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In this anthology, 25 leading scholars from across the globe describe and analyse how different societies have handled crisis. In ancient Greek, a crisis refers ...
The dark, compelling history of a colonial witch-hunt, from the author of Witchfinders'The best and most enjoyable kind of history writing ... thought-provoking and absorbing ...
The year 1066: a battlefield in England, a mighty king lies prone on the ground, his lifeblood ebbing out of him. As he draws his ...
There has never been a more important time for a study of the social, economic and political origins of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, three important ...
Mary Tudor's childhood was overshadowed by the men in her life: her father, Henry VII, and her brothers Arthur, heir to the Tudor throne ...
Meltdown investigates and recreates the dramatic events behind the most notorious nuclear accidents in history, as well as those shrouded in secrecy. Combining human tragedy ...
Why do Greek lorries have Metaphores written on the side? Is it grammatically correct to say 'the best team won' after a football match? What ...
Politics Home: Parliamentarians' Top Books for Christmas 2021
'A must read for political geeks' - Saqib Bhatti
There was a huge upsurge of global interest in ...
With a foreword by William Boyd
'Gripping and revelatory' Tom Holland
'As convoluted and deadly as the plot of a novel by John le Carre ...
An epic, multigenerational story of two rival dynasties who flourished in Shanghai and Hong Kong as twentieth-century China surged into the modern era Shanghai, 1936 ...
An illustrated account of the historical city of Granada for the Anglophone world. 'The true paradises are the paradises we have lost,' wrote Marcel Proust ...
From one of America's most respected journalists and modern historians comes the highly acclaimed, "splendid" (The Washington Post) biography of Jimmy Carter, the thirty-ninth ...
Shortlisted for the RSL Christopher Bland Prize 2021
'Rarely has family history been so vivid' JENNY UGLOW
'An extraordinarily original work' AMANDA FOREMAN
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An incisive, inspiring and vitally illuminating account of a city which changed the ancient world and which deserves to be remembered by the modern. A ...
The next volume in Alison Weir's magisterial history of the queens of Medieval England - including the life of Eleanor of Aquitaine, the subject of ...
