Жанр "История. Социология. Политика"

Too often we take for granted and neglect our libraries, parks, markets, schools, playgrounds, gardens and communal spaces, but...

How have feelings come to shape the world around us? Why has politics become so fractious and warlike? What might the future...

Begin the new year with a fresh perspective on economics, capitalism, and the society we live in.

Yanis Varoufakis, world...

An inventive biography of one of the most famous ships of all time - recently discovered off the coast of America- Endeavour is...

In 1757, a down-and-out Irish poet, the head waiter at the Shakespear's Head Tavern in Covent Garden, and a celebrated London...

It is a myth that either of the World Wars liberated women.

The Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act of 1919 was one of the...

Would you let an algorithm determine your fate? Hannah Fry lifts the lid on the world of algorithms, examining how they impact...

From the bestselling author of The Story of the British Isles in 100 Places comes this inspiring and beautifully written...

I wanted to change the world, but the world I was born into changed me first.

My name is Jeremiah Emmanuel. I'm twenty one...

Acclaimed National Book Award-winning author George Packer diagnoses America's descent into a failed state, and envisions a path...

On Boxing Day 1962, when Juliet Nicolson was eight years old, the snow began to fall. It did not stop for ten weeks.

The...

What would a fair and equal society actually look like?

Imagine a world with no banks. No stock market. No tech giants. No...

Malin... , Bell...

Powerful. Self-assured. Independent. Unattached.

Thirty women, from Megan Barton-Hanson and Shaparak Khorsandi to Shon Faye...

If all the best people are in all the top jobs, then why is Britain such a fucking bin fire?

Britain is in a long-distance...

How are borders built in the modern world? What does Brexit mean for Ireland's border? And what would happen if Elon Musk...

In 1915, Sir Ernest Shackleton's attempt to be the first to traverse the Antarctic was cut short when his ship, Endurance, became...

A brilliant, global look at Universal Basic Income - a regular payment given to everyone - and why it might be the answer to...

Part of a trilogy on Scottish history, T.M. Devine's The Scottish Nation: A Modern History traces the epic story of a nation from...

Parris... , Bryson...

Matthew Parris's Parting Shots is a treasure trove of wit, venom and serious analysis.

Up till 2006 a British Ambassador...

'Because it was fought so close to his old home ground, Homer might have seen this war on the Gallipoli Peninsula as an epic....

Two centuries of reform, revolution and political intrigue in Chris Bryant's epic biography of Parliament

Over the last two...

The people of the first nomadic empire left no written records, but from 200 BC they dominated the heart of Asia for 400 years....

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...

An almighty storm hit Berlin in the last days of April 1945. Enveloped by the unstoppable force of East and West, explosive...

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...