Illustrating A Little History of Mathematics
How do you bring the history of mathematics to life through illustration? Kat Flint, illustrator of A Little History of Mathematics, chatted with author…
Recent Posts
Women’s History Month: Uncovering Women’s History
For Women’s History Month 2025, we are sharing 10 free chapters from books uncovering women’s contributions to history. These extracts look at how women…
The History of Europe’s Cities: A Reading List
Explore this collection on the history of Europe’s cities featuring books by Margarette Lincoln, Richard Cockett, Marek Kohn and more. You can shop this…
Interviews
Why I Became an X Troop Commando
Born in Germany in 1922, Colin Anson’s (Claus Ascher) childhood was marked by the trials of Nazism. His father was arrested by the Gestapo…
Illustrating A Little History of Psychology
What does it take to illustrate a book about an abstract concept such as psychology? We caught up with Karin Rytter, illustrator of A…
An Interview with Geoffrey Roberts about ‘Stalin’s Library’
An interview with Geoffrey Roberts by Jiwan Lee of NermerBooks upon the publication of the Korean edition of Stalin’s Library: A Dictator and His…
Extracts & Resources
Women’s History Month: Uncovering Women’s History
For Women’s History Month 2025, we are sharing 10 free chapters from books uncovering women’s contributions to history. These extracts look at how women…
Christmas at Chartwell with Churchill
An extract from Churchill’s Citadel: Chartwell and the Gatherings Before the Storm by Katherine Carter. The magic of Christmas at Chartwell was its constancy….
Under Cover of Darkness: An Extract
Fear was the unacknowledged spectre haunting the streets of London during the Second World War; fear not only of death from the German bombers…
50 Years in 50 Books
The Stripping of the Altars – 50 Years in 50 Books
Eamon Duffy’s landmark account of the pre-Reformation church in England was first published in 1992. The Stripping of the Altars is a major revisionist…
Tudor Fashion – 50 Years in 50 Books
Tudor Fashion was first published in hardback in 2017 and re-released in paperback in 2021. We are re-sharing this fascinating Q&A with author, Eleri Lynn.
Artists Remake the World – 50 Years in 50 Books
Vid Simoniti considers the complexities of political art and discusses how and when art became politicised.
