History

Gracchus Babeuf has long been recognized as an important precursor of the revolutionary socialist tradition.

Its Past, Present and People. This timeline will appeal to a wide audience - Inhabitants, tourists, visitors and anyone who has an interest in the city and capital of the United Kingdom. The timeline explores the fascinating history since its earliest beginnings, how it has developed from a small town ...

A gripping narrative of one of the great survival stories of American history: the opening of the first permanent English settlement in the New World.

'The story of Captain John Smith and Pocahontas is one of the most famous of all historical tales, celebrated in popular culture from the Peggy Lee song 'Fever' to the 1995 Disney movie.

First published in Great Britain in 2016 as This Orient isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic world.

A unique history of crime revealed through the key numbers associated with famous murders

the book looks at the increasing polarity of views and the changing nature of 'reformism' in light of successive setbacks and growing international tensions.

The interlocking themes of Establishment and Meritocracy are a crucial part of the intellectual compost that made Hennessy's generation of postwar Britons. The Establishment and the concept of a growing and eventually self-propelling meritocracy were always at odds, and the policies that brought it about dramatically altered British society.

This work examines the heraldic rule that states that gold and silver, "Or and Argent" in heraldic terms, should never be put on or near one another. It researches how this rule came about, and whether it should be followed. A limited edition signed copy is available (ISBN 0-9-5715-36-5).

"Reflects on events that have transformed the Middle East between World War II and the Arab Spring, offering insight into the ""clash of civilizations"" that led to current hostilities and how world leaders can appropriately respond. By the best-selling author of What Went Wrong."

Was Gallipoli lost before the Allies even got there? Was the defeat of the Spanish Armada actually more of a draw? Was Custer's last stand really that heroic? And did the v-sign really originate at Agincourt? In this title, the answers to these and dozens of other dramatic historical questions are dug up, dusted off and laid out for you.

This is the story of Dunkirk and of the men who planned it (insofar as it was planned) and of the men who carried it out, and of their ships. He had the assistance of the men who were intimately concerned with planning and organising the operation.

Nicholas Rankin's revelatory new book, whose cast of characters includes Haile Selassie, Anthony Burgess and General Sikorski, sets Gibraltar in the wider context of the struggle against fascism, from Abyssinia through the Spanish Civil War.

This timely book, published in advance of 2010's inter-governmental Review Conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, makes available for the first time newly declassified government correspondence from David Owen's tenure as Foreign Secretary.

The author reveals all in an exposé, which makes a mockery of the military misconceptions that many people accept as the undisputed truth, offering such revelations as: there was no "Boston Massacre" and General MacArthur never promised "I shall return." Reprint.

A freewheeling, sharp-shooting indictment of a tech-besotted culture.

The first is to draw attention to the existence of a persisting and virtually unrecognised tradition of 'philosemitism' which manifested itself in Britain and elsewhere in the English-speaking world during every significant international outbreak of antisemitism during the century after 1840.

The Australian Bushrangers series by librarian and historical researcher, Jane Smith, details the colourful lives of six of Australia's most famous bushrangers of the gold rush era: Captain Thunderbolt, Captain Moonlite, Frank Gardiner, BenHall, and the two men known as `Captain Starlight'.

One Shot Kills is the story of the sniper's journey from the South African veldt to the recent battlegrounds of Iraq and Afghanistan. It is also the story of the development of the modern sniper's combat weapon system in which technology has been harnessed to produce extraordinary results on the battlefield.