Early Modern History: c 1450/1500 to c 1700

Long before the American Revolution and the Declaration of the Rights of Man, a motely crew of sailors, slaves, pirates, labourers, market women, a...

This book explores the ordinary daily routines, behaviours, experiences and beliefs of the Scottish people during a period of immense political, so...

Over 200 traditional Scottish recipes - nutty oatcakes, broths and soups, lamb, barley, game, fish, breads and bannocks, crumbly cheeses, porridge ...

Monuments of the Incas is the most comprehensive photographic and narrative survey of the major sites of the Inca empire, including the famed city ...

The defeat of the Ottomans by the Holy League fleet at the Battle of Lepanto (1571) was among the most celebrated international events of the sixte...

TRAVEL BACK IN TIME WITH THE BBC'S RUTH GOODMANWe know all about the dramas that played out in the Tudor court - most notably those of Henry VIII -...

The moment you step over the threshold of the great door at Haut-Koenigsbourg Castle, you find yourself in a whole new world: the Middle Ages. Cros...

Ask anyone what single object they associate with China and the most common answer will be a Ming vase. Probably without even knowing the dates of ...

The story of Henry VIII and his six wives has passed from history into legend taught in the cradle as a cautionary tale and remembered in adulthoo...

Jane was Henry VIIIs third queen, and she was described by him as his first true wife, both his first two marriages having been annulled. She was t...

Follow in the footsteps of Anne Boleyn from Hever Castle, to Richmond Palace and ultimately to the Tower of London. On the morning of 19 May 1536,...

In 1533, Katherine Willoughby married Charles Brandon, Henry VIIIs closest friend. She would go on to serve at the court of every Tudor monarch exc...

This entertaining guide covers the period from 1485 to 1603, exploring the life and times of everyday people (from famine and the flu epidemic, to ...

This book provides a thoroughly researched and richly illustrated account of a key element of the early modern Atlantic world: the sugar trade link...

The Ming dynasty (13681644) is regarded as Chinas golden age, equivalent in British history to the Elizabethan era. Through the themes of people an...

THE SUNDAY TIMES AND ECONOMIST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2016'A definitive study of the amorphous state that lasted a thousand years ... The Holy Roman Emp...

'With one's face in the wind you were almost burned with a shower of Firedrops'A selection from Pepys' startlingly vivid and candid diary, includin...

What happened to the European mind between 1605, when an audience watching Macbeth at the Globe might believe that regicide was such an aberration ...

Richly detailed and often thought-provoking This is an enthralling book. Dervla Murphy, The Irish Times A truly marvellous storyone in which tr...

John Knox has suffered in this century from that trick of the popular imagination that seizes on one aspect of a historical figure and elevates it ...