Forgotten Peoples of the Ancient World
£20.00This work offers an overview of the lost peoples and cultures who flourished and fought for survival alongside the Egyptians, Greeks and Romans.
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Exiles
£20.00A luminous exploration of exile – the people who have experienced it, and the places they inhabit – from the award-winning travel writer and author. This is the story of three unheralded nineteenth-century dissidents, whose lives were profoundly shaped by the winds of empire, nationalism and autocracy that continue to blow strongly today: Louise Michel, a leader of the radical socialist government known as the Paris Commune; Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo, an enemy of British colonialism in Zululand; and Lev Shternberg, a militant campaigner against Russian tsarism.
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Northerners
£20.00A Times Bestseller
A Waterstones ‘Book You Need to Read in 2022’
The definitive history of the North of England as told through the lives of its inhabitants.
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The Battle for the Falklands
£12.99The Battle for the Falklands is a vivid chronicle of the political decision-making and military strategy during the Falklands conflict.
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Roaring Girls
£10.99‘Extraordinary’ Woman&Home
A Roaring Girl was loud when she should be quiet, disruptive when she should be submissive, sexual when she should be pure, ‘masculine’ when she should be ‘feminine’.
Meet the unsung heroines of British history who refused to play by the rules.
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The Last Emperor of Mexico
£20.00Here is history’s judgement on the events surrounding the ill-fated reign of Maximilian of Mexico, the young Austrian archduke who in 1864 crossed the Atlantic to assume a faraway throne. He had been convinced to do so by a duplicitous Napoleon III. Keen to spread his own interests abroad, the French emperor promised Maximilian a hero’s welcome, which he would ensure with his own mighty military support. Instead, Maximilian walked into a bloody guerrilla war – and with a headful of impractical ideals and a penchant for pomp and butterflies, the so-called new emperor was singularly unequipped for the task. ‘The Last Emperor of Mexico’ is the vivid history of this barely known, barely believable episode – a bloody tragedy of operatic proportions, and a vital debacle, the effects of which would be felt into the twentieth century and beyond.
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Riddle, Mystery, and Enigma
£20.00Britain’s relationship with the giant on the edge of the continent, Russia, are surprisingly under explored. With Owen’s characteristic insight and expertise, ‘Riddle, Mystery, Enigma’ depicts a relationship as often governed by principle as by suspicion, expediency, and outright necessity.