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Books for Father's Day
12 Jun 2018
Lucky for you, bookshops will cater to all your gift buying needs.
Read an extract from Annie Gray's The Greedy Queen telling the stories of Victorian royal wedding spreads.
Anquetil, Alone by Paul Fournel is shortlisted for the Sports Book Awards 2018 for Biography of the Year and Cycling Book of the Year
New releases
Conan Doyle for the Defence
Arthur and George meets The Suspicions of Mr Whicher: how the creator of Sherlock Holmes overturned...
The Hardmen
Stories of the toughest cyclists of all time, told by The Velominati, originators of The Rules
Red Card
The full story behind the FIFA's headline-grabbing corruption scandal, soon to be a major film
Are You Smarter Than A Chimpanzee?
Now in paperback, the author of international psychological sensation Psy-Q takes us inside the...
Water Ways
Most of us in England and Wales live within five miles of a canal - and they are used more today...
Comparing Notes
We are all instinctively musical. Why? And how does music work? Indeed, what is (or isn't)...
Anquetil, Alone
The legend of Jacques Anquetil, controversial French cycling star of the 60s, told through the eyes...
How Democracy Ends
All political systems come to an end, even democracies - David Runciman shows us how to recognise...
The Greedy Queen
Full of original research, Annie Gray's first book considers Britain's most iconic monarch...
Shapeshifters
The mysteries of human transformation brought lyrically to life by the bestselling author of...
What We Think About When We Think About Football
A philosopher's take on what makes the beautiful game
Videos
Watch the Medieval Bodies animation
03 Apr 2018
Watch our beautiful animation of the cover of Jack Hartnell's Medieval Bodies
Watch Velominati founder Frank Strack introduce some of the toughest cyclists of all time
28 Jun 2017
Founder of The Velominati & co-author of The Hardmen Frank Strack tells us about some of the toughest cyclists of all time.
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Events
Civilisations at Wimpole History Festival
24 Jun 2018
Join bestselling TV historians Mary Beard and David Olusoga as they examine history through the lens of global culture.
Three years in the making, and filmed in 31 countries and on six continents, the BBC's Civilisations series questions what lies at the heart of identity - and what makes us human. Civilisations presenters Beard and Olusoga will discuss the ideas underlying their respective contributions to the series to uncover what we now think 'civilisation' is, and our stake in the very idea of it.
Chaired by Mark Jones, former Director of the Victoria & Albert Museum
Peter Hart at Wimpole History Festival
24 Jun 2018
Mention 1918 and we usually fast-forward to the Armistice, jumping over the climactic battles that brought the First World War to an end. Peter Hart, oral historian at the Imperial War Museum, and author of Gallipoli and other acclaimed books on 1914-18, brings to life the forgotten voices from the front as he narrates the Great War's dramatic endgame.
Chaired by David Reynolds, festival patron and Professor of International History, University of Cambridge
Andrew Martin tells stories from the history of and his travels on Europe's night trains.
