The remarkable story of an overlooked map archive that reveals how maps have helped inspire some of the greatest scientific discoveries, but also led to terrible atrocities.
Taking us from the beginning of our story to the present day, A Cold Spell examines how ice has shaped our thoughts, actions and societies – and what it means for us that it is rapidly disappearing from our planet
A magisterial history of the Atlantic Ocean before Columbus, embracing a timespan of some 168,000 years, and bringing together a wealth of critical themes and developments in world history from the early shaping of the continents and the emergence of homo sapiens, to the histories of shipbuilding, navigation, fishing, trading, slavery, maritime exploration and nascent European imperialism. A history on a grand scale, Ocean offers the reader a feast of historical storytelling.
From acclaimed historian and MP Chris Bryant, James and John tells the story of what it meant to be gay in early 19th-century Britain through the lens of a landmark trial.
Poignant and powerful, these collected testimonies break the silence that has reigned for decades around one of the most catastrophic events of the twentieth century and reveal its enduring legacy in contemporary Britain
Marking the mid-point in his landmark history of modern Britain, David Kynaston presents a scintillating snapshot of the year 1962 – one of the most fascinating periods of transition in British history
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.
The true story of The Report from Iron Mountain: a fake government report published in 1967 that, despite being exposed as a hoax, has become a beacon for far right, militia movements.
This powerful and deeply personal testimony to the enduring resilience of the Jewish people sets out to understand the legacy of the world’s oldest religion.
Wise and tender, this astonishing memoir bravely interrogates a personal story of mental health through a family history of murder, dispossession, silence, and the long echo of the Holocaust across generations
A probing and powerful personal history – and a debut from a remarkable new voice in non-fiction – about a family, an assassination, and the Holocaust on trial
