History

"We've got some difficult days ahead," civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr., told a crowd gathered at Memphis's Clayborn Temple on April 3, 1968. "But it really doesn't matter to me now because I've been to the mountaintop. . . . And I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. ...

The forgotten history of women slaves and their struggle for liberation.Enslaved West Indian women had few opportunities to record their stories for posterity. In this riveting work of historical reclamation, Stella Dadzie recovers the lives of women who played a vital role in developing a culture of ...

The astonishing true story of how Catherine the Great joined forces with a Quaker doctor from Essex to spearhead a groundbreaking public health campaign

How citizens became immigrants: Britain's failure to create a post-imperial nation.

A highly readable history of the stock market crash of 1929, and the depression that followed it

"Tudor Kings and Queens is the ideal, handy guide to what is a perennially popular era in British history. Beginning with the accession to the English throne of Henry VII, the author guides the reader through a succession of monarchs, who also included the infamous King Henry VIII, Mary I, Edward VI ...

A comparison of nine leaders who led their nations through the greatest wars the world has ever seen and whose unique strengths—and weaknesses—shaped the course of human history, from the bestselling, award-winning author of Churchill, Napoleon, and The Last King of America “Has the enjoyable feel ...

The rise and fall of Britain's most important industry

The eclectic essays of lauded Harvard professor Roy Mottahedeh

[Previously published as 'Went The Day Well']
'Of all the books marking the bicentenary Waterloo, this has to be the best' Spectator
'A book to die for' Evening Standard
From Samuel Johnson Prize shortlisted author David Crane, this is a breathtaking portrait of the Britain that fought the battle of Waterloo.

Never resissued before, The Moulids of Egypt is a unique study of the popular Muslim and Christian festivals of Egypt and a modern classic of Egyptology

The reclaimed history of a woman whose tragic life tells a story of madness, forced marriages and how the super-rich came to own London

Using the Cabinet papers from the National Archives, former Foreign Secretary David Owen has written a new history of the pivotal British War Cabinet meetings of May 1940. Eight months into the war defeat seemed to many a certainty.

Britain's relationship with the giant on the edge of the continent, Russia, are surprisingly under explored. With Owen's characteristic insight and expertise, Riddle, Mystery, Enigma depicts a relationship as often governed by principle as by suspicion, expediency, and outright necessity.

The first biography in a decade of Afghan resistance leader Ahmad Shah Massoud.

The astonishing true story of how Catherine the Great joined forces with a Quaker doctor from Essex to spearhead a groundbreaking public health campaign

A rich, wide-ranging and accessible introduction to over 2,000 years of history

Buried in the history of our most famous jail, a unique story of captivity, violence and race

The eclectic essays of lauded Harvard professor Roy Mottahedeh

A beautifully illustrated history of the Queen of Flowers and her enduring power in our gardens, art, religion and imagination.