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”[Somerville”s] infectious enthusiasm and wry humour infuse his journey from the Isle of Lewis to southern England, revealing our rich geological history with vibrant local and natural history.” O …

Award-winning New York Times reporter Donald G. Mc Neil, Jr. reflects on twenty-five years of covering pandemics—how governments react to them, how the media covers them, how they are exploited, and …

Through the early twentieth century, the British Government locked away over 50, 000 innocent people. Their ‘crimes’? Being poor and unyielding. This is their story . ”Staggering… Wise”s book …

”Terrific . . . a tour de force” Sir Richard Evans ”Military history at its very best” Keith Lowe A gripping and authoritative account of the year that sealed the fate of the Nazis, from the best …

Berengaria of Navarre was queen of England (1191 99) and lord of Le Mans (1204 30), but has received little attention in terms of a fully encompassing biography from Navarrese, Anglophone, and French …

This book explores the philosophical and political roots of the United Bengal movement of 1947 that emerged as a final bid to keep the province united against Partition. Through Abul Hashim, one of i …

This book explores the long-term origins of populist Euroscepticism. Taking a historical perspective to move beyond explaining present-day expressions of opposition to the European Union in isolati …

Conscience as a Historical Force is the first true analysis of the life and thought of the radically democratic eighteenth-century backcountry figure of Herman Husband (1724–1795) and his heavily met …

”This is an essential and fascinating book because it brings to light, through conversations and nature walks, some of the buried connections between Britain’s landscape and historic buildings and i …

By drawing upon recent scholarship, original manuscript materials, and previously unpublished sources, this new biography presents an analytical narrative of King James VI & I’s life from his birth i …