The Unrefined Regency
Crime and punishment, theatre, sex, war, and empire.
Crime and punishment, theatre, sex, war, and empire.
The nuclear physicist who revealed secrets to the Soviets.
Going beyond the clichés to reveal Marie-Antoinette as a political operator with real influence.
A history from the earliest humans to those occupying ‘the bed of the future’.
The multifarious motives of Europe’s Ottoman scholars.
Successful leaders or rapacious, racist, corrupt adventurers? A history of the East India Company.
The study of song as an imperfect, protean, untameable art form.
Confronting the country's darkest hour and looking for answers.
Covering Hong Kong, the anniversary of the Peterloo Massacre, porcine inebriation and the Battle of Algiers, nine historians select their favourite books of the past year.
The views and actions of the man who tried to kill Hitler.