New History Titles
1399609017 
Hardback 
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Resource type: Physical
Note: As an expert on Putin's moods and behaviour, Mikhail Zygar has interviewed President Zelensky and had access to many of the major players - from politicians to oligarchs - revealing the secret histories behind the public tragedy.
0008436983 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: William Collins
Resource type: Physical
Note: Hampton Court has housed centuries of power, royals and politicians pacing its halls, each era taking its turn to shape the palace and the broader confluence of politics. Here, the popular and 'scrupulous historian' Gareth Russell presents five hundred years of British history as seen through its exquisite doorways.
0063005980 
Paperback
Year: 2021
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
Resource type: Physical
0500252327 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Thames and Hudson
Resource type: Physical
Note: A brand-new translation of a philosophical classic of the ancient world, 'The Teaching of Ptahhatp', written in Egypt 4,000 years ago. It is the oldest surviving statement of philosophy in the ancient world and the earliest witness to the power of the written word.
0861542304 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
Resource type: Physical
139940685X 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Bloomsbury Continuum
Resource type: Physical
Note: When Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his unprovoked, full-scale invasion of Ukraine just before dawn on 24 February 2022, it marked his latest and most overt attempt to brutally conquer the country, and reshaped the world order. Christopher Miller, the Ukraine correspondent for the Financial Times and the foremost journalist covering the country, was there on the ground when the first Russian missiles struck and troops stormed over the border.
024162343X 
Paperback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Puffin
Resource type: Physical
Note: An accessible, engaging and essential introduction to the British empire for readers aged 9+, by bestselling author of 'Empireland', Sathnam Sanghera.
1915306426 
Paperback
Year: 2023
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Mirror Books
Resource type: Physical
1399056360 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Air World
Resource type: Physical
Note: In this, the first of a seven-volume series on the Battle of Britain, we have the background to the aerial conflict of the summer of 1940 revealed in great detail and told comprehensively as never before. No stone has been left unturned, no angle unexplored.
1803993545 
Paperback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: History Press
Resource type: Physical
Note: Roy Conyers Nesbit has assembled a selection of some 400 photographs and illustrations to tell the story of the great battle for Europe following the Normandy landings of 6 June 1944. Originally published: Stroud: Sutton, 2004
1804363693 
Paperback
Year: 2023
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Canelo History
Resource type: Physical
Note: This title follows the origins, development and final collapse of the pyramid as a form of royal tomb and includes a detailed history of the lives and deaths of the pyramid families - kings, servants and slaves. Originally published: London: Viking, 2003
1399089420 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Pen & Sword Military
Resource type: Physical
Note: This volume describes the campaigns that destroyed the fabric of the Roman Republic and resulted in Julius Caesar's elevation to Dictator for Life.
1399097369 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Pen & Sword Military
Resource type: Physical
Note: 'Julius Caesar in Egypt' is a true story of double-cross, assassination and intrigue accompanied by lively battles, daring escapes, disastrous fires (the Great Library of Alexandria was largely destroyed in one fracas) and, if not a love story, at least a tale of sex and power as Caesar and Cleopatra's relationship shaped these world-changing events.
0500297258 
Paperback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Thames and Hudson
Resource type: Physical
Note: 'Before Scotland' transforms prehistory into gripping narrative history, demonstrating that the history of the land that became Scotland is one of dramatic geological events and impressive human endeavour. Originally published: 2005
1399067346 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Pen & Sword History
Resource type: Physical
Note: James Turner's book is the first comprehensive and high-quality full length academic study on the subject of twelfth century Anglo-Norman and Angevin royal bastards. The book explores their lives, relationships and many notable contributions to safeguarding the reigns of their legitimate relatives.
1398117277 
Paperback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Amberley Publishing
Resource type: Physical
Note: Godwin and his family dominated English politics for almost half a century, establishing themselves as the most influential and powerful dynasty in Anglo-Saxon England. Earl Godwin established himself as Cnut's most senior advisor and became even more influential during the reign of Edward the Confessor, seeing his daughter Edith become queen and his two eldest sons, Swegn and Harold, given earldoms.
1803993588 
Paperback
Year: 2023
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: The History Press
Resource type: Physical
Note: In May 1940, 20-year-old Len Thorne joined the RAF, as did many young men during the Second World War. After two hectic tours of operational duty as a fighter pilot, including some desperately dangerous low-level flying at Dunkirk, he was posted to AFDU (Air Fighting Development Unit) and remained there as a test pilot for the rest of the war.
0349144745 
Paperback
Year: 2022
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Abacus
Resource type: Physical
Note: For more than two centuries Egypt was ruled by the most powerful, successful, and richest dynasty of kings in its long end epic history. They included the female king Hatshepsut, the warrior kings Thutmose III and Amenhotep II, the religious radical Akhenaten and his queen Nefertiti, and most famously of all for the wealth of his tomb the short-lived boy king Tutankhamun.
0241617332 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Limited
Resource type: Physical
Note: with pull-out wall chart Experience the glory of ancient Greece in this detailed introduction to one of the world's founding nations. Meet a fierce minotaur, wage war with Alexander the Great, look inside a temple, and learn how the people of ancient Greece lived their lives. Find out about their religions, their hobbies, and their amazing impact on the rest of our history.
1803993286 
Paperback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: The History Press
Resource type: Physical
Note: A vivid account of the life and work of Sir Joseph Bazalgette, the engineer who designed and built the system of intercepting sewers, pumping stations and treatment works that cleaned up Victorian London.