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.
How to Build a Haunted House
Caitlin Blackwell Baines
A grand tour of the haunted house through art, architecture, ghost stories and more
Church Going
Andrew Ziminski
An insightful and charming history of Britain's churches – by an author who spends his life working in them
The Revelation of Ireland
Diarmaid Ferriter
A masterful history of a country transformed over 25 years, from Ireland's most distinguished historian
Tracks on the Ocean
Sara Caputo
A trailblazing history of how the marks left on maps tell the story of the world
The Green Ages
Annette Kehnel
A fascinating look at the medieval precedents for modern sustainable living
The History of Ideas
David Runciman
What is the history of ideas – and how has it shaped our world today?
At the Edge of Empire
Edward Wong
The essential history of modern China, told through the story of one family
Embers of the Hands
Eleanor Barraclough
A "brilliantly written, brilliantly conceived" (Tom Holland) history of the Viking Age, told through the everyday objects of ordinary people
Immaculate Forms
Helen King
Journey into the complex medical and religious history of women's bodies from classical Greece to the modern day
Native Nations
Kathleen DuVal
A Pulitzer-Prize winning new history of indigenous Americans, by the winner of the 2024 Cundill History Prize
On The Roof
Tom Allan
An outstanding study of an ancient craft, landscape and community from a unique new voice
Shifting Sands
Judith Scheele
A radical new account of the Sahara – from pre-history to the present day
Extractive Capitalism
Laleh Khalili
An eye-opening survey of how extractive industries power globalisation – and how to fight back
Writing on the Wall
Madeleine Pelling
Hear the voices of the eighteenth century: an eye-opening new history of Britain's most tumultuous period, told through its graffiti
Holy Places
Kathryn Hurlock
An exploration of pilgrimage, through nineteen breath-taking sites across the globe
Interwar
Gavin Stamp
An authoritative survey of British buildings between the wars by the late Gavin Stamp – one of Britain's best-known architecture critics
The House Divided
Barnaby Rogerson
A fresh look at the past, present and future of a conflict that lies at the heart of the Middle East
Impossible City
Simon Kuper
An unsparing memoir of the city in the twenty-first century, from a long-time Parisien d'adoption
The Language Puzzle
Steven Mithen
A groundbreaking new account of prehistory from one of the most esteemed archaeologists working today