He took on Napoleon with a set of weapons that seemed unsuited to the task: flatterycourtesy and ...

Born in Dublin in 1917 to politically active parents, Maeve Brennan's childhood in Ireland was mo...

The year is 1095.The most prominent leaders of the Christian world have assembled in a meadow in ...

On the night of 7 November 1918 French troops at La Capelleon the Western Frontnoticed a soft hal...

A World of Its Own tells the story of the City of London's nineteenth century ascent to its posit...

Elspeth Huxley captivated readers throughout the world with her 'memories of an African childhood...

`In one of tje funniest biographies I have ever read, Lewis assembles all the excellently enterta...

Between the opulent Edwardian years and the 1920s the First World War opens like a gap in time. E...

Illusions of Gold, the third volume of David Kynaston's magnificent quartet, The City of London, ...

This history of Britain since 1945 confronts two themes that have dominated British consciousness...

A dramaticthought-provoking portrait of one of the most compelling figures in early Christianity ...

Black Sabbath are one of the most outrageous yet longest-lived bands in the history of rock 'n' r...

'Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried...

Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon was the most unconventional and influential leader of the Victorian ...

Between 1890 and 1914 the City of London was all dominant as Britain's legendary gold standard re...

In this illuminating work of history, Shlaes follows the struggles of those now forgotten people,...

Everyone has heard of the workhouse. But what exactly was it? Who went there? And how did an inst...

This enjoyable and revealing book - the first biography of Christo - is also the story of Dixter ...

Garrett Mattingly's thrilling narrative sets out the background of the sixteenth-century European...

Hugh Brogan was for ten years a Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. He is now a lecturer in A...

Florence in the fifteenth century was the undisputed centre of the Italian Renaissance. Its legac...

The Elizabethans took from the Middle Ages the modified view of the universe whichPlatonic and bi...

In 1856 - just as Darwin was completing ORIGIN OF SPECIES - the fossilized remains of a stockypow...

Alan Moorehead was lionised as a literary man of action: the most famous war correspondent of the...

'A fabulously richanecdotal and gripping account of those men and women who ventured out from Bri...

From the author of the acclaimed Revolution in the Head, Ian MacDonald takes us on a journey thro...

The origins of the non-royal dukes in the British peerage divide nicely into Tudor lootersRoyal b...

This is a study of a literary generation writing in a period of expanding fears and ever more urg...

To undestand the success of the Romans you must understand their piety. Dionysius of Halicarnassu...

From 1949 to 1991 the world was overshadowed by the Cold War. indeed, much has remained hidden un...

Strange Meetings provides a highly original account of the War Poets of 1914-1918written through ...

Acritical discussion of Pound's poetry.

The Edwardian Turn of Mind brilliantly evokes the cultural temper of an age. The years between th...

This remarkable book opens at the dawn of the British Empire - with the great sea battle at Quibe...

Film is a communal dream in which our fears and fantasies are revealed. It has influenced our beh...

THE PIMLICO HISTORY significantly broadens the scope of Western philosophy to reveal the influenc...

Charles Greville (1794-1865) made his first occasional diary entries in 1814but the diary only be...

The seventeen months from April 1814 to August 1815 were an extraordinary period in European hist...

The seventeenth-century philosopher Spinoza was expelled from the Jewish community of Amsterdam t...

Lytton Stracheygeniuswiticonoclastbiographerpacifistand homosexual campaignerwas at the nexus of ...

Catching all the fascination and humour of travel in out-of-the-way placesOne's Company is Peter ...

The retreat of the British Expeditionary Force from Mons in the early months of the First World W...

The Crimean War is full of resonance - not leastthe Charge of the Light Brigadethe Siege of Sevas...

Jonothan Green offers a time trip from lat-fifties CND, beatniks and bop to the threshold of our ...

No modern philosopher has been more maligned and misunderstood or more cynically exploited than F...

Winner of the Jewish Chronicle Harold H. Wingate Literary Award.Rothschild Buildings were typical...

Leigh Hunt is the forgotten giant of English Romanticism. The man Virginia Woolf called the 'spir...

Leslie Marchand studied at the Universities of Washington and Columbia, the Sorbonne and the Univ...