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Merryn Somerset Webb
Share Power: How ordinary people can change the way that capitalism works – and make money tooIn this scintillating book, award-winning finan...In this scintillating book, award-winning financial commentator Merryn Somerset Webb reveals a much-overlooked fact; every share we own comes with a vote. What few people know is that we can use th... -
Stephan Talty
The Black Hand: The Epic War Between a Brilliant Detective and the Deadliest Secret Society in American HistoryDiscover the truth about the Black Hand, as fea...Discover the truth about the Black Hand, as featured in Peaky Blinders Beginning in the summer of 1903, an insidious crime wave filled New York City, and then the entire country, with fear. The chi... -
Kenneth Roy
The Broken Journey: A Life of Scotland 1976–1999This is the second volume of Kenneth Roy's magi...This is the second volume of Kenneth Roy's magisterial trilogy on the history of Scotland since the Second World War. The first volume, The Invisible Spirit: A Life of Post-War Scotland 1945-75, wa... -
Anna Reid
Borderland: A Journey Through the History of UkraineFlat, fertile, and fatally tempting to invaders...Flat, fertile, and fatally tempting to invaders, for centuries Ukraine was fought over by more powerful neighbours. Though its modern national movement dates back to the early nineteenth century, i... -
Philip Ball
The Water KingdomSelected as a Book of the Year by The Times and...Selected as a Book of the Year by The Times and The EconomistChina's history is an epic tapestry of courtly philosophies, warring factions and imperial intrigue. Yet, over five thousand years, one ... -
Fatima Manji
Hidden Heritage: Rediscovering Britain’s Relationship with the OrientWhy was there a Turkish mosque adorning Britain...Why was there a Turkish mosque adorning Britain's most famous botanic garden in in the eighteenth century? And more importantly, why is it no longer there? How did one of the great symbols of an In... -
Alex Renton
Blood Legacy: Reckoning With a Family’s Story of SlaveryWhen British Caribbean slavery was abolished ac...When British Caribbean slavery was abolished across most of the British Empire in 1833, it was not the newly liberated who received compensation, but the tens of thousands of enslavers who were pai... -
Jacqueline Riding
Mid-Georgian BritainMid-Georgian Britain was a period of both elega...Mid-Georgian Britain was a period of both elegance and desperation. As the middle and upper classes enjoyed their wealth with an increasing range of consumer goods, the poor endured debtor's prison... -
Alice Roberts
Buried: An alternative history of the first millennium in BritainFunerary rituals show us what people thought ab...Funerary rituals show us what people thought about mortality; how they felt about loss; what they believed came next. From Roman cremations and graveside feasts, to deviant burials with heads rearr... -
Sarah Churchwell
Behold, America: A History of America First and the American DreamThe American dream is dead, as Donald Trump sai...The American dream is dead, as Donald Trump said when announcing his candidacy for president in 2015. How would he revive it? By putting 'America First'. The 'American Dream' and 'America First' ar... -
Joshua Levine
Dunkirk: The History Behind the Major Motion PictureIn 1940, at the French port of Dunkirk, more th...In 1940, at the French port of Dunkirk, more than 300,000 trapped Allied troops were dramatically rescued from destruction at the hands of Nazi Germany by an extraordinary seaborne evacuation. The ... -
Ian Stewart
What's the Use?: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of MathematicsMany people think mathematics is useless. They'...Many people think mathematics is useless. They're wrong. In the UK, the 2.8 million people employed in mathematical science occupations contributed £208 billion to the economy in a single year -- t...
