Social and cultural history

Refreshes the parts other history books can t reach.

Did you know that an assassin is a hashish-eater and a yokel a country woodpecker?

'Who would ever think that a book on cod would make a compulsive read?

The engaging and eye-opening story of how we and our ancestors entered the world.

In May 2003 journalist Rory McCarthy went to Iraq to cover what was claimed to be the triumphant rebuilding of the country after the American invasion.

'We were the first generation to have to deal with the modern stardom of football.

What do women look for in a man?

This enchanting, juicy history takes us from the pineapple's origins in the Amazon rainforests to its first tasting by Columbus in Guadeloupe and its starring role on the royal dinner tables of Europe.

'Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

Ever since the attacks of 11th September, western leaders have described a world engaged in 'a fight for civilization'.

From the author of the widely acclaimed Heat, an exhilarating account of Bill Buford's adventures in the world of French cooking.

One January morning in 1734, cloth merchant Peter Collinson hurried down to the docks at London's Custom House to collect cargo just arrived from John Bartram in the American colonies.

There is now no published theory to explain the enigma of the Turin Shroud that fits the known evidence.

142 Strand was the home of the brilliant, unconventional young publisher John Chapman.

For a very brief moment during the 1960s, America was moonstruck.

**AS FEATURED ON HOAXED PODCAST**This definitive book delves into why so many people are ready to believe in conspiracy theories, and the damage it can cause.

Henrietta Howard, later Countess of Suffolk, was the long-term mistress and confidante of King George II.

Hoxton today is one of the most fashionable parts of inner London, yet before the Blitz, it was the capital's most notorious slum area.

Charles Greville (1794-1865) made his first occasional diary entries in 1814, but the diary only became a regular habit in the mid-1820s, continuing with occasional breaks, about which he is self-reproachful, through the reigns of George IV, William IV and Victoria.

In April 1478, a plot to murder the two heads of the powerful Medici family dramatically miscarried.

Anne Thackeray Ritchie, daughter of the author of Vanity Fair and step-aunt of Virginia Woolf, was also a fine writer.

This is a book on the Russian Revolution with a difference.

The Secret History of Our Streets explores six roads spread across inner London - from Camberwell, Holland Park and Islington to Shoreditch, Deptford and Bermondsey - through the experiences of the people who lived there.

This second volume of Christopher Isherwood's remarkable diaries opens on his fifty-sixth birthday as the fifties give way to the decade of social and sexual revolution.

Gillian Tindall is well known for her ability to breathe a passionate life into the generations of those who have walked the earth before us.

Just For One Day takes you on Louise Wener's musical odyssey from awkward 80s suburban pop geek to 90s jet-set Britpop goddess.

There had, of course, been other fires, Four Hundred and fifty years before, the city had almost burned to the ground.

Philip Roth is the voice of our times.

Das Holocaust- und Zweit-Weltkriegs-Gedenken und die daraus erwachsenen Erzählungen haben auch in der Schweiz ihre Spuren hinterlassen.

A firsthand look at the world of the English countryside—and how drastically it changed during the twentieth century.

The ethical way to perform healing spells, love spells, weather spells, sex magic, and more-from the authors of A Witches' Bible.

An eyewitness account of a modern coven and an overview of Wiccan history in a book that "e;sweep[s] clean the 'old image of witchcraft'"e; (Kirkus Reviews).

"e;A great reference that explains the ins and outs of one of the oldest recognized traditions in Wicca .

Descubre el drama y el poder de una de las historias más cautivadoras y trágicas de la historia inglesa en "Nueve Días de Reina".

'Exhilarating and fascinating' KATY HESSEL | 'Rich and detailed' CHLO ASHBY | 'Enlightening' TABISH KHAN | 'Sheds light on an uncharted area of art history' JENNY PERY | 'An essential read' EDWARD BROOKE-HITCHINGMeet the unexpected, overlooked and forgotten models of art history.

Una obra fundamental sobre las causas históricas y materiales del surgimiento del racismo.

Blanch, writer, artist and adventuress, followed her own compass in everything she did.

In Ten Cocktails, The Times drinks columnist Alice Lascelles uses ten of her favourite cocktails to distil the stories, recipes and tips she has amassed in more than a decade in pursuit of the mixed drink.

THE BESTSELLING MODERN CLASSIC.

THE SUNDAY TIMES AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'A standalone classic .

In THE ARK BEFORE NOAH, British Museum expert Dr Irving Finkel reveals how decoding the symbols on a 4,000 year old piece of clay enable a radical new interpretation of the Noah's Ark myth.

In this fascinating historical and cultural biography, writer and broadcaster Peter Stanford deconstructs that most vilified of Bible characters: Judas Iscariot, who famously betrayed Jesus with a kiss.

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Kathleen Clifford was born in 1909.

Nancy Jackman was born in 1907 in a remote Norfolk village.

'In his whistle-stop tour of inventions large and small, the scientist Trevor Norton shares the Gershwins' view that invention is fundamentally comic.

'Shamelessly engaging, effortlessly scholarly, utterly refreshing'Thomas Keneally, author of Schindler's Ark'A small treasure'New York Times'This sweepingly confident overview is more entertainingly told than any previous account'Sunday TelegraphIreland played the central role in maintaining European culture when the dark ages settled on Europe in the fifth century: as Rome was sacked by Visigoths and its empire collapsed, Ireland became 'the isle of saints and scholars' that enabled the classical and religious heritage to be saved.

All Americans are familiar with the story of the Pilgrimspersecuted for their religion in the Old World, they crossed the ocean to settle in a wild and dangerous land.

The Song of Songs is redolent with poetic imagery, featuring as it does the love songs of a man and a woman as they explore their relationship.

This book presents one of the first studies of the Renaissance notion of conscience, through examining theological manuals, legal treatises, letters and other sources of the period.