History

Jonathan Healey Paperback 512 pages The seventeenth century began as the English found themselves ruled by a Scotsman, and ended in the shadow of a Dutch invasion. Midway through, society collaps...

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

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 fourteen fascinating lives. We tend to imagine W...

Tania Branigan Paperback 304 pages An indelible exploration of the Cultural Revolution and how it shapes China today, Red Memory uncovers forty years of silence through the rarely heard storie...

Marcy Norton Hardback 448 pages A dramatic new interpretation of the encounter between Europe and the Americas that reveals the crucial role of animals in the shaping of the modern world. When t...

Murray Pittock Paperback / softback 528 pages, 64 b-w illus. An engaging and authoritative history of Scotland's influence in the world and the world's on Scotland, from the Thirty Years' War to...

Irene Vallejo Softback 464 pages An enthralling 2,000-year journey through the history of books and readingLong before books were mass-produced, scrolls hand copied on reeds pulled from the Nile ...

Patrick Radden Keefe Paperback 368 pages From the prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Say Nothing and Empire of Pain, twelve enthralling stories of skulduggery and intrigue by on...

Orlando Figes Paperback 368 pages From the great storyteller of Russia, a spellbinding account of the stories that have shaped the country's past - and how they can inform its present. No other c...

Jim Leary Hardback 288 pages On paths, roads, seas, in the air, and in space - there has never been so much human movement. In contrast we think of the past as static, 'frozen in time'. But archa...

Nicholas Guyatt Paperback 432 pages Buried in the history of our most famous jail, a unique story of captivity, violence and race. It's 1812 - Britain and America are at war. British redcoats to...

Rebecca Struthers Paperback 259 pages Timepieces are one of humanity's most ingenious innovations. Their invention was more significant for human culture than the printing press, or even the whe...

Janina Ramirez Paperback 464 pages An instant bestseller and one of the most celebrated history books of the year, Femina reveals the power and influence of medieval women who have been written ...

Julie Summers Paperback 416 pages Dressed For War: The Story of Audrey Withers, Vogue editor extraordinaire from the Blitz to the Swinging Sixties is the untold story of our most iconic fashion ...

Thomas Cirotteau, Jennifer Kerner & Eric Pincas Paperback 240 pages 45,000 years ago, rare and precious statues of faceless women with hourglass figures, sturdy hips and generous breasts surfaced...

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 ...

Paperback 608 pages Ancient Rome matters. Its history of empire, conquest, cruelty and excess is something against which we still judge ourselves. Its myths and stories - from Romulus and Remus to...

Tom Standage Paperback 272 pages The product of deep research, great intelligence and burnished prose . . . It is rare that I encounter a non-fiction author whose prose is so elegant that it ...

Patrick Radden Keefe Paperback 560 pages The Sackler name adorns the walls of many storied institutions - Harvard; the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Oxford; the Louvre. They are one of the richest ...

HardbackPeter Turchin What was history's biggest empire? Or the tallest building of the ancient world? What was the average life expectancy in medieval Byzantium? The average wage in Old Kingdom Egypt...

Author: His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Cover: Softback, Pages: 272...

Author: Sunil Amrith, Cover: Hardback, Pages: 432...

Jessica Hamel-Akre Paperback The day Jessica Hamel-Akre discovered the ideas of George Cheyne - an eighteenth-century polymath and London society figure known as 'Dr Diet' - it sparked an intelle...

Wayne Curtis Paperback 304 pages...