c 1950 to c 1959

Record-breaking England cricketer, wartime RAF hero, Tottenham Hotspur footballer, and husband to five wives - this is the captivating life of one of England's most remarkable yet often overlooked cricketing heroes, Bill Edrich.

This work draws on first-hand accounts of those who fought on both sides to produce this reassessment of the Korean War. On 25 June 1950, the invasion of South Korea by the communist North launched one of the most devastating conflicts of this century.

Britain was known as the Mother Country: a home away from home; a place that you would be welcomed with open arms; a land where you were free to build a new life. 70 years on, this remarkable book explores the reality of the Windrush experience. It is an honest, eye-opening, funny, moving and ult...

An electrifying look at key moments in music and entertainment history between 1955 and 1979, which helped move gay culture from the margins to the mainstream and changed the face of pop forever - from the ambiguous sexuality of stars such as Little Richard in the 1950s through to David Bowie, gl...

In the 1940s, it was believed that homosexuality had been becoming more widespread in the aftermath of war. A moral panic ensued, centred around London as the place to which gay men gravitated. Peter Parker explores what it was actually like for queer men in London in this period, whether they we...