Social & Cultural History

One way or another the Romans spent quite a lot of time in bed, in between conquering and civilising the known world. The men were intent on demons...

Well known in his time though now forgotten, Joseph Brown is a quintessential representative of mid-19th Century Midwestern economic and political ...

In a society seemingly so obsessed with food the preparing, eating, sharing and sheer enjoyment of what and how we all eat the humble kitchen ute...

Sophy Ridge, presenter for Sky News, has uncovered the extraordinary stories of the women who have shaped British politics. Never has the role of w...

WINNER OF THE FRANCO-BRITISH SOCIETY BOOK PRIZE 2016June, 1940. German troops enter Paris and hoist the swastika over the Arc de Triomphe. The dark...

In 1987, Nike released their new sixty-second commercial for Air shoesand changed the face of the advertising industry. Set to the song Revolution ...

Internationalist socialism and ethnic nationalism are usually thought of as polar opposites. But for the millions of men and women who made Social ...

All nations and peoples have a body of legendary tales and semi-historical episodes which explain who they are and help to define their place in th...

Life in wartime London evokes images of the Blitz, of air-raid shelters and rationing, of billeted soldiers and evacuated children. These are famil...

Escorting the Monarch is as close to an official history of the Metropolitan Police's 'Special Escort Group' (SEG) as one could hope for. You may ...

A delicious taste of the secret, exciting and often dangerous history of illicit spirits; Britain has always been a nation of enthusiastic drinkers...

Longford Castle is a fine Elizabethan country house, home to a world-class collection of art built up in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by...

'Brilliant, hilarious... My book of the year' INDIA KNIGHT'A wonderful book' CRAIG BROWN, Mail on Sunday'Funny, bloodcurdling and moving' Daily Ma...

In Metis Pioneers, Doris Jeanne MacKinnon compares the survival strategies of two Metis women born during the fur tradeone from the French-speaking...

On a cold, rainy dawn in late November 1872, Lieutenant Frazier Boutelle and a Modoc Indian nicknamed Scarface Charley leveled firearms at each oth...

The archive has assumed a new significance in the history of sex, and this book visits a series of such archives, including the Kinsey Institutes e...

From the early nineteenth century through to the 1960s, the Greeks formed the largest, most economically powerful, and geographically and socially ...