History

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...

Josephine Quinn Paperback 560 pages The West, history tells us, was built on the ideas and values of Ancient Greece and Rome, which disappeared from Europe during the Dark Ages and were then red...

Grace Blakeley Paperback 400 pages Everything you know about capitalism is wrong. Free markets aren t really free. Record corporate pro fits don t trickle down to everyone else. And we aren t em...

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...

Alexander Christie-Miller Paperback Walking along the crumbling defensive walls of Istanbul and talking to those he passes, Alexander Christie-Miller finds a distillation of the country's history...

Anna Reid Paperback From the bestselling author of Borderland: A Journey Through the History of Ukraine The extraordinary story of how the West tried to reverse the Russian Revolution. In ...

Brian Merchant Hardback 496 pages The most urgent story in modern tech begins not in Silicon Valley but two hundred years ago in rural England, when workers known as the Luddites rose up rather ...

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...

John Kampfer Paperback 400 pages Ever since John Kampfner was a young journalist in Communist East Berlin, he hasn't been able to get the city out of his mind. It is a place tortured by its past...

Jonathan Eig Paperback 688 pages The compelling story of Martin Luther King's life and achievements has become simplified and domesticated in a way that fails to do full justice to his radical v...

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 ...

Amy Stanley Paperback 352 pages Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2020, a vivid work of history that explores the life of an unconventional woman in Edo - now known as Tokyo - and a port...

Carlo Rovelli Paperback 208 pages A triumph. . . We are left in a world that is not disenchanted by science, but even more magical' Financial TimesIn June 1925, twenty-three-year-old Werner H...

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, ...

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 ...

Priya Satia Paperback 384 pages For generations, the history of the British empire was written by its victors. British historians' accounts of conquest guided the consolidation of imperial rule i...

SoftbackValerie Hansen When did globalization begin? Most observers have settled on 1492, the year Columbus discovered America. But as celebrated Yale professor Valerie Hansen shows, it was the year 1...

PaperbackChris Gosden Three great strands of practice and belief run through human history: science, religion and magic. But magic - the idea that we have a connection with the universe - has develop...

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