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A History of Treason details British history from 1352 to 1946, covering major historical moments in a fascinating and innovative way, using the history of ...
There's nowhere quite like Piccadilly Circus.
From the moment they emerge, blinking from the underground station, visitors to Piccadilly Circus face a sensory onslaught ...
What was history's biggest empire? Or the tallest building of the ancient world? What was the average life expectancy in medieval Byzantium? The average ...
The notion of a utopian society was developed by the Bible and represented a momentous milestone in the history of civilization. This idea would evolve ...
A Foreign Affairs Book of the Year
A Spectator Book of the Year
"A detailed and fascinating account of how the Chinese leadership's strategy ...
The Sunday Times Bestseller
A new assessment of the West's colonial record
In the wake of the dissolution of the Soviet empire in 1989 ...
How can we explain Britain's long rule in India beyond the clichs of 'imperial' versus 'nationalist' interpretations? In this new history, Roderick Matthews tells ...
In this journal Boatswain's Mate James Morrison recounts the Royal Navy ship HMS Bounty's 1787 voyage and the ensuing mutiny, providing an invaluable ...
In the late 19th century, the Norwegian Artic explorer Fridtjof Nansen undertook a pioneering expedition: he wanted to reach the North Pole with the specially ...
A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR
'An absolute joy to read and an early contender for every list of History Books of the Year' Sunday ...
"Investigative reporting at its best. Mark Shaw's original work into the questionable deaths of Marilyn Monroe and Dorothy Kilgallen is now focused on the ...
There are few women in English history more famous or controversial than Queen Anne Boleyn. She was the second wife of Henry VIII, mother of ...
Akhenaten has been the subject of radically different, even contradictory, biographies. The king has achieved fame as the world's first individual and the first ...
New Zealand 1773. A week before Christmas. A rowboat carrying ten sailors disappears. Next day butchered bodies are found on a beach. All have been ...
In the late nineteenth century, a group of German-speaking Mennonites travelled from Russia into Central Asia, where their charismatic leader predicted Christ would return. Over ...
