Hard Men is the leading authority on Britain's historic culture of violence. It is dispassionate in tone, and includes discussion of domestic violence against w

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In neighbourhoods and public spaces across Britain, young working people walked out together, congregated in the streets, and paraded up and down on the ‘monk

'Queer London' explores the underground gay culture of London during four decades when homosexual acts between consenting adults remained illegal. The author di

This book looks beyond the Aylesbury’s public face by examining its rise and fall from the perspective of those who knew it, based largely on the oral testimo