A vivid, day-by-day perspective on 2,500 years of human history through the medium of 366 quotations.

What made the Romans laugh? Was ancient Rome a carnival, filled with practical jokes and hearty chuckles? How did Romans make sense of laughter? What role did it play in the world of the law courts, the imperial palace, or the spectacles of the arena? This book explores one of the most intriguing, but also trickiest, of historical subjects.

Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine has reshaped history. In the decades after the collapse of Soviet communism, the West convinced itself that liberal democracy would henceforth be the dominant, ultimately unique, system of governance. An outburst of Western triumphalism proclaimed a US-led unipolar world entitled to 'impose democracy' on countries that failed to recognise the new order. Politicians foretold the universalisation of Western values as the final, enduring form of human society...

An epic account tracing the rise of the Mongol Empire.

Debut by an exciting young narrative historian - a revisionist history of Medieval Palestine

A collection of biographies and illustrations celebrating the irrepressible spirit of history's forgotten women

The fifth instalment in Peter Ackroyds acclaimed and bestselling six-volume History of England. &b>&/b>