History & Archaeology

Summary Specs By the time of Japan's surrender in 19...

Summary Specs 1939 was a glorious year for Hermann G...

Summary Specs Now available in the US, this is the r...

Summary Specs An engaging history covering a century...

Summary Specs The fascinating account of two former ...

Summary Specs The Churchill tank has a strong case t...

Summary Specs In November 1863 at the battle of Rang...

Summary Specs This epic story begins 5000 years ago,...

Summary Specs 'Picture, for a minute, every artwork ...

Summary Specs In this third, revised and expanded ed...

Summary Specs The Leopard 1 family of vehicles becam...

Summary Specs In 1979, teenager Olive Jones was one ...

Summary Specs The narrative of the Parihaka communit...

Summary Specs Our Untold Stories brings to light tal...

Summary Specs Many New Zealanders do not realise tha...

Summary Specs Kiwis in Conflict is the story of New ...

The idea of the book was central throughout the western European and the eastern Mediterranean world in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. From t...

This book of photographs puts the spotlight on a group of animals that is little-noticed, and undeservedly so: endemic species that exist only on t...

This beautifully illustrated book provides information on the air arms of the nations which took part in aerial warfare during the First World War ...

Looking at threats to forest life across the globe, John Miller draws on literature, film and art to explore why woods matter to us, building on th...

Gold is universally appreciated for its beauty and value. Since ancient times, people have found all kinds of ways to incorporate gold into handmad...

Queen Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots: two powerful women whose relationship dominated English and Scottish politics for thirty years from 155...

Presents a comprehensive look at the world from the earliest geological records and primitive monocultures to the cosmopolitan melting pots of our ...

The British Library's map collection is the national cartographic collection of Britain and numbers around four million maps dating from 15 CE to 2...