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A meticulous history of a Highland family that acquired huge estates in Pembrokeshire by marriage and in Carmarthenshire by an inheritance. Undoubtedly academic, rather disappointingly illus... read more
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A very handsome, large-format limited edition book of the lost photographs of Patrick O'Higgins, best known for Madame, his memoir about Helena Rubinstein. His photographs are a fascinating... read more
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A retrospective of Maier's extraordinary body of work, arranged thematically - self-portraits, the street, portraits, gestures, cinematography, children, etc.
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Country houses were repositories of the finest food in the land, but their tables fell into decline around WW1. Chapters examine all parts of food production (including the game, fish, cerea... read more
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Following High Minds, The Age of Decadence and Staring at God, this is the fourth in his series on the changing face of Britain. It covers the period 1919-1939.
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A powerful portrait of the Roma since their appearance in Medieval Europe, and of the many forms of persecution they have suffered.
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The whys and wherefores of frivolities in stone, shells, plaster, even glass and steel. An illustrated survey.
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An account of the club, its remarkable members and their influence, since 1824. Scholarly and entertaining.
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The brilliant Princeton historian guides us through the relationship between magic and the Renaissance, demystifying the Magus' relationship with science, art, and engineering in early-moder... read more
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Despite its often fraught encounters with democracy, science and secular culture, the Catholic Church's story in the modern era is one of remarkable survival.
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A thematic approach combining social history with the political: the household as well as nationhood.
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Subtitled 'Three Hundred Years of Extraordinary Groves, Burrowings, Mountains and Menageries', this is an illustrated study of the rare, the wonderful, the bizarre and the delightfully batty... read more
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Greek and Roman patrons, robber-baron philanthropists, welfare socialists, celebrity activists...: motives and results are explored through historical analysis and numerous interviews.
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A panoramic account by the distinguished Harvard historian of five generations of a French provincial family originally from Angouleme, crammed with stories and archival research. ER has a d... read more
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The rise and fall of the Bacris and Busnachs, two Jewish families whose prominence in trade and banking led them to play a small but crucial diplomatic and logistical role in the Napoleonic ... read more
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The post-war eclipse of the rural by the urban. Joyce interweaves his own Irish family history into wider story of European peasantry to create a rich and varied cultural account of what it ... read more
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Already receiving praise for revolutionising the history of sexuality, this book is bound to be a fascinating analysis of sex and identity in early-modern Europe and the Ottoman Empire.
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"Very little white satin, very few lace veils; a most pitiful business!" grumbled Mrs Elton at the marriage of Emma and the divine Mr Knightley. How times have changed!
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The British empire observed through the lens of a single day: the 29th September 1923, when the Mandate for Palestine became law and the British empire reached its maximum extent, just as i... read more
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Neutral for fifty years in his work for the BBC, now he tells us what he thinks and thought about all those prime ministers, presidents, elections and scandals.
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Barbara Cartland's daughter, Princess Diana's stepmother, who is said to left the Althorp estate with just a few bin bags of clothes. She was irrepressible, controversial - and perfectly man... read more
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Where Tillyard's brilliant The Elizabethan World Picture looked outwards, this looks inwards. A deeply fascinating and empathetic study.
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A fascinating examination of how the prevailing causes of death have changed through history. It is a story of growing medical knowledge and social organisation, and is refreshingly optimist... read more
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An exuberant account of the importance to Modernism of what Truman Capote called "the all-time ultimate gallery of famous dykes" in Paris between the wars.
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Described by Churchill as "that strange, glittering being", Vickers met GD as an old lady in a mental hospital many years ago. She enraptured many, including Berenson, Proust and Rodin.
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Reinvention, escape, adventure, romance, survival... Not all the women were 'port out starboard home'. Gripping and entertaining social history from the author of 'Queen Bees'.
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A characteristically particular and original look at social change from the author of the hugely successful Terms & Conditions: Life in Girls' Boarding Schools, 1939-1979 and others.
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So many of K-S's photographs have been misattributed to Cecil Beaton that she has been neglected. She was admired by Man Ray and Paul Nash; her circle included Cocteau, Connolly and Fonteyn.
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With Glenconners, Mitfords and Bertrand Russell in the mix, Toynbee is superb on privilege, class and progressive politics.