History

Anne Applebaum Hardback 240 pages One of the world's most celebrated historians and journalists uncovers the networks trying to destroy the democratic worldAll of us have in our minds a cartoon i...

Anthony Bale Paperback 464 pages _From the bustling bazaars of Tabriz, to the mysterious island of Caldihe, where sheep were said to grow on trees, Anthony Bale brings history alive in A Travel ...

Elaine Farrell - Leanne McCormick Paperback 336 pages Ireland in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was not a good place to be a woman. Among the wave of emigrants from Ireland to N...

Nadine Akkerman - Pete Langman Hardback 368 pages, 60 color illus. +1 map A fascinating exploration of the devious tricks and ingenious tools used by early modern spies—from ciphers to cou...

James Shapiro Hardback 384 pages From the 'Winner of Winners' of the Baillie Gifford Prize, a timely and dramatic story of a utopian American experiment, and the self-serving politicians that eng...

David Grann Paperback 352 pages From the bestselling author of The Lost City of Z, now a major film starring Charlie Hunnam, Sienna Miller, Robert Pattinson and Tom Holland, and the Number One in...

Paul Cooper Hardback 544 pages Based on the hit podcast with over 100 million downloads, Fall of Civilizations brilliantly explores how a range of ancient societies rose to power and sophisticat...

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-drug laws - is rampant throughout the city. In...

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...

Mary Beard Paperback 336 pages What made the Romans laugh? Was ancient Rome a carnival, filled with practical jokes and hearty chuckles? Or was it a carefully regulated culture in which the unco...

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...

Ian Mortimer Paperback 256 pages The essential introduction to the Middle Ages by the bestselling author of The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval EnglandWe tend to think of the Middle Ages as...

David Grann Paperback 368 pages a mesmerising story of shipwreck, mutiny and murder, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth.  On 28th January 1742, a ramshackle ves...

Kirsty Loehr Paperback 208 pages No, they weren't 'just friends'!Queer women have been written out of history since, well, forever. 'But historians famously care about women!', said no one. Fro...

Victoria Shepherd Softback 352 pages he King of France - thinking he was made of glass - was terrified he might shatter...and he wasn't alone. After the Emperor met his end at Waterloo, an epidem...

Jonathan Miles Paperback 455 pages In 1835, Lord Brougham founded Cannes, introducing bathing and the manicured lawn to the wilds of the Mediterranean coast. Today, much of that shore has beco...

Jonathan Eig Paperback 688 pages The compelling story of Martin Luther King's life and achievements has become simplified and domesticated in a way that fails to do full justice to his radical v...

Amy Stanley Paperback 352 pages Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2020, a vivid work of history that explores the life of an unconventional woman in Edo - now known as Tokyo - and a port...

Keiron Pim Hardback 544 pages The first English language biography of the great European writer Joseph Roth, exploring his genius and his tragic life story, lived in the shadow of war. The brill...

Carlo Rovelli Paperback 208 pages A triumph. . . We are left in a world that is not disenchanted by science, but even more magical' Financial TimesIn June 1925, twenty-three-year-old Werner H...

Elizabeth Hinton Paperback 416 pages A radical reckoning with the racial inequality of America's past and present, by one of the country's leading scholars of policing and mass incarceration Bet...

Justin Fenton Paperback 352 pages Baltimore, 2015. Riots were erupting across the city. Drug and violent crime were surging, with homicides reaching their highest level in over two decades. Fo...

Mary Hollingsworth Paperback 480 pages, 1x24pp colour plates Wealthy bankers, wise politicians, patrons of the arts, glittering dukes... so runs the traditional telling of the story of the Med...