History

From the Columbus landing in the Americas and the US Declaration of Independence to the freeing of Nelson Mandela and the attacks of 9/11, some events throughout the centuries have had a profound effect on world history. This book takes a closer look at 10 of those events and considers their infl...

From Christopher Columbus and Galileo Galilei to Rosa Parks and Osama Bin Laden, some people throughout the centuries have had a profound effect on world history. This book takes a closer look at 10 of those and considers their influence and how they have changed the world - for better or for worse.

From bloodthirsty battles and rebellious revolutions, to curious coincidences and unfortunate accidents - this title has it all! Get the lowdown on events that have changed the course of history and shaped the modern world. Find out why Ivan became so terrible, why a sandwich was fatal for Archdu...

Patrick Vernon's landmark '100 Great Black Britons' campaign of 2003 was one of the most successful movements to focus on the role of people of African and Caribbean descent in British history. Frustrated by the widespread and continuing exclusion of the black British community from the mainstrea...

Patrick Vernon's landmark '100 Great Black Britons' campaign of 2003 was one of the most successful movements to focus on the role of people of African and Caribbean descent in British history. Frustrated by the widespread and continuing exclusion of the black British community from the mainstrea...

Meet the most talented and famous women in history, from politics, science, business, and the arts, from exciting entrepreneurs to clever creatives. Discover landmark moments in the lives of amazing historical women from Joan of Arc to Marie Curie, up to and including modern game-changers such as...

A combination of narrative and the latest scholarship, this title sheds new light on the complex ties that gave rise to, and ultimately destroyed, the flourishing civilisations of the Late Bronze Age - and that set the stage for the emergence of classical Greece.

Offering a history of modern Britain since the late 1970s, author Andrew Hindmoor takes one particular day as a starting point, then goes on to describe its relevance and significance to modern British history.

1666 was a watershed year for England. It was the year of the Great Plague; the eruption of the second Dutch War, the clash between two great powers which ultimately ended in one of the English military's most humiliating defeats; and the Great Fire. It is a year in which no single event existed ...

Andrew Morton tells the story of the feckless Edward VIII, Duke of Windsor, and his wife Wallis Simpson, whose affair with Joachim von Ribbentrop embroiled the duke in a German plot to use him as a puppet king during their takeover of the British Empire. Although we know that the war ended with H...