Social & Cultural History

Lying at the very edge of the eighteenth-century city, behind high walls and forbidding gates, the Dublin Foundling Hospital was long viewed with h...

A dance was devised in eighteenth-century Skye. An exhilarating dance. A dance, a visitor reports, the emigration from Skye has occasioned. The vis...

The Reign of Terror continues to fascinate scholars as one of the bloodiest periods in French history, when the Committee of Public Safety strove t...

In a period of meaningless mass manufacturing, our growing appetite for hand-made objects, artisan food, and craft beverages reveals our deep cravi...

A unique and thrilling insight into the brilliant mind of Anne Lister Sally Wainwright, creator of Gentleman JackFemale Fortune is the book which i...

'It is a story full of drama, with the Nile, the pyramids and the Valley of the Kings as backdrop. That A World Beneath the Sands is also a subtle ...

From the Archaic to the Roman imperial period, an impressive number of gods and goddesses are attested in the Greek world under the titles of Soter...

This groundbreaking collection explores the convergence of the spatial and digital turns through a suite of smartphone apps (Hidden Cities) that pr...

In the 1950s and 1960s, movie theatres across Thailand were important architectural statements and centres of social and cultural life. At a time w...

''[A] comprehensive and important history of black Britain . . . Written with a wonderful clarity of style and with great force and passion.'' Kwas...

In Victorian London, the age of consent was just thirteen. Unwitting girls were regularly enticed, tricked and sold into prostitution. If not marke...

Transporting the reader to the heart-wrenching times of World War II, Some Sunny Day is an evocative memoir of love and courage in war-torn Asia by...

Por fin disponible en español, Ilegal es el aclamado libro de memorias de José Ángel N., un inmigrante indocumentado que se construyó una vida nuev...

When Charles Lindbergh landed at LeBourget Airfield on May 21, 1927, his transatlantic flight symbolized the new era-not only in aviation but also ...

The American South is a distinctive place with a dramatic history, and has significance beyond its regional context in the twenty first century. Th...

Among the most significant subcultures in modern U.S. history, the hippies had a far-reaching impact. Their influence essentially defined the 19...

The fascinating history of a much-loved Canberra landmark.Joan Sutherlands debut, the notorious Petrov Commission, a rumoured ghost and rowdy publi...

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Violence is part and parcel of human history and of human nature. It is one of our most dis...

Edition of young men's magazines from just before the First World War, presenting a vivid and touching picture of life at the time. The Angels' Vo...

*Now a major movie starring Seth Rogen, Paul Dano, Pete Davidson, Shailene Woodley, Sebastian Stan and Nick Offerman* ...

How has feminism developed? What have feminists achieved? What can we learn from the global history of feminism?Feminism is the ongoing story of a ...

'Blistering' Sunday Times'Indispensable' Observer'Fascinating' The Times'Brilliant' Peter Frankopan'Revelatory' Lindsey HilsumA timely and unpreced...

Poet, artist, visionary and author of the unofficial English national anthem ''Jerusalem'', William Blake is an archetypal misunderstood genius. Hi...

In his day, Jack Johnson - born in Texas, the son of former slaves - was the most famous black man on the planet. As the first African American Wor...

The United States currently has the largest prison population on the planet. Over the last four decades, structural unemployment, concentrated urba...

A global history of free speech, from the ancient world to today.Hailed as the first freedom, free speech is the bedrock of democracy. But it is a ...

Preserving the legacy of one of the twentieth century''s most influential advocates for peace and justice, The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., i...

This absorbing book explores all aspects of life in that feared institution, the workhouse. From the staff who lived and worked there to the poor s...

100 artworks have been chosen for this beautifully illustrated book to represent each year from 1916-2015. They trace the story of Irelands creativ...

The relationship between nation and queer sexuality has long been a fraught one, for the sustaining myths of the former are often at odds with the ...

The publication of 'An Introduction to Scottish Ethnology' sees the completion of the fourteen-volume Scottish Life and Society series, originally ...

The publication of ''''An Introduction to Scottish Ethnology'''' sees the completion of the fourteen-volume Scottish Life and Society series, origi...

Notions of engagement, commitment and impegno continue to provoke debate amongst academics researching contemporary Italian culture, and yet - be i...

The years 18301914 witnessed a revolution in the manufacture and use of books as great as that in the fifteenth century. Using new technology in pr...

This is a travel book in the grand sense. The horizons it explores are of land and sea, and of the mind. Greek Pilgrimage is a meditation on classi...

'Captivating ... a brilliant many-layered social history of women's ambition and a rapidly changing New York' Observer'Fascinating' Daily Mail'A tr...

Peek beneath the bedsheets of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain in this affectionate, informative and fascinating look at sex and se...