Social & Cultural History

The humble and colourful beach hut can be seen up and down Britains coastline. Now something of an architectural icon, the beach hut seems as thoug...

This book examines the intersection of urban society and modern politics among Jews in turn of the century Warsaw, Europe's largest Jewish center a...

The source of tremendous power and the focus of incredible devotion, throughout history notions of beauty have been integral to social life and cul...

Part biography, part cultural history, The Creation of Anne Boleyn is a fascinating reconstruction of Annes life and an illuminating look at her af...

`Blowing Down The Road documents one persons lifelong ambition to experience the sights, sounds, music, politics and people of Americas Deep South ...

A century after the Industrial Revolution began, some Victorians finally began to confront the problems industrialisation and urbanisation had wrou...

Ever since the children of penniless immigrants caught the train from Whitechapel to White Hart Lane - to be greeted with the refrain: 'Does Your R...

The appearance of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus and the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) in the early 1980s and its subsequent rap...

First impressions of the political landscape in South Dakota tend towards an assumption of hard-line conservatism, and yet such a conclusion barely...

A fascinating, enchanting and painfully personal look at the meaning of luck, and the way in which it has shaped our shared history a...

For four years in the early 1900s, the Fairmount Park Motor Races were run on an eight-mile course in Philadelphia's West Fairmount Park. They d...

The Beatles' North American tours turned the entertainment business on its ear and forever changed the landscape of the concert touring industry. I...

Bolivia is known worldwide for the mineral wealth it produces. It is also renowned for being historically a complex multicultural and multiethnic s...

Discover the rarified Peranakan (native-born Chinese of Southeast Asia) aesthetics that are today highly sought-after for their beauty: distinctive...

Gardening is one of the most popular leisure activities today and most people take it for granted that suitable plants, equipment and information a...

Author, collector, and historian Alice Morse Earle (1851-1911) was among the most important and prolific writers of her day. Between 1890 and 1904,...

From ceramic cockatoos and hand-painted china to splendid silverware and historic paintings, Collecting for the Nation illustrates a broad sweep of...

In stark and compelling prose, Thomas W. Jones tells his story as a campus revolutionary who led an armed revolt at Cornell University in 1969 and ...

Is mathematics a discovery or an invention? Do numbers truly exist? What sort of reality do formulas describe?The complexity of mathematics - its a...