Results for: books tagged ‘History’
1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: James Shapiro
An intimate history of Shakespeare, following him through a single year that changed not only his fortunes but the course of literature.How did Shakespeare go from being a talented poet ... More
Admirals: Andrew Lambert
Why for centuries was the British Navy the most successful organisation in the world? What does it take to lead such a force?Britain achieved unparalleled global pre-eminence through one critical ... More
Alamein to Zem Zem: Keith Douglas
A classic war book by one of the finest poets of the Second World War. Keith Douglas was posted to Palestine in 1941 with a cavalry regiment. When fighting broke ... More
The Albigensian Crusade: Jonathan Sumption
In twelfth century Languedoc a subversive heresy of Eastern origin flourished to an extraordinary degree. The Albingenses believed that the world was created by an evil spirit, and that all ... More
Among the Cities: Jan Morris
‘Years and years ago, observing that nobody in the history of man had ever seen and described the entire urban world, I resolved to do it myself ...’It was thirty ... More
The Anglo-Irish Tradition: J. C. Beckett
'I was brought up to think myself Irish without question or qualification,' wrote the Irish author and politician, Stephen Gwynn, in the 1920s, 'but the new nationalism prefers to describe ... More
Ask the Fellows Who Cut the Hay: George Ewart Evans
A classic picture of the rural past in a remote Suffolk village, revealed in the conversations of old people who recall harvest customs, home crafts, poetic usages in dialect, old ... More
Astrology and the Popular Press: Bernard Capp
Apart from the Bible, almanacs were the most influential and widely dispersed for of literature in Tudor and Stuart England. At their zenith in the later seventeenth century, they sold ... More
Back to the Local: Maurice Gorham, illustrated by Edward Ardizzone
The title needs explaining. Why back? We haven't been there yet! In 1939 the same team of Maurice Gorham (text) and Edward Ardizzone (illustrations) published The Local. Like so many ... More
Big Boys' Rules: Mark Urban
The SAS describes its attitude to the use of lethal force as 'Big boys' games, big boys' rules'. Anyone caught with a gun or bomb can expect to be shot. ... More
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