Martin Luther was so troubled by the sale of indulgences (pardons for sins granted by the Pope) that, in 1517, he nailed ninety-five theses to the doors of the church...
John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, is one of the great commanders of history. Using his great charm and diplomatic skills he was able to bind troops from various European...
Thomas Blood (1618-80) was a celebrity in his own lifetime, even though this celebrity was based on infamy. A turncoat, spy and double agent, Blood is most notorious for being...
Marguerite Duras was one of the leading intellectuals and novelists of post-war France. This work, retrieved from the papers she left at her death, consists of four notebooks written between...
Showcases the finest examples amongst the 200 exquisitely detailed maps donated to the American Museum in BritainThird in a series for the American Museum in Britain produced by ScalaIllustrating the...
When it was granted by King John in 1215, Magna Carta was a practical solution to a political crisis. In the centuries since, it has become a potent symbol of...
In 1840 Australia was full of transported convicts, and Norfolk Island, a thousand miles out in the Pacific, was its prison of ultimate terror. Prisoners there were repeatedly flogged, their...
Louis XIV enjoyed visiting his fruit and vegetable gardens. Enriched with exotic plants by the numerous botanical expeditions that took place during the seventeenth century, the king's gardens were a...
Discover the history of Britain through its forgotten battles for tourists, wargamers, and historians alike The British Isles have witnessed hundreds of battles in 2000 years of history. Some are...
London's influence reaches across the globe. As a port, capital, imperial centre and wartime bastion, it has played an unparalleled part in history. Its contribution to music, fashion and taste...
The publication of Literature, Politics and Culture in Postwar Britain in 1989 firmly established Alan Sinfield as one of our foremost writers on literature and a leading critic of postwar...
First publication of a unique resource that provides fascinating insight into the mood of the nation , at a crucial time in the Second World War when the conflicts outcome...
T.E. Lawrence is one of the most enigmatic characters in British history. At the outbreak of the First World War he was working as an archaeologist in the Middle East....
1973 was a seminal year in world history. The outbreak of the 'Yom Kippur War' took both Israel and the US by surprise, the Vietnam War finally ended, it was...
During the Second World War, Britain's top secret Special Operations Executive plotted to assassinate Hitler. A small department of SOE known as Section X had the tantalisingly complex task of...
Acclaimed historical biographer Linda Porter provides a vivid life of Katherine Parr revealing Henry VIII's last queen to have been a more human, complex and modern figure than has hitherto...
After finally achieving what had eluded even his grandfather Genghis Khan – the conquest of China – and inheriting the world's largest navy, Khubilai Khan set his sights on Japan....
Jonathan Wild (born c.1683), probably Britain's most well-known criminal of the 18th century, was known as the director of a 'corporation of thieves'. He learned his 'trade' while serving a...
No-one in the annals of crime is capable of arousing such passionate debate as the perpetrator of the Whitechapel Murders in 1888. Was he a demented royal, a Masonic assassin,...
Born in 1892 near Saint Petersburg, Ivan Puni is regarded as one of the founders and leading lights of the Russian avant-garde, alongside Kazimir Malevich and others. He was an...
