Britain, 1947
Hope Amid Hardship
ISBN: PB: 9781805266983,
ISBN: HB: 9781911723219,
Hurst Publishers,
November 2026
360 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 12 black&white illus.
360 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 12 black&white illus.
A poignant portrait of a decade of transformative change, chronicling how ordinary Britons confronted crisis, braved misfortune and found their place in the postwar world.
For the British people, 1947 was a momentous year. For three long months, the...
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14.99 GBP
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30.00 GBP
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Realist
The Life and Ideas of Hans Morgenthau
ISBN: HB: 9781805266723,
Hurst Publishers,
November 2026
528 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
528 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
The first biography of Hans Morgenthau, the theoretician who escaped Nazi Germany and pioneered the "realist" approach to international relations, now resurgent in global politics.
"International politics, like all politics, is a struggle for power"...
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30.00 GBP
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King and Country
The 1933 Student Debate that Shook the World
ISBN: PB: 9781851246755,
Bodleian Library Publishing,
November 2026
296 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 10 colour illus.
296 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 10 colour illus.
This book tells the full story of the infamous 1933 Oxford Union King and Country debate that sent shockwaves around the world.
On 9 February 1933, barely ten days after Adolf Hitler had become Chancellor of Germany, the Oxford Union, the internatio...
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25.00 GBP
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Border Land
Frontiers of Early England
ISBN: HB: 9780300259582,
Yale University Press,
November 2026
336 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 40 black&white illus.
336 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 40 black&white illus.
An innovative and thought-provoking exploration of the edges of England from their earliest days to the Norman Conquest.
The earliest written record of a political boundary in England dates from around 880, when King Alfred and Danish warlord Guthru...
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25.00 GBP
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Blackness in Interwar Germany
Jazz, Race and the Making of the Third Reich
ISBN: PB: 9781805266839,
Hurst Publishers,
October 2026
344 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 40 black&white illus.
344 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 40 black&white illus.
The first comprehensive account of Blackness in Germany, spanning the late Empire, the Roaring Twenties and the aftermath of World War Two.
Germany's past in relation to Blackness is often dismissed as peripheral: its colonial enterprise lasted mere...
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30.00 GBP
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Why Democracy Needs You
Lessons from World War II
ISBN: PB: 9781851246892,
Bodleian Library Publishing,
October 2026
128 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm
128 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm
Fascinating historic text designed to educate Second World War soldiers on the basic tenets of the British constitution and democracy.
"Hitler has educated the Germans to be his blind slaves; we have the far harder task of educating responsible citi...
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12.99 GBP
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Josephine Baker's Secret War
The African American Star Who Fought For France And Freedom
ISBN: PB: 9780300286991,
ISBN: HB: 9780300279986,
Yale University Press,
October 2026
368 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm, 32 black&white illus., 2 maps
368 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm, 32 black&white illus., 2 maps
The full story of Josephine Baker's wartime and intelligence work in France and North Africa.
Before the Second World War, Josephine Baker (1906-1975) was one of the most famous performers in the world. She made her name dancing on the Parisian sta...
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12.99 GBP
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25.00 GBP
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Chaucer's England
ISBN: HB: 9780300285048,
Yale University Press,
October 2026
368 pp., 23,4x15,2 cm, 70 colour illus.
368 pp., 23,4x15,2 cm, 70 colour illus.
A lively account of medieval England through the eyes of its most famous poet and chronicler.
Who were Chaucer's thirty-three pilgrims, and why were they heading to Canterbury? What do they and their tales tell us about medieval England as a place,...
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25.00 GBP
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Meeting on Mincing Lane
The Story of Granville Sharp and the Fight Against Slavery
ISBN: HB: 9780300264593,
Yale University Press,
October 2026
352 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 16 colour illus.
352 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 16 colour illus.
The first full biography of Granville Sharp, the founding figure of abolitionism in Britain.
In London, 1765, Jonathan Strong was bludgeoned half to death by his enslaver. As the injured Strong staggered towards a doctor on Mincing Lane, he was noti...
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25.00 GBP
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Russia's Rogue Masters
Elite Criminal Trials in the Age of Reform, 1866-1884
ISBN: HB: 9780300253177,
Yale University Press,
October 2026
416 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 28 black&white illus.
416 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 28 black&white illus.
Late imperial Russia's criminal justice system examined through its most prominent public cases.
In this book, lawyer and historian Sergei Antonov examines the largest and most prominent criminal cases following the landmark judicial reform of 1864...
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40.00 GBP
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