An emperor meets his people: the extraordinary journeys of Joseph II.

He was the scion of a dynasty that was reputed to descend from King Solomon, a pioneer of African...

Who was Arminius Vámbéry? A poverty-stricken, Jewish auto-didact; a linguist, traveller, and writ...

Making the Weather is the story of six post-war politicians, all of whom exerted an outsized infl...

Who was Arminius Vambéry? A poverty-stricken, Jewish autodidact; a linguist; traveller, and write...

An illumination of the life of diplomat Roger Casement.

During Admiral Thomas Cochrane’s demolition of imperial Spain’s naval presence in the Pacific dur...

A memoir that combines political commentary with personal and national history.

As one of Britain's foremost constitutional experts and contemporary historians, Peter Hennessy h...

Geoffrey Chaucer might be considered the quintessential English writer, but he drew much of his i...

James Joyce (1882-1941) is hailed as one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. Reject...

The first new biography of Eliot for over a decade - now in paperback.

A poetic and historical travelogue of Syracuse, Sicily.

The Conservative Party have been in power for 47 of the 65 years since the end of the Second Worl...

Since the UK's withdrawal from the EU, the constititional position of Northern Ireland within the...

Otto von Bismarck (1815-98) has gone down in history as the Iron Chancellor, a reactionary and mi...

The biblical adage that 'if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand' remains s...

The history of humanity is dominated by violence - it has oppressed and degraded us for centuries...

In Himalayas, Thomas Bell embarks on four walks through the Himalaya, each in a different season,...

A striking biography of Marie Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the only person eve...

Famous photographer, spy for the Soviet Union, and single mother - Edith Tudor-Hart led an eventf...

The first book of its kind to map writers, walks, and writing within the Suffolk landscape.

More than fifty years after his death, Gamal Abd al-Nasser remains a towering figure in the Arab ...

When the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979, the poorly equipped and organised resistance g...

In the Future of Yesterday offers a refreshing approach to the life and work of Austrian writer S...

There is no such thing as the perfect society. There are no hard and fast rules on how to make it...

Will someone pay for the spilled blood? No. Nobody'. Mikhail Bulgakov wrote these words in Kiev d...

The study of dictatorship in the West has acquired an almost exotic dimension. But authoritarian ...

As one of Britain’s foremost constitutional experts and contemporary historians, Peter Hennessy h...

In her essay 'The Roots of Trust', Anna Rowlands argues that our undoubted loss of trust is not a...

ritain's relationship with Russian is surprisingly under-explored. When the two formed a pragmati...

The biblical adage that 'if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand' remains s...

In the general mind, Finland is often swept up in the general group of Nordic countries, little k...

Tarbush was born in British Mandate Palestine. As an infant, he and his family were forced to eva...

No one grows up dreaming of becoming an economist. Until the late nineteenth century, economics c...

A fluent Russian speaker with a knack for gaining the trust of those he meets, Muhling's cast of ...

The history of the transatlantic partnership has, overnight, become highly topical; in fact, sinc...

The Austrian artist Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980) achieved global fame with his intense expressioni...

In July 1998, ten statues of martyrs of the twentieth century were unveiled surmounting the Great...

In 1939, with Europe on the brink of war, Peter Gumbel's Jewish grandparents fled Nazi Germany fo...

An updated and revised biography of Patrice Lumumba, former Prime Minister of the Democratic Repu...

A timeless call amid the challenging nature of public service to find the familiar in the foreign.

Addresses the shifting interpretations of the Treaty of Lausanne across national contexts, tracin...

An updated biography of Benjamin Britten, Britain's greatest modern composer, released to mark th...

A history of Turin, home to Fiat, the Einaudi publishing house, and writers including Italo Calvi...

Stephanie O'Connor considers dignity as a guiding moral concern at the limits of life. Drawing on...

For Millay Hyatt, it is the charm of 'uncushioned encounters with the world' that makes her, when...

Winding through the mist that shrouds Lewis and South Uist in the Outer Hebrides, Kociejowski ill...