Жанр "История. Социология. Политика"

A great thinker's final testament: a characteristically wise and forthright collection of essays from the author of Postwar and...

'Flaneuse [flanne-euhze], noun, from the French. Feminine form of flaneur [flanne-euhr], an idler, a dawdling observer, usually...

There is nothing quite as beautiful as an English country house in summer. And there has never been a summer quite like that...

We all have ten types of human in our head.

They're the people we become when we face life's most difficult decisions. We want...

The folk-memory of Britain in the years before the Great War is of a powerful, contented, orderly and thriving country. She...

Guns. Sex. Drugs. Murder.
The Dark Net is just a click away.
Beyond the familiar online world that most of us inhabit lies a...

We spend more time than ever online, and the digital revolution is rewiring our sense of what it means to be human. Smartphones...

During the First World War three quarters of a million British people died – a figure so huge that it feels impossible to give it...

A timely lesson in the perils of nation-building and a sobering reminder of the limits of military power from the Costa Award...

So how did such this extraordinary man get erased by history? Why are there no statues of 'Monsieur Humanity' as his troops...

When Saladin recaptured Jerusalem from the Crusaders in 1187, returning the Holy City to Islamic rule, he sent shockwaves...

Wars come and go across the headlines and television screens, but for those who survive them, scarred and scattered, they never...

Tudor tells a family story like no other.

The Tudors are a national obsession, undoubtedly British history's most notorious...

William Cavendish, the father of the first Earl, dissolved monasteries for Henry VIII. Bess, his second wife, was...

The Northmen’s Fury tells the Viking story, from the first pinprick raids of the eighth century to the great armies that left...

Nothing experienced in human history, before or since, eclipses the terror, tragedy and scale of the Black Death, the disease...

The New Machiavelli is a gripping account of life inside 'the bunker' of Number 10. In his twenty-first century reworking of...

Discover the era of William Shakespeare and Elizabeth I through the sharp, informative and hilarious eyes of Ian Mortimer.

We...

This highly original book brilliantly exposes the phenomenon of false allegations of lunacy and the dark motives behind them in...

On two days in 1761 and 1769 hundreds of astronomers pointed their telescopes towards the skies to observe a rare astronomical...

A gripping chronicle of the personal and political rivalries from the birth of Queen Victoria to the unification of Germany...

In August 1914 the two greatest navies in the world confronted each other across the North Sea. At first there were skirmishes,...

This is the archetypal story of the American West. Whether it is cast as a tale of unmatched bravery in the face of impossible...

From murder to duelling, highway robbery to mugging: the darker side of English life explored.

Spanning some seven centuries,...

The story of modern Australia begins in eighteenth-century Britain, where people were hanged for petty offences but crime was...

Did the Trojan War really happen?

Spectacular new archaeological evidence suggests that it did. Recent excavations and newly...

Acute, questioning, humane and passionately concerned for justice, Helena Kennedy is one of the most powerful voices in legal...

An award-winning epic on the birth of Australia

In 1787, the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King George III, the British...

A fascinating look inside the world of the Tudors, through the places they knew

Join historian Suzannah Lipscomb as she...

In Vietnam, Professor, Christian G. Appy has created a staggering and monumental oral history of the type that is created only...