‘If human rights are considered the most essential quality of human existence, then this book represents a lifetime devoted to the fight for those rights’...
Britain. Made in Europe. In the 1930s, tens of thousands of central Europeans sought sanctuary from fascism in Britain.While the rainy, seemingly quaint island they...
Insiders call it the Craft.Founded in London in 1717 as a way of binding men in fellowship, Freemasonry proved so addictive that within two decades...
This remarkable book recreates one of the watershed moments in the history of the Middle East: the ferocious outbreaks of disorder across the Levant in...
The essential illustrated guide to the gods and goddesses of ancient Greece and Rome, vividly retelling their stories and exploring their origins. Who were the...
How the modern world has understood the ancient Greeks and why they matter todayThe study of ancient Greek history has been central to the western...
From the earliest Paleolithic cave rituals, magic has gripped the imagination. Today, magic means many things: contemporary Wicca is practised widely as a modern pagan...
'Eye-opening, thought-provoking and deeply enjoyable, What is Free Speech? is a work of great profundity and brilliance’ William DalrympleA fresh and exciting approach to one...
'An intimate, insightful portrait of an extraordinarily private leader' WALTER ISAACSONFrom the bestselling author of Enemies of the PeopleAn intimate and deeply researched account of...
Drag is transformation, communication, and, above all, exaggeration, where gender non-conformity is the plat du jour. This fearless book observes this increasingly complex world by...
We think we know ancient Greece, the civilisation that shares the same name and gave us just about everything that defines 'western' culture today, in...
Ten years after its first publication, Michael Reid's best-selling survey of the state of contemporary Latin America has been wholly updated to reflect the new...
A revelatory new biography of Adolf Hitler from the acclaimed historian Brendan SimmsAdolf Hitler is one of the most studied men in history, and yet...
The acclaimed historian of modern Britain, Dominic Sandbrook, tells the story of the early 1980s: the most dramatic, colourful and controversial years in our recent...
The first full-length, archive-based history of Soviet Central Television's production and programming in the decades before perestroika In the first full-length study of Soviet Central...
Arrested in 1962 as South Africa's apartheid regime intensified its brutal campaign against political opponents, forty-four-year-old lawyer and African National Congress activist Nelson Mandela had...
The untold story of a group of Irish cities and their remarkable development before the age of industrialization...
The first comprehensive history of seventeenth-century London, told through the lives of those who experienced it...
Why do we put north at the top of maps? Which maps show us the way to Heaven, and which show the ",land of no...
From the Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author of How to Be an Artist:&,nbsp,a deliciously readable survey of the art world in turbulent timesJerry Saltz...
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