History

Paperback 288 pages This rich history of Antwerp was a Times Book of the Year and Radio 4 Book of the WeekEven before Amsterdam there was a dazzling North Sea port at the hub of the known world: t...

Cover: Paperback, Pages: 288...

Silvia Federici Paperback 400 pages A cult classic since its publication in the early years of this century, Caliban and the Witch is Silvia Federici's history of the body in the transition to ca...

Cover: Hardback, Pages: 376, Author: Jeremy Mynott...

Paperback 624 pages At the end of the fifteenth century, Burgundy was extinguished as an independent state. It had been a fabulously wealthy, turbulent region situated between France and Germany, ...

Peter Burke Paperback 336 pages A rich, wide-ranging history of ignorance in all its forms, from antiquity to the present day Throughout history, every age has thought of itself as more knowle...

Author: John Cassidy , Cover: Hardback, Pages: 624...

Saidiya Hartman Paperback 560 pages In this radical re-evaluation of American history, Saidiya Hartman draws together a striking portrait of nineteenth-century slavery and its many afterlives. ...

John Goodlad Hardback 272 pages This is the extraordinary story of how salt fish from Shetland became one of the staple foods of Europe, powered an economic boom and inspired artists, writers and...

Softback Volker Weidermann It's as if they're made for each other. Two men, both falling, but holding each other up for a time. Ostend, 1936: the Belgian seaside town is playing host to a cote...

David van Reybrouck Paperback 656 pages Hailed as "a monumental history . . . more exciting than any novel" (NRC Handelsblad),David van Reybrouck's rich and gripping epic, in the tradition of Rob...

Author: Lizzie Wade, Cover: Softback, Pages: 320...

Author: Maarten Asscher, Cover: Softback, Pages: 176...

Author. Cathy Scott-Clark , Cover: Hardback, Pages: 360...

Author: Hilary French , Cover: Softback, Pages: 320...

Cover: Hardback, Pages: 320, Author: Inger Sigrun Bredkjær Brodey...

Author: Neil Buttery , Cover: Hardback, Pages: 256...

James Crossland Paperback 376 pages, 12 black & white illustrations In the dying light of the nineteenth century, the world came to know and fear terrorism. Like today, this was a time of progre...

Softback 292 pages When everyday life becomes a state of emergency, how can yesterday’s words suffice?‘We were so happy and didn’t know it…’A thirty-three-year-old writer lives in a qu...

David Mitchell Paperback / 448 pages A funny book about a serious subject, Unruly is for anyone who has ever wondered how we got here - and who is to blame. Think you know your kings and queen...

Timothy Garton Ash Paperback 384 pages Drawing from the people who lived it, Homelands explores how Europe slowly recovered and rebuilt from World War Two. And then faltered. Timothy Garton As...

Jo Teeuwisse Paperback Fake news about the past is fake history. Did Hugo Boss design the Nazi uniforms? Did medieval people think the world was flat? Did Napoleon shoot the nose off the Sp...

Author: Alice Loxton, Cover: Softback, Pages: 352...

Author: margaret baker, Cover: Hardback, Pages: 196...