History

The desperate manhunt to bring down Australia's most notorious outlaw When Ned Kelly and his band of young tearaways ambushed and killed three brav...

Apart from relatively few exceptions of texts which survive intact, what we have of Ancient Greek literature remains, to a great degree, fragmentar...

'Curl up in a chair with Fenella J Miller's characters and lose yourself in another time and another place.' Lizzie Lane As war looms, can they kee...

Discover the lives and stories of amazing women who shaped the modern world, from mathematicians and doctors to aviators, authors and code-breakers...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING - HIGHLY COMMENDED'Remarkable' Robert Macfarlane'Beautiful' Amy Liptrot'Powerful, unflinch...

Our knowledge of mathematics has structured much of what we think we know about ourselves as individuals and communities, shaping our psychologies,...

Ilya Budraitskis, one of the country's most prominent leftist political commentators, explores the strange fusion of free-market ideology and postm...

In this book Jacques Rancière radicalises his critique of modernism and its postmodern appendix. He contrasts their unilinear and exclusive time wi...

Welcome to Weird War Two, a catalogue of the weird, the wonderful and the downright eccentric, from deep within IWM's Second World War archives. Fr...

Learn about trade and global economic crises in The Economics Book.Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and th...

National history is a vital part of national self-definition. Most books on the history of the world try to impose a uniform narrative, written usu...

Thinking about politics has tended to be historical in nature because of the comparisons and contrasts that can be drawn between past and present. ...

The brutality of Japanese soldiers towards both allied prisoners of war and millions of civilians in Asia during the Second World War was one of th...

Economist Book of the Year 2021'A captivating retelling of one of the most astonishing episodes in East Germany's grim history.' Economist'Merriman...

The First World War demanded one of the most sustained and extraordinary efforts ever made by the British people. It was made possible by a multitu...

This casebook fills a major gap in our cultural knowledge of the Middle Ages. It gathers together for the first time the key historical and literar...

The book is based on nine articles that I contributed to various journals over the past several years or appeared in various conference proceedings...

On July 9, 1755, British and colonial troops under the command of General Edward Braddock suffered a crushing defeat to French and Native American ...