Social & Cultural History

In 1912, Norland children's nurse Kate Fox was travelling by train heading to the British military station at Nowshera on the Afghan border to care...

'Anyone interested in the challenges of housing policy will want to read this methodical analysis of what went well and what did not over much of t...

From Greek philosophers to former Russian spies, the use of poison as a means of ending a life - whether through assassination, murder, suicide, or...

Jewish Ireland: A Social History is an engaging and thoroughly researched panorama of Irish Jewry. Based on library and archival material, private ...

Gold Run is the true story of arguably one of the greatest gold snatches in history. It is a tale of immense bravery, endurance and great leadershi...

Blitz survivor, ex-evacuee, veteran of five primary schools and product of a typical London suburb, Berwick Coates won a scholarship to a grammar s...

Walter Stephen provides an uninhibited look at the misery and toil of World War I through a collection of twelve diverse stories. Providing a Scott...

The Second World War widows were the forgotten women, largely ignored by the government and the majority of the population. The men who died in the...

Impeccably detailed and beautifully written, The Lost Olympian of the Somme is the story of an Olympic gold medallist and forgotten war hero. Frede...

The carriage of goods in river barges was for centuries one of the principal forms of commercial transport in Britain. This book is the result of 4...

From the 1880s to the 1920s, a profound social awakening among women extended the possibilities of change far beyond the struggle for the vote. Ami...

Offering a unique insight into the habitual inebriate offender class in Ireland, this book examines the inebriate reformatory system in Ireland fro...

On the eve of the Second World War in Europe, the senior pupils in the National Schools of the West of Ireland were engaged in an important, if som...

The photographs in this book capture the gritty reality of life in East London during the Swinging Sixties. As the images graphically illustrate, t...

WHAT WILL HAPPEN WHEN THE TIES ARE CUT? Whatever view you take on Brexit, innovative ideas are needed to thrive. The UK needs to get itself into sh...

Adolf Hitler understood the importance of sport, and exercised his malign and dangerous influence to try to co-opt it for the Nazi cause. He intend...

On 27 December 1948, rioting broke out during a match between Belfast Celtic and Linfield. Jimmy Jones, a prolific goalscorer for Belfast Celtic, w...

When war was declared in 1939, Britain was almost completely dependent on imported timber but only had seven months of it stockpiled. Timber was c...

In recent times, we have all questioned whether we feel truly nurtured by where we live. With 68 per cent of the worlds population predicted to liv...

Coconuts have been around for longer than Homo sapiens; they have been turned into art, taken part in religious rituals and been a sign of wealth a...

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. Margaret Mead B...

Today, 1618 Beak Street is a burger bar, but dont let the muddy grey of the whitewashed oak walls deceive you. This building was once filled with d...

'Masterful' The Economist The Congo-Océan railroad stands as one of the deadliest construction projects in history. It was completed in 1934, when...

London has always been a bustling place of trade; once the docks teemed with men, ships and goods from all over the world. Now all has been transfo...

Hamburg, 1930: The German-Jewish shipbuilders Blohm & Voss build a transatlantic ocean cruiser that they christen the Monte Rosa.Norway, 1940: ...

Kipper Williams is one of the UKs favourite cartoonists. This collection of festive favourites highlights the best and the worst of Christmas. Fro...

1966 was an iconic year in an incredible decade. The Beatles were at the height of their fame, programmes such as Ready Steady Go! and Top of the P...

1968 was the year when humans first glimpsed the far side of the Moon, but also the year the world was shocked by assassination, by the crushing of...

Dan Cohn-Sherbok has provided us with a magisterial overview of antisemitism . . . Whatever your religion, or your politics, Cohn-Sherboks Antisemi...

At the end of the Second World War, hundreds of thousands of German children were sent to the front lines in the largest mobilisation of underage c...

The First World War was won not just on the battlefields but on the Home Front, by the men, women and children left behind. This book explores the ...

The Dolls Hospital Diaries is a collection of poignant and inspiring stories from the history of the Dolls Hospital in Dublin, which has become one...

Kipper Williams is one of the UKs favourite cartoonists. This collection of festive favourites highlights the best and the worst of Christmas. Fro...

Do you remember the docks? In its heyday, the Port of London was the biggest in the world. It was a sprawling network of quays, wharves, canals and...

In his New History of England, leading historian Jeremy Black takes a cool and dispassionate look at the vicissitudes of over two millennia of Engl...

A Handbook on Hanging is a satiric tribute to that unappreciated mainstay of civilisation: the hangman. With barbed wit, Charles Duff not only writ...

When war was declared in September 1939, young people around the world were expected to put on a uniform and fight in a conflict not of their makin...

For centuries Britains commercial fishermen have ventured out into the ravages of the surrounding seas to bring fish back both to supply a home mar...

Did you know that Beethoven made every cup of coffee with exactly 60 beans?Or that Shirley Temple always had precisely 56 curls in her hair?Or that...

The many influences of the past on our diet make the concept of British food very hard to define. The Celts, Romans, Saxons, Vikings and Normans ea...