History

Author: Neil Buttery , Cover: Hardback, Pages: 256...

Author: Jerry Brotton, Cover: Hardback, Pages: 224...

Richard J. King Paperback 512 pages Sailing on a boat by yourself out at sea and out of sight of land can be exhilarating or terrifying, compelling or tedious - sometimes it can be all of these ...

Author: Fergal Tobin, Cover: Softback, Pages: 304...

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 and...

Andrea di Robilant Paperback DURING THE AGE OF DISCOVERY, in the autumn of 1550, an anonymously authored volume containing a wealth of geographical information new to Europeans was published in V...

Softback Emma Southon Rome as you’ve never seen it before – brazenly unconventional, badly behaved and ever so feminine. ‘Hugely entertaining and illuminating’ —Elodie Harper, author of...

Justinien Tribillon Hardback 208 pages In The Zone, Justinien Tribillon takes the reader on a tour of an eponymous Parisian hinterland. The site of dreams and nightmares, from Van Gogh's painting...

Anthony Bale Paperback 464 pages _From the bustling bazaars of Tabriz, to the mysterious island of Caldihe, where sheep were said to grow on trees, Anthony Bale brings history alive in A Travel ...

Catherine Fletcher Paperback Brimming with life and drama, this is the first book to explore two thousand years of European history through one the greatest imperial networks ever built All r...

Elaine Farrell - Leanne McCormick Paperback 336 pages Ireland in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was not a good place to be a woman. Among the wave of emigrants from Ireland to N...

Bill Browder Paperback 480 pages have to assume that there is a very real chance that Putin or members of his regime will have me killed some day. If I'm killed, you will know who did it. Wh...

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...

James Crossland Paperback 376 pages, 12 black & white illustrations In the dying light of the nineteenth century, the world came to know and fear terrorism. Like today, this was a time of progre...

Nadine Akkerman - Pete Langman Hardback 368 pages, 60 color illus. +1 map A fascinating exploration of the devious tricks and ingenious tools used by early modern spies—from ciphers to cou...

Ilyon Woo Paperback 416 pages A New York Times bestseller, the incredible true story of a couple that escaped slavery in the South and eventually made their way to the UK, Africa and beyond. The ...

James Shapiro Hardback 384 pages From the 'Winner of Winners' of the Baillie Gifford Prize, a timely and dramatic story of a utopian American experiment, and the self-serving politicians that eng...

Tiya Miles Paperback 416 pages In 1850s South Carolina, Rose, an enslaved woman, faced a crisis: the imminent sale of her daughter Ashley. Thinking quickly, she packed a cotton bag with a few ite...

Softback Lisa Hilton In 1682, a young woman in the throes of a passionate affair flees her parents' home in Surrey to seek a new life in London. A scandal in its own right, but this is no ordi...

Wayne Curtis Paperback 304 pages...

Jean Menzies Paperback 96 pages For a period in time that gave us Sappho and the love affair of Achilles and Patroclus, the Ancient Greek relationship with queer folk is more complicated that at...

Andrea Komlosy Paperback 272 pages Andrea Komlosy argues in this important intervention that, when we examine it closely, work changes its meanings according to different historical and region...

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...

Steven Hahn Hardback...