Historical Geography

This book discusses developments in the history of British house names from the earliest written evidence (Beowulf's Heorot) to the twentieth centu...

Motorways, airports, tower blocks, power stations, windfarms; TV and the internet, easy travel and shrinking distances; business parks, starter hom...

Drogheda, the twenty-ninth in the IHTA series, will bring this important Irish settlement into the Irish and European Historic Towns Atlas scheme w...

While the twentieth centurys conflicting visions and exploitation of the Middle East are well documented, the origins of the concept of the Middle ...

Seashells have been the most coveted and collected of natures creations since the dawn of humanity. They were money before coins, jewellry before g...

Seashells have been the most coveted and collected of natures creations for thousands of years. They were money before coins, jewellery before gems...

WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATION 2023 The Sunday Times Science Book of the Year ...

'A truly remarkable writer, one of the most gifted non-fiction authors alive' Simon Schama, Financial TimesSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 COSTA BIOGRAPHY...

Reviewing the history and causes of climatic change and evaluating regional models, this New Naturalist volume offers an important analysis of clim...

Vast, diverse, dynamic, and turbulent, the true nature of Africa is often obscured by its poverty-stricken image. In this controversial and grippin...