New and Recommended: History & Politics

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Trawling through a vast family archive and arcane sources in half a dozen languages, Adam Zamoyski has revealed the dramatic life of his great-great-great grandmother, an uneducated, vulnerable girl cast into a man’s world.Her…

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The powerful, deeply personal sequel to Diary of an InvasionTen years on from the annexation of Crimea, two years on from Russia’s all-out invasion of Ukraine, the Ukrainian people continue to fight back. In the second volume of his…

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Translated by Gesche IpsenA fascinating look at the medieval precedents for modern sustainable livingWINNER OF THE 2021 NDR BOOK PRIZE IN GERMANY'A must-read' Lyndal Roper, Regius Professor of History at Oriel College, OxfordFishing…

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The second volume in an acclaimed biography of Oliver Cromwell, from the capture of Charles I to the expulsion of the Long Parliament In 1647, the Parliamentarians were divided. They had won the first civil war and the king was in…

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A new history of personal and community relationships across post-imperial Britain, from 1940s Cardiff to the millennial Midlands.Between the end of the Second World War and the early twenty-first century, Britain became multicultural. This…

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A scintilating new history of Britain told through eighteen figures of British history – and what they achieved at eighteen years-old. From Alice Loxton, bestselling author and social media sensation.'Utterly, utterly brilliant.…

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A vivid new history of the criminal underworld in the medieval Holy Land The religious wars of the crusades are renowned for their military engagements. But the period was witness to brutality beyond the battlefield. More so than any…

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An examination of how the Jews—real and imagined—so challenged the Christian majority in medieval Europe that it became a society that was religiously and culturally antisemitic in new waysIn medieval Europe, Jews were not…

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[Richard J. Evans] argues persuasively that only by examining individual personalities can we understand ‘the perverted morality that made and sustained the Nazi regime… . His book is enriched by the findings of recent…

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From our earliest wanderings to the rise of the digital nomad, here is the story of human migration.For hundreds of thousands of years, the ability of Homo sapiens to travel across vast distances and adapt to new environments has…

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A vivid history of how the marks left on maps by travellers tell the story of the modern world'Ingenious. Caputo picks out a fascinating path and leads readers along it with the confidence of a practised pilot' Felipe…