Social & Cultural History

This is the story of six people who lived and worked in Palestine in the 1930s; remarkable nonconformists who tried to find a solution to the deter...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'There was nothing extraordinary about my childhood or background. And yet I looked in vain for any aspect of my family'...

Together is about the extraordinary revival of small groups in Britain today.What happens when a room full of people decide to work towards the sam...

Country houses were reliant on an intricate hierarchy of servants, each of whom provided an essential skill. Up and Down Stairs brings to life this...

During the African American cultural resurgence of the 1920s and 1930s, professional athletes shared the spotlight with artists and intellectual...

Reflects on the experience of growing up female in the South, explaining the meaning of the southern heritage, the southern notion of the feminine ...

In 1939 a girl was born in the Aspromonte mountains of Calabria, a beautiful land steeped in history and suffused with tradition but weighed down b...

What was it like to live in Britain during the Second World War? What kind of house did the average family live in? How did people cope with the ev...

In its early days, Victoria was the commercial powerhouse of British Columbiaits largest city and largest market. Nancy Oke and Robert Griffin pres...

With an original approach, this book chronicles every model and lists every chassis number ever produced by Alvis, one of the great British manufac...

'A brilliant and important book ... Five Stars!' Mark Dolan, talkRADIO'An important new book' Daily Express An alternative history of the world tha...

What was life really like in a grammar school in the 1950s and 60s? For those educated at a grammar school during their heyday, this time holds ver...

A fascinating illustrated history of one of the strangest, and cruelest, cultural institutions ever devised. A worldwide best seller, translated in...

A reflection, in chapters, on the lives of members of the author's family, their friends and neighbours who lived in Orleans and Caledonia counties...

Changes in funeral practice provide a lens through which to inspect changes in wider social identity, values and religious beliefs. This book revea...

Power; the power of the gods; the power of Greek cities; the power of the human body: all these were celebrated at the ancient Olympic Games. Ancie...

The socialist tradition in Britain is diverse and multi-layered. Its pattern of development differed markedly across the great industrial centres w...

Over the course of the nineteenth century, some 84,500 Jews in imperial Russia converted to Christianity. Confessions of the Shtetl explores the da...

Touted as the Jerusalem of the Balkans, the Mediterranean port city of Salonica (Thessaloniki) was once home to the largest Sephardic Jewish commun...

The heart of Urbanization in Early and Medieval China consists of translations of three gazetteers written during the Han (206 BCE220 CE), Tang (61...

From the Stone Age to the present day, no technology has had a more profound impact on mankind than watercraft. Boats and ships made possible the s...

The introduction of the transom stern into the seiner-trawler fleet in the mid-twentieth century was one of the most radical departures in Scottish...

The publication of this volume has been supported by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. Few leaders of the n...

Charity and Sylvia is the intimate history of two ordinary women who lived in an extraordinary same-sex marriage during the early nineteenth centur...

Bargain Hunt is a British institution, entertaining audiences for over 20 years, and encouraging us to look for diamonds in the rough at antique fa...

The architecture of social reform explores the fascinating intellectual origins of modern architectures obsession with domesticity. Copiously illus...

Debra Jane Seltzers beautiful collection of images features some of the most stunning signs that remain on public display in the United States. The...

The process of secularization, which is one of the sources of present-day democracy, has its radical origins in eighteenth-century Europe. Criticis...

No one has written more about the African American experience in Missouri over the past four decades than Gary Kremer, and now for the first time f...

The largely untold stories of innumerable, rather humble, lives spent ''in service'' are lying just below the surface of many great houses; the phy...

With its location as a port, Istanbul has always absorbed ideas, people and styles from north, south, east and west. Peter Clark looks at some of t...