Жанр "История. Социология. Политика"

When the First World War broke out, the suffragettes suspended their campaigning and joined the war effort. For pioneering...

More than one fifth of children want to become influencers and it's easy to understand why. What if you could escape economic...

P.J. O'Rourke says we've worked ourselves into a state of anger and perplexity, and it's no surprise because perplexed and angry...

In this sharp and witty book, long-time Silicon Valley observer and author Andrew Keen argues that, on balance, the Internet has...

At first, gunner Clarence Smoyer and his fellow crewmen in the legendary 3rd Armored Division – ‘Spearhead’ – thought their tanks...

From award-winning writer Edward Wilson-Lee, this is a thrilling true historical detective story set in sixteenth-century...

Being Jewish Today gives an account of both the journey of a particular British Jew and the journey of millions of women and men...

Ewan Forbes was born Elisabeth Forbes to a wealthy landowning family in 1912. It quickly became clear that the gender applied to...

By the end of the First World War, the whereabouts of more than half a million British soldiers were unknown. Most were presumed...

London, 1938. Alma Fielding, an ordinary young woman, begins to experience supernatural events in her suburban home.

Nandor...

The internet is a network of physical cables and connections, a web of wires enmeshing the world, linking huge data centres to...

A candid exploration of the state of outrage in our culture, and how we can channel it back into the fights that matter, from...

'Every voice raised against racism chips away at its power. We can't afford to stay silent. This book is an attempt to...

One December night in 1942, a Nazi parachutist landed in a Cambridgeshire field. His mission: to sabotage the British war...

'This is not a fairytale. This is a story about how sex and money and power police our dreams.'

Clear-eyed, witty and...

In February 1981, just as Spain was finally leaving Franco's dictatorship and during the first democratic vote in parliament for...

One of the oldest cities in Europe, Porto is recognised the world over for its wonderful Port wine. Rising from the steep banks...

Following the conventions of a different genre, each of the pieces in Schalansky's Inventory considers something that is...

Having written enthralling biographies of London and of its great river, the Thames, Peter Ackroyd now turns to England itself....

In AD 843, the three surviving grandsons of the great Emperor Charlemagne met at Verdun. After years of bitter squabbles over who...

Ten years ago, I began to explore the country on which I was supposed to be an authority . . .

France is a country famous for...

Innovation brings Peter Ackroyd's History of England to a triumphant close. In it, Ackroyd takes readers from the end of the Boer...

Brutally honest and fearless, Poverty Safari is an unforgettable insight into modern Britain, and will change how you think about...

France: An Adventure History is a profoundly original and endlessly entertaining history of France, from the first century BC to...

The great forces of population change - the balance of births, deaths and migrations - have made the world what it is today. They...

When we lose someone we love, when we suffer loss or defeat, when catastrophe strikes - war, famine, pandemic - we go in search...

This book tells the story of our greatest invention. Or, it almost does. Almost, because while the story has a beginning - in...

Kent's Strangest Tales is a book devoted to the weird and wonderful side of the Garden of England.

Home to historically rich...

This is a book that calls time on the endless tide of violence against women and the failures of our criminal justice system to...

Journalist Sam Bright is a Northerner living in London. He is just one of the millions of people clinging on to the coattails of...