History

Sir Iain Moncreiffe of that Ilk''''s masterful study traces the Scots law of succession from the earliest period of recorded Scottish history to th...

Colchester Memories is an evocative collection of reminiscences recording life in Colchester during the early to mid-twentieth century. The memorie...

During the Second World War navies developed low visibility camouflage for their ships, on both the vertical and horizontal surfaces, in order redu...

From when the Empress Jingo-kogo led an invasion of Korea while pregnant with the future Emperor Ojin, tales of female Japanese warriors have emerg...

Rogues and Rebels introduces us to dozens of larger-than-life Westerners--some infamous, some obscure--who dared to be different. Brian Brennan chr...

Alex McKinven's passion for football has been life-long - first as a player and then as a manager - and that passion shines through in this book, t...

What connects the discovery of America, the creation of Coca Cola and the art book bought for GBP50 that turned out to contain original Picassos? T...

More than a century has passed past since German archeologist Heinrich Schliemann discovered the treasures of Bronze Age Mycenae. The richly decora...

A highly illustrated account of the battle of Borodino, the most crucial action in Napoleon's 1812 campaign in Russia. The battle of Borodino was ...

In the years between 31 BC and AD 500 the Romans carved out a mighty empire stretching from Britain to the deserts of North Africa. The men who spe...

The first figureheads that were carved to represent the names of British warships appeared during the reign of Henry VIII; the last ones were carve...

Originally published in 1975, Fenwomen was the first non-fiction book published by Virago. A vivid social and oral history of an isolated village i...

In 1803, at the age of 14, Robert Hay ran away from home to join the Royal Navy, and for the next eight years experienced the trials and tribulatio...