Social- & kulturhistoria

**A brilliant new history of Georgian Britain through the eyes of the artists who immortalised it, by one of the UK's most exciting young historians**'Alice Loxton is the star of …

Most things you ‘know’ about science and religion are myths or half-truths that grew up in the last years of the nineteenth century and remain widespread today. ‘A deeply …

'A characteristically radical re-reading of history that places the social and political experiments of pirates at the heart of the European Enlightenment. A brilliant companion …

“Fascinating.”—Thomas W. Hodgkinson, The Guardian “Richly detailed and frequently illuminating.”—Rhys Blakely, Times (UK)  “Excellent.”—Clare Bucknell, New Yorker A New Yorker Best …

An exploration of public performance in everyday life, by the leading cultural and social thinkerThe Performer explores the relations between performing in art (particularly …

The No. 1 Sunday Times Bestseller‘Fascinating . . . The book everyone is talking about’ – Daily Mail By acclaimed royal biographer and author of Queen of Our Times, Robert Hardman, …

A lyrical tour of life as a young working-class man born into the first days of the 20th century, Caliban Shrieks is a lost masterpiece of 1930s British literature.WITH NEW …

'Kuper is a shrewd observer [in] this entertaining mix of memoir and anthropology' The Sunday Times From the bestselling author of Chums comes an explorer's tale of a naïf getting …

**Winner of the Lionel Gelber Prize 2024****A Financial Times Best Book of 2023**'A moving love letter to Europe' Lea Ypi, author of FreeDrawing from the people who lived it, …