Social & Cultural History

A new creative sizzle is in the air, establishing the backdrop for a major revival across all of London's creative sectors. Having invented the Swi...

What does history really consist of? Centuries of people quietly going about their daily business - sleeping, eating, having sex, endeavouring to g...

Horse-drawn cabs rattling through the streets, terrified cattle being herded along congested thoroughfares to Smithfield market, pigs squealing and...

Personal and National Destinies in Independent India is an innovative analysis of the interface between individual lives and national history, betw...

The Hebrew Orphan Asylum Band of New York City, 18741941 is at the same time the story of a boys band and a story of New York City. The band was no...

This collective volume provides the reader with an exploration of various artistic works which grew out of the post Celtic Tiger era in Ireland. Th...

This work examines the work of a group of African women writers who have emerged over the last forty years. While figures such as Chinua Achebe, Be...

The Lang Toun of Kirkcaldy has had its fair share of life''s problems. From 1244 to the present day, there have been events which stand out from th...

North of Kirkcaldy, lucky are those - from Levenmouth through the East Neuk to the Tay - who can count East Fife as their Club. It is, by some stan...

When the story of banjo superstar Earl Scruggs is told, the rich musical environment that produced him is often ignored. During his lifetime Scrugg...

SUNDAY TIMES FILM BOOK OF THE YEAR'Uproariously readable ... Levy is a master of the group biography' Sunday Times'Teeming with satisfying gossipy ...

Whether you call them franks, wieners, or red hots, hot dogs are as American as apple pie, but how did these little links become icons of American ...

Brilliant Financial Times Hollis expertly weaves together the human tragedy and high politics behind the explosion of one of the worlds greatest c...

A highly relevant, inclusive collection of voices from the roots of resistance. . . . Empowering words to challenge, confront, and defy.--Kirkus Re...

The Times' Best History Books of 2017Winner of the Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military HistoryWinner of the 2017 Caroline Bancroft History PrizeShort...

From the USA''s Big 4 to Pele''s Beautiful Game, sport is a major player in global cultural relations and commerce. Sport fuels the media, stimula...

It was the decade of daring Expressionist canvases, of brilliant book design, of the Bauhaus total work of art, of pioneering psychology, of drag b...

The Auld Grey Toon is a picture-perfect coastal gem rich in history, learning and culture. Known worldwide as the home of golf, St Andrews boasts i...

Tar Beach. On the Rooftops of Little Italy brings together photographs and memories of life in and around the rooftops of Little Italy, New York. T...

2023 Nebraska Book Award In the Nebraska Sandhills, ranchers on horseback and in pickup trucks share the range with pronghorn antelope, burrowing o...

When the eleven- and twelve-year-olds on the Cannon Street YMCA All-Star team registered for a baseball tournament in Charleston, South Carolina, i...

Disease has plagued human civilisations throughout history, claiming more lives than natural disasters and warfare combined. The Black Death took t...

Many brands, including Boots, Hoover and Kelloggs, were named after their founders whilst others have less obvious origins; for instance, did you k...

There is not a statue of Zachariah Charles Pearson (1821-1891), twice Mayor of Hull, on the land he gifted to the City for its first public park. W...

A wonderful portrait of British upper-class life in the Season of 1939 - the last before the Second World War.The Season of 1939 brought all those ...

Why did the Vikings sail to England? Were they indiscriminate raiders, motivated solely by bloodlust and plunder? One narrative, the stereotypical ...

WINNER OF THE OCM BOCAS PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITINGIn this...

Discover how a global phenomenon began with a small adventure camp in 1907 and grew into a movement of 50 million members that equips young people ...