Ask our staff anything about our shop or products, or leave your feedback.
The real Wolf Hall, full of fascinating detail - 'Seldom have I had so much fun reading history' (The Times)
The Tudor era encompasses some of ...
"For readers in search of a thoughtful, thorough, and approachable survey of the history of religion, this book is an excellent place to start."-Booklist ...
Imagine the document you have before you is not a book but a map. It is well-used, creased, and folded, so that when you open ...
Lord Byron described Greece as great, fallen, and immortal, a characterization more apt than he knew. Through most of its long history, Greece was poor ...
Every veteran has a story. Sometimes these stories become part of family folklore. Sometimes they are too terrible to speak of.
In April 1943 Cyril ...
It was known as 'the vast prison without a roof'. From the beginning of the nineteenth century to the Russian Revolution, the tsarist regime exiled ...
The year 1989 brought the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe. It was also the year that the ...
The great modern biography of Augustus, founder of the Roman Empire
Octavian was a young soldier training abroad when he heard news of Julius Caesar ...
Prior histories of the first Spanish mariners to circumnavigate the globe in the sixteenth century have focused on Ferdinand Magellan and the other illustrious leaders ...
Britain has always had a tangled, complex, paradoxical role in Europe's history. It has invaded and been invaded, changed sides, stood aloof, acted with ...
One of the great figures of the twentieth century, Chairman Mao looms irrepressibly over the economic rise of China. Mao Zedong was the leader of ...
The profound effects of the British Empire's actions in the Arab World during the First World War can be seen echoing through the history ...
Most classical authors and modern historians depict the ancient Greek world as essentially stable and even static, once the so-called colonization movement came to an ...
