How a 300-year-old book made us fall in love with pirates
Our tales of buried treasure, the Jolly Roger and walking the plank can be traced back to the same shadowy author
Our tales of buried treasure, the Jolly Roger and walking the plank can be traced back to the same shadowy author
Caroline Burt & Richard Partington’s new book Arise, England is a terrific account of the Plantagenets who ruled for over 300 years
Justine Firnhaber-Baker’s House of Lilies is a chronicle of one of medieval Europe’s most powerful dynasties, the back-stabbing Capetians
Thomas Müntzer made Martin Luther look tame. Andrew Drummond’s lively history follows his challenge to the Pope and the German princes alike
For thousands of years, this material has shaped the course of history, as Aarathi Prasad reveals in Silk: A History in Three Metamorphoses
This thrilling account of the 1741 Wager disaster, and the scandal that followed, is coming to screens soon thanks to Martin Scorsese
Hands of Time, by the watchmaker Rebecca Struthers, is a true joy – an enchanting mixture of memoir and history
Forced into working with the SS, Kitty Schmidt's remarkable life is investigated in a new book by Nigel Jones, Urs Brunner, Julia Schrammel
In Margaret of Anjou, Joanna Arman tries to portray the queen as a victim of propaganda, but her book is marred by ineptitude
Carolyne Larrington's The Norse Myths that Shape the Way We Think takes an eclectic look at how the tales survive in new forms today
David Howarth's book Adventurers shows how the Company rose from its rough-and-ready origins into a world-conquering power
Colin Martin and Geoffrey Parker’s comprehensive history of the invasion emphasises just how close England came to Spanish conquest
From Renaissance rabbis to 19th-century forgers to John Pierpont Morgan's terrifying librarian, meet history's great manuscript addicts
Instead of chopping the period into reigns, Lucy Wooding's superb Tudor England: A History charts the tides of popular opinion
You don't need to be a Tolkien newbie to be confused by the long character list of Amazon Prime Video's epic new fantasy adaptation
Running with the Devil: The Wild World of John McAfee attempts to bring meaning to the vainglorious tech guru's life, but fails