Social & Cultural History

This volume of Who Was Who contains entries for people in Who's Who who died between 1941 and 1950. It has over 10,000 entries covering deaths duri...

Built in 1913 for a local politician and engineer and beautifully situated on the shore of Lake Zurich, this handsome villa today is home to the Ja...

and they laid all waste with dreadful havoc, trod with unhallowed feet the holy places, dug up the altars, and carried off all the treasures of the...

ONE WOMAN, THE SECRETS OF A SMALL TOWN, AND A QUEST FOR JUSTICE THAT ROCKED A NATION. Catherine Corless could not have known where her interest in ...

The Tudor period has long gripped our imaginations. Because we have consumed so many costume dramas on TV and film, read so many histories, factual...

Life began about four billion years ago on our planet. Like an old patchwork quilt, evolution stitched the human being together from parts of an...

Over 400,000 people moved their families in search of a better life in the American West during the Westward Expansion. The pioneers made room f...

Beautiful and poignant' The Art Newspaper Absorbing... a magnificent book' Mail on Sunday The first illustrated book on mudlarking that tells ...

Gordon's survey of the topic makes it clear that slavery in the Americas can be understood much better if we put it in this larger context, in term...

Gordon's survey of the topic makes it clear that slavery in the Americas can be understood much better if we put it in this larger context, in term...

While Jackie Robinson''s 1947 season with the Brooklyn Dodgers made him the first African American to play in the Major Leagues in the modern era, ...

**Shortlisted for the 2018 General Outstanding Sports Book of the Year**One of the founder members in 1895 of what became the Rugby League, Batley ...

As Scotlands fourth largest city, Dundee has long been known for its Three Js of jute, jam and journalism. Now a thriving university city, Dundee i...

Extraordinary national acclaim accompanied the publication of award-winning historian Linda Gordons disturbing and markedly timely history of the r...

Queen Victoria, who also bore the title of Empress of India, had a real and abiding interest in the British Empire, but other European monarchs als...

The human head is exceptional. It accommodates four of our five senses, encases the brain, and boasts the most expressive set of muscles in the bod...

In 1871, five young girls were sent by the Japanese government to the United States. Their mission: learn Western ways and return to help nurture a...

Charles II''s reign was a period of revolutionary experimentation: in science, art and sexual etiquette. For the first time in British history, Roy...

A major new history of how democracy became the dominant political force in Europe in the second half of the twentieth centuryWhat happened in the ...