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The acclaimed and enthralling story of the dark side of Elizabethan rule, from Stephen Alford Elizabeth I's reign is known as a golden age ...
The lives of Egyptian women were free of the restraints normally placed upon women in the rest of the ancient world, allowing them to exercise ...
The Myth of the Blitz was nurtured at every level of society. It rested upon the assumed invincibility of an island race distinguished by good ...
In AD 453 Attila, with a huge force composed of Huns, allies and vassals drawn from his already-vast empire, was rampaging westward across Gaul (essentially ...
Half a millennium of European warfare brilliantly retold by masterly historian Brendan Simms
At the heart of Europe's history lies a puzzle. In most ...
The international bestseller: E. H. Gombrich's sweeping history of the world, for the curious of all ages
"All stories begin with 'Once upon a ...
In prehistoric caves, drummers used natural acoustics to recreate natural sound. In classical Europe, orators turned the human voice into a lyrical instrument. In Buddhist ...
Europe and the Islamic World sheds much-needed light on the shared roots of Islamic and Western cultures and on the richness of their inextricably intertwined ...
For millennia, mankind has devised ingenious and diabolical means of inflicting pain on fellow human beings. This deplorable but seemingly universal trait has eaten away ...
Born at the turn of the 20th century and raised in Vienna, Eric Hobsbawm, who was to become one of the most brilliant and original ...
'I was living in a world where a priest who spoke the words of God used me for sex, and there was no-one to tell ...
The true story of James Morrill, shipwrecked in 1846 off the north east Australian coast before it was colonised. With historic photos of the region ...
