History

Ned Boulting Paperback 288 pages The story of an obsession. When cycling commentator Ned Boulting bought a length of Pathé news film featuring a stage of the Tour de France from 1923 he set abou...

Tom Holland Paperback 448 pages The definitive history of Rome's golden age - antiquity's ultimate superpower at the pinnacle of its greatnessThe Pax Romana has long been revered as a golden age...

Wayne Curtis Paperback 304 pages...

Mike Jay Paperback 384 pages A provocative and original history of the scientists and writers, artists and philosophers who took drugs to explore the hidden regions of the mind Until the twent...

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...

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...

George Orwell Paperback 272 pages Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I und...

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 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 68 million compatriots announced the birth of a new...

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...

Softback Mike Duncan Few in history can match the revolutionary career of the Marquis de Lafayette. Over fifty incredible years at the heart of the Age of Revolution, he fought courageously on bo...

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...

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...

James Vincent Paperback 432 pages A revelatory and vibrant story of measurement which will make you look at the world around you anew. We measure rainfall and radiation, the depths of space ...

Otto English Paperback From the author of Fake History, Otto English, comes a shocking yet hilarious look at ten of the greatest liars from our past, examining these previously unquestioned idol...

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...

Gyles Brandreth Hardback 576 pages Gyles Brandreth first met the Queen in 1968, when he was twenty. Over the next fifty years he met her many times, both at public and at private events. Thro...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...

Silvia Federici Paperback 400 pages A cult classic since its publication in the early years of this century, Caliban and the Witch is Silvia Federici's history of the body in the transition to ca...