Unruly: A History of England's Kings and Queens by David Mitchell
Category: History
A seriously FUNNY, seriously CLEVER history of our early kings and queens by one of our favourite comedians and cultural commentators This will be the most refreshing, entertaining history of England you'll have ever read. Certainly, the funniest. Because David Mitchell will explain how it is not all n ...Show more
Blood and Power: The Rise and Fall of Italian Fascism by John Foot
Category: History
'Clear, cool, plainly written and devastating' Lucy Hughes-Hallett, Times Literary SupplementA major history of the rise and fall of Italian fascism- a dark tale of violence, ideals and a country at war.In the aftermath of the First World War, the seeds of fascism were sown in Italy. While the country r ...Show more
Populus: Living and Dying in the Wealth, Smoke and Din of Ancient Rome by Guy de la Bedoyere
Category: History
A Time Travellers Guide to Ancient Rome - by one of the best historians of the ancient world Living in ancient Rome was superbly and vividly recorded by Rome's historians, philosophers, and poets who were acutely aware of the seething and voluptuous nature of a city that ruled the known world. Through ...Show more
Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World by Victoria Finlay
Category: History
A magnificent work of original research that unravels history through textiles and cloth -- how we make it, use it, and what it means to us. How is a handmade fabric helping save an ancient forest? Why is a famous fabric pattern from India best known by the name of a Scottish town? How is a Chinese dr ...Show more
November 1942: An Intimate History of the Turning Point of the Second World War by Peter Englund
Category: History
'An astonishing achievement' ANTONY BEEVOR'Extraordinary' JULIA BOYDAn intimate history of the most important month of the Second World War - perhaps the century - as experienced by those who lived through it, completely based on their diaries, letters and memoirs.At the beginning of November 1942, it l ...Show more
Southeast Asia: An Introductory History by Milton Osborne
Category: History
A lively and easy-to-read guide to Southeast Asian history written by one of the world's pre-eminent historians of the area. Southeast Asia: An introductory historywas first published in 1979 and immediately filled a need for travellers and students interested in one of the most dynamic and diverse regi ...Show more
Young Elizabeth Princess Prisoner Queen by Nicola Tallis
Category: History
Elizabeth I is renowned for the hugely successful reign that has led her to be considered one of the most celebrated monarchs in English history. But what of the trials she faced in her tumultuous early life? Her status as a princess didn’t last long – when she was less than three years old, her mother, ...Show more
Silk Roads: A New History of the World: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The sun is setting on the Western world. Slowly but surely, the direction in which the world spins has reversed- where for the last five centuries the globe turned westwards on its axis, it now turns to the east. For centuries, fame and fortune were to be found in the west - in the New World of the Amer ...Show more
The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World by Antony Loewenstein
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Bestselling journalist Antony Loewenstein uncovers the widespread commercialisation and brutal deployment globally of Israel's occupation-enforcing technologies. For more than 50 years, the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza has given the Israeli state invaluable experience in controlling an 'enemy' p ...Show more
Property - The Myth That Built the World by Rowan Moore
Category: History
A powerful examination of how property shaped the modern world - and why it now threatens the freedoms and stability it was meant to sustain.Property carries a great promise: that it will make you rich and set you free. But it is also a weapon, an agent of displacement and exploitation, the currency of ...Show more
Operation Chiffon: The Secret Story of MI5 and MI6 and the Road to Peace in Ireland by Peter Taylor
Category: History
'What an extraordinary asset Peter Taylor is for the BBC and for British journalism' - Jonathan Freedland, bestselling author of The Escape Artist_______________On the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, Peter Taylor tells for the first time the gripping story of Operation Chiffon, MI5's top- ...Show more
The Forgers: The Forgotten Story of the Holocaust's Most Audacious Rescue Operation by Roger Moorhouse
Category: History
This is the untold story of The Lados Group, a group of Polish diplomats and Jewish activists based in Switzerland during the Second World War who conceived an extraordinary operation to produce false identity documents and passports, often to Latin American countries. These were smuggled into occupied ...Show more