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'Exploring the Lives of Women, 1558-1837' is an engaging and lively collection of original, thought-provoking essays. Its route from Lady Jane Grey's nine-day reign ...
When Mary Stuart was forced off the Scottish throne she fled to England, a move that made her cousin Queen Elizabeth very uneasy. Elizabeth had ...
Charting the many and varied ways the coconut has shaped and continues to shape our world. Such disparate characters as an English earl, an American ...
There is an ancient and quite baseless myth that the use of torture has never been legal in Britain. This old wives' tale arose because ...
At its height, the Roman Empire was the greatest empire yet seen with borders stretching from the rain-swept highlands of Scotland in the north to ...
This is a comprehensive look at how France influenced the American Revolutionary War in a variety of ways; intellectually, financially, and militarily. It raises the ...
The rediscovery of Assyria in the 1840s transformed Western views on the origins of civilisation. The excavation of Nineveh proved that even the Greeks, Romans ...
'An outstanding work of historical artistry, a brilliantly woven and pacy story of the men who surrounded, influenced and sometimes plagued Henry VIII.' Alison Weir ...
RISE AND FALL opens with the Akkadian Empire, which ruled over a vast expanse of the region of ancient Mesopotamia, then turns to the immense ...
A ground-breaking work of narrative non-fiction that offers a dramatic new perspective on human history.
What was George Washington's secret weapon during the American ...
From one of the world's leading scholars of Russia and former ambassador, a revelatory, inside account of U.S.-Russia relations from 1989 to ...
A one volume history of the great city of Glasgow from the Celts to Celtic by the controversial Scottish historian and biographer of Edinburgh.
Beloved ...
From bestselling and prize-winning author Paddy Ashdown, a revelatory new history of German opposition to Hitler.
'Ashdown has a great gift for narrative history. He ...
The sweeping story of the city of Rome, told through twenty-two moments that shaped its history.
A Times History Book of the Year
'Vivid, pacey ...
Many people have a love of maps. But what lies behind the process of map-making? How have cartographers through the centuries developed their craft and ...
