Social & Cultural History

First full-length critical study of humour in medievalism. The role of laughter and humour in the postmedieval citation, interpretation or recreat...

This collection of essays focuses attention on how medieval gender intersects with other categories of difference, particularly religion and ethnic...

A fresh approach to the implications of obtaining, preparing, and consuming food, concentrating on the little-investigated routines of everyday lif...

The third and final book in the bestselling CALL THE MIDWIFE series, the basis of the major BBC TV series.This final book in Jennifer Worth's memor...

A landmark account of a key radical feminist organization, offering lessons for todays womens liberation movement.Activist members of the radical f...

'An absolutely riveting book - reading it makes you intelligent, full of brilliant anecdotes - and very hungry indeed.' - Richard Curtis 'This bril...

Exploring the ways in which the GDR has been remembered since its demise in 1989/90, this volume asks how memory of the former state continues to s...

Itinerarium ad Windsor concerns a central question of the Elizabethan era: Why should a woman be allowed to rule with the same powers as a king? Th...

A unique chronicle of the hundred-year period when the Jewish people changed the world and it changed them Marx, Freud, Proust, Einstein, Bernhar...