Historical Geography

'A delightful storybook . . . a portrait of our whole world created from the contents of the ground' Literary Review'A real cabinet of curiosities...

Our ancestors developed a uniquely nature-focused society, centred on esteemed poets, seers, monks, healers and wise women who were deeply connecte...

For a British Empire that stretched across much of the globe at the start of the nineteenth century, the interiors of Africa and Australia remained...

The story of the 1882 Palmer Sinai Expedition, a spying and terrorist mission that ended in the murder of its participants and was one of the great...

To date, over sixty medieval parks have been identified in Hertfordshire - a large number for a relatively small county. In this ground-breaking st...

This book forms a continuation of the research published in Medieval Parks, Anne Rowe's highly regarded volume of 2009. Now she turns her attention...

Where do you draw the line? In the context of geopolitics, much hinges on the answer to that question. For thousands of years, it has been the work...

Ice Ghosts weaves together the epic story of the Lost Franklin Expedition of 1845whose two ships and crew of 129 were lost to the Arctic icewith th...

The Hoo Peninsula is located on the north Kent coast 30 miles east of Central London. This book raises awareness of the positive contribution that ...

Provincial towns in Britain grew in size and importance in the eighteenth century. Ports such as Glasgow and Liverpool greatly expanded, while indu...

Kintyre poet and historian Angus Martin's interest in placea'names extends back over 40 years. This meticulously researched exploration covers ove...

To sail the oceans needed skill as well as courage and experience, and the sea chart with, where appropriate, the coastal view, was the tool by whi...

Osman, the founder of the Ottoman Empire, had a dream in which a tree sprouted from his navel. As the tree grew, its shade covered the earth; as Os...

WESTWARD HO! FOR OREGON AND CALIFORNIA! In the eerily warm spring of 1846, George Donner placed this advertisement in a local newspaper as he and a...

SUSSEX, East and West, has been well served by fine cartographers over the past four centuries, but this exciting work is no mere collection of his...

**Pointing persistently to heaven: A guide to UK cathedrals** Power, glory, bloodshed, prayer: cathedrals in the UK are as much about human drama a...

Discover some of the great archival treasures of the Royal Geographical Society. Some of the greatest expeditions are described and complimented wi...

The Clyde is arguably the most evocative of Scottish rivers. Its mention conjures up a variety of images of power, productivity and pleasure from i...

Botanical gardens brought together in a single space the great diversity of the earth's flora. They displaced nature from forest and foothill and r...

Drowned. Buried by sand. Decimated by plague. Plunged off a cliff. This is the extraordinary tale of Britain''s eerie and remarkable ghost towns an...

Explore the social and cultural history of 100 of the world's most important cities. From the first towns in Mesopotamia to today's global metropol...