Historical Geography

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...

The Nile, the world's longest river system, has figured prominently in historic events over millennia. This book views the Nile as both the stage o...