History: Specific Events & Topics

Lost States is a tribute to great unrealized states like West Florida, Forgotonia, Texlahoma, and Chicago (yes, Chicago wanted to be its own state)...

Notions of engagement, commitment and impegno continue to provoke debate amongst academics researching contemporary Italian culture, and yet - be i...

Chamier was a Royal Navy officer, who like his exact contemporary Captain Marryat is best remembered for a series of naval novels. The Life of a Sa...

In 1806 General Thomas Picton, Britain's first governor of Trinidad, was brought to trial for the torture of a free mulatto named Louisa Calderon a...

World War I is one of the iconic conflicts of the modern era. For many years the war at sea has been largely overlooked; yet, at the outbreak of th...

This is the story of one of the thousands of Polish Families who were deported to Siberia and Kazakhstan by the Soviets in 1940. The Glindzicz fami...

The years 18301914 witnessed a revolution in the manufacture and use of books as great as that in the fifteenth century. Using new technology in pr...

This is a travel book in the grand sense. The horizons it explores are of land and sea, and of the mind. Greek Pilgrimage is a meditation on classi...

'Captivating ... a brilliant many-layered social history of women's ambition and a rapidly changing New York' Observer'Fascinating' Daily Mail'A tr...

Original designed in 1934 for anti-submarine training, by the end of the war seventy-two U-Class subs had been commissioned. Seventeen were lost t...

Peek beneath the bedsheets of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain in this affectionate, informative and fascinating look at sex and se...

For the past forty years, prominent pro-life activists, judges and politicians have invoked the history and legacy of American slavery to elucidate...

The Lost Soldier offers a perspective on World War II we dont always get from histories and memoirs. Based on the letters home of Pete Lynn, the di...

Following on from Hidden Aberdeenshire: The Coast, this new volume moves inland to tell the stories of the countryside, from the fertile farmland o...

'The Book Collectors of Daraya celebrates the political and therapeutic power of the written word . . . defiant and cautiously optimistic' Financia...

From the author of the definitive history of bourbon (Sacramento Bee) comes the epic true tale of how beer conquered America, from B.C. to Budweise...

The Fatimids ruled much of the Mediterranean world for over two centuries. From the conquest of Qayrawan in 909 to defeat at the hands of Saladin i...

Some particular books I found useful for A Game of Thrones and its sequels deserve mention...Life in a Medieval Castle and Life in a Medieval City,...

At midnight on 5th July 1948, the National Health Service was born with the founding principal to be free at the point of use and based on clinical...

When Sophia Dorothea of Celle married her first cousin, the future King George I, she was an unhappy bride. Filled with dreams of romance and privi...

A History of the Royal Hospital Chelsea looks at the hospital's beginnings, with its Royal patronage and heritage which dates back to King Charles ...

The formal gardens of Elizabethan England were among the glories of their age. Complementing the great houses of the day, they reflected the aspira...

The book begins with a history of the industrial development of the Tondu Valleys, including the succession of great industrialists who led the way...

Discover the recipes for Mrs Rooke's Very Good Plum Cake and Lady Harbord's Marigold Cheese. Learn how to preserve gooseberries as green as they g...