Social & Cultural History

The product of many years' research by Susan Palmer, archivist to Sir John Soane's Museum, At Home with the Soanes paints a detailed picture of the...

Personal identification is very much a live political issue in Britain and this book looks at why this is the case, and why, paradoxically, the the...

The surprising and counterintuitive origins of America's racial crisis Why did the Founding Fathers fail to include blacks and Indians in their ch...

The General Post Office (GPO) Film Unit sat at the creative epicentre of Britain in the 1930s. It nurtured a vital crop of artistic talent, built a...

Worrying: A Literary and Cultural History suggests a unique approach to the inner life and its ordinary pains. Francis OGorman charts the emergence...

The squares of London are amongst its most famous and best loved features. Berkeley Square, Eaton Square, St James's Square - the names are inextri...

The collection of ideas, values, and beliefs known as the Enlightenment fundamentally altered the ways in which the family was understood. During t...

Jewish life and welfare The development and collapse of the Jewish community is described using the example of its welfare and social activities i...

The 19th century brought a decisive shift towards a modern form of childhood one protected from the hazards and responsibilities of adulthood. F...

Few people living in 1900 could have imagined what life would be like for children and families by the start of the 21st century. The 20th centur...

The Middle Ages (8001400) were a rich and vibrant period in the history of European culture, society, and intellectual thought. Emerging state po...

The period spanning the 15th to the 17th centuries saw an unprecedented interest in childrearing and the family. Renaissance humanist thought val...

Turn on, tune in, drop out, Timothy Leary advised young people in the 1960s. And many did, creating a counterculture built on drugs, rock music, se...

Looking beyond the familiar Little Italys and stereotypes fostered by The Godfather and The Sopranos, Maria Laurino reveals surprising, fascinating...

Cathedrals are awe-inspiring buildings. Most are grand medieval structures, while others appear simple and unpretentious yet all were designed to ...

Tales of Hardship, Love and Happiness in Tate & Lyles East End Factories. The Sugar Girls went straight to No.10 in the Sunday Times Bestseller...

What happened after Africa's biggest country split in two? When South Sudan ran up its flag in July 2011, two new nations came into being. In South...

The half century between statehood in 1896 and the end of World War II in 1945 was a period of transformation and transition for Utah. This book in...

The Real Traviata is the rags-to-riches story of a tragic young woman whose life inspired one of the most famous operas of all time, Verdi's master...

Chinese, one of the oldest active languages, evolved over 5,000 years. As such, it makes for a fascinating case study in the development of lang...