He was the scion of a dynasty that was reputed to descend from King Solomon, a pioneer of African...

In 1721 the French philosopher Montesquieu posed the question Comment peut-on être persan? in the...

Making the Weather is the story of six post-war politicians, all of whom exerted an outsized infl...

During Admiral Thomas Cochrane’s demolition of imperial Spain’s naval presence in the Pacific dur...

As a young army officer in 1971, Aziz BineBine was imprisoned after being unwittingly involved in...

A memoir that combines political commentary with personal and national history.

Geoffrey Chaucer might be considered the quintessential English writer, but he drew much of his i...

James Joyce (1882-1941) is hailed as one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. Reject...

The first new biography of Eliot for over a decade - now in paperback.

A poetic and historical travelogue of Syracuse, Sicily.

The work of Charles Tripp - professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) for ov...

The Conservative Party have been in power for 47 of the 65 years since the end of the Second Worl...

Since the UK's withdrawal from the EU, the constititional position of Northern Ireland within the...

Otto von Bismarck (1815-98) has gone down in history as the Iron Chancellor, a reactionary and mi...

It's a pitch black, rainy night in a small Iranian town. Inside his house the Colonel is immersed...

The biblical adage that 'if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand' remains s...

The history of humanity is dominated by violence - it has oppressed and degraded us for centuries...

In Himalayas, Thomas Bell embarks on four walks through the Himalaya, each in a different season,...

A striking biography of Marie Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the only person eve...

More books have been written about Winston Churchill than any modern historical figure, but Peter...

The first book of its kind to map writers, walks, and writing within the Suffolk landscape.

More than fifty years after his death, Gamal Abd al-Nasser remains a towering figure in the Arab ...

When the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979, the poorly equipped and organised resistance g...

In the Future of Yesterday offers a refreshing approach to the life and work of Austrian writer S...

There is no such thing as the perfect society. There are no hard and fast rules on how to make it...

Will someone pay for the spilled blood? No. Nobody'. Mikhail Bulgakov wrote these words in Kiev d...

The study of dictatorship in the West has acquired an almost exotic dimension. But authoritarian ...

In her essay 'The Roots of Trust', Anna Rowlands argues that our undoubted loss of trust is not a...

ritain's relationship with Russian is surprisingly under-explored. When the two formed a pragmati...

The biblical adage that 'if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand' remains s...

In the general mind, Finland is often swept up in the general group of Nordic countries, little k...

No one grows up dreaming of becoming an economist. Until the late nineteenth century, economics c...

The history of the transatlantic partnership has, overnight, become highly topical; in fact, sinc...

The Austrian artist Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980) achieved global fame with his intense expressioni...

In July 1998, ten statues of martyrs of the twentieth century were unveiled surmounting the Great...

In 1939, with Europe on the brink of war, Peter Gumbel's Jewish grandparents fled Nazi Germany fo...

An emperor meets his people: the extraordinary journeys of Joseph II.

Addresses the shifting interpretations of the Treaty of Lausanne across national contexts, tracin...

An updated biography of Benjamin Britten, Britain's greatest modern composer, released to mark th...

A history of Turin, home to Fiat, the Einaudi publishing house, and writers including Italo Calvi...

A timeless call amid the challenging nature of public service to find the familiar in the foreign.

Famous photographer, spy for the Soviet Union, and single mother - Edith Tudor-Hart led an eventf...

An updated and revised biography of Patrice Lumumba, former Prime Minister of the Democratic Repu...

Stephanie O'Connor considers dignity as a guiding moral concern at the limits of life. Drawing on...

For Millay Hyatt, it is the charm of 'uncushioned encounters with the world' that makes her, when...

Winding through the mist that shrouds Lewis and South Uist in the Outer Hebrides, Kociejowski ill...

More than a travelogue: a work of human depth and understanding that has much to teach those inte...

Essays on Brexit's impact on the UK economy.