Social & Cultural History

From the author of the definitive history of bourbon (Sacramento Bee) comes the epic true tale of how beer conquered America, from B.C. to Budweise...

The Fatimids ruled much of the Mediterranean world for over two centuries. From the conquest of Qayrawan in 909 to defeat at the hands of Saladin i...

Some particular books I found useful for A Game of Thrones and its sequels deserve mention...Life in a Medieval Castle and Life in a Medieval City,...

At midnight on 5th July 1948, the National Health Service was born with the founding principal to be free at the point of use and based on clinical...

A History of the Royal Hospital Chelsea looks at the hospital's beginnings, with its Royal patronage and heritage which dates back to King Charles ...

The formal gardens of Elizabethan England were among the glories of their age. Complementing the great houses of the day, they reflected the aspira...

Discover the recipes for Mrs Rooke's Very Good Plum Cake and Lady Harbord's Marigold Cheese. Learn how to preserve gooseberries as green as they g...

Following an assassination attempt on George III in 1800, new legislation significantly altered the way the criminally insane were treated by the j...

In the eighty years between 1787 and 1868 more than 160,000 men, women and children convicted of everything from picking pockets to murder were sen...

Women's Suffrage In Wales allows its readers to take a glimpse at the lives of the many ordinary Welsh women who contributed in some way to the suf...

Most people think they know the story of the Gunpowder Plot, and of how a bloody catastrophe was averted at the eleventh hour when Guy Fawkes was c...

Magna Carta clause 39: No man shall be taken, imprisoned, outlawed, banished or in any way destroyed, nor will we proceed against or prosecute him,...

Although the worlds of science and philosophy took giant strides away from the medieval view of the world, attitudes to women did not change from t...

Hugh Despenser the Younger and Edward II tells the story of the greatest villain of the fourteenth century', his dazzling rise as favourite to the...

Merseyside played a unique role during the Second World War, which directly led to the area being a major enemy target in an attempt to put the por...

This is the story of women caught up in the tumultuous art scene of the early twentieth century, some famous and others lost to time. By 1910 th...

Is it realised that Londonderry with its impregnable fortifications was built by the London Livery Companies? Is it known that a second Spanish Arm...

In recent decades, the insight that narration shapes our perception of reality has inspired and influenced the most innovative historical accoun...

Shows how Charles V used music and ritual to reinforce his image and status as the most important and powerful sovereign in Europe. The presentati...

Until the 1970s the history of sexuality was a marginalized practice. Today it is a flourishing field, increasingly integrated into the mainstream ...