Social & Cultural History

Reflects on the experience of growing up female in the South, explaining the meaning of the southern heritage, the southern notion of the feminine ...

In 1939 a girl was born in the Aspromonte mountains of Calabria, a beautiful land steeped in history and suffused with tradition but weighed down b...

What was it like to live in Britain during the Second World War? What kind of house did the average family live in? How did people cope with the ev...

In its early days, Victoria was the commercial powerhouse of British Columbiaits largest city and largest market. Nancy Oke and Robert Griffin pres...

With an original approach, this book chronicles every model and lists every chassis number ever produced by Alvis, one of the great British manufac...

'A brilliant and important book ... Five Stars!' Mark Dolan, talkRADIO'An important new book' Daily Express An alternative history of the world tha...

What was life really like in a grammar school in the 1950s and 60s? For those educated at a grammar school during their heyday, this time holds ver...

A fascinating illustrated history of one of the strangest, and cruelest, cultural institutions ever devised. A worldwide best seller, translated in...

A reflection, in chapters, on the lives of members of the author's family, their friends and neighbours who lived in Orleans and Caledonia counties...

Changes in funeral practice provide a lens through which to inspect changes in wider social identity, values and religious beliefs. This book revea...

Power; the power of the gods; the power of Greek cities; the power of the human body: all these were celebrated at the ancient Olympic Games. Ancie...

The socialist tradition in Britain is diverse and multi-layered. Its pattern of development differed markedly across the great industrial centres w...

Over the course of the nineteenth century, some 84,500 Jews in imperial Russia converted to Christianity. Confessions of the Shtetl explores the da...

Touted as the Jerusalem of the Balkans, the Mediterranean port city of Salonica (Thessaloniki) was once home to the largest Sephardic Jewish commun...

The heart of Urbanization in Early and Medieval China consists of translations of three gazetteers written during the Han (206 BCE220 CE), Tang (61...

From the Stone Age to the present day, no technology has had a more profound impact on mankind than watercraft. Boats and ships made possible the s...