The Bodley Head
Europe: A History
This is a reissue of a book originally published in 1996, with a second preface added in 1997. Disappointingly, given…
The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words, 1000 BCE-1492 CE
This elegant history is, in the author’s words, ‘one of the heroism of everyday life as much as that of…
Iron, Steam and Money: The Making of the Industrial Revolution
One of the highlights of the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics was the moment at which the green…
The Faithful Executioner
In the latter half of the 16th Century and the first years of the 17th, Meister Frantz Schmidt was the…
The Undiscovered Country
Until quite recently, the subject of death was not a subject that attracted considerable academic interest. It was left mostly…
Nelson: The Sword of Albion
“Then something surprising happened,” writes this beguiling author. It certainly does, not only on that occasion but throughout. Falling in…
England in the Eighteenth Century: A Great and Monstrous Thing
This is the third in a history of London from the 18th century to the 20th by Jerry White, professor…
The Time Traveller’s Guide to Elizabethan England
‘Sometimes the past will inspire you and sometimes it will leave you weeping.’ This is history for everyone: the political…
Crusoe: Daniel Defoe, Robert Knox, and the Creation of a Myth
The long title of Katherine Frank’s book harkens back to a 17th-century fashion. The book’s subject is rooted in that…
For Honour and Fame
The subtitle is Chivalry in England, 1066-1500, but this book deals with the reality, not the romantic image of colourful…
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