The natural history of the Western Front during the First World War by the award-winning author of Meadowland.

24 Hours in Ancient China invites you to meet a wide range of fascinating characters from all parts of society to experience what life was really like during this incredible time and empire.

Dan Jones's epic new history tells nothing less than the story of how the world we know today came to be built.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer turns his eye to the seventeenth-century Dutch Golden Age Twenty years ago, Benjamin Moser followed a love affair to an ancient Dutch town. In order to make sense of this new place, he threw himself into the Dutch museums. Soon, he found himself unearthing the strange, inspiring and sometimes terrifying stories of the artists who shaped one of the most luminous moments in the history of human creativity, the Dutch Golden Age.

As he explored the hidden wor...

Nieuw inzicht in de opstandige politieke partijen van het interbellum.

Het provocerende optreden van de verschillende Rapaille Partijen in het interbellum vormt een uniek verschijnsel in de Nederlandse politieke geschiedenis. De verkiezing in april 1921 van de alcoholistische zwerver Had-je-me-maar tot Amsterdams gemeenteraadslid veroorzaakte nationale ophef. Een monsterverbond van opstandige anarchisten, non-conformistische kunstenaars en extreemrechtse antidemocraten – verenigd onder de...