History of Civilisation & Culture

Rome and the Mediterranean: The History of Rome from its Foundation

By Livy, A McDonald, Henry Bettenson

The Celtic Realms

By Myles Dillon, Nora K. Chadwick

Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire

By Jason Goodwin

Mapping Time: The Calendar and its History

By E. G. Richards (formerly Senior Lecturer in the Department of Biophysics, formerly Senior Lecturer in the Department of Biophysics, King's College London (retired))

The Seekers

By Daniel J. Boorstin

Cities of the Classical World: An Atlas and Gazetteer of 120 Centres of Ancient Civilization

By Colin McEvedy

Vanished Civilizations

By Reader's Digest

Shadowlands: A Journey Through Lost Britain

By Matthew Green

Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence

By Karen Armstrong

The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels

By Thomas Cahill

Jesuits II: Cultures, Sciences, and the Arts, 1540-1773: v. 2

By John W. O'Malley, Gauvin Alexander Bailey, Steven J. Harris, T. Frank Kennedy, S.J.

The Weirdest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous

By Joseph Henrich

The Mediterranean: Cradle of European Culture

By Michael Streeter

Babylon: Myth and Reality

By Irving Finkel

Yarmuk AD 636: The Muslim conquest of Syria

By Dr David Nicolle

Masters of the Word: How Media Shaped History

By William L. Bernstein

The Penguin Atlas of African History

By Colin McEvedy

The Tribes of Britain

By Miles, David

Technology and War: From 2000 B.C. to the Present

By Martin Van Creveld

The Great Divide: Nature and Human Nature in the Old World and the New

By Peter Watson

Patterns in History: A Christian Perspective on Historical Thought

By D. W. Bebbington

A Short History of Western Political Thought

By W. M. Spellman (University of North Carolina at Ashevill, Asheville, USA)

Savage Anxieties: The Invention of Western Civilization

By Robert A. Williams, Jr.

Roads From Past To Future

By Charles Tilly, Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science, Columbia University, Arthur L. Stinchcombe

The Great Upheaval: America And The Birth Of The Modern World

By Jay Winik

The Last Crusade: The Epic Voyages of Vasco da Gama

By Nigel Cliff

Humankind: A Hopeful History

By Rutger Bregman, Erica Moore, Elizabeth Manton

Albion: Origins of the English Imagination

By Peter Ackroyd, Nan A Talese

The Inheritance of Rome: A History of Europe from 400 to 1000

By Lecturer in Medieval History Chris Wickham (University of Birmingham)

African Dominion: A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa

By Michael Gomez