History

A fun and fascinating tour of the by-ways of British legal history. Did you know that the law requiring a London taxi driver to carry a bale of hay...

Jennifer Isaacs has been a close observer of the artistic renaissance across Aboriginal Australia since it began in the early 1970s. In Spirit Coun...

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. When three-month-old Lia Lee Arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merc...

Asia McKinna comes of age in a rural Texas town during World War I. She struggles to understand the frailty of her grandmother, the strain of the w...

Book by MacKenzie, Lewis, MacKenzie, Major General Louis . . Lewis MacKenzie was named chief of staff of the United Nations peacekeeping force in f...

Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi deat...

At the same time Adolf Hitler was attempting to take over the western world, his armies were methodically seeking and hoarding the finest art treas...

Charles II is restored to the English throne, and his court is lively and even scandalous. The country is eager for succession to be clear and cert...

Grammy Award Winner, Best Spoken Word Album, 2000. In this luminous memoir, a true American icon looks back on his celebrated life and career. His ...

Life in Tudor England sparkles with colourful illustrations and a lively text. Discover what life was really like during more than 100 years of Tud...

Based on his own writings as well as interviews conducted with the orphans he raised and teachers he trained, this biography captures the remarkabl...

For seven decades Katharine Hepburn played a leading role in the popular culture of the twentieth century - reigning as an admired actress, a belov...

The best single volume ever written on the subject, such is its range, authority, and readability.�•Times Literary Supplement Why has opera transfi...

In March 2000, a suitcase arrived at a children's Holocaust education center in Tokyo, Japan from the Auschwitz museum in Germany. Fumiko Ishioka, ...

This is a book about a group of Belgrade's young idealists and their pirate radio station B92, who began with the naive desire to simply play music...

Robert Graves, aged nineteen, left school within a week of the outbreak of World War I, and immediately volunteered with the Royal Welch Fusiliers....

A history of ancient Greece describing everyday life as well as some of the major battles and famous people.

Winner of the 2015 William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award. . . The Game of Our Lives is a masterly portrait of soccer and contemporary Britain....

A detailed narrative of the thirteen months leading to the independence of the Indian subcontinent in February 1948, centering on major and minor f...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ¢ In this iconic memoir of his early days, Barack Obama guides us straight to the intersection of the most serious que...

The long-awaited second volume of Nelson Mandela's memoirs, left unfinished at his death and never before available, are here completed and expande...

Nelson Mandela is widely considered to be one of the most inspiring and iconic figures of our age. Now, after a lifetime of taking pen to paper to ...

For the first time, Ciro Bustos, Che's right-hand man in the struggle for Argentina, tells his story. As a young man inspired by the example of Cub...

Here is the whole of recorded British royal history, from the legendary King Alfred the Great onwards, including the monarchies of England, Scotlan...