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The Divine Sarah, recognised as the world's greatest actress, is at the centre of this book, but the story it tells is much wider. Corille Fraser's lively writing and her...

In December 1795, seventeen-year-old Marie-Therese, the only surviving child of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI, fled Paris's notorious Temple Prison. Kept in solitary confinement after her parents' brutal execution during...

A provocative and illuminating collection of essays that is the first to look at the major theme of globalization from an historical perspective. Globalisation was the buzzword of the 1990s;...

As Europeans began arriving in the Australian Northern Territory, meetings of locals and intruders were at first cautious, nervous, but generally cordial. Distant officials urged liberality and restraint upon the...

Education of the Senses draws on a vast array of primary sources to reexamine nineteenth-century sexual behavior, overturning a number of stereotypes, especially about women and sexuality.

The winner of a 1988 Somerset Maugham Award, this is a kaleidoscopic series of portraits from an era of tumultuous change in Europe as it was experienced and communicated by...

Winner of the 1993 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism "I hear the chorus, it is a grand opera, Ah this indeed is music-this suits me."-Walt Whitman, "Song of...

In USA Today bestselling author Julie Anne Long's latest installment in the Palace of Rogues series, an estranged couple decide to fake their way through the London season to repair...

At the end of the 18th century, Britain fell in love with nature. Thomas Bewick's History of British Birds marked the moment, the first 'field-guide' for ordinary people, illustrated by...

To what extent did English law facilitate trade before the advent of general incorporation and modern securities law? This is the question at the heart of Capitalism before Corporations. It...

This new book about the 1st Duke of Wellington provides a novel take on the traditional biography in that it explores the life of this complex man through portraits -...

Two women. An extraordinary power. An explosive bond. In a time of revolution, their fates will lie in the turn of a card . . . It is the early...

Sir Henry Parkes- Father of Federation, Premier of NSW, Statesman, Visionary, Political Leader, Poet, Humanist Sir Henry Parkes- Father of Federation, Premier of NSW, Statesman, Visionary, Political Leader, Poet, HumanistMay...

Officers led and men followed; all were expected to do their duty without thought of reward. Enlisted men rarely penetrated the officer ranks and promotion owed more to money than...

Most people know little more about the US President Abraham Lincoln than how he met his end - assassinated in a theatre box by a gunman. But as Thomas Keneally,...

During the French Revolution most performances on the London stage were strictly censored, but political attitudes found indirect expression. New and popular genres like pantomime, gothic drama, history plays, musical...

As never before or since, Richard Wagner's name dominated American music-making at the close of the nineteenth century. Europe, too, was obsessed with Wagner, but - as Joseph Horowitz shows...

At the end of the 18th century Dora Jordan was the greatest comic actress the British theatre had known, adored by the public and high society alike. She became the...

Now a major documentary film starring Billy Bragg In the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the British Government banished their political enemies - viewed with the same alarm as today's...

This book is a major history of the dramatic and enduring changes in the daily lives of poor European women and men in the nineteenth century. Rachel G. Fuchs conveys...

The Napoleonic Wars have an important place in the history of Europe, leaving their mark on European and world societies in a variety of ways. In many European countries they...

Harry the Valet began his criminal career out of grief, but became Europe s most notorious jewel thief out of love. The story of a real-life Raffles a man who...

ANNE LISTER IS THE INSPIRATION FOR GENTLEMAN JACK , A NEW BBC/HBO SERIES BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT, STARRING SURANNE JONES. 'Engaging, revealing, at times simply astonishing: Anne Lister's diaries are an...

1720. Blue Mountains, windward Jamaica. In the sweltering heat Captain Shettlewood leads a troop of British soldiers through the thick trees towards the river. They are hunting slaves who have...

A panoramic new history of the revolutionary decades between 1760 and 1825, from North America and Europe to Haiti and Spanish America, showing how progress and reaction went hand in...

Every famous piece of art has an origin story-even Bach's Goldberg Variations! When the richest dude in town can't sleep, he hires a much-less-rich dude named Johann Gottlieb Goldberg to...

Europe and the Making of Modernity, 1815-1914 is a clear and engaging chronicle of the political, economic, social, and cultural changes that transformed Europe during the nineteenth century. An introduction...

USA Today bestselling author Julie Anne Long continues her Palace of Rogues series with a brand-new romance about an ambitious American and a headstrong British heiress. He's the battle-hardened son...

Rediscover Puffin Classics, bringing the best-loved stories to a new generation. A tale of smuggling set among the cliffs, caves, and downs of Dorset. Everyone in the tiny village of...

Examines the transformation of Imperial China to Communist China, discusses the social and cultural changes that have occurred, and looks at modern economic development in China.

On a mild winter's evening in 1850, Isabella Robinson set out for a party. Her carriage bumped across the wide cobbled streets of Edinburgh's Georgian New Town and drew up...

The Valley Campaign conducted by Maj. Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson has long fascinated those interested in the American Civil War as well as general students of military history, all...

Like her previous books, this book is the product of the author's passionate interest in the realities of everyday life - and the conditions in which most people lived -...

Shielded from St Petersburg society, the last tsar's four daughters enjoyed a simple life of almost cloudless happiness. Their evenings were spent with their parents, reading aloud and pasting snapshots...

This special 25th anniverary edition has a chic new format: two volumes packaged in a slipcase.

Introduced by Tim Flannery At length, almost to our sorrow, we made the land upon the 3rd of June 1790, just one year all but one day from our leaving...

From the bestselling award-winning author of The Good Wife of Bath comes this rollicking historical adventure that celebrates the art of whisky distilling, the defiant spirit of the Scottish Highlanders...

It is an era that redefined history. As the 1790s began, a fragile America teetered on the brink of oblivion, Russia towered as a vast imperial power, and France plunged...

There's something devilish going on in the quiet Welsh village of Penhelyg...A gripping gothic suspense from the author of number one bestseller Pandora A remote village, a mysterious death, a...

Eureka- The Unfinished Revolution ... history comes to life with Peter Fitzsimons. THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER 'Peter FitzSimons is an Australian phenomenon.' The Canberra Times In 1854, Victorian miners fought a...

The revolutionary account of working-class culture and ideals, reissued as a Penguin Modern Classic to mark the 50th anniversary of its publication This brilliant account of working-class society in its...

The dramatic story of George Washington's first crisis of the fledgling republic. In the war's waning days, the American Revolution neared collapsed when Washington's senior officers were rumored to be...

This book looks at an allegation of betrayal made against a young Foreign Office clerk, Victor Buckley, who, it was claimed, leaked privileged information to agents of the southern States...