History

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

Stuart A. Reid Hardback 624 pages, 16PP PHOTOS; 1 MAP IN TEXT

Harry Sidebottom Paperback 352 pages On 8 June 218 AD, a fourteen-year-old Syrian boy, egged on by his grandmother, led an army to battle in a

Marek Kohn Hardback 344 pages, 11 b-w illus. + 1 map Historic quarters in cities and towns across the middle of Europe were devastated during th

John Kampfer Paperback 400 pages Ever since John Kampfner was a young journalist in Communist East Berlin, he hasn't been able to get the city out

Because the only way to avoid the distant relatives asking your about your relationship status during the holidays is to preemptively launch into a di

Neil McKenna Paperback 416 pages London, April 1870: Fanny and Stella were no ordinary Victorian women. They were young men who liked to dress a

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. Af

Leah Redmond Chang Paperback 512 pages Sixteenth-century Europe: Renaissance masters paint the ceilings of Florentine churches, kings battle for

Ian Kershaw Hardback 512 pages One of the great historians of our age asks: how far can a single leader alter the course of history?The modern e

Tom Standage Paperback 272 pages The product of deep research, great intelligence and burnished prose . . . It is rare that I encounter a non

Simon Sebag Montefiore Paperback 736 pages The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world's surface.

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

Michael Pye Softback 400 pages This is a story of saints and spies, of fishermen and pirates, traders and marauders - and of how their wild and d

SoftbackAdam Hochschild Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize, King Leopold's Ghost is the true and haunting account of Leopold's brutal regime and its last

SoftbackFrancesca Wade 'I like this London life...the street-sauntering and square-haunting.' Virginia Woolf, diary, 1925 Mecklenburgh Square, on the

Jacques R. Pauwels Paperback 384 pages At a time when it's all too easy to see history in black-and-white terms, historian Jacques R. Pauwels ur

Mike Jay Paperback 384 pages A provocative and original history of the scientists and writers, artists and philosophers who took drugs to explor

Steven Hahn Hardback

Christopher Phillips Hardback 320 pages The essential guide to geopolitics in the modern Middle East The Middle East is in crisis. The shocking

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

Peter Burke Paperback 336 pages A rich, wide-ranging history of ignorance in all its forms, from antiquity to the present day Throughout histo