History: specific events and topics

At the turn of the century, the Russian economy was growing by about 10% annually and its population had reached 150 million.

Longlisted for the Jhalak Prize 2021A TIME Magazine Must-Read Book of 2020Shortlisted for the Katharine Briggs Award 2020'Deirdre Mask's book was just up my Strasse, alley, avenue and boulevard.

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Cannibalism.

This is the story of a woman who was not a royal, not rich, not famous; someone who simply worked hard and enjoyed her life.

An updated edition of the Sunday Times BestsellerBritain's best-known classicist Mary Beard, is also a committed and vocal feminist.

WINNER OF THE MILITARY HISTORY MATTERS AWARD 'Hart is a historian and author at the peak of his powers' Richard van EmdenThe best way to understand what it was like to fight in the Second World War is to see it through the eyes of the soldiers who fought it.

Our success as a species is built on sociability, so shyness in humans should be an anomaly.

Why is a novel like a corporation?

It takes more than historical facts to help readers connect to a part of history that is so diabolical and devastating.

A novel about the love-life of Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937).

The 1970s in Britain were years of immense social, cultural and political liberation aborted by a right-wing counter revolution.

Revealed: The definitive research that proves the Irish nation owes Oliver Cromwell a huge posthumous apology for wrongly convicting him of civilian atrocities in 1649.

A boy writes home during WWII, revealing his own fascinating story, full of zest for life, information and humour.

Les Miserables meets the Gospels: Let God change you to change the world through 42 daily readings for Lent/anytime.

An insider's account of the anarchists who ignited Occupy Wall Street.

Inspired by The True Story of "From Russia with Love" - a secret buried for 90 years in the forgotten corner of an English churchyard.

A Battlefield Atlas of the American Revolution, a second collaboration between Dr.

The imperial Austrian navy which fought and won the signal victory of Lissa on 20 July 1866, during the so-called Seven Weeks' War of 1866, has in recent years been subjected to more detailed scrutiny than has hitherto been its lot, and it is with an eye to following this trend that we present the following translation of part of the memoirs of one of its officers.

The little boy did not cry or speak.

Why was there such a far-reaching consensus concerning the utopian goal of national homogeneity in the first half of the twentieth century?

In Cold War historiography, the 1960s are often described as a decade of mounting diplomatic tensions and international social unrest.

Before the Nazis took power, Jewish businesspeople in Berlin thrived alongside their non-Jewish neighbors.

The 1880s were a critical time in Cameroon.

Why did the Armenian genocide erupt in Turkey in 1915, only seven years after the Armenian minority achieved civil equality for the first time in the history of the Ottoman Empire?

During the interwar years France experienced severe political polarization.

In 1944, Raphael Lemkin coined the term genocide to describe a foreign occupation that destroyed or permanently crippled a subject population.

Colonial Genocide has been seen increasingly as a stepping-stone to the European genocides of the twentieth century, yet it remains an under-researched phenomenon.

In 1939 all German Jews had to become members of a newly founded Reich Association.

Why does Dante describe the Inferno as a real place?

Shipwrecks have captured our imagination for centuries.

On the night of 28 March 1942 the Royal Navy and British commandos assaulted the German-held French Atlantic port of Saint-Nazaire in one of the most audacious raids of the Second World War.

In the new year of 1944 the French Resistance in northern France was on its knees.

FREE LOVE.

Postcolonial theory has enjoyed wide influence in the humanities but for social science, and in particular sociology, its implications remain elusive.

The extraordinary story of Frederick Bruce Thomas, the son of former slaves who fled America to build a life in Tsarist Russia.

A comprehensive, illustrated history of North Carolina spanning from the colonial period to the twenty-first century.

The Irish Times Top 10 Bestseller!

An "e;extraordinary"e; account of the wars conducted by and against the Maccabean family of rulers in Palestine in the second and first centuries BC (Midwest Book Review).

Roy Nesbit brings to bear all the insight gained from his flying experience and his skill as a aviation historian as he investigates the wartime disappearances he describes in this haunting book.

"e;A well researched, informative and helpful book for the many family historians whose Protestant ancestors lived in Northern Europe.

Waterloo is one of the most famous battles in history and it has given rise to a vast and varied literature.

Vivien Teasdale's concise and informative guide to the textile industry will be absorbing reading for anyone who wants to learn about its history or to research the career of an ancestor who was a textile worker.

Tracing Your Police Ancestors will help you locate and research officers who served in any of the police forces of England and Wales from the creation of the Metropolitan Police by Sir Robert Peel in 1829.

A vivid account of the bloody rebellion against colonial rule that raged through Northern India in the mid-nineteenth century.

Wellington's Men Remembered is a reference work to be published in two volumes, which has been compiled on behalf of the The Waterloo Association containing over 3,000 memorials to soldiers who fought in the Peninsular War and at Waterloo between 1808 and 1815, together with 150 battlefield and regimental memorials in 28 countries world wide.

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