Social & Cultural History

On the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1963, Martin Luther King outlined a dream of an America where people would not be judged by the color of th...

The success of the Durham Coalfield and its important role in the Industrial Revolution is attributed to men of influence who owned the land and th...

'History at its most celebratory' Daily Telegraph'Adie uses her journalistic eye for personal stories and natural compassion to create a book defin...

The Gilded Stage is a comprehensive tour of the world of opera. From its origins in the courts of northern Italy, to its internationally recognise...

Cutting-edge and sometimes controversial, the stunning art of Paul Goble (b. 1933) evokes many emotions. Known internationally for his award-winnin...

Helena Gleichen, Queen Victoria's great-niece and cousin to George V, gives the lie to the belief that Victorian women were meek, submissive and le...

Toysa celebrated part of childhood and key figures in childrens imaginative playhave a fantastic history of heroism in print and on film. From the ...

On August 16, 1920, Yankees pitcher Carl Mays threw a fastball that struck Cleveland Indians shortstop Ray Chapman in the head. Chapman died the ne...

Uncovering a history buried by different nationalist narratives (Jewish, Israeli, Arab and Palestinian) this book looks at how the late Ottoman era...

Fresh insights into the development of the tournament as an opportunity for social display. The period from the thirteenth to the sixteenth centur...

Surveying the transformation of San Francisco in the early millenium by Silicon Valley, critically acclaimed writer Rebecca Solnit and photographer...

Why is the Horn such a distinctive part of Africa? This book, by one of the foremost scholars of the region, traces this question through its excep...

Headline Britons paints a unique picture of British life in the 20th and 21st centuries by re-examining some of the country's most notable characte...

Culture from the Slums explores the history of punk rock in East and West Germany during the 1970s and 1980s. These decades witnessed an explosion ...

This is an extraordinary and little-known story of emigration fromScotland. Caithness and Patagonia are literally a world apart, yet in the late19t...

As any reader of the Symposium knows, the ancient Greek philosopher Socrates conversed over lavish banquets, kept watch on who was eating too much ...

'A shocking tale of heroes and villains. Sir Ian McKellen In 1918, the Imperialist newspaper made a startling claim. The German Secret Service had...