Social & Cultural History

This volume of Who Was Who contains entries for people in Who's Who who died between 1941 and 1950. It has over 10,000 entries covering deaths duri...

Built in 1913 for a local politician and engineer and beautifully situated on the shore of Lake Zurich, this handsome villa today is home to the Ja...

and they laid all waste with dreadful havoc, trod with unhallowed feet the holy places, dug up the altars, and carried off all the treasures of the...

ONE WOMAN, THE SECRETS OF A SMALL TOWN, AND A QUEST FOR JUSTICE THAT ROCKED A NATION. Catherine Corless could not have known where her interest in ...

The Tudor period has long gripped our imaginations. Because we have consumed so many costume dramas on TV and film, read so many histories, factual...

Life began about four billion years ago on our planet. Like an old patchwork quilt, evolution stitched the human being together from parts of an...

Over 400,000 people moved their families in search of a better life in the American West during the Westward Expansion. The pioneers made room f...

Beautiful and poignant' The Art Newspaper Absorbing... a magnificent book' Mail on Sunday The first illustrated book on mudlarking that tells ...

Gordon's survey of the topic makes it clear that slavery in the Americas can be understood much better if we put it in this larger context, in term...

Gordon's survey of the topic makes it clear that slavery in the Americas can be understood much better if we put it in this larger context, in term...

While Jackie Robinson''s 1947 season with the Brooklyn Dodgers made him the first African American to play in the Major Leagues in the modern era, ...

**Shortlisted for the 2018 General Outstanding Sports Book of the Year**One of the founder members in 1895 of what became the Rugby League, Batley ...

As Scotlands fourth largest city, Dundee has long been known for its Three Js of jute, jam and journalism. Now a thriving university city, Dundee i...

Extraordinary national acclaim accompanied the publication of award-winning historian Linda Gordons disturbing and markedly timely history of the r...

Queen Victoria, who also bore the title of Empress of India, had a real and abiding interest in the British Empire, but other European monarchs als...

The human head is exceptional. It accommodates four of our five senses, encases the brain, and boasts the most expressive set of muscles in the bod...

In 1871, five young girls were sent by the Japanese government to the United States. Their mission: learn Western ways and return to help nurture a...

Charles II''s reign was a period of revolutionary experimentation: in science, art and sexual etiquette. For the first time in British history, Roy...

A major new history of how democracy became the dominant political force in Europe in the second half of the twentieth centuryWhat happened in the ...

The violent conquest of the eastern part of the lands under Muslim rule by the Mongols marked a new period in the history of Islamic civilisation a...

The perfect accompaniment to the collection of fourteen warship figureheads displayed in the atrium of The Box at Plymouth, this book introduces ea...

During the First World War three quarters of a million British people died a figure so huge that it feels impossible to give it a human context. C...

In 1711, in County Antrim, Ireland, eight women were put on trial accused of bewitching and demonically possessing young Mary Dunbar, amid an attac...

Founded in New York City in 1870, The Lotos Club is one of the oldest literary and arts clubs in the United States. Lotos became known for its trad...

For much of human history, the motive force behind war, conquest, social conflict and world exploration has been the drive to acquire gold. From th...

The age of steam was the age of Britains global maritime dominance, the age of enormous ocean liners and human mastery over the seas. The world see...

Considering a wide range of early modern texts, performances and artworks, the essays in this collection demonstrate how attention to the senses il...

With the outbreak of World War I, German-born Kitty Marion, suspected of being a German spy and placed under surveillance, sailed from Liverpool fo...

The nineteenth-century Hispanic world was shattered to its core by war, civil war, and revolution. At the same time, it confronted a new period of ...

Photography and memory in Mexico traces the life stories of some of the famous photographic images made during the 1910 revolution, which have been...

2012 marks the 225th anniversary of the sailing of the eleven vessels of the First Fleet from England, bound for Australia. From the arrival of the...

Only once in history has a British Prime Minister been assassinated. At 5.00 p.m. on Monday, 11 May 1812, John Bellingham made his way to the House...

Irrigation, Timber, and Hydropower is the story of the Flathead Irrigation Project and the Flathead Lake Dam, two early twentieth-century enterpris...

You see it everywhere: on bumper stickers, tee shirts, lapel pins, in shop windows, and in front of nearly every school or government building. Yet...

The most acute, informed, and up-to-date account available today of Ukraine and its people, now in its fourth edition. An interesting and provoc...

Few countries can claim to have endured such a difficult and tortuous history as that of Iraq. Its varied peoples have had to contend with external...

When France both hosted and won the World Cup in 1998, the face of its star player, Zinedine Zidane, the son of Algerian immigrants, was projected ...