Social & Cultural History

Step away from sunny Jerseys present day and into the sinister shadows of the past the islands history is filled with dark deeds and restless spir...

Have we been fooling ourselves? Has the almost complete takeover of culture by the thinking of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment come without a ...

Very little attention has been given to black British and West African and Caribbean citizens who lived and worked on the 'front line' during the S...

Italian-born, Canadian-based documentary photographer Vincenzo Pietropaolo has made it his life s mission to photograph the immigrant experience, w...

From Oprah Winfrey to Angelina Jolie, George Clooney to Leonardo DiCaprio, Americans have come to expect that Hollywood celebrities will be outspok...

Preston Guild is only celebrated every twenty years, and has a history stretching back to the Middle Ages, more than 800 years ago. Described as ou...

Britain in 1846 was a nation in the grip of dramatic change. As the Industrial Revolution reached its height, people were flooding from countryside...

This book examines language and identity in modern Egypt using theories from discourse analysis and sociolinguistics. How is language used in Egypt...

The ubiquitous cup of tea is as much a part of British life as indifferent weather, the BBC or the queue at the post office. Look at the facts: we ...

This illuminating volume provides a new understanding of the subjective identity and public roles of Russia's Europeanized elite between the years ...

A riveting account of private art collectors' passion from Roman times to the present Whether it's the discovery of $1.6 billion in Nazi-looted art...

Sicilys central location and natural resources have meant that various peoples have sought to conquer, control and settle on the island throughout ...