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'History is a bottomless reservoir of all the bonkers, heroic, awful and weird things we eccentric humans have ever done. We can't help generating ...

'Taylor Downing is a wonderful historian and a wonderful history communicator' Dan Snow, History Hit 'Vividly brings to life a terrible year' Max ...

On which day was history's shortest war waged and won (in roughly 40 minutes)? How was Napoleon bested by a group of rabbits in 1807? Why did a dis...

The true story of the world's most famous ship is retold in this beautiful book with stunning visuals and a gripping narrative. One fateful night...

'A wonderful idea, gloriously put into practice. Greg Jenner is as witty as he is knowledgeable' - Tom Holland 'You will love Greg Jenner's jolly ...

Packed with a barmy blend of foul facts, cartoon strips, stories, jokes, activities and puzzles, the "2011 Annual" includes a whole heap of nasty b...

A day-by-day collection of over 6000 events, trivia, quotations, news items, anniversaries and birthdays for every day of the year. Presented a...

History is a rich, varied and fascinating subject, so it's rare to find the whole lot in one book ...until now. The History of the World in Bite-Si...

A Train Journey takes readers on an international journey through the history of trains and brings the locomotives to life in pop-up detail. Create...

If your response to a mention of the Wars of the Roses, the Sumerians or the Reformation is, 'Hmm, I've heard of that - what was that again?', then...

'Brilliantly funny' SHAPARAK KHORSANDI 'Immensely enjoyable' BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE 'Every page contains delights' LINDSEY FITZHARRIS Why is Italy c...

"In this illuminating and thoughtful book, Will and Ariel Durant have succeeded in distilling for the reader the accumulated store of knowledge and...

Review What is History, Now? demonstrates how our constructs of the past are woven into our modern world and culture, and offers us an illuminatin...

Now filmed as 'The Irishman' starring Al Pacino and Joe Pesci 'I heard you paint houses' are the first words Jimmy Hoffa ever spoke to Frank 'the...

Product Description In this illuminating and thoughtful book, Will and Ariel Durant have succeeded in distilling for the reader the accumulat...

Product Description Take a Sticker History trip to the amazing Ice Age! Learn about our Ice Age ancestors and discover the incredible prehistoric ...

Review 'Hegemonic decline,' to borrow a phrase from one of Trump's ancestors, makes one want to release the safety catch on one's Browning. A petr...

To celebrate 100 years of DJing, Bill Brewster and Frank Broughton have expanded and updated their classic account of the history of the disc jocke...

'A huge, fizzing omnium-gatherum of a book . . . marvellous' Daily Telegraph 'Witty, wise and elegant . . . a classic of history itself' The Specta...

Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? Jared Diamond puts the case that geography and biogeography, not race, moulded the ...