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Benjamin Franklin flying his electric kite is one of the most celebrated images of any Founding Father's life. Yet, as Tom Tucker argues convincingly in Bolt of Fate, the kite...

Following a youth of poverty and bitter exile after his father s execution, the ousted king first challenged, then made his magnificent escape from, Cromwell s troops before he was...

Just how weak were the women of the Civil War era? What could they expect beyond marriage and childbirth in an age where infant and maternal mortality was frequent and...

It is 1679 and England is awash with suspicion. Fear of conspiracy and religious terrorism has provoked panic in politicans and a zealous reaction from the legal system. Everywhere -...

A captivating biography of one of the world's greatest adventurers, the itinerant Mughal Princess Gulbadan, based on her long-forgotten memoir Situated in the early decades of the powerful Mughal Empire,...

In this engaging study Jean Dangler examines the way that ideas of difference were forged in four types of medieval Iberian discourse: muwashshah/jarcha poems from al-Andalus, Andalusi "cutting poems," medical...

London Lives is a fascinating new study which exposes, for the first time, the lesser-known experiences of eighteenth-century thieves, paupers, prostitutes and highwaymen. It charts the experiences of hundreds of...

The book titled Italian Renaissance Sculpture by the author John Pope-Hennessy. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Medieval Europe witnessed the spectacular flowering of religious architecture. In this illustrated portrait of an age, Jean Gimpel gives an account of astonishing feats of engineering and artistry. He explores...

This important and innovative book examines artists' mobility as a critical aspect of Italian Renaissance art. It is well known that many eminent artists such as Cimabue, Giotto, Donatello, Lotto,...

Shortlisted for The British in India Book Prize 2025 'A spellbinding account of the first forgotten half of the English encounter with India with a fascinating history of the Mughal...

1527. Gregorio 'The Cavalier' Casali is Henry VIII's man in Rome. An Italian freelance diplomat, he charmed his way into the English service before he was twenty. But now he...

A thrilling joint biography of Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici, uncovering how their complex 30-year relationship shaped their dynasties, perfect for fans of Alison Weir and Tracy Borman. 'A...

A guide to English literature from 1500 to 1660. It combines a series of critical essays on understanding Renaissance literature, Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, Renaissance poetry and the contemporary historical...

During much of the sixteenth century, Rome was the artistic centre of the known world, and Cardinal Alessandro Farnese, the wealthy and powerful grandson of Pope Paul III, was the...

Jack Blackjack stands accused of killing a priest in the wickedly entertaining new Bloody Mary Tudor mystery. April, 1555 . A priest has been stabbed to death in the village...

This book explores the principles of the display of art in the magnificent Roman palaces of the early modern period, focusing attention on how the parts function to convey multiple...

""The cornerstone of the history of the American continent."" --Washington Irving This revised edition (originally published in 1959) of the famous biography of Columbus by his son Ferdinand was published...

This book offers a full and comprehensive account of one of the most colorful and formative reigns in French history, that of Francis I (1515-47), and was published to coincide...

In this book, author Alan Tulchin breaks apart the process of mass conversion in the sixteenth century to explain why the Reformation occurred, using Nimes, the most Protestant town in...

This is a dual biography, exploring the lives of John and Sarah Churchill, first Duke and Duchess of Marlborough. Perhaps the greatest British general of all time and the most...

The Scots had an enormous impact on the global development of the British Empire as emigrants, soldiers, merchants and colonial administrators. Imperial Scotland provides a comprehensive examination of their crucial...

The book titled James II: A Study in Kingship by the author This historical biography of a king renowned for his humourlessness and religious fervour concentrates on political, diplomatic and...

This study discusses the political and military background to the battle and documents its chaotic aftermath.

Henry VIII always had problems with women. Born on 28 June 1491, he lived in the shadow of his elder brother Arthur and his dour and autocratic father, Henry VII....

The book titled The Life and Times of Charles I by the author D.R. Watson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Making use of every possible contemporary source-diaries, memoirs, advice books,government papers, almanacs, even the register of Patents - Liza Picard presentsan entralling picture of how life in London was really...

Since the 1960s, the Italian altarpiece has attracted much scholarly attention, bringing liturgical, social and technical considerations to bear on the subject. The eight contributors to this book provide a...

A thrilling account of treachery, loyalty and martyrdom in Elizabethan England from an exceptional new writer. As darkness fell on the evening of Friday, 28 October 1588, just weeks after...

'Hutchinson brilliantly conveys the atmosphere of terror...a gripping narrative' DAILY MAIL ' A brilliantly readable account of Henry's last years' SUNDAY TIMES ' Vivid and shocking' BOOKSELLER The Tudors retained...

Every child has heard of Guy Fawkes and will most likely have watched a 'guy' being burnt on a bonfire and fireworks lighting up the night sky on Bonfire Night....

The book titled Battles of the English Civil War by the author Austin Woolrych. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A social and military history of the Civil War that split the country 350 years ago. In a field in Nottingham in the summer of 1642, King Charles I watched...

Sir Walter Raleigh is well-know as an explorer, pirate, lover, poet, courtier, philosopher and political prisoner, a man of timeless fascination. An essential part of the nation's history he embodies...

This is a romantic and colourful story of Prince Rupert of the Rhine, an extraordinary military commander. General Kitson discusses Rupert's boyhood study of fortifications, the early campaigns, his military...

A devastating and pulse-pounding tale that will feel all-too-relevant in today's world, based on a true story from Korean history. Hope is dangerous. Love is deadly. 1506, Joseon. The people...

When the British wrested New Amsterdam from the Dutch in 1664, the truth about its thriving, polyglot society began to disappear into myths about an island purchased for 24 dollars...

Italian Architecture of the 16th Century is the last published work of the legendary Colin Rowe, the fruit of his four-year collaboration with Leon Satkowski, a Rowe student and author...

The Civil War legacy of Robert Knox Sneden is an unparalleled treasure trove of words and pictures. The publication of the bestselling "Eye of the Storm" in the fall of...

An imaginative reconstruction of the mind of the young girl who was to become Queen Elizabeth I of England, that effulgent, daunting, and perplexing figure, one of the most influential...

After a thousand years of magic and mysticism, the Renaissance re-kindled the desire of mankind to understand themselves and the world around them. This volume examines the Renaissance, its myths,...

The book titled Short History Italy by the author Hearder. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This wide-ranging study vividly presents the major events that took place in Venice in the 1570s, culminating in a deadly outbreak of the plague that claimed one-quarter of the Venetian...

This volume focuses on the history of the United States through stories of human freedom aspired to and won, beginning with the Declaration of Independence in 1776 and culminating in...

This is a rich portrait of Europe and its civilization in the 16th century - the moment when "Europe" first became an entity in the minds of its own inhabitants....

This book defines war, rather than liberty, as the primary means by which peoples of North America have defined social, cultural, and political boundaries for the last half-millennium. From the...

What happened to the European mind between 1605, when an audience watching Macbeth at the Globe might believe that regicide was such an aberration of the natural order that ghosts...

Everybody knows that Elizabeth I was called the Virgin Queen, that she had lots of admirers and refused to marry, and that her fleet defeated the Spanish Armada. But in...