History: Specific Events & Topics

For Ireland, the year 1798 saw a major rebellion breaking out against rule from London, a time in which Britain was in its fifth year of a hard-fou...

There has always been a romance around ocean liners, but this book looks behind the romance to show the reality of travelling the oceans of the wor...

This appealing and well-illustrated book traces the history of toys through the ages. It reflects changing attitudes to childhood as well as the in...

The powerful German battlecruiser Scharnhorst was stalked and engaged on 26 December 1943 by a superior Allied naval task force off the North Cape ...

A Guardian, Financial Times, New Statesman, The Rest is Politics and Waterstones Highlight for 2024 'Quinn has done a lot more than reinvent the wh...

This book explores the representation of music in early modern Spanish literature and reveals how music was understood within the framework of the ...

General John Forbess campaign against Fort Duquesne was the largest over-land expedition during the Seven Years War in America. While most historie...

Mary Ann Shadds pamphlet A Plea for Emigration; or Notes of Canada West is, as the title promises, a settler guide designed to inform prospective i...

Dublin has taken many forms over the last millennium: first a Scandinavian settlement, linked by kinship to Norway; then a medieval town that forme...

The fourth book in the acclaimed series! Irelands premier photographers, The Lensmen, captured the essence of life in Ireland during the 1980s in ...

This true story of a revolt at a Nazi death camp, newly updated, is a memorable and moving saga, full of anger and anguish, a reminder never to for...

This book argues that ideas about both childhood and adolescence were transformed in English and Welsh schools after WWII. Covering the period 1918...

The War on Terror ushered in a new era of anti-Muslim bias and racism. Anti-Muslim racism, or Islamophobia, is influenced by local economies, power...

Amidst the vast literature on the parties and politics of revolutionary Russia and its near constant appropriation for presentist purposes over the...

The ShipCraft series provides in-depth information about building and modifying model kits of famous warship types. Lavishly illustrated, each book...

Britain has a rich and spectacular history. It is a core country in the development of the modern world. Indeed, as the first industrial nation, ...

Witchcraft! Just the mention of the name is enough to cause fear, even terror, in the minds and hearts of many people. But that is not the full sto...

Britain and the Ocean Road uses new firsthand research and unconventional interpretations to take a fresh look at British maritime history in the a...

Emerging from collapse of the Han empire, the founders of Northern Wei had come south from the grasslands of Inner Asia to conquer the rich farmlan...