History: Specific Events & Topics

Vanity Fair 100 Years showcases a century of personality and power, art and commerce, crisis and cultureboth highbrow and low. In the sumptuous 384...

Originally named Juan Fernández, the island of Robinson Crusoe in the South Pacific was the inspiration for Defoe's classic novel about the adventu...

'For certain men the stronger their desire, the less likely they are to act.' With his first glimpse of Madame Arnoux, Frédéric Moreau is convince...

Winner of the Duff Cooper and Lionel Gelber prizesIn 1932-33, nearly four million Ukrainians died of starvation, having been deliberately deprived...

Donald Maclean was a star diplomat, an establishment insider and a keeper of some of the Wests greatest secrets. He was also a Russian spyCodenamed...

A lavishly illustrated guide to the history of design, this book showcases more than 100 of the most groundbreaking and important design classics e...

Ranging from studies on Sufism and the Koran to discussion of nineteenth and twentieth-century Arabic literature, these essays on the law and liter...

''Dame Anna Wintour might be one of the best-known and most successful journalists on the planet. But it wasn''t always like that. When she started...

Acclaimed by the Daily Mail as 'definitive and harrowing', this is the final volume of The Peoples Trilogy', begun by the Samuel Johnson prize-winn...

EMPIREWORLD IS AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOWWINNER OF THE 2022 BRITISH BOOK AWARD FOR NARRATIVE NONFICTION***THE BOOK THAT INSPIRED THE CHANNEL 4 DOCUMENT...