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Think you know the Kings and Queens of England? Think again. In ‘Unruly’, David Mitchell explores how early England’s monarchs, while acting as feared rulers firmly guiding their ...
The astonishing story of the ejection seat and the pilots who have had to rely on it
...Spanning 3,000 years, from the birth of Minoan Crete to the death of the Julio-Claudian dynasty in Rome, a magisterial new history of the ancient world told, for the very first time, through women....
Make room Herodotus, stand down Bede, pipe down Pepys – there’s a new history book in town. From the chart-topping podcast The Rest is History, a whistle-stop tour through the past R...
After World War II, Britain’s overseas empire disintegrated. But over the next seventy years, empire came to define Britain as never before. From immigration and race riots, to the Suez Crisi...
In the overwhelming chaos across Asia at the end of the Second World War, one relatively minor issue was the future of the Japanese colony of Taiwan, a large island some one hundred miles off the c...
The end of the Second World War is in sight. Following the Western Allies’ overwhelming victory on D-Day, Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin are all prepared to shape the future, and Operation M...
Cleopatra: lover, seductress, and Egypt’s greatest queen. A woman more myth than history, immortalized in poetry, drama, music, art, and film. She captivated Julius Caesar and Marc Antony, th...
Anne Boleyn has mesmerised the English public for centuries. Her tragic execution, orchestrated by her own husband, never ceases to intrigue. How did this courtier’s daughter become the queen...
The countryside is cherished by many Britons. There is a depth of feeling about rural places, the moors and lochs, valleys and mountains, cottages and country houses. Yet the British countryside, s...
An intricate and personal history of watches and time, told by an extraordinary watchmaker and historian.
...The scintillating follow-up to Pandora’s Jar from bestselling author Natalie Haynes.
...‘Remarkable’ Literary Review
‘Startlingly original’ Amanda Foreman
Some called it a craze. To others it was a cult. J...
‘People embraced each other, shook hands, joy radiated from every eye, there was no limit to the celebrations.’ There can be few more exciting or frightening moments in European history...
What’s the connection between Shakespeare and maths? A lot, as it turns out! Shakespeare grew up in a time of remarkable mathematical innovation. From astronomy to probability, music to multi...
For too long, Africa’s history has been neglected. Dominated by western narratives of slavery and colonialism, its past has been fragmented, overlooked and denied its rightful place in our gl...
Drawing on over 40 years of post-Franco scholarship, ‘The Penguin History of Modern Spain’ transforms our knowledge of Spain and its politics, society, economics and culture. It interwe...
First used as a drug capable of treating mental illnesses, then as a ‘truth serum’ by the CIA, this book reveals how the fortuitous discovery of LSD in April 1943 led to a mass exploita...
Hundreds of thousands of miles of paths reach into, and connect, communities across England and Wales. By 2026, 10,000 miles of undiscovered footpaths around Britain stand to be lost. Jack Cornish ...