History

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...

Frank DikötterPaperback A New Statesman, Financial Times and Economist Book of the Year 'Brilliant' NEW STATESMAN, BOOKS OF THE YEAR'Enlightening and a good read' SPECTATOR'Moving and perceptive' NE...

Anthony Bale Hardback 448 pages A delightfully captivating journey across the medieval world, seen through the eyes of those who travelled across itFrom the bustling bazaars of Tabriz, to the ...

Kai Bird & Martin J. Sherwin Paperback 736 pages Physicist and polymath, as familiar with Hindu scriptures as he was with quantum mechanics, J. Robert Oppenheimer - director of the Manhattan Pro...

Cat Bohannon Paperback How did wet nurses drive civilization? Are women always the weaker sex? Is sexism useful for evolution? And are our bodies at war with our babies? In Eve, Cat Bohannon an...

Antony Beevor Paperback 592 pages, Integrated illustrations throughout and several maps Between 1917 and 1921 a devastating struggle took place in Russia following the collapse of the Tsarist e...

Mariella Frostrup Softback 544 pages A collection of the greatest women's travel writing selected by journalist and presenter Mariella Frostrup. From Constantinople to Crimea; from Antarctica to ...

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...

Jacob Mikanowski Hardback 400 pages Eastern Europe is more than the sum total of its annexations, invasions and independence declarations. From the Baltics to the Balkans, from Prague to Kiev, t...

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 ...

Levi Roach Paperback 301 pages How did descendants of Viking marauders came to dominate Europe, the Mediterranean and the Middle East? It is a tale of ambitious adventures and fierce freeboot...

David van Reybrouck Paperback 656 pages Hailed as "a monumental history . . . more exciting than any novel" (NRC Handelsblad),David van Reybrouck's rich and gripping epic, in the tradition of Rob...

Kate Lister Paperback 464 pages, Color illustrations throughout An eye-opening exploration of the weird and wonderful things human beings have done in pursuit (and denial) of the mighty orgasm, b...

Stein Ringen Paperback 480 pages In The Story of Scandinavia, political scholar Stein Ringen chronicles more than 1,200 years of drama, economic rise and fall, crises, kings and queens, war, peac...

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...

Paperback 464 pages Whatever happened to British protest? For a nation that brought the world Chartism, the Suffragettes, the Tolpuddle Martyrs, and so many other grassroots social movements, Brit...

Francesca Stavrakopoulou Paperback 608 pages Three thousand years ago, in the Southwest Asian lands we now call Israel and Palestine, a group of people worshipped a complex pantheon of deities, ...

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...

Jonathan Holslag Paperback 432 pages 1989 ushered in a new age of freedom and prosperity. Thirty years later, the golden era is over. What went wrong? How did the age of globalization - of growin...

Anna Funder Paperback 304 pages In this classic work, Funder brings us the extraordinary stories of those who lived in East Germany. She meets Miriam, condemned as an enemy of the state at sixtee...

Peter Stothard Paperback 314 pages 14 CE: The first Roman emperor is dead. A second is about to succeed. The Forum of Rome, once fought over so fiercely, has become hardly more than a museum...

Peter Watson Paperback 848 pages We are endlessly fascinated by the French. We are fascinated by their way of life, their creativity and sophistication, and even their insistence that they are ex...

Jonathan Fenby Paperback 576 pages With the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Waterloo in June 1815, the next two centuries for France would be tumultuous. Bestselling historian and ...

Caroline Moorehead Paperback Edda Mussolini was Benito's favourite daughter: spoilt, venal, uneducated but clever, faithless but flamboyant, a brilliant diplomat, wild but brave, and ultimately st...