Social & Cultural History

The relationship between nation and queer sexuality has long been a fraught one, for the sustaining myths of the former are often at odds with the ...

The publication of 'An Introduction to Scottish Ethnology' sees the completion of the fourteen-volume Scottish Life and Society series, originally ...

The publication of ''''An Introduction to Scottish Ethnology'''' sees the completion of the fourteen-volume Scottish Life and Society series, origi...

Notions of engagement, commitment and impegno continue to provoke debate amongst academics researching contemporary Italian culture, and yet - be i...

The years 18301914 witnessed a revolution in the manufacture and use of books as great as that in the fifteenth century. Using new technology in pr...

This is a travel book in the grand sense. The horizons it explores are of land and sea, and of the mind. Greek Pilgrimage is a meditation on classi...

'Captivating ... a brilliant many-layered social history of women's ambition and a rapidly changing New York' Observer'Fascinating' Daily Mail'A tr...

Peek beneath the bedsheets of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain in this affectionate, informative and fascinating look at sex and se...

Following on from Hidden Aberdeenshire: The Coast, this new volume moves inland to tell the stories of the countryside, from the fertile farmland o...

From the author of the definitive history of bourbon (Sacramento Bee) comes the epic true tale of how beer conquered America, from B.C. to Budweise...

The Fatimids ruled much of the Mediterranean world for over two centuries. From the conquest of Qayrawan in 909 to defeat at the hands of Saladin i...

Some particular books I found useful for A Game of Thrones and its sequels deserve mention...Life in a Medieval Castle and Life in a Medieval City,...

At midnight on 5th July 1948, the National Health Service was born with the founding principal to be free at the point of use and based on clinical...

A History of the Royal Hospital Chelsea looks at the hospital's beginnings, with its Royal patronage and heritage which dates back to King Charles ...

The formal gardens of Elizabethan England were among the glories of their age. Complementing the great houses of the day, they reflected the aspira...

Discover the recipes for Mrs Rooke's Very Good Plum Cake and Lady Harbord's Marigold Cheese. Learn how to preserve gooseberries as green as they g...

Following an assassination attempt on George III in 1800, new legislation significantly altered the way the criminally insane were treated by the j...