History

Based on new research and fresh discoveries Rivers of Time tells the true, dramatic story of one of the first women to leave England for the Caribbean in 1635. Her equally remarkable descendants have been traced to the present day.

Black Victorians shows how Black lives were visible, present and influential - not temporary presences but established and rooted; and how paradox and ambivalence characterised the Victorian view of race.

The never-before-told story of the club whose audacious ideas and unruly acts transformed an international feminist agenda into a modern way of life.

A new history of ingenuity from the author of The Secret Lives of Colour.

In the frontier town of Springfield in 1651, peculiar things begin to happen. Precious food spoils, livestock ails and property vanishes. People suffer fits and are plagued by strange visions and dreams. Children sicken and die. As tensions rise, rumours spread of witches and heretics, and the community ...

In The State vs. Nelson Mandela, Joel Joffe, the Instructing Attorney of the defendants at the time, gives a blow-by-blow account of the most important trial in South Africa's history.

Originally published to accompany a major exhibition at London Transport Museum about the First World War. Full of unseen photos and illustrations. A fascinating illustrated look at London life and transport thought WW1.

During the First World War the old medieval City of Ypres was the centre of one of the most notorious battlefields of war: the Ypres Salient. As early as 22 November 1914, the most famous monuments of the town, the Cloth Hall and St Martin's Church, were ablaze. Over the following four years, the entire ...

In 1914, Princess Mary, the only daughter of King George V, was just 17. Yet with the world war two months old, the young princess was destined to make her mark. She would send a Christmas gift to all those serving in uniform, 'afloat and at the front.' With great determination, she set about her task ...

What happens when you put the Roman Empire in the hands of a teenage boy? The life and times of the worst Roman emperor of all.

This is the biography of the military leader, the Marquis of Montrose. A successful commander of the Scottish royalist forces during the war with the Covenanters, contemporaneous with the English Civil War. This book reveals Montrose's military skills in descriptions of his battles, and also discusses ...

A transformative history - in Tudor times there were Africans living and working in Britain, and they were free

This book is an attempt to explain the inexplicable - the systematic murder of millions of Europe's Jews by the Nazis and their collaborators during the Second World War.

In the dying days of the USSR, battlelines have shifted from spycraft to the cut-throat capitalism and it's intellectual property, not state secrets, that are to be bought, sold, stolen and fought over

The very purpose of history is to gather up what is about to be lost for ever.

Castles are the most familiar medieval landmark across the Irish countryside. Their often romantic appearance belies their turbulent history and their lore abounds in stories of sieges, betrayals and daring escapes.

"On 10th May 1941, an extraordinary event occurred. In many ways it was the most bizarre and inexplicable episode of the Second World War and it has never been fully explained - until now. On that spring day, Rudolf Hess, Adolf Hitler's deputy, took off from Augsberg airfield in a Messerschmitt BF110. ...

Instant History pulls together all the pivotal moments in modern history into one concise volume.

Using the same "Museum in a Book" format as the popular "Lewis and Clark on the Trail of Discovery," this biography brings Benjamin Franklin to life through words and such removable documents as portions of "Poor Richard's Almanack" and Franklin's edits to the Declaration of Independence.

Now in book form, this is the intensely moving first-person account of "the Auschwitz Memoirist's extraordinary manuscript" described in Philip Roth's Patrimony: A True Story.
This is the true story of a young man born at the wrong time in the wrong place. Lothar Orbach's family proudly traces its German ...