Quick view A History of the Classical World: The Story of Ancient Greece and Rome by Elizabeth Wyse Now: €9.99 MSRP: €25.00 Was: This richly illustrated hardback chronicles the rise and fall of the ancient Greek and Roman empires, accompanied by full-colour images of artefacts, artwork, maps and more.From palace-based societies in Minoan Crete to the German… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view History's Greatest Battles by Nigel Cawthorne Now: €5.00 MSRP: €12.50 Was: Great battles mark history's turning points, occurring where cultures and ideologies clash. While some battles have been won by the superior force, others have been won by a sheer dogged refusal to surrender in the face of overwhe… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Histories of the Unexpected by Dr Sam Willis & Professor James Daybell Now: €5.99 MSRP: €13.75 Was: Did you know that the history of the beard is connected to the Crimean War; that the history of paperclips is all about the Stasi; and that the history of bubbles is all about the French Revolution? And who knew that Heinrich Himm… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Goodbye Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land by Jacob Mikanowski Now: €12.50 MSRP: €13.75 Was: An epic history of the ‘other’ Europe, a place of conflict and coexistence, of faith and folklore. ‘Do not rush to bid farewell to eastern Europe until reading this book. Meticulously researched and beautifully written, this very … Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule by Angela Saini Now: €13.75 MSRP: Was: In this bold and radical book, award-winning science journalist Angela Saini goes in search of the true roots of gendered oppression, uncovering a complex history of how male domination became embedded in societies and spread acro… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Underground Sea by John Berger Now: €18.99 MSRP: €21.25 Was: The Underground Sea is a succinct, urgent collection of writing from John Berger's archive. It brings together for the first time his work on mineworkers and the miners' strikes and has been edited as a set of actions for today. P… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view How the World Made the West by Josephine Quinn Now: €18.99 MSRP: €21.25 Was: The West, history tells us, was built on the ideas and values of Ancient Greece and Rome, which disappeared from Europe during the Dark Ages and were then rediscovered by the Renaissance. But what if that isn't true? What if the s… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire by Nandini Das Now: €16.25 MSRP: Was: When Thomas Roe arrived in India in 1616 as James I’s first ambassador to the Mughal Empire, the English barely had a toehold in the subcontinent.Their understanding of South Asian trade and India was sketchy at best, and, to the … Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Road: A Story of Romans and Ways to the Past by Christopher Hadley Now: €13.75 MSRP: Was: Have you ever heard the march of legions on a lonely country road? For two thousand years, the roads the Romans built have determined the flow of ideas and folktales, where battles were fought and where pilgrims trod. Almost every… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Remembering Peasants by Patrick Joyce Now: €29.99 MSRP: Was: A way of life that once encompassed most of humanity is vanishing in one of the greatest transformations of our time: the eclipse of the rural world by the urban. In this new history of peasantry, Patrick Joyce tells the story of … Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view To The City: Life and Death Along the Ancient Walls of Istanbul by Alexander Christie-Miller Now: €21.25 MSRP: Was: Walking along the crumbling defensive walls of Istanbul and talking to those he passes, Alexander Christie-Miller finds a distillation of the country's history, a mirror of its present, and a shadow of its future. Caught between t… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks by David Gibbins Now: €21.25 MSRP: Was: From a Bronze Age ship built during the age of Queen Nefertiti and filled with ancient treasures, a Viking warship made for King Cnut himself, Henry VIII's spectacular Mary Rose and the golden age of the Tudor court, to the explor… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view American Mother by Colum McCann & Diane Foley Now: €16.50 MSRP: €18.75 Was: The English language has no specific word for the parent that has lost a child. There exist words for orphan, widow and widower, but there is no word that captures and conveys this tragic type of loss. It has been eleven years sin… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view History of the World in 100 Animals by Simon Barnes Now: €14.99 MSRP: €31.25 Was: 'So, so good! ... More gems than a pirate's chest ... science, art, history, culture - it's epic and mammoth, a repository of all our truths through their lives' Chris PackhamA powerful and fascinating insight into the 100 animals… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Hidden Hands: Lives of Manuscripts and Their Makers by Mary Wellesley Now: €6.99 MSRP: €14.99 Was: Manuscripts teem with life. They are not only the stuff of history and literature, but they offer some of the only tangible evidence we have of entire lives, long receded.Hidden Hands tells the stories of the artisans, artists, sc… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Nomads by Anthony Sattin Now: €6.99 MSRP: €16.25 Was: The groundbreaking story of Nomadic peoples on the move across history. Tracing the epic paths of wanderers across twelve thousand years, acclaimed travel writer Anthony Sattin recovers the stories of tribes who lived beyond imper… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Dragon Throne by Jonathan Fenby Now: €5.00 MSRP: €12.50 Was: They were the most powerful rulers on earth. The mighty Qin Shi Huangdu (r. 221-210 BC), who began the construction of the Great Wall.The long-lived Han emperor Wudi (r. 141-87 BC), who developed China as a centralized Confucian s… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Command by Al Murray Now: €6.99 MSRP: €13.75 Was: Al Murray's passion for military history and the Second World War in particular has always run parallel with his comedy and was brought to the fore with several acclaimed and award-winning television shows and the recent huge succ… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Venus and Aphrodite by Bettany Hughes Now: €5.99 MSRP: €12.50 Was: Through ancient art, evocative myth, intriguing archaeological discoveries and philosophical explorations, Bettany Hughes takes us on a voyage of discovery to reveal the truth behind Venus, and why this immortal goddess is so much… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages by Dan Jones (HB) Now: €12.99 MSRP: €31.25 Was: Dan Jones's epic new history tells nothing less than the story of how the world we know today came to be built. It is a thousand-year adventure that moves from the ruins of the once-mighty city of Rome, sacked by barbarians in AD … Add to Cart The item has been added