The fascinating story of the evolution of the country house in Britain, from its Roman precursors to the present

A fascinating journey through Europe’s old towns, exploring why we treasure them—but also what they hide about a continent’s fraught history

Maya peoples have long dominated southern Mesoamerica, an area stretching from the lowland coast of the Yucatán Peninsula to the highland mountains of southern Guatemala. While never a unified people, they gave rise to a great civilization with a dynamic set of beliefs and stories that varied between groups and retellings. To the Maya these have always been more than fireside tales: their myths formed the foundation of their culture, weaving together their ancestral and primordial pasts into...

This volume is the first book to bring together ground-breaking research on the role of European famines in the 19th and 20th centuries in relation to heritage making, museology, commemoration, education and monument creation.

The fascinating story of the Venetian who helped to map the World during the Renaissance, by the author of A Venetian Affair and Autumn in Venice.

Armageddon: The Battle for Germany 1944-45 is the stunning bestseller from one of Britain's most highly regarded military historians.