Social & Cultural History

Israel relies for its survival on its lucrative arms trade and American military support. Meanwhile, the Palestinians suffer poverty and destitutio...

From a manuscript that was lost for more than half a century comes new information about one of the greatest Jewish communities of all time. The co...

Londons sewers could be called the citys forgotten underground: mostly unseen subterranean spaces that are of absolutely vital importance, the capi...

This atlas consists of around ninety articles from over fifty contributors covering a wide range of topics that are central to the cultural and nat...

The term smuggling conjures up images of a sailor in long boots and a striped jersey, rolling barrels of brandy up a moonlit Cornish beach and into...

The History of the Royal Horticultural Society and its distinguished accomplishments in the fields of horticulture and gardening are already well d...

Sport is big business; international in nature and the focus of much media and cultural attention. In this Very Short Introduction, Mike Cronin cha...

Explore Britain's dark criminal history through the fascinating objects that have been hidden away in the Crime Museum at Scotland Yard, a collecti...

'Lively and engaging' Financial Times'Empathetic and deeply humanising' Peter Pomerantsev, author of This is Not PropagandaEach time Ukraine has re...

TRAVEL BACK IN TIME WITH THE BBC'S RUTH GOODMANWe know all about the dramas that played out in the Tudor court - most notably those of Henry VIII -...

The Camphill Movement is a worldwide network of homes and villages for children and adults with special needs. Inspired by the vision of its founde...

Did you know... In one of the last executions in Norwich Castle Gaol in 1885 an event so horrible occurred that a shadow was cast on the nations Pu...

During the Second World War over 1.5 million of women found themselves thrust into a male working world, having to learn new skills within a matter...

Having expelled the Norse invaders from his kingdom, Alfred the Great wanted to ensure that it remained peaceful and law-abiding. He therefore appo...

For millennia, mankind has devised ingenious and diabolical means of inflicting pain on fellow human beings. This deplorable but seemingly universa...

There have been many books about the Vikings, but few that see them from their own point of view. Most accounts rely heavily on the records of prej...

This is a pioneering study of 18th century Scottish urbanism: dynamic but different. This heavily illustrated and innovative study is founded upon ...

Erik Desmazières is acknowledged as a contemporary master of the art of etching. With breathtaking virtuosity, he recreates interiors, cityscapes, ...

Winner: Best Trade Illustrated Book, British Book Design & Production Awards 2017 As to the arsenic scare a greater folly it is hardly possible...

First English translation of this 19th century novel tracing the relationship between traditional Greenlandic life and the interaction with the cul...