History

Many of the key improvements to social conditions in the United Kingdom have been made by Christians. Most of us would be able to think of such key Anglican figures as William Wilberforce, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury or Dr Thomas Barnardo, but lesser known contributions were made behind ...

Thomas Babington Macaulay's "History of England from the Accession of James II" was his masterwork and one of the great enduring classics of English historical writing. This book presents an introduction to Maculey's major work.

In this biography of General Gordon, C. Brad Faught looks afresh at the life of one of the most famous Victorian military men. Although a later age would come to reject Gordon's record and the values by which he lived, he has remained an enduring figure in the British Empire's late-nineteenth-century ...

Historian G. H. Bennett pieces together the forgotten story of a wartime German road-building project, which exterminated numerous Jewish and other lives. A moving and sometimes horrifying chronicle of suffering and deprivation, this book retells an important episode in the history of World War II.

Discover the secret, intimate stories that animate the watershed events of British history, plus a new chapter on the defining event of twenty-first century Britain - Brexit!

Instant Guides are packed with essential information and useful facts covering a wide variety of subjects from survival skills to stargazing.
Portable, easy to use and durable they contain all the basics whether you're studying the subject or just interested. For practical topics such as Bicycle maintenance ...

This engaging account introduces readers to a remarkable range of transportation firsts and other related developments that occurred within the Lea Valley region of London. From the Thames Ironworks, which gave birth to the HMS Warrior the world's first ironclad battle cruiser, to the Great Eastern Railway ...

Since 1945 Europe has experienced many periods of turmoil and conflict and as many moments of peace and integration: from the devastation felt in the aftermath of World War II to the recovery in the 1950s and 1960s; to the new challenges in the 1970s and 1980s when neoliberal policies led to fundamental social and economic changes...

Common sense suggests that rituals drain economic wealth & that rational actions are antithetical to rituals. These 6 studies offer a different vision. Comparative, historical, & contemporary, the studies stretch from Macedonia to Kyrgyzstan, each one illuminating the changes in an area as it emerged from socialism & (re-)entered market society.

Ivan Klima, 'a writer of enormous power and originality' (The New York Times Book Review), has penned an intimate autobiography that explores his life under Nazi and Communist regimes.

This book documents changes in the foreign exchange rate regime and policy in Japan since the end of the Second World War from a historical perspective.

Published by Berghahn Books in association with the Royal Anthropological Institute Anthropology seeks to understand human social behaviour and how societies are formed. As a method of inquiry it embraces an enormous range of topics, and as a discipline it covers a multitude of fields and themes, as shown in this selection of original writings.

Sculpture.

This book explores the historical relationship between China and Japan, and how this has exacerbated their dispute over the Senkaku/ Diaoyu Islands in the East China Sea. There are three paradoxes in the bilateral relationship - complex interdependence does not preclude the possibility of open conflict; ...

Released to mark the one hundredth anniversary of the Suffragette Derby, this is British social history at its best.