Revolutions, Uprisings, Rebellions

The story of the fate of a single family during the Irish Revolution, Four Killings is a remarkable book written by a celebrated Irish broadcaster....

Egypt's January 25 Revolution of 2011 was a dramatic demonstration of the role social media has come to play in radical activism. A key moment wa...

A history of maritime warfare off the Jersey coast from the perspectives of both Patriot and Loyalist privateers. 538 Pennsylvania and New Jer...

The 'Montfortian' civil wars in England lasted from 1259-67, though the death of Simon de Montfort and so many of his followers at the battle of Ev...

Most personal histories of apartheid in Southern Africa tell the story of the armed struggle. This book is about opposition to apartheid within the...

Authorised biography of Welsh nationalist and activist John Barnard Jenkins, one of the most iconic figures in recent Welsh history. The leader of ...

No part of the country was more contested during the American Revolution than New York City and its surroundings. Military leaders of the timeand g...

George Washington claimed that anyone who attempted to provide an accurate account of the war for independence would be accused of writing fiction....

From regicides to revolutionaries; from fascists to anarchists; from Tom Paine to Tom Wintringham, this book is a history of noble ideals and crush...

Guy Fawkes, born in York in 1570, is one of the key figures in British history, taking a central role in a plot that would have destroyed the rulin...

The end of the Second World War may have heralded peace in Europe but conflicts in Southern Africa were about to begin. The imperial powers were we...

One of the most dramatic chapters in the history of nineteenth-century Europe, the Commune of 1871 was an eclectic revolutionary government that he...

By November of 1963, the white police state of South Africa had managed to capture nearly all of the underground leaders of the antiapartheid movem...

A collection of letters written by John Barnard Jenkins while in prison for masterminding MAC's Welsh bombing campaign - reprint of the original Y ...

Thomas Paine's words were like no others in history: they leaped off the page, inspiring readers to change their lives, their governments, their ki...

The mass protests that shook France in May 1968 were exciting, dangerous, creative and influential, changing European politics to this day. Student...