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The best-selling historian of medieval manuscripts discovers the most intimate surviving relic of Thomas Becket.
The assassination of Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral on 29 ...
'An absorbing and eye-opening account of what the Plantagenets did for us.' - HELEN CASTOR
'Burt and Partington show precisely and engagingly why the Middle Ages ...
A compelling, authoritative history of how women shaped the Reformations and transformed religious life across the globe
The Reformations, both Protestant and Catholic, have long ...
The first thorough account of a formative and little understood chapter in Chinese history
Historians Odd Arne Westad and Chen Jian chronicle how an impoverished ...
Three thousand years of encounters with malevolent beings that have invaded our waking lives and our nightmares
A Penguin Classic
Three thousand years of encounters ...
An inspiring testament to China's dissident historians and activists, from the 1940s to the present
A documentary filmmaker who uncovered a Mao-era death camp ...
'A terrific book about a terrifying subject by the best historian of Russia working today' - Michael Burleigh, author of The Third Reich
In Blood on ...
This much needed new edition provides a complete and essential guide to this fast developing, ever changing and often tense region. This book, fully updated ...
An adventurous, dazzling and original continent-sized history that brings South America's untold past and fascinating present to life
Stretching from the edge of Antarctica ...
The classic, bestselling, official biography of Winston Churchill, back in print for the first time in two decades
'By far the most lucid, comprehensive and ...
Discover everything you've ever wondered about the legendary spirits, creatures, and figures of Japanese folklore including how they have found their way into every ...
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 ...
'An enthralling guide to one of the world's great cities - that blends history and insights into the present day from one of the most ...
An essential short introduction to the Middle Ages - and the companion volume to Ian Mortimer's bestselling The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England ...
'This vital history shatters many myths about the Nazi genocide . . . . surprising . . . provocative . . . fizzes with ideas. Even if you think you know the subject, you'll ...
