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Meet the controversial and influential Erasmus Darwin and take a tour of the late eighteenth century English Enlightenment with prize-winning Patricia Fara as your guide. Discover the story of Udo Klausa and the events in a small town near Auschwitz that helped the murderous plans of the Nazi elite succeed. Find out who or what was responsible for the catastrophic burning of Parliament in 1834. This page brings you the widest range of accessible history books from the sharpest minds.

Read blog articles on a range of history topics and watch videos of OUP authors such as Caroline Shenton and Mary Fulbrook discuss their work.

Browse some of the best history books available including bestsellers by Peter Longerich on Heinrich Himmler and Jonathan Steinberg on Bismarck.

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The Children of Henry VIII

Guy Halsall, author of The Children of Henry VIII, talks about Henry and the relationship he had with his children.

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From BBC History Magazine

Read a review of Worlds of Arthur by Guy Halsall, where Ryan Lavelle praises a lively deconstruction of Arthurian legend.

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The Classic Horror Stories

Roger Luckhurst discusses H. P. Lovecraft's influence on Western cinema, television and literature.

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From The New York Times

Maria Tatar reviews the new hardback edition of The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley, edited by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst.

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In Spies We Trust

Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, author of In Spies We Trust, writes for The Scotsman on the possibility of a Scotish Intelligence Service.

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The Enlightenment

Read the first chapter of Anthony Pagen's The Enlightenment: And Why it Still Matters.

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The Mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon

Stephanie Dalley, author of The Mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon, discusses the possible imitators of this world wonder, from Herod the Great to Nero.

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The Castrato and His Wife

Helen Berry writes for the OUPblog about Grayson Perry's recently completed six tapestries entitiled The Vanity of Small Differences.

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From The New York Times

Read Dominique Browning review of Tatiana Holway's The Flower of Empire.

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The Water Babies

Who was Charles Kingsley? On the 150th anniversary of The Water Babies, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst discuss the eccentricities of the author.

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From The Literary Review

Read Charles Andrew’s review of Gill Bennett's Six Moments of Crisis.

History Clips...

Gill Bennett gives an insight into British foreign policy.		Gordon Campbell, on the cultural decline of hermits, and the arrival of garden gnomes.