There’s Something About Marie
Going beyond the clichés to reveal Marie-Antoinette as a political operator with real influence.
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Beds and their Bedfellows
A history from the earliest humans to those occupying ‘the bed of the future’.
Interpreting the Ottoman Empire
The multifarious motives of Europe’s Ottoman scholars.
Bad Company?
Successful leaders or rapacious, racist, corrupt adventurers? A history of the East India Company.
Airy and Rational Animals
The study of song as an imperfect, protean, untameable art form.
Cambodia’s Crimes Unpunished
Confronting the country's darkest hour and looking for answers.
Books of the Year 2019
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.
Stauffenberg: Portrait of a Plotter
The views and actions of the man who tried to kill Hitler.
Unravelling the History of Wool
The lore and history of knitting in the British Isles.
Lewis Namier's Unfinished Business
The life of one of the leading British historians of the mid-20th century.