Award-winning historian Linda Colley re-examines the making of the modern world through the advance of written constitutions.

Award-winning historian Linda Colley shows the dawn of the modern world - through the advance of written constitutions.

The Historian's Toolbox introduces students to the theory, craft, and methods of history and equips them with a series of tools to research and understand the past. This best-selling "how to" book opens up an exciting world behind historical research and writing.

The ultimate Christmas gift for every history lover, from the creators of the History Hit podcasts

A beautifully written celebration of the essence of the Irish Garden, new in paperback

A gripping untold war story: using exclusive new archive material, letters and diaries, this is the story of the prisoners of war in internment camps during the Second World War.

A groundbreaking new account of prehistory from one of the most esteemed archaeologists working today

The answer is a tale of operatic proportions, sweeping across continents from the 1848 European revolutions to the civil wars in Mexico and the USA, pitting Old World against New, conservatives against radicals, monarchies against republics.

A vivid picture of the labyrinthine workings of the Newcastle coal trade.

Connecting people with places, London's distinctive Blue Plaque scheme highlights the buildings where some of the most remarkable men and women in our history and culture have lived and worked.

A contemplation of the hotly-debated significance - and future - of anthropology museums, from a global expert

An edited volume mapping the history of the book, from the Ancient World through to the rapidly changing world of the book in the second decade of the 21st century.

Presents history of German Jews, tracing the journey of a people and their culture from the mid eighteenth century to the eve of the Third Reich. This book chronicles a 150-year period of achievement and integration that at its peak produced a golden age second only to the Renaissance.

This book follows on from the editors' 2010 volume and provides a more longitudinal (backwards and forwards in time) and broader (turning away from Anglo/Euro-American hegemony) sense of developments in gentrification studies over time and space, drawing on key readings that reflect the development of cutting edge debates.

The story of the evolution of the 'European project', from the end of the Napoleonic Wars through to Brexit, this is also the story of how, and why, it become possible to imagine that the diverse peoples of Europe might be united in a single political community.