Modern History to 20th Century: c 1700 to c 1900

Explore the legacy of one of the greatest battles in military history the Battle of Waterloo through this finely crafted collection of objects, e...

George IV spent most of his life waiting to become king: as a pleasure-loving and rebellious Prince of Wales during the sixty-year reign of his f...

In Victorian London, the age of consent was just thirteen. Unwitting girls were regularly enticed, tricked and sold into prostitution. If not marke...

Eighteenth-century Britain was the worlds leading centre for the slave trade. Bury the Chains by Adam Hochschild, author of the Duff Cooper prize-w...

Founded in 2012, the Journal of the American Revolution has provided educational, peer-reviewed articles by more than 75 historians and experts on ...

While researching Searching for George Gordon Meade, author Tom Huntington visited a severed leg, a buried arm, and a horse''s head. He also hiked ...

The incredible fall, rise and demise of Francis Greenway, Australias first government architect.A forger and convicted felon, Francis Greenway was ...

This beautifully written book, now in its second edition, tells the haunting saga of a quintessentially American family. It is the story of Shoe Bo...

Edmund Burke, long considered modern conservatism's founding father, is also widely believed to be an opponent of empire. However, Daniel O'Neill t...

Faction Displayed: Reconsidering the Impeachment of Dr. Henry Sacheverell features a collection of essays that examine the turbulent partisan cultu...

Alfred L. Brophy's University, Court, and Slave reveals long-forgotten connections between pre-Civil War southern universities and slavery. Univers...

This lavishly illustrated volume explores the history of China during a period of dramatic shifts and surprising transformations, from the founding...

Byron exists in two incompatible dimensions: as fully-documented history, and as romantic myth. Often the myth predominates, describing him as a pa...

Contrary to the prevailing opinion, the idea of Ukrainian independence did not emerge at the end of the nineteenth-century. In Brothers and Enemies...

In 2013, Germany celebrated the bicentennial of the so-called Wars of Liberation (181315). These wars were the culmination of the Prussian struggle...

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...

Industrial Violence and the Legal Origins of Child Labor challenges existing understandings of child labor by tracing how law altered the meanings ...

In recent years there has been a renewed interest in the War in the Desert, that epic struggle of the Second World War between Axis (Italian and Ge...

This book tells the story of the invasion of France at the twilight of Napoleon's empire. With more than a million men under arms throughout centra...