Social & Cultural History

Everyday life in the teeming metropolis during William Shakespeare's time in the city. Shakespeare's London was a bustling, teeming metropolis that...

'Thoroughly researched and written with such calm authority, yet makes you want to scream with righteous indignation' John O'Farrell We can expect...

'An exemplary narrative history, with the archives plundered judiciously [Kynaston's] portrait of a globally influential institution is, in charac...

Beginning with an atmospheric account of Tyburn, we are set up for a grisly excursion through London as a city of ne'er do wells, taking in beheadi...

The Greeks and Romans were not shy about sex. Drinking cups, oil-lamps and walls were decorated with scenes of seduction and sexual intercourse whi...

Black politics are key to recognizing the most important social dynamics of the United States. Over the past forty years, no commentator has been a...

Being a housewife in the 1950s was quite a different experience to today. After the independence of the wartime years, women had to leave their job...

Lagos is one of the fastest growing cities in the world, expected in some projections to have a population of 25 million by 2025. This will make it...