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One of the best known figures from Roman history, Nero (r. AD 54-68) is most often characterised as a tyrannical and ineffectual ruler, who fiddled while Rome burnt. Such a...

Brimming with life and drama, this is a magnificent journey into two thousand years of history, from the acclaimed and beloved historian of Europe 'All roads lead to Rome.' It's...

Multi-million copy bestselling author Terry Deary shows you the history of the world through the eyes of Mr and Mrs Peasant (and their good friend Monsieur Guillotine...). A globetrotting, laugh-out-loud...

An epic saga of samurai warfare in medieval Japan This celebrated literary classic has delighted generations of Japanese. In its pages, you will find a vivid contemporary description of the...

Professor White's historical study of the rediscovery of pictorial space during the Renaissance and of its origins in antiquity was acclaimed when it first appeared. It opened up important new...

Vikings sets new standards in combing text and images to capture the achievements of a lost culture. Themes include ceremonies, sacrifices and extraordinary voyages, mighty gods and goddesses, magic and...

Hunting, sword fighting, jousting, feasting ... follow a day in the life of a knight as he takes part in an exciting tournament. Find out all about what life was...

From the multimillion-copy bestselling author of the Horrible Histories, this is a witty, whistlestop tour through the history of Britain (for grown ups) - a ST bestseller with 30k+ hardbacks...

In Out of Love for My Kin, Amy Livingstone examines the personal dimensions of the lives of aristocrats in the Loire region of France during the eleventh and twelfth centuries....

Traces the rise and fall of the Toltec civilization, and describes what has been learned about their culture from the excavation of Tula, their principal city.

Agincourt took place on 25 October 1415 and was a turning-point not only in the Hundred Years War between England and France but also in the history of weaponry. Azincourt...

The bestselling, critically acclaimed new women's history book from Philippa Gregory for 2025 - adapted for teen and YA readers! Today, when we think of women of the past, we...

'A gripping new collection from Max Hastings that puts you at the heart of the battle ... Compelling' Daily Mail 'An unmissable read' Sunday Times Soldiers is a very personal...

A TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A diligent historian and a superb writer' THE TIMES A gripping new history of the making of England as a nation. In December...

The first popular biography of the legendary Mongol emperor and warlord. Genghis Khan - creator of the greatest empire the world has ever seen - is one of history's immortals....

The bestselling, critically acclaimed new women's history book from Philippa Gregory for 2025 - adapted for teen and YA readers! Today, when we think of women of the past, we...

'A gripping new collection from Max Hastings that puts you at the heart of the battle ... Compelling' Daily Mail 'An unmissable read' Sunday Times Soldiers is a very personal...

The Third Crusade of Richard the Lionheart is well known but the build-up to it less so. The years that led up to the Battle of Hattin in 1187 is...

The author looks into the history of Western Europe between 1300 and 1450, drawing parallels with the 20th century and looks into Chaucer, Boccaccio, The Hundred Years' War, pilgrimages, plagues...

This book explores the liturgical experience of emotions in Byzantium through the hymns of Romanos the Melodist, Andrew of Crete and Kassia. It reimagines the performance of their hymns during...

From 1200 BCE to 900 CE, the world witnessed the rise of powerful new states and empires, as well as networks of cross-cultural exchange and conquest. Considering the formation and...

Volume 5 of the Cambridge World History series uncovers the cross-cultural exchange and conquest, and the accompanying growth of regional and trans-regional states, religions, and economic systems, during the period...

English Reformations takes a refreshing new approach to the study of the Reformation in England. Christopher Haigh's lively and readable study disproves any facile assumption that the triumph of Protestantism...

There is not just one story of silk. In silk is science, history and mythology. In silk is the future. Aarathi Prasad's Silk is a gorgeous new history weaving together...

His grandfather was the bloodthirsty Mongol leader Genghis Khan, his mother a Christian princess. Groomed from childhood for a position of authority, Khubilai snatched the position of Great Khan, becoming...

The greatest story of military conquest in history from a 'master storyteller' (Guardian) Genghis Khan was by far the greatest conqueror the world has ever known, whose empire stretched from...

A fascinating description of the beginning of the modern world For nineteenth-century Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt, the Italian Renaissance was nothing less than the beginning of the modern world -...

Runciman's great Crusades trilogy reissued in Penguin Modern Classics ''The whole tale is one of faith and folly, courage and greed, hope and delusion.' The Christian and Muslim empires of...

An epic history of Islam and the Middle East through the cities which best epitomized it Islamic civilization was once the envy of the world. From a succession of glittering,...

Alison Weir investigates one of the most enduring murder mysteries in English history - the death of the lost Princes in the tower, nephews of Richard III, whose body has...

A new edition of these two French accounts written by soldiers who took part in the Crusades The Conquest of Constantinople by Geoffrey of Villehardouin and The Life of Saint...

Asser's revealing account of one of the great medieval kings Asser's Life of King Alfred, written in 893, is a revealing account of one of the greatest of medieval kings....

A wonderful, epic story that tells the history of the greatest city in the world, from Roman times to the present day. A grand, epic story that tells the history...

In the spring of 1453, the Ottoman Turks advanced on Constantinople in pursuit of an ancient Islamic dream: capturing the thousand-year-old capital of Christian Byzantium. During the siege that followed,...

He became king before his first birthday, inheriting a vast empire from his military hero father; she was the daughter of a king without power, who made an unexpected marriage...

The Loss of Normandy, 1198-1204

'A gripping new collection from Max Hastings that puts you at the heart of the battle ... Compelling' Daily Mail'An unmissable read' Sunday Times Soldiers is a very personal gathering...

Byzantium. Was it Greek or Roman, familiar or hybrid, barbaric or civilised, Oriental or Western? In the late eleventh century Constantinople was the largest and wealthiest city in Christendom, the...

"A fascinating and very original book, based on an enormous amount of primary research. Freed is a leading authority on the ministerials of the Holy Roman Empire, who kept their...

When Count Henry of Anjou and his formidable wife Eleanor of Aquitaine became king and queen of England, they amassed an empire stretching 1,000 miles from the Pyrenees to the...

Amid the disintegration of the Kingdom of Italy in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, a new form of collective government--the commune--arose in the cities of northern and central Italy. Sleepwalking...

Historians of sexuality have often assumed that medieval people were less interested in sex than we are. But people in the Middle Ages wrote a great deal about sex: in...

The Kharijites were the first sectarian movement in Islamic history, a rebellious splinter group that separated itself from mainstream Muslim society and set about creating, through violence, an ideal community...

The 'Montfortian' civil wars in England lasted from 1259-67, though the death of Simon de Montfort and so many of his followers at the battle of Evesham in 1265 ought...