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Historical Bookshelf
Browse the main historical periods and settings used across the book catalogue. Each top-level context shows its immediate child contexts so broad areas such as American history can be explored quickly.
Prehistory covers human life before written records, including early human societies, migration, adaptation, technology, ritual and Ice Age environments.
The Ancient World covers the early civilisations of the Near East, North Africa and eastern Mediterranean, from the first cities to the rise of…
Asia and the Islamic World gathers historical fiction set across China, Japan, India, the Ottoman world and the modern Middle East.
The Medieval Period covers the centuries between the end of the western Roman world and the beginning of the early modern age.
Renaissance and Early Modern Europe covers the cultural, political, religious and dynastic world of Europe from the Renaissance into the age of states, exploration…
Tudor and Stuart Britain covers the transformation of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales from late medieval monarchy into an early modern state shaped by…
American History gathers colonial, revolutionary, Civil War, frontier and nineteenth-century American settings for historical fiction.
Georgian and Regency Britain covers the Hanoverian age, from the accession of George I to the early Victorian threshold.
Russian Empire and Revolution covers imperial expansion, reform, autocracy, war and revolutionary collapse.
The Age of Revolutions links the American, French, Haitian, Napoleonic and Spanish American upheavals that transformed the Atlantic world.
Nineteenth-century Europe was shaped by revolution, nationalism, industrialisation, empire and the growth of mass politics and print culture.
World War I and the Interwar Era covers the First World War and the unstable decades that followed it.
World War II was a global conflict involving the Axis and Allied powers across multiple theatres.
The Cold War and Post-war Era covers post-1945 historical fiction shaped by reconstruction, espionage, decolonisation, ideological conflict and nuclear rivalry.