Жанр "История. Социология. Политика"

North Korea is like no other tyranny on earth. It is Orwell’s 1984 made reality.

The regime controls the flow of information...

In Home Francis Pryor, author of The Making of the British Landscape, archaeologist and broadcaster, takes us on his lifetime's...

From a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, a shocking investigation into the cycles of racial violence in America

Barack...

In the darkest months of the Second World War, Churchill approved what seemed to many like a suicide mission. Under orders to...

One of our most celebrated historians shows how we can use the lessons of the past to build a new post-covid society in...

London is a plutocrat's paradise, with more resident billionaires than New York, Hong Kong or Moscow. Far from trickling down,...

You think you know British Rail. But you don't know the whole story.

From its creation after the Second World War, through its...

Based on two decades of research, the five causes of wars and four ways to stop them

It's easy to overlook that most of the...

If Britain's maritime history were embodied in a single ship, she would have a prehistoric prow, a mast plucked from a Victorian...

In the frontier town of Springfield in 1651, peculiar things begin to happen. Precious food spoils, livestock ails and property...

How does Britain get its food?
Why is our current system at breaking point?
How can we fix it before it is too late?

British...

In the annals of military history, the Western Front stands as an enduring symbol of the folly and futility of war.

However,...

From Tristram Hunt, award-winning author of The Frock-Coated Communist and leading UK politician, Ten Cities that Made an Empire...

Based on the author's own vivid experiences, The Cruel Sea is the nail-biting story of the crew of HMS Compass Rose, a corvette...

Christopher Clark's Kaiser Wilhelm II: A Life in Power is a short, fascinating and accessible biography of one of the 20th...

Brendan Simms's formidable, game-changing history of Europe

In this marvelously ambitious and exciting book, Brendan Simms...

A castle filled with intrigue, a plotting duchess and a mysterious death in Catherine Bailey's The Secret Rooms.

At 6 am on...

A hauntingly beautiful social history of the Thames Estuary, from the author of On Brick Lane.

Out at the eastern edge of...

Brick Lane today is a place of extremes - a street that's constantly reinventing itself. Blending history and reportage with...

Every day, in every court and tribunal, advocates represent us all - Crown and defendant, landlord and tenant, rich and poor,...

In the terrible aftermath of the moorland battle of Culloden, the Highlanders suffered at the hands of their own clan chiefs....

1969 was a year of rising tension, violence and change for the people of Northern Ireland. Rioting in Derry's Bogside led to the...

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...

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

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...

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...