Based on the online blogs of acclaimed historian and author Ada Palmer, Inventing the Renaissance provides a fresh perspective on what makes this period one of the most captivating and unique parts of European history.

A panoramic history of the arrival of the Stuarts, and how the reign of King James I saw England reach new corners of the globe.

An ambitious, authoritative history of the Roman Catholic Church in the modern age.

A timely and controversial examination of thirty years of diplomatic misunderstandings, roads not taken and mutual suspicion that resulted in the terrible tragedy of Russia’s brutal war on Ukraine.

A spectacular, vivid, groundbreaking work of history which takes us into the mind and lives of medieval women.

An original and informative look at Russia's thousand-year past, tracing the forces and the myths that have shaped Putin's politics.

A New Statesman, Financial Times and Economist Book of the Year

'Brilliant' NEW STATESMAN, BOOKS OF THE YEAR

'Enlightening and a good read' SPECTATOR

'Moving and perceptive' NEW STATESMAN

Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, Mao Zedong, Kim Il-sung, Ceausescu, Mengistu of Ethiopia and Duvalier of Haiti.

No dictator can rule through fear and violence alone. Naked power can be grabbed and held temporarily, but it never suffices in the long term. A tyrant who can compel his own people to acclaim him will...

Sarah Rainsford, the BBC's former Moscow correspondent who was expelled from Russia, reveals how Putin so transformed the country she once called home, that he was able to order the horrific invasion of Ukraine

Now in a fully revised and updated edition, this book remains the standard for concise histories of the European Union. Mark Gilbert offers a clear and balanced narrative of European integration since its inception to the present, set in the wider history of the post-war period. Gilbert concludes by considering the Union’s future in light of the mood of crisis that has taken hold in the EU in the aftermath of the global recession, the refugee crisis, and Brexit.

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