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The Women Who Saved the English Countryside

A vibrant history of English landscape preservation over the last 150 years, told through the lives of four remarkable women

The Hidden Injuries of Class

How to find dignity and a meaningful life in the modern city

Reason and Revolution

A vital book in the development of critical theory and for understanding the great battle between liberal and reactionary thought, Reason...

The Last Emperor of Mexico - A Disaster in the New World

Courting India - England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire

A profound and ground-breaking new history of one of the most important encounters in the history of colonialism: the British arrival in ...

Rule, Nostalgia - A Backwards History of Britain

** A FINANCIAL TIMES, NEW STATESMAN AND GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR ** 'A must read' - Janina Ramirez, bestselling author of Femina 'An eye...

The History of Emotions: A Very Short Introduction

Emotions are complex mental states that resist reduction. Intimate and private, yet gaining substance and significance from their social ...

Language Contact in Ancient Egypt

This book provides the first comprehensive introduction to the field of language contact and multilingualism in ancient Egypt before the ...

The Power of Emotions - A History of Germany from 1900 to the Present

Emotions make history, and emotions have a history. Through engaging analysis of twenty essential and powerful emotions - including anger...

Nuts and Bolts - How Tiny Inventions Make Our World Work

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2023* *AS HEARD ON RADIO 4 START THE WEEK, OFF AIR WITH FI AND JANE AND 99% INVISIB...

Disorder - Hard Times in the 21st Century

Disorder: Hard Times in the 21st Century explains the historical origins of the political shocks of the past decade: why politics has bee...

Insane Emperors, Sunken Cities, and Earthquake Machines - More Frequently Asked Questions about the Ancient Greeks and Romans

In a series of short and humorous essays, Insane Emperors, Sunken Cities, and Earthquake Machines features more answers to questions that...

Stalin and the Fate of Europe - The Postwar Struggle for Sovereignty

It can seem as though the Cold War division of Europe was inevitable. But Stalin was more open to a settlement on the continent than is a...

Architects of Terror - Paranoia, Conspiracy and Anti-Semitism in Franco's Spain

A TIMESHISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR From the preeminent historian of 20th century Spain Paul Preston, Architects of Terror is a new history o...

A Brief History of the Pacific - The Great Ocean

A concise history of the Pacific, which emphasises the very different physical and human environments both of the four quadrants of the o...

The Anticolonial Transnational - Imaginaries, Mobilities, and Networks in the Struggle Against Empire

"The first volume to explore transnational anticolonialism as a global phenomenon spanning the entire twentieth century. Leading scholars...

Black Victorians - Hidden in History

Black Victorians shows how Black lives were visible, present and influential â ¿ not temporary presences but established and rooted; and ...

Liverpool: A Potted History

An accessible history of Liverpool from prehistory to the present day highlighting the cityâEUR(TM)s significant events and people.

Secret Perth

Secret Perth explores the lesser-known history of the city of Perth through a fascinating selection of stories, unusual facts and attract...

A-Z of Chiswick - Places-People-History

Explore the West London town of Chiswick in this fully illustrated A-Z guide to its history, people and places.

Celebrating Lancaster

A celebration of Lancaster's rich heritage and identity - its special events, achievements, people, industry and landmarks.

Celebrating Evesham

A celebration of Evesham's rich heritage and identity - its special events, achievements, people, industry and landmarks.

Honoured by Edinburgh - Beneficiaries of the Freedom of Edinburgh since 1459

A fascinating history of conferring the Freedom of Edinburgh, and the influential individuals and organisations honoured by the civic aut...

Secret Burnley & Pendle

Discover the lesser-known and secret hidden illustrated heritage of Burnley and Pendle in Lancashire.

Celebrating Chester

A celebration of Chester's rich heritage and identity - its special events, achievements, people, industry and landmarks.

Going Underground: The Black Country

A fascinating exploration of the underground world and its history beneath the surface of the Black Country.

The Long Shadow of German Colonialism - Amnesia, Denialism and Revisionism

A no-holds-barred account of how German society struggles with its colonial legacy.

The Clausewitz Myth - Or the Emperor's New Clothes

The Clausewitz Myth argues that the strategist's work is largely exaggerated, and misplaced, based on common challenges that readers have...

Now Is Not the Time - Inside Our Obsession with the Present

What's so special about now? To maintain perspective, we need to be aware of our past and alert to the future.

Imagining Ireland's Pasts - Early Modern Ireland through the Centuries

The book describes how various authors addressed the history of early modern Ireland over four centuries, and explains why they could not...

Rate of Climb - Thrilling Personal Reminiscences from a Fighter Pilot and Leader

Rate of Climb is an original and continually entertaining biography, drawing on previously unpublished family and archival material, from...

Vickers Wellington I & II

Polish Wings No. 42 Vickers Wellington I & II offers an in-depth exploration of the role played by Polish Bombing Squadrons during their ...

Clear, Hold, Build - How the Free State Won the Irish Civil War

What was achieved by the Free State during the Irish Civil War was remarkable. Within a period of less than a year they raised and equipp...

Harrier Boys - Volume Two: New Technology, New Threats, New Tactics, 1990-2010

In the second volume of Harrier Boys, the history of this remarkable aircraft in service is illustrated through personal reminiscences of...

Ruralities in the Making: Space - Media/Translation - Materiality - Jahrbuch für Geschichte des ländlichen Raumes/Rural History Yearbook 2022

Rural spaces are relevant to several topics which are currently subject of public debate. Climate change, ecological disasters, reproduct...

The Notebook - A History of Thinking on Paper

The first history of the notebook, a simple invention that changed the way the world thinks. We see notebooks everywhere we go. But where...

Toronto in 100 Beers

Discover Toronto's wild, weird history and the 100 unique beers it inspired! Did you know that Babe Ruth hit his first home run in Toront...

Thinking Europe - A History of the European Idea Since 1800

Presenting a new historical narrative on European integration and identity this title examines how the concept of Europe has been entangl...

Atlas of Forgotten Places - Journeys to Abandoned and Deserted Destinations

Atlas of Forgotten Places is a collection of maps so unique and left behind that you won’t even believe they exist.

Fleet Air Arm Legends - Hawker Sea Fury

Empire of the East - Poland-Lithuania 1500-1700

From the Renaissance to the Great Northern War, Poland-Lithuania-Ukraine was the second largest country in Europe whose armies ruled from...

Fleet Air Arm Legends - Fairey Fulmar

Reliable and rugged with enough firepower to get the job done, Fairey's Fulmar fighter and reconnaissance aircraft was an essential weapo...

Eagles of the Luftwaffe: Dfs 230

When it came to daring raids, Germany's airborne troops had a secret weapon during the Second World War: the DFS 230 combat and assault g...

Cavalier and King of Man - James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby

James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby, was a pivotal figure in the Civil War in Lancashire, between 1642-51, and in governance of North-West o...

Bomber Command's War Against Germany - Planning the Raf's Bombing Offensive in WWII and Its Contribution to the Allied Victory

The all-too frequently cited mantra that 'the bomber will always get through' had dominated Britain's strategic air policy in the decades...

Prague, Jan Hus and Prague University

Contextualizes the Czech Reformation in the setting of Prague University. The Czech Reformation offered a radical solution to the spiritu...

Goodbye Eastern Europe - An Intimate History of a Divided Land

'Do not rush to bid farewell to eastern Europe until reading this book. Meticulously researched and beautifully written, this very person...

Cassino '44 - The Bloodiest Battle of the Italian Campaign

There are no such thing as an easy victory in war but after triumph in Tunisia, the sweeping success of the Sicilian invasion, and with t...

The Mother of all Networks - Britain and the Commonwealth in the 21st Century - The Face of the Future

Sources for the History of Western Civilization - Volume Two: From the Reformation to the Present, Third Edition

This collection of diverse primary sources introduces students to the essential skill of reading historical sources.

Sources for the Shaping of Western Civilization - Volume One: From Antiquity to the Reformation, Third Edition

This collection of diverse primary sources introduces students to the essential skill of reading historical sources.

Smell and the Past - Noses, Archives, Narratives

What if researchers interested in 'the past' used their noses? This open access book makes the case for a more imaginatively interdiscipl...

Analysing Historical Narratives - On Academic, Popular and Educational Framings of the Past

For all of the recent debates over the methods and theoretical underpinnings of the historical profession, scholars and laypeople alike s...

Debating Contemporary Approaches to the History of Science

Debating Contemporary Approaches to the History of Science explores the main themes, problems and challenges currently at the top of the ...

The Shaping of Western Civilization - Volume Two: From the Reformation to the Present, Third Edition

The third edition of this textbook provides a coherent history of the West, pointing students to major issues and modelling how historian...

Against All Odds - Walter Tull the Black Lieutenant

Walter Tull would have been a remarkable individual no matter when he had been born, but to achieve what he did, during the time that he ...

The Great Defiance - How the world took on the British Empire

The story of the British Empire is a familiar one: Britain came, it saw, it conquered, forging a glorious world empire upon which the sun...

A Passion for Castles - The Story of Macgibbon and Ross and the Castles They Surveyed

This book tells the little-known story of the pioneering two architects and how they carried out their surveys of 700 of Scotland's caste...

A Cultural History of Sport in the Medieval Age

A Cultural History of Sport in the Medieval Age covers the period 600 to 1450. Lacking any viable ancient models, sport evolved into two ...

A Cultural History of Sport in the Modern Age

A Cultural History of Sport in the Modern Age covers the period 1920 to today. Over this time, world-wide participation in sport has been...