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.
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
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 Language Puzzle
Steven Mithen
A groundbreaking new account of prehistory from one of the most esteemed archaeologists working today
Little Englanders
Alwyn Turner
An authoritative and entertaining history of the Edwardian age, told through its politics and popular culture
Exhausted
Anna Katharina Schaffner
Transformative insights on exhaustion, from ancient wisdom to modern life, by a celebrated burnout coach
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
The Notebook
Roland Allen
Diaries, sketchbooks, common-places, notebooks, ledgers and ships' logs: how the blank book changed the way we think, and helped us change the wo…
Emperor of Rome
Mary Beard
A sweeping account of the social and political world of the Roman emperors by 'the world's most famous classicist' (Guardian)
Fear
Robert Peckham
A ground-breaking examination of the societal impact of fear that gives us a thrilling insight on world history
How to be a Renaissance Woman
Jill Burke
Beauty, make up, power: plunge into the intimate history of cosmetics
Love in a Time of Hate
Florian Illies
The love lives of famous Europeans, as war approaches – from the bestselling author of 1913
All That She Carried
Tiya Miles
All That She Carried stands as an astonishing account of love, resilience and survival, one that helps to plug that archival abyss
A Terribly Serious Adventure
Nikhil Krishnan
An absorbing group biography of the Oxford thinkers who transformed philosophical thought in twentieth-century Britain
The Museum of Other People
Adam Kuper
A contemplation of the hotly-debated significance – and future – of anthropology museums, from a global expert
One Hundred Saturdays
Michael Frank
From the sun-soaked, vibrant Juderia of Rhodes to the horrors of the Nazi camps, Stella Levi's life – told to the author over a series of Saturda…
A Brief History of Pasta
Luca Cesari
Filled with mouth-watering recipes and engrossing tales, this is the story of Italy in ten dishes.
Astonish Me!
Dominic Dromgoole
A tour through the most sensational first nights across the arts, by the long-term Globe Theatre artistic director
The Book of Phobias and Manias
Kate Summerscale
A captivating A-Z compendium of our fixations by the bestselling author of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher