History

Orwell''''s Faded Lion traces the history of Britain from the end of the Second World War, during the darkest days of which George Orwell wrote The...

One of the shortest lived and most battle hardened of the 1st Australian Imperial Forces battalions, the 47th was formed in Egypt in 1916 and disba...

Planck's Law, an equation used by physicists to determine the radiation leaking from any object in the universe, was described by Albert Einstein a...

The Phoenicians present a tantalizing face to the ancient historian. Latin sources suggest they once had an extensive literature of history, law, p...

This is the story of 31 surviving old houses in a mid-Victorian freehold road. The aims, in 1853, were both political and commercial. The political...

On 2 September 1845, the convict ship Tasmania left Kingstown Harbour for Van Diemens Land with 138 female convicts and their 35 children. On 3 Dec...

Luftwaffe over Scotland is the first complete history of the air attacks mounted against Scotland by Nazi Germany during World War Two and undertak...

Washington Information Directory is the essential one-stop source for information on U.S. governmental and nongovernmental agencies and organizatio...

There has been a recent trend in history to interpret the rise and fall of great powers in terms of economics, or demographics, or geography. This ...

A Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People 2017When it started, many thought the Great War would be a great adventure. Yet, as those who ...

'No man, even the greatest, stands alone. This is the beautifully researched fate of those extraordinary men who stood behind Winston when it matte...

'A compulsive page-turner ... a triumph of brilliant storytelling ... an instant classic that is an awesome, remarkable and exuberant achievement' ...

The word is nearly ubiquitous: at the grocery store we shop for sustainable foods that were produced from sustainable agriculture; groups ranging f...

This book is about a story (Ousmane Sembene's Xala), about a time (the aftermath of Senegalese Independence), and about a place (Dakar, the capital...

This biography of Hypatia the female philosopher and mathematician in Christian Egypt provides background on her work and her life as an elite woma...

The conflict in Cote d'Ivoire has the characteristics of Shakespearean drama - the key figures are larger than life, each with a fatal flaw, and th...

Persuasively argues that our fixation with writing by hand is driven more by emotion than evidence, as it is perceived to be inextricably linked to...

Historians, veterans, museums, and public education campaigns have all documented and commemorated the experience of Canadians in times of war. But...

Shot down and killed in April 1944, Lionel Anderson, a low flying Mosquito intruder pilot, was part way through his second tour of operations. He h...

In June 1940, 17,000 people fled Guernsey to England, including 5,000 school children with their teachers and 500 mothers as 'helpers'. The Channel...

WINNER OF THE BRITISH SPORT BOOK AWARDS - RUGBY BOOK OF THE YEAR This is the story of 15 men killed in the Great War. All played rugby for one Lond...

The story of the way Britain has been settled and influenced by foreign people and ideas is as old as the land itself. In this original, important ...

Stalin's American Spy tells the remarkable story of Noel Field, a Soviet agent in the US State Department in the mid-1930s. Lured to Prague in May ...

The Mayor of Mogadishu tells the story of one family's epic journey through Somalia's turmoil, from the optimism of independence to its spectacular...

Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone and historian Peter Kuznick examine the dark side of American history from the beginning of the twentieth centu...