Details excavations at High Pasture Cave Complex, Skye, Scotland, challenging our current understanding of Iron Age cave......more

When Oswald Mosley was interned in 1940, how could his followers keep the ’sacred flame’ of British fascism alight? Did ......more

What springs to mind when you think of British Victorian men and women? – manners, manners and more manners. Behavior th......more

This biography of Alfred the Great, king of the West Saxons (871-899), combines a sensitive reading of the primary sourc......more

Between the end of WWII and the end of the Cold War, the international roles of France and Great Britain changed dramati......more

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William John Macquorn Rankine (1820-1872) is a major figure in the history of nineteenth-century science and engineering......more

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In the early twentieth century, the Labour Party was a growing political force in Britain. Founded in 1900, as an amalga......more

Throughout history, how a society treated its disabled and infirm can tell us a great deal about the period. Challenged ......more

John Gay was a dramatist and poet, best-known for writing The Beggar’s Opera. Through his membership of the Scriblerus C......more

Hard to fault in both their purpose and execution (...) they fill a significant gap in both the published records of the......more

First published in 1935, this classic snapshot of London in the years before World War II glows with its Austrian author......more

Thirty was the number of minutes it took for one Coastal Command crew to sink two U-boats. This remarkable achievement w......more

The work of leading authorities on Scottish history is brought together in this accurate and sophisticated portrait of S......more

The image of the visionary Celt has captured the modern imagination. Whether it be the woad-painted pagan warrior fighti......more

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Early Modern British and Irish History 1500-1700: Society and Culture in Four Nations takes an innovative comparative ap......more

Early Modern British and Irish History 1500-1700: Society and Culture in Four Nations takes an innovative comparative ap......more

A History of England, Volume 1: Prehistory to 1714 focuses on the most important developments in English history from th......more

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The period from 1895 to 1914 witnessed remarkable advances in public health and medicine. Concurrent with this time of i......more

At the core of this book are the stories and life-cycles of the poor themselves. Drawing on sources (pauper letters, pet......more

This book examines the importance of the Scottish Covenanters during one of the most turbulent and complex periods of ea......more

This book examines the importance of the Scottish Covenanters during one of the most turbulent and complex periods of ea......more

’The Battle of Maldon’, along with ’Beowulf’ and Bede’s ’Ecclesiastical History of the English People’, is perhaps the b......more

At the end of World War I the British Empire reached its largest extent in terms of territory and population. The govern......more

The volume begins with the shaky foundation of the Stewart dynasty during the reign of Robert II (1371-1390) and traces ......more

The volume begins with the shaky foundation of the Stewart dynasty during the reign of Robert II (1371-1390) and traces ......more

Tynemouth Borough, which included the towns of Tynemouth and North Shields, was an area of strategic value to the nation......more

John Wyclif (d. 1384) was among the leading schoolmen of fourteenth-century Europe, an outspoken controversialist and cr......more

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The present volume covers the wider prehistoric remains from the site, describing all features of Mesolithic, Neolithic,......more

When news of the war first broke out in 1914, the citizens of Peterborough could not have been prepared for the changes ......more

Scotland was of grave strategic importance during the war because of its geographical position and Glasgow was the locat......more

The early seventeenth century was a time of great literature—the era of Cervantes and Shakespeare—but also of internatio......more

‘Behind the Black Door’ explores the evolving relationship between successive British governments and intelligence agenc......more

Was Princess Diana murdered? Yes, she was. That part is easily seen—even the means are known. She was gravely injured in......more

Henry VI is the youngest monarch ever to have ascended the English throne and the only English king to have been acknowl......more

Many of the British Army’s actions during the Victorian Era are forgotten, misunderstood and misrepresented. Stereotypes......more

The untold story of the hitherto secret projects that lead to the development of inertial navigation in the UK, and the ......more

The final volume in the ‘Regional Tramways’ series focuses on the history of tram operation in the London area. Starting......more

Often little known and generally unfamiliar to the passengers that used tramways, works trams were an essential facet of......more

Entertaining short history of the perilous missions undertaken by British and Amiercan agents in Occupied Europe during ......more

A rarely seen collection of archival postcards, drawings, and photographs documenting London’s great cemeteries. Since t......more

Britain’s murky relationship with the Greek dictatorship is revealed in this important new study....more

New paperback edition - The amazing life of Richard I, King of England, known to history as ’Richard the Lionheart’, aft......more

The fascinating, untold story of how British intelligence secretly used homing pigeons as part of a clandestine espionag......more

An engaging and original account of 1921, a pivotal year for Churchill that had a lasting impact on his political and pe......more

A regimental history of the Royal Dragoon Guards, who have fought in all of Britain’s major wars, and have an operationa......more

This volume presents the rich array of structural and artifactual evidence spanning a few thousand years of prehistory a......more

After the end of steam on the Southern in July 1967, the author concentrated primarily on recording the Southern scene, ......more

A comprehensive and authoritative history that explores the significance of one of the most famous buildings and institu......more

What have the rulers of Britain ever done for their subjects? In this beautifully illustrated book, Cath Senker examines......more

The imaginative flights, artistic struggles, and untimely deaths of some brilliant Scots, from Sir Walter Scott to Alexa......more

A fascinating look at how Elizabethan England was transformed by its interactions with cultures from around the world Ch......more

Richard I’s reign is both controversial and seemingly contradictory. One of England’s most famous medieval monarchs and ......more

Known as ’the anarchy’, the reign of Stephen (1135-1141) saw England plunged into a civil war that illuminated the fatal......more

`Imagine a grown-up version of Horrible Histories.’ Sunday Times...more

’Cricket is an Indian game accidentally invented by the English,’ it has famously been said. Today, the Indian cricket t......more

From the very beginnings of Wales, its people have defined themselves against their large neighbour. Wales: England’s Co......more

The arrival of the adhesive postage stamp 175 years ago in May 1840, as part of Britain’s wider postal reforms, revoluti......more

How labour exploitation in the British distribution system was key to cheaper food between 1830 and 1914....more

How labour exploitation in the British distribution system was key to cheaper food between 1830 and 1914....more

In a world increasingly shut in by the iron-clad determinism of Victorian physics, the Society for Psychical Research, f......more

An eye-opening history of Britain and the Islamic world—a thousand-year relationship that is closer, deeper, and more mu......more

A portrait of Jane Austen’s England told through the career paths of younger sons—men of good family but small fortune ?......more

A timely and original look at the role of the eyewitness account in the representation of slavery in British and Europea......more

In Great Britain there existed a practice of naming steam railway locomotives. The names chosen covered many and varied ......more

In 1922, his dreams of an independent Arabia shattered, T.E. Lawrence enlisted in the RAF under the assumed name John Hu......more

The chalk downs of Sussex possess a fascinating history of spell-craft, spirit-lore, rural magic, and a rich tradition o......more

A history of the elaborate and brilliantly sustained World War II intelligence operation by which Hitler’s generals were......more

A Shadow Above chronicles the return of the raven and the people who have made that comeback possible. For centuries, th......more

Spanning more than a century and involving almost every European country at one time or another (as well as America), th......more