The calamities of the mid-seventeenth century were not only unprecedented, they were agonisingly widespread. The author examines first-hand accounts of men and women throughout the world describing what they saw and suffered during a sequence of political, economic and social crises that stretched from 1618 to the 1680s.

The intriguing history of Dickens’s London, showing how tourists have reimagined and reinvented the Dickensian metropolis for more than 150 years

A lively reimagining of how the distant medieval world of war functioned, drawing on the objects used and made by crusaders

An account of all the new and surprising evidence now available that contradicts the standard narrative for the beginnings of the earliest civilizations

An enthralling account of paganism in Britain, from the Paleolithic Age to the arrival of Christianity

The definitive history of the druids in Britain, from their ancient origins to the present day

A concise history of the goddess-like figures who evade both Christian and pagan traditions, from the medieval period to the present day

A sweeping and overdue retelling of U.S. history that recognizes that Native Americans are essential to understanding the evolution of modern America

An examination of the rise of Islam, the life of Muhammad, and the Islamic principles of faith. Jonathan Bloom and Sheila Blair describe the golden age of the Abbasids, the Mongol invasions, and the great Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal empires that emerged in their wake.