Author: H Kliczkowski The city of Barcelona is considered the essence of Modernism, and certainly it is where the movement left the greatest number of it architectural jewels, mano of...

Alan Taylor The Autobiography tells the story of the fabled, former Second City of the British Empire from its origins as a bucolic village on the rivers Kelvin and Clyde,...

Christopher Hill God's Englishman A biography of Oliver Cromwell, breaking down Cromwell's life into different parts: fenland farmer and humble backbencher; stalwart of the good old cause and the New...

Christopher Hill This is a nuanced biography of Oliver Cromwell, breaking down Cromwell's life into different fenland farmer and humble backbencher; stalwart of the good old cause and the New...

Michael Braddick The sequence of civil wars that ripped England apart in the seventeenth century was one of the most devastating conflicts in its history. It destroyed families and towns,...

Norman Davies This new edition of Norman Davies's classic study of the history of Poland has been revised and fully updated with two new chapters to bring the story to...

Norman Davies This new edition of Norman Davies's classic study of the history of Poland has been revised and fully updated with two new chapters to bring the story to...

Larry Elliott and Dan Atkinson With a second recession looming, Britain is facing a moment of truth. This book examines how the leader of the industrial revolution came to exhibit...

Roderick Beaton We think we know ancient Greece, the civilisation that shares the same name and gave us just about everything that defines 'western' culture today, in the arts, sciences,...

Peter Hennessy Winner of the Orwell Prize for Political Writing, Peter Hennessy's Having it So Good: Britain in the Fifties captures Britain in an extraordinary decade, emerging from the shadow of war...

SB Chrimes Founder of the Tudor dynasty, Henry VII was a crucial figure in English history. In this acclaimed study of the king's life and reign, the distinguished historian S....

Herwig WolframIncorporating exciting new material that has come to light since the last German edition of 1980, Herwig Wolfram places Gothic history within its proper context of late Roman society...