History & Classics
Our History & Classics books are ideal for readers of ancient, military and social history. Mary Beard brings ancient Greece and Rome to life in SPQR, Emperor of Rome and Talking Classics; Rashid Khalidi unpacks the Middle East in his internationally acclaimed The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine and Andrew Martin chronicles the British seaside holiday in the Sunday Times bestseller To the Sea by Train.
The Glass Bathyscaphe
Gerry Martin
Glass is one of the greatest accidents in the history of humankind.
The New East End
Michael Young
This is a fascinating and honest book which builds upon the classic Family and Kinship in East London published nearly 50 years ago reflecting the aft…
A Short History of England
Simon Jenkins
The bestselling definitive concise account of our remarkable past – now updated
The Friar of Carcassonne
Stephen O'Shea
Secret tribunals, illegal rendition, torture, trumped up charges … all in a society controlled by fear. Such was the tenor of life in Languedoc arou…
A Serious Endeavour
Laura Schwartz
A delightfully subversive take on the traditional Oxford college history
Invisible Romans
Robert C. Knapp
Rome's invisible inhabitants – prostitutes, innkeepers, housewives, priests, freedmen, slaves, soldiers and gladiators – brought back to life.
The Roman Forum
David Watkin
The ruins of the Forum in Rome, the centre of its ancient Empire, are one of the best known wonders of antiquity and a highpoint of the tourist route…
Churchill's Bunker
Richard Holmes
For the first time, the history of the bunker – and daily life inside it – is revealed, by bestselling historian Richard Holmes.
The Ruin of the Roman Empire
James J O'Donnell
A provocative portrait of the end of Rome's empire in the 5th and 6th centuries by a major historian, who tells the story of the barbarians who m…
The Shock Of The Old
David Edgerton
'So the new is old, and the old is new! Marvellous stuff and absolutely spot-on.' – Simon Jenkins
The Tomb of Agamemnon
Cathy Gere
With wit and energy, Gere peels away layers of modern fantasy, literary imagination, political appropriation and fashions of modern scholarship.
Vesuvius
Gillian Darley
Volcanoes continue to grab our imagination – and Vesuvius is the most famous of them all.
Marathon
Alan Lloyd
The clash of civilisations at Marathon was one of the most renowned military battles of the ancient world and a pivotal moment in the course of Wester…
The Colosseum
Keith Hopkins
Award winning classicist, Mary Beard with Keith Hopkins, tell the story of Rome's greatest arena
Westminster Abbey
Richard Jenkyns
Fifteen royal weddings and thirty-eight coronations – Westminster Abbey was the venue for a sixteenth royal wedding, that of Kate Middleton and Prince…
Afgantsy
Rodric Braithwaite
A timely and eye-opening examination of the Russian experience during the Soviet war in Afghanistan
The Immortal Game
David Shenk
Bestselling author David Shenk shows us how 32 carved pieces on a board illuminated our understanding of war, science and the human brain
Stride Toward Freedom
Martin Luther King
The inspiring account of the march towards American Civil Rights, as told by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Clean
Katherine Ashenburg
'Ashenburg rolls up her sleeves and takes us on an engaging tour of hygiene through the ages. Her masterful mix of erudition and anecdote makes t…