History

Softback 320 pages A fascinating tale of discovery, wonder, and revolution' Matthew StanleyTwo friends in a Parisian perfume shop make a discovery that will transform our understanding of the wo...

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...

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...

Nicholas Spencer Paperback 480 pages Most things you know about science and religion are myths or half-truths that grew up in the last years of the nineteenth century and remain widespread today....

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 propelled by women, protesting a tax on women?Or th...

What do nomads in Chad, geishas in Japan, dancers in India, and drag queens in New York all have in common? This book is number one on their Christmas list....

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...

Dan Jones Paperback 288 pages Revolt and upheaval in medieval Britain by a brilliant new narrative historian, 'Summer of Blood' breaks new ground in its portrayal of the personalities and politi...

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 ...

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...

Simon Sebag Montefiore Paperback 1344 pages From the master storyteller and internationally bestselling author - the story of humanity from prehistory to the present day, told through the one thi...

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...

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...

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 ...

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. After the Emperor met his end at Waterloo, an epidem...

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...

Jonathan Miles Paperback 455 pages In 1835, Lord Brougham founded Cannes, introducing bathing and the manicured lawn to the wilds of the Mediterranean coast. Today, much of that shore has beco...

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...

Sinclair McKay Hardback 400 pages A gripping work of narrative nonfiction recounting the history of the Dresden Bombing, one of the most devastating attacks of World War II. On February 13th,...

Sam Miller Hardback 448 pages Humans are, in fundamental ways, a migratory species, more so than any other land mammal. For most of our existence , we were all nomads, and some of us still are...

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...

Hannah Rose Woods Hardback 400 pages Britain is an island ruled by nostalgia, but nostalgia today isn't what it used to be... Longing to go back to the 'good old days' is nothing new. For hun...