the mulid of al-Sayyid A...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A heart-breaking story of courage and compassion from the front line of...

'Magnificent. Beautifully written, immaculately researched and thoroughly absorbing from start to finish. A tour de force that explains how Europe'...

Despite 21st-century fears of an 'epidemic' of loneliness, its history has been sorely neglected. A Biography of Loneliness offers a radically new ...

The process of creating and reflection upon autobiographical memory is an everyday practice that is typical within the human experience. When music...

Martin Parr, one of Britain's best-known contemporary photographers, and President of Magnum, the world-famous photographic agency has undertaken a...

Yoga in Britain reveals how yoga came to be an accepted, mainstream activity. In mid-twentieth century Britain, yoga transformed from an esoteric c...

When most people think of the prohibition era, they think of speakeasies, gin runners, and backwoods fundamentalists railing about the ills of stro...

When the Clyde Ran Red paints a vivid picture of the heady days when revolution was in the air on Clydeside. Through the bitter strike at the huge ...

This is the first comprehensive historical perspective on the relationship between Black workers and the changing patterns of Britain's labour need...

During the nineteenth century sport underwent a revolution which was heavily influenced by the social and economic changes brought about by the Ind...

'Tremendous. A moving and haunting tribute to the human spirit' WILLIAM BOYDInto the heart of a genocide that left a million people dead6 April 199...

Situated in the heart of London's Holland Park are the remains of Holland House-the site of what was once England's most celebrated political salon...

A follow-up to Andrea Wulf's award-winning and critically acclaimed history of British gardening, this is the story of how George Washington, Thoma...

Sixties children grew up in a more permissive and commercial age. They enjoyed a childhood in which new vaccines gave children protection from life...

Haunted houses, bitter revenants and muffled heartbeats under floorboards the American gothic is a macabre tale based on a true story. Part memo...

TV presenter and all-round car nut Ant Anstead takes the reader on a journey that mirrors the development of the motor car itself from...