Social & Cultural History

The Roaring Twenties, jazz music, Hollywood glamour: the end of the First World War ushered in a golden age for America, with a booming stock marke...

It is at 31.4 years of age that the average woman multiple murderer kills the first of her 17 victims, whom she usually knows or is related to. ...

From the days of sail to the majestic ocean liners of the twentieth century, this is a history of British sea travel from a passengers point of vie...

Travelling showfolk have been entertaining Scots for centuries and a visit to 'the shows' was a highlight of the year until recent memory. The Codo...

An introduction about the Women's Land Army in the First and Second World Wars is followed by reminiscences, recorded recently by the editor, of te...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the groundbreaking backstairs look at the White House, The Residence, comes an intimate, news-maki...

In Indian Voices, Alison Owings takes readers on a fresh journey across America, east to west, north to south, and around again. Owings's most rece...

Nestled in a sub-tropical garden overlooking the River Dart, Greenway has an exceptional and enviable location. It certainly caught the eye of Agat...

This collection of essays explores more than five centuries of Scottish-Polish interactions. It focuses on the two main moments of contact: the ear...

South Carolina has always loomed larger in the national imagination, particularly in terms of political and social policy, than its size and popula...

You could be forgiven for thinking that the smile has no history; it has always been the same. However, just as different cultures in our own day h...

Tolkien's wizard Gandalf, Wagner's Valkyrie Brunnhilde, Marvel's superhero the Mighty Thor and the Vikings heading for Valhalla in Led Zeppelin's '...

The rapid expansion of the field of public history since the 1970s has led many to believe that it is a relatively new profession. In this book, De...