Social & Cultural History

Black politics are key to recognizing the most important social dynamics of the United States. Over the past forty years, no commentator has been a...

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...

Lagos is one of the fastest growing cities in the world, expected in some projections to have a population of 25 million by 2025. This will make it...

The East of England, particularly Suffolk, became a new home for thousands of American airmen during the Second World War. After starting to arrive...

At the height of the Victorian era, a daring group of artists and thinkers defied the reigning obsession with propriety, testing the boundaries of ...

How have women read differently from men through the ages? In all manner of ways, this book asserts. This lively story has never been told before: ...

Black Elk speaks of the square boxes his people were forced into, and Winona LaDuke of the boxes of mints on Native lands. As long as the governmen...

During the 18th century, Edinburgh was the intellectual hub of the Western world. Adam Smith, David Hume, Dugald Stewart and Adam Ferguson delivere...

In Berlin Now, and on the 25th Anniversary of the fall of the Wall, a legendary Berliner tells the inside story of the city.Over the last five deca...

A historian reveals the illuminating history of milk, from ancient myth to modern grocery store How did an animal product that spoils easily, carri...

Following the disruption, hardship and challenges of the Second World War, the post-war years brought a sense of optimism and excitement, with fami...

Jerry White's London in the Nineteenth Century is the richest and most absorbing account of the city's greatest century by its leading expert.Londo...

The Isle of Wight is England's largest island, but its diamond-shape is at most 23 miles long and 13 miles wide. Anchored close to the Hampshire co...

On the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1963, Martin Luther King outlined a dream of an America where people would not be judged by the color of th...

The success of the Durham Coalfield and its important role in the Industrial Revolution is attributed to men of influence who owned the land and th...

'History at its most celebratory' Daily Telegraph'Adie uses her journalistic eye for personal stories and natural compassion to create a book defin...