History & Classics
The Disappearance of Lydia Harvey
Julia Laite
An immersive historical account of a fascinating and important untold story
The Handshake
Ella Al-Shamahi
For the first time, this quirky and engaging history reveals the secrets of one of our most ancient social gestures
The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen
Linda Colley
Award-winning historian Linda Colley shows the dawn of the modern world – through the advance of written constitutions
The Colonizer and the Colonized
Albert Memmi
In this classic study of European colonialism, Albert Memmi examines the psychological effects of colonial ideology and system on both the colonizer a…
Strongmen
Ruth Ben-Ghiat
A leading academic exposes the historical and cultural contexts which allow political strongmen to thrive
The Aeneid
Shadi Bartsch
A fresh new translation of Vergil's Aeneid by a renowned classicist and scholar of Latin literature
War
Margaret MacMillan
How the human history of conflict has transformed the world we live in – for good and evil.
Cows and Curates
Judith Curthoys
A unique account of the land and property owned by Oxford's grandest college
The Black Book
Sybil Oldfield
For the first time, discover the stories of the heroic men and women the Nazis singled out for death in their plan to invade Britain
Breaking Bread with the Dead
Alan Jacobs
The past isn't cancelled: it's not even past. How to cherish authors from Aristotle to Edith Wharton without succumbing to their most regretta…
Britain at Bay
Alan Allport
Power. Glory. Death. Courage. How well do we know the story of the Second World War?
Rummage
Emily Cockayne
An original exploration of all the ordinary, extraordinary and totally mad things we've thrown out and redeemed through the ages
At Close Range
Peter Hart
A British Band of Brothers: a thrilling account of the Second World War, told through the eyes of a regiment who fought at battles from Tobruk to the…
Active Measures
Thomas Rid
This startling history of secret psychological operations traces the century-long rise of organized deception from the Russian Revolution to contempor…
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Philip Coggan
A panoramic history of trade, industry and economic thought, from prehistoric times to the present.
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine
Rashid I. Khalidi
This is the story of Palestine told from the inside
Victory in the Kitchen
Annie Gray
The story of the twentieth century through one woman's life and the food she cooked for our most famous Prime Minister, Winston Churchill