Social & Cultural History

On 23 February 1820 a group of radicals were arrested in Cato Street off the Edgware Road in London. They were within sixty minutes of setting out ...

This book is about the impact of decolonisation on British civic society in the 1960s. It shows how participants in middle class associational life...

Novelty fair examines mid-nineteenth-century people, things and places generally understood to be discrete and unrelated: urban fairs and the Great...

In Part 1 Keane gives a brief introduction to the period and outlines the most important events that took place during the course of the fight agai...

The era of the German Occupation of France constituted, surprisingly, a golden age for the arts: literature, theater, popular music and cinema. The...

This is a fascinating look at the origins of the iconic cheongsam dress, and its social and cultural importance in Singapore. Spanning almost a cen...

This is a comprehensive history of the world's midwinter gift-givers, showcasing the extreme diversity in their depictions as well as the many t...

Portugal is an established member of the European Union, one of the founders of the euro currency and a founder member of NATO. Yet it is an incons...

This book tells the story of the Scottish golf professionals who came to America in 1888 and struggled to earn a living and the respect of the w...

The Peak District was Britain's first National Park and the 'breathing space' for people in the great cities of the industrial north. Prehistoric m...

This is the first volume to present a comprehensive collection of sources on Chinese women's history. The anthology explores overt and covert infor...

Ulrich Bonnell Phillips (18771934) established a reputation as one of the early twentieth century's foremost authorities on the history of African ...

The Royal Canadian Navy crews that sailed the Atlantic during the early Cold War held a contemptuous view of their West Coast brethren, likening th...

Among the more intriguing documentary sources from late medieval Europe are pardon letterspetitions sent by those condemned for serious crimes to m...

Labor and Love in Guatemala re-envisions the histories of labor and ethnic formation in Spanish America. Taking cues from gender studies and the ne...

Major League Baseball was in crisis in 1968. The commissioner was inept, professional football was challenging the sport's popularity and the ga...

Based on a vast amount of archival research, Adrienne Macki Braconis illuminating study of three important community-based theaters in Harlem shows...

Handel called Britain 'The Ringing Isle' because he heard bells ringing everywhere he went. Behind the quintessentially English sound of bells ring...