History
The Restless Republic
Anna Keay
‘Anna Keay has rescued a period of history which for many will have been uncharted territory … An imaginative triumph’...
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
Paul Kennedy
Paul Kennedy's classic survey of the rise and fall of the world's great powers over the past five centuries. The...
Mythos
Stephen Fry
No one loves and quarrels, desires and deceives as boldly and brilliantly as Greek gods and goddesses. They are like...
Pathogenesis
Jonathan Kennedy
Humans did not make history - we played host.
According to the accepted narrative of progress, a few great humans have...
Arise, England
Caroline Burt
A lively, new and sweeping history of the rise of the state in Plantagenet England.
Between 1199 and 1399, English politics...
Maoism
Julia Lovell
*Winner of the Cundill History Prize*, shortlisted for the Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding and shortlisted for the...
The Greatest Knight
Thomas Asbridge
A brilliant new biography of medieval England’s most celebrated knight, William Marshal – providing an unprecedented and intimate view of...
Waves Across the South
Sujit Sivasundaram
Starting from the ocean and from the forgotten histories of ocean-facing communities, this is a new history of the making...
War in the Shadows
Patrick Marnham
In 1962 the young Patrick Marnham set off by car for a small village in central France. There he was...
A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages
Anthony Bale
A delightfully captivating journey across the medieval world, seen through the eyes of those who travelled across it.
From the bustling...
The Secret Twenties
Timothy Phillips
In the 1920s, many in the British establishment became convinced that their way of life was being threatened by the...
The First World War: A New History
Hew Strachan
A brilliant and penetrating new history of the First World War by one of the world's foremost experts on the...
Bad Gays: A Homosexual History
Huw Lemmey
Too many popular histories seek to establish heroes, pioneers and martyrs but as Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller argue, the...
Uncivilised: Ten Lies that Made the West
Subhadra Das
Some things are a given: knowledge is power, time is money, justice is blind. But many of the big ideas...
