Social & Cultural History

This is the tale of a devastating pandemic, of lives cut painfully short its also a love story. Derek, a distinguished designer, and J, a pionee...

The Cambridge History of Communism is an unprecedented global history of communism in the twentieth century. With contributions from a team of lead...

With its vibrant cities and breathtaking landscapes, Scotland has captivated writers and visitors for centuries and inspired a diverse range of lit...

In Homo Ludens, Johan Huizinga defines play as the central activity in flourishing societies. He identifies five characteristics of play: it is fre...

A witty, inspiring reckoning with the ancient Greek and Roman myths and their legacy, from what they can illuminate about #MeToo to the radical ima...

Sarah Merker brings you 50 scone recipes from the National Trust. History is best enjoyed with a scone, as everyone whos visited a National Trust ...

''Fizzes with clever vignettes and juicy tidbits... [a] joyous romp of a book.'' Guardian''A fascinating, rollicking book in search of why, where a...

'A marvel of storytelling and a masterclass in the history of the book' WALL STREET JOURNALThe Renaissance in Florence conjures images of beautiful...

What did your face look like before your parents were born? Who are you? What is your true self? These are the questions in Ruth Ozeki's mind as sh...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Silicon Valley needed a history lesson and Ferguson has provided it' Eric SchmidtMost history is about the people at...

Long before it became an Italian offshore island, Sicily was the land in the centre of the Mediterranean where the great civilizations of Europe an...

Vanity Fair 100 Years showcases a century of personality and power, art and commerce, crisis and cultureboth highbrow and low. In the sumptuous 384...

A lavishly illustrated guide to the history of design, this book showcases more than 100 of the most groundbreaking and important design classics e...

Ranging from studies on Sufism and the Koran to discussion of nineteenth and twentieth-century Arabic literature, these essays on the law and liter...

''Dame Anna Wintour might be one of the best-known and most successful journalists on the planet. But it wasn''t always like that. When she started...

Acclaimed by the Daily Mail as 'definitive and harrowing', this is the final volume of The Peoples Trilogy', begun by the Samuel Johnson prize-winn...