A vividly drawn Joint biography of four extraordinary Renaissance women writers who have been rescued from obscurity by scholar and critically acclaimed author, Ramie Targoff.

A brilliantly readable history of privacy with a simple and urgent argument: private life is a precious and sustaining resource that must be defended.

What did medieval people call the animals they lived and worked with? Why did they give them the names they did? This book sets out to answer these questions.

In this provocative new book, Lucy Ash reveals how, under Putin, religion is being stripped of its spiritual content and used as a weapon to control the population. Orthodox clerics and their acolytes distort theology as they preach Slav Christian supremacy and drag Russia backwards into a new Middle Ages.

Combining historical research with vivid present-day reportage, The Baton and the Cross explores the impact the Church is having on millions of lives - from the tower blocks of big...

Unlock the secrets of a fascinating civilizations. This introductory guide takes you on a journey through a land where pyramids rise against the desert sky, pharaohs rule with divine authority and gods and goddesses walk among mortals. Discover the key events, people and trivia you need to know to understand this remarkable period of history.

There are few people in history who are instantly recognisable by their silhouette - Marie Antoinette would have to count among them - the very name conjures up a vibrant pastel-coloured world of excess, filled with satin shoes, rustling silks, gravity-defying hairstyles, decadent macarons, delicious intrigue and then, of course, bloody Revolution.

A provocative account of how subjective experience rules society today.

In The Houses of Guinness, bestselling author Adrian Tinniswood explores the history and legacy of the legendary Guinness family through their mansions and town houses, to coincide with a major new Netflix series on the origins of the great brewing dynasty.

The Prince (Italian: Il Principe) is a political treatise by the Italian diplomat, historian and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli. From correspondence a version appears to have been distributed in 1513, using a Latin title, De Principatibus (About Principalities). But the printed version was not published until 1532, five years after Machiavelli's death. This was done with the permission of the Medici pope Clement VII, but "long before then, in fact since the first appearance of the Pr...

Dordrecht speelde een sleutelrol in de trans-Atlantische slavernij, maar hoe diep reikte haar betrokkenheid werkelijk? Dit baanbrekende onderzoek, uitgevoerd op verzoek van nazaten van tot slaaf gemaakten, brengt de complexe en vaak vergeten geschiedenis van slavernij, verzet en Zwarte autonomie in Dordrecht aan het licht. Van de oprichting van de West-Indische Compagnie en de financiering van slavenhandel tot de strijd van Afrikaanse tot slaaf gemaakten voor vrijheid en waardigheid – d...