Social & Cultural History

Between 1850 and 1950, at least 115 women were lynched by mobs in the United States. The majority of these women were black. This book examines ...

The fate of Richard III's two nephews, Edward V and Richard of York, who disappeared after his coronation in 1483, has remained controversial ce...

Why do so many Americans practice martial arts? How did kung fu get its own movie genre? What makes mixed martial arts so popular? This book ans...

This singular collection of articles, essays, poems, criticism and personal recollections by a Vietnam veteran documents the author's reflection...

In May 1865, the final month of the Civil War, the U.S. Army arrested and prosecuted a sitting congressman in a military trial in the border sta...

Richmond in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was home to a lively underworld of tricksters, swindlers, confidence men and thieves. The for...

Explore the lives and achievements of more than 85 of the world's most inspirational and influential leaders with this innovative, and boldly graph...

Elizabeth was the first Duchess of Northumberland and established the domestic rules of this dynasty that has ruled for over 700 years. Controlling...

A Sunday Times Book of the Year As featured on the BBC Radio 2 Book Club Dr James Barry: Inspector General of Hospitals, army surgeon, duellist, ...

In this tour de force of original cultural history, Paul Koudounaris takes the reader on an unprecedented international tour of macabre and devotio...

A castle filled with intrigue, a plotting duchess and a mysterious death in Catherine Bailey's The Secret Rooms. At 6 am on 21 April 1940 John the ...

Chicago's beautiful Reliance Building, sixteen storeys tall, was designed in 1890 by John Root and completed in 1895 by Charles B. Atwood. In its c...

Over the twentieth century Scots' lives changed in fast, dramatic and culturally significant ways. By examining their bodies, homes, working lives,...

Secret Shepperton explores the history of the town from its early origins as an Iron Age settlement nestling on the banks of the River Thames. Its ...

What springs to mind when you think of British Victorian men and women?-manners, manners and more manners. Behaviour that was as rigid and constric...

Fully revised, updated, and extended, the fifth edition of Hollywoods America provides an important compilation of interpretive essays and primary ...

This book, designed to give a survey history of American labor from colonial times to the present, is uniquely well suited to speak to the concerns...

In At Home, Bill Bryson applies the same irrepressible curiosity, irresistible wit, stylish prose and masterful storytelling that made A Short Hist...

From the author of Wartime comes an outstanding history of the most sustained onslaught ever endured by Britain's civilian population the Blitz. ...

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...