Social & Cultural History

There have been many books about the Vikings, but few that see them from their own point of view. Most accounts rely heavily on the records of prej...

This is a pioneering study of 18th century Scottish urbanism: dynamic but different. This heavily illustrated and innovative study is founded upon ...

Erik Desmazières is acknowledged as a contemporary master of the art of etching. With breathtaking virtuosity, he recreates interiors, cityscapes, ...

Winner: Best Trade Illustrated Book, British Book Design & Production Awards 2017 As to the arsenic scare a greater folly it is hardly possible...

First English translation of this 19th century novel tracing the relationship between traditional Greenlandic life and the interaction with the cul...

In 1842 the mayor lamented, There is more debauchery in Lincoln than in any other town of its size in the kingdom. Lincoln Races was a magnet for v...

Rising from the ashes of the First World War, the Womens Institute went on to become one of the most important movements for women in the twentieth...

The UK has produced some of the most original, exciting and influential bands in the world and most of them have cut their teeth in one of the myri...

Visiting Martin Luther King Jr. during the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott, journalist William Worthy almost sat on a loaded pistol. Just for self...

British Comics is a unique cultural history of British comic papers and magazines, from their origins in the late nineteenth century to the present...

The collision of the Princess Alice pleasure steamer with the Tyne collier, Bywell Castle, in the Thames in September 1878 resulted in Britain's wo...

In August 1941 Winston Churchill (1874-1965) and President Roosevelt (1882-1945) met secretly on HMS Prince of Wales, moored just off the coast of ...

What did Charles Dickens savour in punch, Thomas Jefferson eat in omelettes, Queen Victoria sip in navy grog, and the Kamehameha Kings of Hawaii dr...

Some of the finest speeches ever made have been spoken in Ireland. This book highlights 45 eminent and influential speeches, from Robert Emmet's de...

Gustave Flaubert called the Loire the most French of French rivers. It is the longest river in France and the most varied in scenery and moods. Mar...

This play re-enacts the 1917 trial and imprisonment of Alice Wheeldon, the renowned suffragist, for her alleged role in plotting to assassinate the...

A panoramic picture of international politics and the formation of the modern StateThe opposition to the omnipotence of the State as symbolised by...

With a foreword by Iain Sinclair. London is an ancient city, whose foundation dates back literally thousands of years into the legendary prehistory...

John Clare (1793-1864) was born at a time of great social upheaval, just months after the beheading of Louis XVI and the outbreak of war with Franc...

The gods and goddesses of ancient Egypt, worshipped for over half of recorded history, are among the most fascinating and complex of any civilizati...

What can homespun cloth, stuffed birds, quince jelly, and ginseng reveal about the formation of early American national identity? In this wide-rang...

Throughout the history of the Crusades, liturgical prayer, masses, and alms were all marshaled in the fight against Muslim armies. In Invisible Wea...

Recording Britain was an artistic documentary project compiled as the country was facing the potentially devastating impact of the Second World War...

The extraordinary story of the UKs most gruelling and spectacularly beautiful islands. Tom Steels acclaimed portrait of the St Kildans lives is now...

The Pendleburys of Lancashire and London were a remarkable family. Their story is a microcosm of history, from civil war and industry, emigration a...

The title of 'duchess' has long been part of Britain's heritage. In 2011, it was brought up to date with the marriage of Prince William and Catheri...