Social & Cultural History

The long twelfth century1050 to 1215embraces one of the transformative moments in European history: the point, for some, at which Europe first trul...

Sven T Kjellberg, Director of Goteborgs Historiska Museum (now called the Goteborgs Stadsmuseum), and his assistant Olof Hasslof travelled through ...

On the eve of the war against the South Vietnamese regime in 1964, the communist party strove to carve out a new productivist and political elite f...

Co-published with the European Ethnological Research Centre in the Flashbacks series. Andrew Ramage was the son of a farm servant and he himself wo...

To Victorian visitors, Ireland was a world of extremes Luxurious country houses to one-room mud cabins (in 1841 40% of Irish housing was the latte...

The Centenary Classics series examines the fascinating time of change and evolution in the Ireland of 100 years ago during the 1916-23 revolutionar...

Learn what went on behind closed doors in the Tudor court. Illegitimate children, adulterous queens, impotent kings, and a whole dynasty resting on...

'One of the saddest and yet most thrilling sights to me was to see parties of those young fellows who had just volunteered being marched from the r...

Have you ever wondered what life was like for the ordinary housewife in the Middle Ages? Or how much power a medieval lady really had? Find out all...

Warrior, prince, lover and rogue: there is much to be said for the Essex man. Henry VIII, Daniel Defoe and Wat Tyler are all covered along with ma...

Edinburgh has a unique history, darker and more unexpected than you might imagine. Fortunately, it also has a set of graveyards to match. Ancient, ...

Farquhar, Crawford, Cavenagh, Thomson, Anderson, Napier, Fullerton, Henderson, MacRitchie, MacPherson, Outram, Purvis, Spottiswoode. These are some...

Many people take for granted their annual two weeks in the sun or weekend away in a buzzing city, but how did it all happen? How did we fall in lov...

Throughout the six years of conflict which began on 3 September 1939, military manoeuvres, bombs and calls for dedication to the war effort became ...

Our capital city has always been a thriving and colourful place, full of diverse and determined individuals developing trade and finance, exchangin...

In this volume of abridged diary text Mary Hardy has moved to Letheringsett, near the Norfolk market town of Holt. Her husband William is now a fre...

This third volume covers the middle years at Letheringsett, in barley country. The diarist's husband takes on a brewery apprentice, her nephew Henr...

The final volume of abridged text covers the later years at Letheringsett, near the small port of Blakeney. The diarist's son William becomes lord ...

This book contains the rest of the diary text (162,000 words) not contained in the four volumes The Diary of Mary Hardy, also published 30 April 20...

This 25-year project to publish a little-known diarist throws new light on 18th-century country life and work. Until now only brief extracts had ap...

The product of many years' research by Susan Palmer, archivist to Sir John Soane's Museum, At Home with the Soanes paints a detailed picture of the...

Personal identification is very much a live political issue in Britain and this book looks at why this is the case, and why, paradoxically, the the...

The surprising and counterintuitive origins of America's racial crisis Why did the Founding Fathers fail to include blacks and Indians in their ch...

The General Post Office (GPO) Film Unit sat at the creative epicentre of Britain in the 1930s. It nurtured a vital crop of artistic talent, built a...

Worrying: A Literary and Cultural History suggests a unique approach to the inner life and its ordinary pains. Francis OGorman charts the emergence...

The squares of London are amongst its most famous and best loved features. Berkeley Square, Eaton Square, St James's Square - the names are inextri...

The collection of ideas, values, and beliefs known as the Enlightenment fundamentally altered the ways in which the family was understood. During t...

Jewish life and welfare The development and collapse of the Jewish community is described using the example of its welfare and social activities i...

The 19th century brought a decisive shift towards a modern form of childhood one protected from the hazards and responsibilities of adulthood. F...