\nA sensory journey though time, interpreting social (and political) history through the scents used by people from the…

\nThe conflict that effectively laid the bloody foundations for the Hundred Years War and taught military and logistical…

\nWhen did celebrity culture begin? In the Regency period, when people hungered for news of the illegitimate actress who…

\nThis book takes a fresh look at the creation of the Institution, and its early founders and examines how it has responded…

\nThe colourful story of the Mamluk dynasty - marked with treachery, carnage and destructive behaviour - is a significant…

\nThe most powerful dynasty behind the throne of Anglo-Saxon England, shedding new light on events such as the Battle of…

\nIf Hitler had succeeded in developing a nuclear bomb, that could have been both the end of the Second World War and of…

Based on declassified wartime reports, this in-depth dossier details the inner workings of the Organisation Todt which not…

Napoleon III is brought out of the shadows of Napoleon Bonaparte by a prize-winning historian: `An excellent biography... In…

\'Impeccably researched and beautifully written, this book offers a fresh perspective on one of the most controversial…

\nThe walls of Rome provide an ever-renewed palimpsest of the Empire\'s history, from the 8th century BC to the fall of the…

\nA forensic look into the Sepoy rebellion at Meerut in 1857 and the three-month siege and capture of Delhi which followed.\n…

\nWith parallels to today, a significant new account of the Roman empire as a place of migration, diversity and commerce, as…