Early History: c 500 to c 1450/1500

Dig through the layers of time to find the Viking past beneath our city streets. Shipbuilding, praying, raiding, trading and playing Viking custo...

The bloody Wars of the Roses between the Houses of Lancaster and York ended with the killing of Richard III. With the recent discovery of his skele...

In The Real Middle-Earth, explore the magically enchanting early-English civilization on which Tolkien based his world of The Lord of the Rings.Tol...

The renowned Gallic poet Pacatus Drepanius journeyed to Rome in the summer of AD 389 to deliver a speech to the Emperor Theodosius; both men stood ...

In over 2,000 years of Christianity, there has been only one pope from England: Nicholas Breakspear.Breakspear was elected pope in 1154, but his st...

Military History of Late Rome 565-602 provides a new fresh analysis of the Roman Empire in the aftermath of the reconquests of Justinian I (527-65)...

If it had not been for Owain Glyndwr's 15-year struggle against overwhelming odds, the Welsh would not have survived as Europe's oldest nation. His...

The Wars of the Roses which took place in England during the 15th century have passed into folk-memory as bloody, vicious struggles for power, with...

The medieval earldoms of Orkney and Caithness were positioned between two worlds, the Norwegian and the Scottish. They were a maritime lordship div...

A pocketbook reproduction of the Declaration of Arbroath with historical analysis by Tom Turpie to commemorate the 700th anniversary of the signing...

Journey back in time and marvel at the history of our world like never before with this children's encyclopedia perfect for curious kids.Forming pa...

The popular image of the Vikings is of tall red-headed men, raping and pillaging their way around the coast of Europe, stopping only to ransack mon...

In the fifth century, the Roman Empire collapsed and Western Europe began remaking itself in the turmoil that followed. In south-west Britain, old ...

Over six hundred years ago a woman known as Julian of Norwich wrote what is now regarded as one of the greatest works of literature in English. Bas...

The 'Dark' Ages have often been crudely depicted as an era of mass illiteracy and ignorance, and of terrifying heathen hordes swarming across the E...

. . . I have sailed the seas and come To the holy city of Byzantium. W. B. Yeats From the foundation of Constantinople in 330 to its fall in 1453...

Discover the official inside story of the life, death and remarkable discovery of history''s most controversial monarch.On 22 August 1485 Richard I...

The hidden story of a little-known but transformative period in the formation of England as a nation. The Viking Great Army that swept through E...

The ninth century Historia Brittonum is the first source that mentions Arthur and lists twelve battles, including the famous Badon Hill. Much ink h...

The legend of King Arthur has been told and retold for centuries. As the king who united a nation, his is the story of England itself. But what if ...

A History of the Patriarchs of Alexandria presents a series of biographies of the Coptic patriarchs from the beginning (St Mark) to 849 AD. Ascribe...

Paris in 1200 was a city in transition. The great cathedral of Notre Dame was halfway through its construction and walls were being built to enclos...

Sharpen your knowledge of swords with Kristen B. Neuschel as she takes you through a captivating 1,000 years of French and English history. Living ...

Overturns the long-established historical narrative about the origins and purpose of the Knights Templar Explains how and why the Templars created...

The heart of Urbanization in Early and Medieval China consists of translations of three gazetteers written during the Han (206 BCE220 CE), Tang (61...

The dramatic one-thousand-year history of Jews in Spain comes to life in Exiles in Sepharad. Jeffrey Gorsky vividly relates this colorful period of...

Dive into the gripping narrative of The Darkening Age by Catherine Nixey that unfolds the rarely told, shocking story of a militant faith consuming...

Joan of Arcs life and death mark a turning point in the destiny both of France and England and the history of their monarchies. It is a great shame...

A gripping account of the Wars of the Roses battle of Towton - the most brutal day in English history.'Vivid, humane and superbly researched' David...

The Wars of the Roses were a series of brutal conflicts between rival branches of the Plantagenet family the Lancastrians and the Yorkists. The wa...

The momentous events of 1066, the story of invasion, battle and conquest, are well known. But what of the women? Harold II of England had been wi...

A landmark biography of the charismatic king beloved of fourteenth-century England Edward III (13121377) was the most successful European ruler of ...

'Violet Moller brings to life the ways in which knowledge reached us from antiquity to the present day in a book that is as delightful as it is rea...

Sharpen your knowledge of swords with Kristen B. Neuschel as she takes you through a captivating 1,000 years of French and English history. Living ...

A BRILLIANT BIOGRAPHICAL ANTHOLOGY FROM ONE OF THE WORLD'S MORE FOREMOST HISTORICAL NOVELISTS. Beautifully illustrated with rare portraits, The Wom...

Historians typically single out the hundred-year period from about 1050 to 1150 as the pivotal moment in the history of the Latin Church, for it wa...

Æthelflæd, eldest daughter of Alfred the Great, has gone down in history as an enigmatic and almost legendary figure. To the popular imagination, s...

''The Last Viking is a masterful and pulse-pounding narrative that transports the reader into the middle of the action.'' Carl Gnam, Military Herit...

One of the most enigmatic figures in world history, King Arthur has been the subject of many fantastical tales over the past 1500 years, leading ma...