History

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

Jonathan Healey Paperback 512 pages The seventeenth century began as the English found themselves ruled by a Scotsman, and ended in the shadow of

Nigel Townson Paperback 608 pages SA revelatory new history of Spain, from the late nineteenth century to the twenty-first'Spain is different,'

CLR James - Illustrated by: Sakina Karimjee, Nic Watts Paperback 272 pages The end of slavery started in what was then San Domingo. In 1791,

Quinn Slobodian Paperback 352 pages Look at a map of the world and you'll see a neat patchwork of nation-states. But this is not where power act

Hardback 320 pages

Chris Bryant Hardback 336 pages From award-winning historian and Sunday Times bestselling author Chris Bryant MP, James and John tells the story

Mary Beard Paperback 336 pages What made the Romans laugh? Was ancient Rome a carnival, filled with practical jokes and hearty chuckles? Or was

Chris Laoutaris Paperback 560 pages The year 2023 marks the 400th anniversary of Mr William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies, kn

Tilar J Mazzeo Paperback 304 pages Veuve Clicquot champagne epitomizes glamour and style, with tribute paid everywhere from Lord Byron to Casabla

Katja Hoyer Paperback 496 pages Well-researched, well-written and profoundly insightful, Beyond the Wall explodes many of the lazy Western cli

Naoise Mac Sweeney Paperback 448 pages A radical new account of how the idea of the West has shaped our history, told through the stories of f

Timothy Garton Ash Paperback 384 pages Drawing from the people who lived it, Homelands explores how Europe slowly recovered and rebuilt from W

David Gibbins Paperback From a Bronze Age ship built during the age of Queen Nefertiti and filled with ancient treasures, a Viking warship made

Softback 320 pages A fascinating tale of discovery, wonder, and revolution' Matthew StanleyTwo friends in a Parisian perfume shop make a discove

Tania Branigan Paperback 304 pages An indelible exploration of the Cultural Revolution and how it shapes China today, Red Memory uncovers fort

Bernard Wasserstein Paperback 320 pages Decades ago, the historian Bernard Wasserstein set out to uncover the hidden past of the town forty mi

Ian Mortimer Paperback 256 pages The essential introduction to the Middle Ages by the bestselling author of The Time Traveller's Guide to Medi