History

General History

From the lavishly illustrated, popular 'Seventy' series to the award-winning scholarship in The True History of Chocolate, from such engrossing reads as The Story of Writing and Gay Life and Culture, our books on history are broad in reach, ambitious in scale and second to none.

The Age of Empires

The Age of Empires

  • Hardback
It would be very difficult to find a more beautifully produced book … the images are simply breathtaking … this is a book to be enjoyed for the most part at leisure, as a kind of stimulant for the mind and senses – The Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History

The Arms of Greece and her Balkan Neighbours in the Ottoman Period

The Arms of Greece and her Balkan Neighbours in the Ottoman Period

  • Hardback
Fresh and convincing … will undoubtedly become the standard reference on Balkan weapons – Military Illustrated

Assassination

Assassination

A History of Political Murder

  • Hardback
Very readable and fascinating – Good Book Guide

At Home in Australia

At Home in Australia

  • Hardback
With its wealth of anecdote, history, acute cultural insight and visual perceptions, served up in Conrad’s liquid prose, this is a book that holds surprises galore, and riches to offer both those who know the country and those who would like to – Financial Times Magazine

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Berlin in the Twenties

Art and Culture 1918-1933

  • Hardback
An absolute treasure … an essential resource for understanding what may well have been the most brilliantly creative yet also the most broodingly anguished cultural setting of the 20th century – The Art Newspaper

Books: A Living History

Books: A Living History

  • Hardback
A feast for bibliophiles and those fascinated by the world of print – We Love This Book

Books on Fire

Books on Fire

The Tumultuous Story of the World's Great Libraries

  • Quarter bound with jacket
Teems with narrative detail … an enthralling and terrifying read …  the story it tells – of the continuing reign of folly, ineptitude and unreason – is a troubling and profoundly important one – The Economist

Cabinets of Curiosities

Cabinets of Curiosities

  • Quarter bound/PLC (no jacket)
Superb … extremely erudite … lavishly and beautifully illustrated, showing so many strange things that you can only marvel and stare at them in wide-eyed wonder – The Herald

The Calendar

The Calendar

Measuring Time

  • Paperback
Intensely readable … de Bourgoing weaves a rich, anecdotal line – Antiques Magazine

Chronicle of the Old Testament Kings

Chronicle of the Old Testament Kings

The Reign-by-Reign Record of the Rulers of Ancient Israel

  • Hardback
Biographical accounts of 83 leaders of ancient Israel, from the Ancestors and Judges to kings, queens, usurpers and freedom-fighters, their lives, deeds and personalities

Chronicle of the Russian Tsars

Chronicle of the Russian Tsars

The Reign-by-Reign Record of the Rulers of Imperial Russia

  • Paperback
The essential book on tsarist Russia – a highly readable popular history and a unique work of reference

The Christian World

The Christian World

A Social and Cultural History of Christianity

  • Paperback
A beautifully illustrated and thoughtfully written re-assessment of the role of Christianity in the story of European civilization – The Birmingham Post

Chronicle of the Chinese Emperors

Chronicle of the Chinese Emperors

The Reign-by-Reign Record of the Rulers of Imperial China

  • Paperback
An essential dual-purpose handbook on imperial China: a highly readable popular history and a unique work of reference.

The Cold War

The Cold War

  • Paperback (with 10 facsimile documents)
Very good indeed … well designed, with a perfect balance between pictures and text. It’s informative and authoritative … a fascinating look at a period that many of us lived through – Bournemouth Daily Echo