A beautifully produced account of the signing, impact and legacy of Magna Carta, a document that became one the most influential statements in the history of democracy.
Featuring a foreword by Bernard Cornwell, a fascinating study of one of the most significant conflicts in the long history of the British Isles, in a battle that secured England’s future as an independent, unified kingdom.
A groundbreaking history of the wars of the Ottoman Expansion, a truly global conflagration that crisscrossed three continents and ultimately defined the borders and future of modern Europe.
A spellbinding work of history that uncovers the inner lives and work of Maria of Modena and her ‘graces’, the extraordinary women who practiced art, poetry and politics within the misogyny of the Restoration court.
A cultural and political history of the Russian nuclear age from the rise of nuclear physics in the USSR to the self-proclaimed ‘renaissance’ of nuclear power in 21st-century Russia.
