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Make room Herodotus, stand down Bede, pipe down Pepys - there's a new history book in town.
From the chart-topping podcast The Rest is History ...
Updated and revised, with full-colour maps and new images throughout, this is a detailed overview of the most long-standing, and the most militarily and politically ...
Winner of the Society for Military History's Distinguished Book Award
"Deeply researched and forcefully written . . . deftly explains the confused politics and diplomacy that bedeviled ...
An exhilarating reappraisal of one of the most dramatic years in European history
'People embraced each other, shook hands, joy radiated from every eye, there ...
'A brilliant, funny and thought-provoking book' - Jonn Elledge
'Compelling, provocative, and utterly brilliant' - Dr Estelle Paranque
THIS PAPERBACK FEATURES ADDITIONAL MATERIAL ON HER MAJESTY QUEEN ...
The remarkable stories of the world's most famous body parts. Louis XIV's rear end inspired the British National Anthem. Queen Victoria's armpit ...
The story of Messalina - third wife of Emperor Claudius and one of the most notorious women to have inhabited the Roman world.
The lubricious image ...
A seriously FUNNY, seriously CLEVER history of our early kings and queens by one of our favourite comedians and cultural commentators
This will be the ...
It began as a small, slow, and unadorned sailing vessel-in a word, ordinary. Later, it was a weary workhorse in the age of steam. But ...
Cruel control freaks, diligent workaholics or extravagant teenagers? What were the emperors of Rome really like?
In her international best-seller SPQR, Mary Beard told the ...
With so many of our histories falling into dour critique or blatant celebration, here is a welcome departure: a book that offers hope as well ...
The final volume in Simon Heffer's critically-acclaimed history of Britain from Victorian times to the Second World War
Sing As We Go is an ...
As India and the world are roiled by questions of nationalism and identity, this book journeys into the history of one of the world's ...
Following on from the hugely popular Treasury of Folklore: Seas and Rivers and Woodlandand Forests comes Treasury of Folklore: Stars and Skies, an exploration of ...
A funny, revealing, myth-busting guide to all the history you thought happened but never actually did, from historical expert Jo Teeuwisse, better known online as ...
