A vivid history of how the marks left on maps by travellers tell the story of the modern world

A magnificent work of original research, unwinding history through cloth - how we make it, use it and what it means to us.

Diaries, sketchbooks, common-places, notebooks, ledgers and ships' logs: how the blank book changed the way we think, and helped us change the world.

A major new talent unveils a glittering and gruesome history of the body in the Middle Ages, from saints' relics to lovesick troubadours.

This is the story of Palestine told from the inside.

WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2008'The world's most controversial classicist debunks our movie-style myths about the Roman town with meticulous scholarship and propulsive energy' Laura Silverman, Daily MailThe ruins of Pompeii, buried by an explosion of Vesuvius in 79 CE, offer the best evidence we have of everyday life in the Roman empire. This remarkable book rises to the challenge of making sense of those remains, as well as exploding many myths: the very date of the eruption, probab...

Offers an understanding of Vermeer's paintings and of the era they portray.

From James Joyce to Coco Chanel, 1913 is an irreverent but poignant portrait of Europe on the brink of war.

The history and possible future of the border between the Republic and Northern Ireland.

An entertaining collection of strange, delightful and unexpectedly apt words from the origins of English.