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English Mps - Legislators and Servants of Their Constituents, 1750-1800

What was the role of elected legislators? Was it to represent the opinions of constituents or to vote according to their informed opinion...

Race and Africa - Cultural and Historical Legacies

Beginning with the premise that race is a global phenomenon configured in the political context of European empire, this book presents st...

Broken Threads - My Family From Empire to Independence

'Unforgettable' SATHNAM SANGHERA 'Spell-binding' PETER FRANKOPAN 'Fascinating' WILLIAM DALRYMPLE

African Narratives of Slavery and Abolition - Testimonies from the 19th-Century

Peter the Great's Disastrous Defeat: The Swedish Victory at Narva, 1700

The Battle of Narva, in which Charles XII of Sweden defeated Peter the Great of Russia, occurred during the Great Northern War. Peter the...

An Unavoidable Evil - Siege Warfare in the Age of Napoleon

Sieges were the exception, rather than the norm, of the Napoleonic Wars. This simple truth may seem unremarkable to the modern reader, ye...

Elizabethan Society: High and Low Life, 1558-1603 - High and Low Life, 1558-1603

A vivid account of Elizabethan society through the lives of representative men and women, from landowners, financiers and soldiers to pro...

The Magnetism of Antarctica: The Ross Expedition 1839-1843 - The Ross Expedition 1839-1843

This is the first thorough account of the expedition - a pivotal moment in the annals of polar exploration. Never before or since has the...

Ireland, Slavery and the Caribbean - Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Ireland, slavery and the Caribbean draws together a diverse group of contributors to explore the many and varied ways in which Ireland an...

Patient Voices in Britain, 1840-1948

Patient voices in Britain repositions the patient at the centre of healthcare histories. By prioritising the patient's perspective in the...

Settlers at the End of Empire - Race and the Politics of Migration in South Africa, Rhodesia and the United Kingdom

This ground-breaking study integrates the history of both emigration from and immigration to the United Kingdom. Drawing attention to the...

One Fine Day - A Journey Through English Time

A time-travelling, genealogical adventure, bringing pre-industrial, rural, eighteenth-century England vividly to life on the page. One da...

Military Rebellion in Argentina - Between Coups and Consolidation

Argentina's recently established democracy endured the trauma of four major military uprisings between 1987 and 1990, continuing even aft...

Bismarck's War - The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe

'Superb on the human consequences of war, ravishing in its evocations of wartime life' The Times 'Compassionate and thought-provoking his...

Life of Mendel

First published in 1932. The widespread influence of Gregor Johann Mendel¿s work who, little known in his lifetime, was one of the pionee...

The Palace - From the Tudors to the Windsors, 500 Years of British History at Hampton Court

A “riotously readable…tender and affectionate” (Daily Mail, London) exploration of five hundred years of British history—from King Henry ...

Swiss Mercenaries in the Dutch East Indies - A Transimperial History of Military Labour, 1848-1914

Between 1848 and 1914 around 5,800 Swiss Mercenaries enlisted in the Dutch Colonial Army (KNIL) to fight in the Dutch East Indies (presen...

Worn - A People's History of Clothing

'This riveting behind-the-scenes story of the clothes on our backs is a must-read for clotheshorses everywhere' Harper's Bazaar 'Extraord...

Johnsonville - Union Supply Operations on the Tennessee River and the Battle of Johnsonville, November 4-5, 1864

Johnsonville unearths a wealth of new material that sheds light on the creation and strategic role of the Union supply depot, the use of ...

Empireland - How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain

EMPIREWORLD IS AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOW WINNER OF THE 2022 BRITISH BOOK AWARD FOR NARRATIVE NONFICTION ***THE BOOK THAT INSPIRED THE CHANNE...

Koh-i-Noor - The History of the World's Most Infamous Diamond

'Riveting. This highly readable and entertaining book ... finally sets the record straight on the history of the Koh-i-Noor' Tarquin Hall...

The Kaiser's Holocaust - Germany's Forgotten Genocide and the Colonial Roots of Nazism

On 12 May 1883, the German flag was raised on the coast of South-West Africa, modern Namibia - the beginnings of Germany's African Empire...

Greater than the Sum of Our Parts - Feminism, Inter/Nationalism, and Palestine

An inspiring and intersectional re-imagining of the path to liberation in Palestine

The Book of Phobias and Manias - A History of the World in 99 Obsessions

THE PERFECT GIFT FOR ALL BIBLIOMANIACS A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, SPECTATOR AND DAILY MAIL A WATERSTONES BEST POPU...

The Medici

'This forensic study of the Renaissance banking dynasty conjures up a world of art, literature, philosophy - and brutality' Telegraph 'Li...

Ain't I a Woman?

A collection of Sojourner Truth's iconic words, including her famous speech at the 1851 Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio A former...

The Notorious Massacre At Calabar In 1767

A close study of an event that had major repercussions for British participation in the Atlantic slave trade.

Young Queens - The gripping, intertwined story of Catherine de' Medici, Elisabeth de Valois and Mary, Queen of Scots

The boldly original, dramatic intertwined story of Catherine de' Medici, Elisabeth de Valois and Mary, Queen of Scots - three queens exer...

Hunting the Falcon - Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn and the Marriage That Shook Europe

A groundbreaking examination of how the marriage of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn sent shockwaves across a continent and changed England for...

The Other Renaissance - From Copernicus to Shakespeare

Enlightening and fascinating' John Banville, Wall Street Journal Through the lives of major figures from the fifteenth to the seventeenth...

Broken Threads - My Family From Empire to Independence

An extraordinary history of Mishal Husain's four grandparents, whose lives were shaped by the tumultuous politics and prejudices of empir...

Out of His Mind - Masculinity and Mental Illness in Victorian Britain

Out of his mind is a study of the consequences of a diagnosis of insanity for men, their families, their friends, and the culture at larg...

The Radical Potter - Josiah Wedgwood and the Transformation of Britain

*Longlisted for the William MB Berger Prize for British Art History, 2022*A spectacular biography of the great designer, entrepreneur, ab...

Patriot vs Loyalist - American Revolution 1775-83

Following the American Declaration of Independence, communities from Boston to Savannah were forced to make a choice: to strike out for a...

Something Wicked - The Lives, Crimes and Deaths of the Pendle Witches

On 20 August 1612, ten people from Pendle were executed before a vast crowd at Lancaster''s Gallows Hill. The condemned and their associa...

Possessed By the Devil - The Real History of the Islandmagee Witches and Ireland's Only Mass Witchcraft Trial

An updated and expanded edition examining Ireland's onyl mass witchcraft trial and the effect it had on Islandmagee's residents years aft...

The Overland Campaign - Grant Vs Lee 1864

A fully illustrated, accessible account of the Richmond campaign.

The Blood-Tinted Waters of the Shenandoah - The 1864 Valley Campaign's Battle of Cool Spring, July 17-18, 1864

"This book examines Gen. Horatio Wright's pursuit of Gen. Jubal Early into the Shenandoah and the clash on July 17-18, 1864. It analyzes ...

Agents of Empire - Knights, Corsairs, Jesuits, and Spies in the Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean World

The story of a Venetian-Albanian family in the late sixteenth century forms the basis of a sweeping account of the interaction between Ea...

Tudor Children

The first history of childhood in Tudor England

The Russian Patriotic War of 1812 Volume 2: The Russian Official History

The Russian Patriotic War of 1812 is the only publicly available translation into English of Bogdanovich's official history of the Russia...

French Armies of the Thirty Years' War 1618-48

French Armies of the Thirty Years' War presents the development of the French army, one of the first standing armies in Europe, from 1617...