Social & Cultural History

A fascinating illustrated history of the First World War told through the great houses of the National Trust. The First World War touched every fam...

A compelling and persuasive account of how the Romantic Movement permanently changed the way we see things and express ourselves.Three great revolu...

1996 And The End of History examines the year as it panned out in the UK not just in politics but in music, light entertainment and sport. It was t...

THE LITTLE BOOK OF SANDYMOUNT is a compendium of fascinating, obscure, strange and entertaining facts about one of Dublin''s most important suburbs...

Steve Harvey was in the same class at school as Sting in the sixties, on 'the Fringe' with Liam Neeson in the seventies; spent a day with Spike Mil...

Legend has it that Damascus once had 365 hammams or 'Turkish baths': one for each day of the year. Originally part of an ancient Roman tradition, h...

Voices from the Workhouse tells the real inside story of the workhouse - in the words of those who experienced the institution at first hand, eithe...

A hilarious look at the aging baby boomer generation from the author the Spectator labelled 'what happens when America does Grumpy Old Men'.The Bab...

In this thrilling story of intellectual and archaeological discovery, David Roberts recounts his last twenty years of far-flung exploits in search ...

The shtetl was home to two-thirds of East Europe's Jews in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, yet it has long been one of the most neglected ...

Drawing on the resources of English Heritages unrivalled photographic archives, The Thames Through Times is a photographic journey along the length...

American philanthropy today expands knowledge, champions social movements, defines active citizenship, influences policymaking, and addresses human...

Children of the 1950s have much to look back on with fondness: Muffin the Mule, Andy Pandy, and Dennis the Menace became part of the family for man...

The shtetl was home to two-thirds of East Europe's Jews in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, yet it has long been one of the most neglected ...

The ancient Egyptians would have known it as the sixth day of Pachon. The Mayans named it 4 Ahau 3 Kankin. To us it is 21 December, 2012. On this d...

Being a housewife in the 1950s was quite a different experience to today. After the independence of the wartime years, women had to leave their job...

The British have always been concerned about accent, appearance and class, but at no time during the twentieth century was keeping up appearances m...

The opera singer Giusto Ferdinando Tenducci was one of the most famous celebrities of the eighteenth century. In collaboration with the English com...

The astonishing story of the project that launched Mass Observation In the late 1930s the Lancashire town of Bolton witnessed a ground-breaking soc...

In the spring of 1939, with the Second World War looming, two determined twenty-four-year-olds, Heather Jenner and Mary Oliver, decided to open a m...

Marx and the Moving Image approaches cinema from a Marxist perspective. It argues that the supposed 'end of history', marked by the comprehensive t...

The ineffable character of Britishness has been used, often enigmatically, to describe Canada's distinct cultural flavour within North America. Thi...

The real and imagined legacy of the ancient Celts has shaped modern identities across the British Isles and retains a powerful hold over the popula...

Having grown up in an Irish country house built in 1847, historian Turtle Bunbury has long harboured a fascination with that epic year, pitched at ...

Sarah Baartman's iconic status as the Hottentot Venus - as victimized African woman, Mother of the new South Africa, and ancestral spirit to countl...