Social & Cultural History

In 1842 the mayor lamented, There is more debauchery in Lincoln than in any other town of its size in the kingdom. Lincoln Races was a magnet for v...

Rising from the ashes of the First World War, the Womens Institute went on to become one of the most important movements for women in the twentieth...

The UK has produced some of the most original, exciting and influential bands in the world and most of them have cut their teeth in one of the myri...

Visiting Martin Luther King Jr. during the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott, journalist William Worthy almost sat on a loaded pistol. Just for self...

British Comics is a unique cultural history of British comic papers and magazines, from their origins in the late nineteenth century to the present...

The collision of the Princess Alice pleasure steamer with the Tyne collier, Bywell Castle, in the Thames in September 1878 resulted in Britain's wo...

In August 1941 Winston Churchill (1874-1965) and President Roosevelt (1882-1945) met secretly on HMS Prince of Wales, moored just off the coast of ...

What did Charles Dickens savour in punch, Thomas Jefferson eat in omelettes, Queen Victoria sip in navy grog, and the Kamehameha Kings of Hawaii dr...

Some of the finest speeches ever made have been spoken in Ireland. This book highlights 45 eminent and influential speeches, from Robert Emmet's de...

Gustave Flaubert called the Loire the most French of French rivers. It is the longest river in France and the most varied in scenery and moods. Mar...

This play re-enacts the 1917 trial and imprisonment of Alice Wheeldon, the renowned suffragist, for her alleged role in plotting to assassinate the...

A panoramic picture of international politics and the formation of the modern StateThe opposition to the omnipotence of the State as symbolised by...

With a foreword by Iain Sinclair. London is an ancient city, whose foundation dates back literally thousands of years into the legendary prehistory...

John Clare (1793-1864) was born at a time of great social upheaval, just months after the beheading of Louis XVI and the outbreak of war with Franc...

The gods and goddesses of ancient Egypt, worshipped for over half of recorded history, are among the most fascinating and complex of any civilizati...

What can homespun cloth, stuffed birds, quince jelly, and ginseng reveal about the formation of early American national identity? In this wide-rang...