Richard Cohen’s controversial The History Makers (W&N) will be renamed following a plea from a not-for-profit group of the same name, it has been revealed. ... Read more
Weidenfeld & Nicolson has pushed back the publication of Richard Cohen’s The History Makers for nine months, days before its UK publication, following concerns by its... Read more
Sudhir Hazareesingh has won the £40,000 Wolfson History Prize for Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture, with the award clinched for a second year... Read more
Picador will publish the story of the world’s first self-described drag queen billed as a marriage of "RuPaul's Drag Race" and “Hidden Figures”.... Read more
For the past seven decades our understanding of the Second World War has relied on conventional wisdom, propaganda and an interpretation skewed by the information available.... Read more
Two Allen Lane books have won this year’s annual Wolfson History Prize. National Service: Conscription in Britain, 1945-1963 by Richard Vinen and Ring of Steel:... Read more
The 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo, in June 2015, has inspired a slew of tie-in publishing. Andre Deutsch, an imprint of Carlton Books,... Read more
Penguin Press is launching a new series of books about Britain’s kings and queens. The 45 books in the Penguin Monarchs series will be released... Read more
Profile Books has signed a book which explores the role of personality throughout the ages by Samuel Johnson Prize-winning historian Margaret MacMillan. The as-yet-untitled book,... Read more
To celebrate the publication of Daughters of Time, five of The History Girls write about some of their favourite forgotten women from the past.... Read more
