Social & Cultural History

The pursuit of authenticity is a contemporary obsession. From hipster fixations on artisan coffee and vintage clothing through to the electoral suc...

This volume concerns judges, judgment and judgmentalism. It studies the Victorians as judges across a range of important fields, including the lega...

Italian immigration from 1945 to the present is an American phenomenon too little explored in our historical studies. Until now. In this new collec...

This is a new edition of English Heritages widely acclaimed study of that great British institution, the public house. First published in 2004, thi...

This publication aims to increase levels of understanding, raise awareness, and heighten levels of protection afforded to inter-war pubs. The proje...

Fifty Key Theatre Designers looks at the history of theatrical scenography by examining the work and contributions of fifty ground-breaking set, co...

For the Victorian working class, lodging in someone elses home was commonplace. Yet, despite their prevalence, lodgers and their householders have ...

In A Sense of Arrival, Kevin Adonis Browne blends literary, visual, and material forms to present a narrative of Caribbean blackness. Arguing that ...

In A Sense of Arrival, Kevin Adonis Browne blends literary, visual, and material forms to present a narrative of Caribbean blackness. Arguing that ...

This groundbreaking resource moves us from theory to action with a practical plan for reparations.   A surge in interest in black reparations is ta...

Rise celebrates the inspirational stories of 100 remarkable women of colour. From the entrepreneur with a homemade marmalade business who went on t...

A daughter of freed African American slaves, Daisy Turner became a living repository of history. The family narrative entrusted to her--a well-poli...

In Reckoning with Slavery Jennifer L. Morgan draws on the lived experiences of enslaved African women in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to...