Shows how Shakespeare portrayed working people with insight, compassion and purpose.
A history of the world’s greatest and yet most incomprehensible sport: cricket.
A new portrait of The Who through the prism of pop art.
A superbly illustrated chronology of the Soviet Union’s extraordinary achievements in space exploration.
A superb overview of pivotal Renaissance philosopher, writer and historian Machiavelli.
A concise yet comprehensive critical biography of Friedrich Nietzsche.
Unwraps the history of the UK’s most popular takeaway.
A history of tomb-raiders in Egypt since antiquity.
The inspiring, painful stories of German prisoners, which shines new light onto Germany itself.
Shows how Napoleon Bonaparte took advantage of, and then ended, the French Revolution.
The first monograph in a generation of Renaissance master-artist Filippino Lippi.
The first truly global history of sexual violence, by acclaimed historian Joanna Bourke.