c 1500 onwards to present day Archives

c 1500 onwards to present day

CN was a poet, pamphleteer and general dazzler, whose husband took the Prime Minister (Melbourne) to court for 'criminal conversation' with his wife - and lost. Old age has not dulled the pe... read more

The Case of the Married Woman: Caroline Norton: A 19th Century Heroine ...

Lady Antonia Fraser

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This is not the Alexandria in the Nile Delta, but rather Alexandria 'Beneath the Mountains', in Afghanistan, discovered by a wandering scholar and archaeologist called Charles Masson in 1833... read more

Alexandria: The Quest for the Lost City

Dr Edmund Richardson

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Grandson of an attainted Jacobite, the last Earl of Seaforth climbed volcanoes with William Hamilton and entertained young Mozart in Naples while on the Grand Tour. His marriage to a fashion... read more

GIMCRACK: A Rake’s Progress

Tony Scotland

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More delights, after the six delicious reprints of the last year.

A Glove Shop in Vienna and Other Stories

Eva Ibbotson

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History on the grand scale, from the Fall of Rome to the Scientific Revolution.

The Awakening: A History of the Western Mind AD 500 – 1700 ...

Charles Freeman

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How an ancient Greek text on mathematics shaped 2000 years of art, philosophy and literature, as well as science and maths.

The Book of Wonders: The Many Lives of Euclid’s Elements ...

Benjamin Wardhaugh

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A whistle-stop tour, from Ivan to Putin, by one of the world's foremost Russia-watchers. NB Publication of this book has been delayed until February 2021. Publishing schedules have been... read more

A Short History of Russia

Mark Galeotti

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A labour of love and scholarship, this is a study of the extraordinary Royal Library of Dom Joao V (1706-1750) of Portugal that was destroyed in 1755 in the Lisbon earthquake. The library co... read more

The Lost Library of the King of Portugal

Angela Delaforce

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The Architectural, Landscape and Constitutional Plans of the Earl of M ...

Margaret Stewart

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