Tot diep in de twintigste eeuw was het realiteit in Nederland; kinderen, ouderen en mensen met een beperking werden geveild aan de laagste bieder. 

Een vergeten praktijk waar schrijver Menno Lanting op stuitte tijdens zijn zoektocht naar het levensverhaal van zijn overgrootmoeder.

In De bestedeling reconstrueert hij voor het eerst deze schrijnende geschiedenis van uitbesteding, waarbij kwetsbare mensen als handelswaar werden behandeld. 

 Aan de hand van archieven, pe...

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

On 2 May, 1536, in an act unprecedented in English history, Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII's second wife, was imprisoned in the Tower of London. Did Cromwell, for reasons of his own, construct a case against Anne and her faction, and then present compelling evidence before the King?

The incredible story of Agent Zo, the WW2 Polish resistance fighter secretly trained by British special forces and the only woman to be parachuted back behind enemy lines

A history of twenty-nine European borderlines from a political analyst and Tim Marshall's 'borders expert'.

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.

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.

Bestselling author and social media sensation Alice Loxton brings us a scintillating new history of Britain, told through eighteen figures in British history at the age of eighteen.