All History

A Book of the Year for The Times, Mail on Sunday and BBC History Magazine...

A magisterial history of the Renaissance and the birth of the modern world The cultural...

From the author of She-Wolves, the epic story of a rivalry that brought the nation...

A witty and thought-provoking exploration of culture in all its forms from the writer behind...

A riotous biography of the charismatic ruler of 18th-century Poland and Saxony, and his catastrophic...

Female kings have always been a rarity, an oddity, or an undesirable outcome. In almost...

'BOLD AND BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN' Tom Holland 'MY GOD, THIS BOOK IS NEEDED. HISTORY HAS NEVER...

A bold new account of Europe's plight as it faces political fracture, economic stagnation and...

Zeinab Badawi, award-winning broadcaster and President of SOAS, tells an epic story of the oldest...

Taking readers on a global journey through human history, Natasha Tidd examines how lies can...

Winner of the Overseas Press Club of America's Cornelius Ryan book award One of the...

This book takes the reader on an immersive journey through medieval manuscript production in the...

'A truly splendid read, richly detailed and powered by an unfailing gift for storytelling' John...

Since its foundation in 1948, Israel has drawn on Zionism, the movement behind its creation,...

'Eminently readable' - The TLS Books of the Year, 2024 Ocean is an ambitious history...

'A treasure of a book' - The New Yorker Now with an exclusive new introduction...

A biographical study of Hitler's inner circle offers a new way to understand the horrors...

The first global history of the epic early days of the iron railway Railways, in...

The first thorough account of a formative and little understood chapter in Chinese history "Almost...

How Africa's most notorious tyrant made his oppressive regime seem both necessary and patriotic Idi...

Scotland's Clans & Their Tartans offers an authoritative exploration of the origins and evolution of...

**Winner, Pulitzer Prize 2025** **Winner, Pushkin House Russian Book Prize 2025** A 'riveting history' (Wall...

'Certain to become the definitive work' DOUGLAS SMITH 'Elegantly written and magisterially researched' ROBERT SERVICE...

From one of today's leading historians of the early medieval period, an enthralling chronicle of...

Written by a Holocaust survivor whose family collected art, Plunder and Survival tells the stories...

In The Kremlin's Noose Amy Knight tells the riveting story of Vladimir Putin and the...

50th ANNIVERSARY EDITION - now a Virago Modern Classic with a new introduction by Alexandra...

A sparkling exploration of the four cardinal directions, by the acclaimed author of A History...