Macaulay: Britain’s Liberal Imperialist
by Zareer Masani

Was Thomas Macaulay a cultural imperialist or a prophetic moderniser? He always inspired both admiration and hostility. He introduced English educatio...

To Move The World: JFK's Quest for Peace
by Jeffrey D. Sachs

The inspiring story of JFK, the Cold War, and the power of oratory to change the course of history. ...

Money: The Unauthorised Biography
by Felix Martin

What is money, and how does it work?The conventional answer is that people once used sugar in the West Indies, tobacco in Virginia, and dried cod in N...

Money: The Unauthorised Biography
by Felix Martin

What is money, and how does it work?The conventional answer is that people once used sugar in the West Indies, tobacco in Virginia, and dried cod in N...

Iron, Steam & Money: The Making of the Industrial Revolution
by Roger Osborne

In late eighteenth-century Britain a handful of men brought about the greatest transformation in human history. Inventors, industrialists and entrepre...

The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death, Honour and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century
by Joel F. Harrington

Welcome to the world of Frantz Schmidt: citizen of Nuremberg, executioner of 394 unfortunates, and torturer of many hundreds more. Most unusually for ...

1913: The World before the Great War
by Charles Emmerson

Forever in the shadow of the war which followed, 1913 is usually seen as little more than the antechamber to apocalypse. Our perspectives narrowed by ...

MOD: A Very British Style
by Richard Weight

Welcome to the world of the sharp-suited ‘faces’. The Italianistas. The scooter-riding, all-night-dancing instigators of what became, from its myriad ...

A Good African Story: How a Small Company Built a Global Coffee Brand
by Andrew Rugasira

Since it was founded in 2003, Good African Coffee has helped thousands of farmers earn a decent living, send their children to school and escape a spi...

The Undiscovered Country: Journeys Among the Dead
by Carl Watkins

We know what happens to the body when we die, but what happens to the soul? The answer may remain a great unknown, but the question has shaped centuri...