A new cover reprint of the second volume of T. C. Smout's magnificent - and indispensable - accou...

James Boswell called him 'the greatest man of any age'. As politician and diplomat, writer and lo...

The story of how Europe was converted to Christianity from 300AD until the barbarian Lithuanians ...

Within the space of three centuries, up to the great Persian invasion of 480BC, Greece was transf...

A brilliantly entertaining and innovative history of the ancient Athenians' consuming passions fo...