Early History: c 500 to c 1450/1500

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 events of 1000-1130 were crucial to the successful emergence of the medieval kingdom of the Scots. Yet this is one of the least researched peri...

From Yale's English Monarchs series, the most authoritative picture yet of King StephenKing has written a masterpiece that reveals how a medieval p...

Classica et Mediaevalia is an international periodical with articles written by Danish and foreign scholars. They are mainly published in English, ...

This book deals with a key archaeology of one of the prime Pictish settlements in north east Scotland. This updated 2nd edition continues and devel...

'A rare gift . . . The story he has to tell may be a thrilling one but not every historian could tell it so thrillingly.' Financial Times'Magnifice...

Elizabeth Woodville, wife of Edward IV, mother of Elizabeth of York and the Princes in the Tower, and grandmother of Henry VIII, has been vilified ...

China's rise as the world's second-largest economy surely is the most dramatic development in the global economy since the year 2000. But China's p...

When David Birmingham, a professor of history, retired from the University of Kent, he thought it would be fun to train as a Canterbury city guide....

Who was Robin Hood? Throughout history the figures of the hooded man of Sherwood forest and his band of outlaws have transfixed readers and viewers...

This book traces the history of relations between the kingdom of Strathclyde and Anglo-Saxon England in the Viking period of the ninth to eleventh ...

A dramatic blow-by-blow account of the defeat of the Spanish Armada by the English fleet - a tale of daring and disaster on the high seas by one of...

25 October 2015 was the 600th anniversary of the battle of Agincourt - a hugely resonant event in English (and French) history. Sir Ranulph Fiennes...

The Battle of Bannockburn is the most celebrated battle in history between Scotland and England. Fought over two days on 23 and 24 June 1314 by a s...

It has been 2500 years since the Greek heavy infantry known as hoplites dominated the battlefield. Yet they still capture the imagination today,...

The relationship of England and Scotland became defined by events on 9 September 1513 in a battle of great size, bloodshed and finality - the Battl...

''In this fascinating, panoramic account, Levi Roach brings an expert eye and page-turning energy to the telling of their extraordinary story'' Hel...