Topic: European history

Illustrated with contemporary photographs, this work documents the war in Afghanistan from 1878 to 1881. Based on first-hand official documents as well as private accounts, diaries and memoirs, the history is wide-ranging and authoritative. This book, illustrated with contemporary photographs, is...

Based on outstanding original research, and brimming with life and drama, this is the first book to explore 2000 years of history through one of the greatest imperial networks ever built.

A profoundly personal portrait of a people and their on-going journey, shedding new light on their history and what it means to be Romani in Europe today. It is a history that is not widely known and understood, and that invisibility has created a space where fear and hostility continue to thrive...

The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world's surface. How did one family turn a war-ruined principality into the world's greatest empire? And how did they lose it all? This is the intimate story of twenty tsars and tsarinas, some touched by genius, ...

In July 1991, nine skeletons were exhumed from a shallow grave near Ekaterinburg, Siberia, a few miles from the infamous cellar where the last tsar and his family had been murdered 73 years before. Were these the bones of the Romanovs? If so, why were the bones of the two younger Romanovs missing...

A history of the city of Rome as seen through its major sackings, by the Gauls, the Nazis, and other forces between. Both a }Daily Telegraph{ and a }Sunday Times{ Best History Book of 2017. A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Waterstone's Book of the Month, 2018 Nominated for the 2017 Pen Hessell-Tiltman M...

In the Ukrainian city of Poltava stands a building known as the Rooster House, an elegant mansion with two voluptuous red roosters flanking the door. It doesn't look horrifying. And yet, when Victoria was a girl growing up in the 1980s, her great-grandmother would take pains to avoid walking past...

In the Ukrainian city of Poltava stands a building known as the Rooster House, an elegant mansion with two voluptuous red roosters flanking the door. It doesn't look horrifying. And yet, when Victoria was a girl growing up in the 1980s, her great-grandmother would take pains to avoid walking past...

One of the most groundbreaking women in European political history, Rosa Luxemburg, is brought to life by one of her closest party members, Paul Frolich. Rosa Luxemburg is revered as one of the leading socialists of the early 20th century, whose vision for justice and equality continues to resona...

Originally published in 1913, 'Round About a Pound a Week' records the findings of a study by the Fabian Women's Group of the daily budgets of some thirty families living in extreme squalor and poverty in the London borough of Lambeth from 1909 to 1913.

This handbook brings together the latest research on peasantry in medieval Europe. The aim is to place peasants - as small-scale agricultural producers - firmly at the centre of this volume, as people with agency, immense skill, and resilience to shape their environments, cultures and societies. ...

The untold story behind one of the most sensational chapters in the history of the House of Windsor. Paul Burrell fought to clear his own name and now he reveals new truths about Princess Diana and presents an account of her thoughts. The untold story behind one of the most sensational chapters i...

Throughout the tenth century, England, as it would be recognised today, formed. No longer many Saxon kingdoms, but rather, just England. The royal woman of the House of Wessex came into prominence during the century, perhaps the most well-known being Ethelfled, daughter of King Alfred. Perhaps th...

For hundreds of years, the British have mourned the loss of older national identities, and called for a revival of the 'good old days' - from Margaret Thatcher's desire for a return to 'Victorian values' in the 1980s, to William Blake's protest against the 'dark satanic mills' of the Industrial R...

'This exciting and provocative book blows apart misconceptions about the Russian past' Lara Douds, Times Higher Education Russia is an exceptional country, the biggest in the world. It is both European and exotic, powerful and weak, brilliant and flawed. Why are we so afraid of it? Time and again...

Offering an urgent analysis of what has gone wrong with Putin, 'The Russia Conundrum' maps the country's rise and fall against Khodorkovsky's own journey, from Soviet youth to international oil executive, powerful insider to political dissident, and now a high-profile voice seeking to reconcile E...

Russia is the largest country in the world, with the largest arsenal of nuclear weapons. Over a thousand years this multifaceted nation of shifting borders has been known as Rus, Muscovy, the Russian Empire, and the Soviet Union. Thirty years ago it was reinvented as the Russian Federation. Russi...

Between 1917 and 1921 a devastating struggle took place in Russia following the collapse of the Tsarist empire. Many regard this civil war as the most influential event of the modern era. An incompatible White alliance of moderate socialists and reactionary monarchists stood little chance against...