History

Jo Teeuwisse Hardback 416 pages Fake news about the past is fake history. Did Hugo Boss design the Nazi uniforms?Did medieval people think the w

Mary Beard Hardback 512 pages What was it really like to rule and be ruled in the Ancient Roman world?In her international best-seller SPQR, Mar

Marion Gibson Paperback 320 pages Salem, King James VI, Malleus Maleficarum. The world of witch hunts and witch trials sounds antiquated, relics

Paperback 624 pages At the end of the fifteenth century, Burgundy was extinguished as an independent state. It had been a fabulously wealthy, turb

Valentine Low Paperback 372 pages The gripping account of how the Royal family really operates from the man who has spent years studying them in

Professor Prof Roderick Beaton Paperback 608 pages The Greeks is a story which takes us from the archaeological treasures of the Bronze Age Aege

Silvia Federici Paperback 400 pages A cult classic since its publication in the early years of this century, Caliban and the Witch is Silvia Fede

PaperbackFernando Cervantes The 'conquistadores', the early explorers and settlers of Spanish America, have become the stuff of legends and nightmare

Wayne Curtis Paperback 304 pages

Zeinab Badawi Paperback For too long, Africa's history has been dominated by western narratives of slavery and colonialism, or simply ignored. Now

Norman Ohler Hardback 240 pages Berlin, 1945. Following the fall of the Third Reich, drug use - long kept under control by the Nazis' strict anti

Peter Stothard Paperback 184 pages The story of Rome’s richest man, who died a humiliating desert death in search of military glory “A perf

Caesar Series: Loeb Classical Library Hardback 656 pages, 7 maps, 10 line illustrations, indexes The conquest that begot the Roman Empire. Ca

Josephine Quinn Paperback 560 pages The West, history tells us, was built on the ideas and values of Ancient Greece and Rome, which disappeared

Jo Teeuwisse Paperback Fake news about the past is fake history. Did Hugo Boss design the Nazi uniforms? Did medieval people think the world

Philip Freeman Series: Ancient Lives Hardback 168 pages, 1 b-w illus. The tragic life of Julian, the last non-Christian emperor of Rome, by aw

David Van Reybrouck Paperback On a sunny Friday morning in August 1945, a handful of tired people raised a homemade cotton flag and on behalf of 6

Christopher Harding Hardback 464 pages This rich and enjoyable book by the acclaimed author of Japan Story explores the many ways in which Asia h

Nicholas Spencer Paperback 480 pages Most things you know about science and religion are myths or half-truths that grew up in the last years of t

Anthony Grafton Hardback 304 pages A revelatory new account of the magus - the learned magician - and his place in the world of Renaissance Euro

Anna Reid Paperback From the bestselling author of Borderland: A Journey Through the History of Ukraine The extraordinary story of how the We

Philippa Gregory Paperback Did you know that there are more penises than women in the Bayeux Tapestry?That the Peasant's Revolt was started and p

Ari Shavit Paperback 512 pages A groundbreaking and authoritative examination of Israel by one of the most influential columnists writing about