Salem, King James VI, Malleus Maleficarum. The world of witch hunts and witch trials sounds antiquated, relics of an unenlightened and brutal age. ...

On 12 May 1883, the German flag was raised on the coast of South-West Africa, modern Namibia - the beginnings of Germany's African Empire. As colon...

Brewing beer has a long tradition with the Zulus, the largest ethnic group of South Africa. The beverage was traditionally prepared by women at hom...

Headrests from Southern Africa - The architecture of sleep presents the subject of southern African headrests in a fascinating new light. The book,...

Ideas in Profile: Small Introductions to Big Topics Art has always been part of history. But we often think of it as outside history. When we look ...

“A remarkable and important story” BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour“Unputdownable . . . Urbach has also retold the tragic Holocaust story in quite unforget...

The Sunday Times-bestselling author of Dresden returns with a monumental biography of the city that defined the twentieth century - BerlinThroughou...

A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK'Absolutely gorgeous. It blew my socks off' Jay Blades'A beautiful book' Edmund de Waal'Bewitching and brilliant' Lar...

The gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margaret Thatcher KILLING THATCHER is the gripping account of how the IR...

'Fascinating.' Hilary Mantel  'Terrific.' New Scientist  'Gripping.' Financial Times 'Stunning . . . Brimming with mystery and suffused with haunti...

Anne Frank. Primo Levi. Oskar Schindler . . . Rudolf Vrba.April 1944. Nineteen-year-old Rudolf Vrba and fellow inmate Fred Wetzler became two of th...

"Hunger gnawed at my insides. I couldn't last much longer. But just as I was beginning to give up, I found myself in the Auschwitz stables, with ro...

Great cities are complex, chaotic and colossal. These are cities that dominate the world stage and define eras; where ideas flourish, revolutions a...

Heelwat is al oor die Anglo-Boereoorlog (1899–1902) geskryf. Tog is daar slegs enkele publikasies wat handel oor die tema van die kuns wat deur Boe...

Die slawe aan die Kaap het as draers en skeppers van kultuur, ten spyte van onderdrukking, 'n groot invloed uitgeoefen op die ontwikkeling van die ...

Discover the enthralling story of how we took to the skies, in this journey through over 100 years of airborne innovation and adventure. From the W...

An evolutionary saga, The Last Rhodesians is the definitive insight on this culture’s origins, identity and imprint in Africa. Then 16 years of war...

The classic work of political, economic, and historical analysis, powerfully introduced by Angela Davis In his short life, the Guyanese intellectua...

Not everybody is aware that the ships that rounded our coast over the past five centuries are as closely linked to the history of South Africa as g...

'Do not miss this book' NAOMI KLEIN, author of This Changes Everything The history of the nutmeg is one of conquest and exploitation - of both h...

Four amazing chapters in The History Book: History Revealed goes back in time to uncover a host of extreme events, ideas and people. In Unearth His...

A short, brilliant and controversial new interpretation of arguably the most important revolution of all time: the event that made the rights of ma...

'A carefully researched and hugely readable account of the build-up to war, the momentum inexorably growing as he assembles each part of the jigsaw...

During the occupation of France in WWII the villages around Le Chambon-sur-Lignon pulled off an astonishing and largely unknown feat. Risking every...

In At Home, Bill Bryson applies the same irrepressible curiosity, irresistible wit, stylish prose and masterful storytelling that made A Short Hist...

WELCOME TO THE BARBIZON, NEW YORK'S PREMIER WOMEN-ONLY HOTELBuilt in 1927, New York's Barbizon Hotel was first intended as a home for the 'Modern W...

A lively, inviting account of the history of economics, told through events from ancient to modern times and through the ideas of great thinkers in...

The incredible and heart-breaking true stories of victims of a notorious adoption scandal - inspired by No.1 bestselling novel Before We Were Yours...

The incredible and heart-breaking true stories of victims of a notorious adoption scandal - inspired by No.1 bestselling novel Before We Were Yours...

WINNER OF THE TELEGRAPH SPORTS BOOK AWARD FOR GENERAL OUTSTANDING SPORTS WRITING A captivating account of the Nazi Olympics - told through the voic...