A forensic history of dying, death, and mourning in Victorian Britain by the acclaimed historian Judith Flanders, bestselling author of The Victorian House.

A brilliantly readable history of privacy with a simple and urgent argument: private life is a precious and sustaining resource that must be defended.

The definitive account of the extraordinary people of Sparta, from the world's leading expert.

An intimate, riveting portrait of modern Turkey, combining memoir, politics and history.

Armageddon: The Battle for Germany 1944-45 is the stunning bestseller from one of Britain's most highly regarded military historians.

Bestselling author and social media sensation Alice Loxton brings us a scintillating new history of Britain, told through eighteen figures in British history at the age of eighteen.

In ?Humans Are Doomed To Go Extinct', an article in Scientific American published in November 2021, veteran Nature editor Dr Henry Gee predicted that Homo sapiens is on a rapid one-way ride to extinction. The article provoked media coverage and comment around the world. In The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire, Gee expands the themes of his much-discussed article to book length, charting both the rise as well as the fall of humans.

After 10,000 years of exponential growth, the rat...