Histoire culturelle

Q School is one of the most eye-popping, head-spinning, nerve-tingling sporting tests ever invented: golfers who succeed there can shoot to the very top echelon while those who crash and burn may nev …

First published in 1912. 17 black-and-white illustrations. According to the Preface: ‘It is frequently and emphatically asserted by reviewers of golf books that golf cannot be learned from a book. If …

Ryder Cup Revealed: Tales of the Unexpected is the previously-untold, behind-the-scenes story of golf’s most iconic team contest. The book reports on the commercial mysteries of the money and busines …

In The Holy See and the Wandering of the Nations, from St. Leo I to St. Gregory I, T. W. Allies delves into the political and ecclesiastical landscape of Europe during the 5th and 6th centuries. Alli …

In the dim and distant past, when a Lady had servants to look after her house and there was no Mrs Hinch, she relied on the Edwardian bible for the household: the Woman’s Book, a weighty tome full of …

Scotland’s history has been told many times, but never exclusively by its women. This book takes a unique perspective on dramatic national events as well as ordinary life, as experienced by women dow …

During the Second World War thousands of women served with the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS), the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF), Women’s Royal Naval Service (WRNS) or the Timber Corps. In …

In ancient Egypt the performance of circumcision was at one time limited to the priesthood, who, in addition to the cleanliness that this operation imparted to that class, added the shaving of the wh …

The so-called ‘Esquiline Venus’, found in 1874 in the city of Rome, is a well preserved Claudian copy sculpture whose original dates back to the first century B. C. The life-size statue shows a naked …

‘Who says that daughters cannot be heroic?’ Once upon a time, history was written by men, for men and about men. Women were deemed less important, their letters destroyed, their stories ignored. Not …