History: Specific Events & Topics

The story of the reign of Charles I -- told through the lives of his people. Prize-winning historian David Cressy mines the widest range of archi...

Most surveys of the history of art come neatly packaged. They are divided up into historic periods, artistic schools and movements, and the careers...

This book turns a compelling new lens on thinking about the history of Paris and photography. The invention of photography changed how history coul...

The Useful Knowledge of William Hutton shows the rapid rise of a self-taught workman and the growing prominence of the city of Birmingham during th...

'Hugely enjoyable' AN Wilson, Sunday Times'Thoughtful, entertaining and enjoyable' Michael Gove, Book of the Week, The TimesInspired by William Mak...

Adam Nicolson tells the story of England through the history of fourteen gentry families from the 15th century to the present day. This sparkling ...

The story of the reign of Charles I - through the lives of his people. Prize-winning historian David Cressy mines the widest range of archival an...

Women of Fortune tells the compelling story of mercantile wealth, arranged marriages, and merchant heiresses who asserted their rights despite loss...

On 14 June 1919 eight years before Charles Lindberghs flight across the Atlantic two men from Manchester took off in an open-cockpit Vickers Vimy...

The definitive history of photography book, Seizing the Light: A Social & Aesthetic History of Photography delivers the fascinating story of ho...

This is the first social history to explore experiences of British emigrants from the peak years of the 1960s to the emigration resurgence of the t...

Exploring a range of poverty experiences-socioeconomic, moral and spiritual-this collection presents new research by a distinguished group of schol...

Built in 1969, Metsamor, Armenia (then the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic), was intended as a settlement for employees of a nearby nuclear powe...

The letters in The Worlds of the Jeake Family of Rye create a narrative across more than a century and through three generations of the Jeake famil...

Democracy, Capitalism, and the Welfare State investigates political thought under the conditions of the postwar welfare state, focusing on the Fede...

Vast Expanses is a cultural, environmental and geopolitical history that examines the relationship between humans and oceans, reaching back across ...

Henry VIII fought many wars, against the French and Scots, against rebels in England and the Gaelic lords of Ireland, even against his traditional ...