Social & Cultural History

After The Beatles stormed America, every Hollywood and European production company descended on London to be part of the new swinging scene... and ...

Rarely studied in their own right, writings about music are often viewed as merely supplemental to understanding music itself. Yet in the nineteent...

'A history that makes perfect sense when the sky is falling down.' - The Sunday TimesBeneath the psychedelic utopianism of the sixties lay a dark s...

Edward Pugh (1763-1813) was a Ruthin-born, Welsh-speaking artist and writer who produced compelling landscapes images of Denbighshire in particular...

The idea that 'home' is a special place, a separate place, a place where we can be our true selves, is so obvious to us today that we barely pause ...

We are using up the planet at almost double the rate it can regenerate. To support our economies, we're told we must shop now like we've never shop...

Roy L. Brooks reframes one of the most important, controversial, and misunderstood issues of our time in this far-reaching reassessment of the grow...

A sweeping history of the full range of human labor Few authors are able to write cogently in both the scientific and the economic spheres. Even f...

A sweeping history of the full range of human labor Few authors are able to write cogently in both the scientific and the economic spheres. Even f...

Winner of the Caughey Western History PrizeWinner of the Robert G. Athearn AwardWinner of the Lawrence W. Levine AwardWinner of the TCU Texas Book ...

In 1963, the West Indian Marxist C.L.R. James posed the deceptively benign question: What do they know of cricket, who only cricket know? A chal...

This is a book for people who are interested in statues . . . and for people who aren't. It explores those immortalised in marble and bronze - and ...

Opium's Orphans is the first full history of drug prohibition and the war on drugs. A no-holds-barred but balanced account, it shows that drug supp...

THE INSPIRATION FOR THE MAJOR NEW NETFLIX SERIES, HOW TO CHANGE YOUR MIND'It's a trip - engrossing, eye-opening, mind altering' New Statesman'Fasci...

The West feels lost. Brexit, Trump, the coronavirus: we hurtle from one crisis to another, lacking definition, terrified that our best days are beh...

A spirited defense of feminism, arguing that the lack of support for working mothers is less a failure of second-wave feminism than a rejection by ...

The Hardys as farmers and brewers, their workforce and their wider circle were constantly on the move: itinerancy was a way of life. Roads, waterwa...