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The Past, Fully Present. Find out about the very best new history books, read author interviews and long-form pieces by the world’s leading historians. Editor – Peter Moore Creative Director – @jordanacosta.co https://www.unseenhistories.com/
By the mid-twentieth century youth clubs had spread across the length and breadth of Britain. Traditionally founded in old Victorian ideals, author Emma Warren explains how a new generation of young Britons embraced a new kind of daring, liberating culture in the run up to the Sixties👇
Teddy Boys and Teenage Dreams: The 1950s Youth Club
Emma Warren explains how the British youth club became an exciting and revolutionary place in the years after the Second World War.
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Our pick of new history books for Summer 2026. From the Bayeux Tapestry to Napoleon III, Elizabeth Barton to Benito Mussolini. With new books from @djmusgrove.bsky.social, @edwardshawcross.bsky.social, @wiredale.bsky.social and many more👇
New History Books for Summer 2026 - Unseen Histories
Our pick of new history books for Summer 2026. From the Battle of Hastings to Napoleon III, Anne Boleyn to Mussolini.
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Until the 1920s there was no cure for the disease we call 'Type 1 Diabetes'. Then, one night in 1920, Frederick Banting was struck by an idea that would save millions of lives. Dr Saira Hameed, author of Signals (@faberbooks.bsky.social) tells the story of Banting and his pioneering work on insulin👇
Frederick Banting and the Discovery of Insulin
Dr Saira Hameed tells the story of Frederick Banting's transformative work on insulin that saved the lives of tens of millions of diabetics
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From Alexander the Great to the Great Exhibition, the South Seas to Iran, here are our picks for June, with books from @andreawulf.bsky.social, @yjtorbati.bsky.social, @laurenworking.bsky.social and many more👇 (with apologies for the late posting!)
New History Books for June 2026 - Unseen Histories
Our pick of new history books for June. From Alexander the Great to the Great Exhibition, the South Seas to Iran
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Why not start the weekend with our pick of new history books for May? From the Vikings to the Weimar Republic, the Georgian Dining Room to Winston Churchill. With new books by @murrayp.bsky.social @rorycormac.bsky.social @rentravailer.bsky.social and many more👇
New History Books for May 2026 - Unseen Histories
Our pick of new history books for May. From the Vikings to the Weimar Republic, the Georgian Dining Room to Winston Churchill.
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Few parties in history can match the Georgian ‘Masquerade’, and one in London in 1768 was particularly enchanting. It brought those of the greatest means and highest rank together, filled with artful costumes and glittering jewels. Dr Meghan Kobza tells us all about the Georgian masquerade👇
Meghan Kobza: The Magnificent Masquerade (1768)
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UPDATE: we’re very nearly sold out for our first Travels Through Time LIVE recording at @drjohnsonshouse.bsky.social's this Thursday! If you don’t want to miss out, tickets are on sale below!👇
Unseen Histories@unseenhistories.com · 3mo ago1/ We’re now home to the long running history podcast, Travels Through Time, hosted by our editor, Peter Moore. We’re still getting up and running as the new season gets underway, and we’re trying something new: a live recording of Travels Through Time!👇
ICYMI: We’re hosting our very first Travels Through Time podcast episode this Thursday at @drjohnsonshouse.bsky.social in London. Join us as Paul O’Keeffe and Peter Moore discuss one of our most famous naval engagements in history. Ticket link in the original post comments👇
Unseen Histories@unseenhistories.com · 3mo ago1/ We’re now home to the long running history podcast, Travels Through Time, hosted by our editor, Peter Moore. We’re still getting up and running as the new season gets underway, and we’re trying something new: a live recording of Travels Through Time!👇
1/ We’re now home to the long running history podcast, Travels Through Time, hosted by our editor, Peter Moore. We’re still getting up and running as the new season gets underway, and we’re trying something new: a live recording of Travels Through Time!👇
Sabastian Sawe ran the first sub-two-hour marathon in London last weekend. His astonishing time, 1h59m30s, was an hour faster than the record first established by Johnny Haynes at the 1908 Olympic Games. Despite Sawe’s blistering speed, when it comes to heartbreak the 1908 race remains unmatched👇
The Thrilling Finish of the 1908 Olympic Marathon
The marathon at the 1908 Olympic Games in London provided one of the most dramatic moments in the history of athletics
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Such was the terror of the 'bomber' that on the outbreak of war in 1939, the British were hesitant in their use of this new weapon. But as @richardstrachan.bsky.social explains, it wasn't long before caution was abandoned. He looks back at one of the longest and most controversial offensives of WW2👇
The Royal Air Force's bombing offensive against the Nazis
Richard Strachan, author of the WW2 novel Night Fire, examines the history of the RAF's brutal bombing campaign against the Germans.
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The US Navy's blockade of the Strait of Hormuz has brought an old military tactic back into the news. For Britons in the early nineteenth century, during the wars against Napoleon, they were very familiar indeed👇
What is a blockade – and do they work?
As President Trump announces his blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, we glance back at the history of this military tactic.
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🇭🇺 This photograph was taken on 23 October 1989 in Kossuth Lajos Square in Budapest. It shows the US Ambassador to Hungary, Mark Palmer, in a red bow tie, among the crowds as the acting head of state, Mátyás Szűrös, solemnly proclaimed the birth of a new republic👇
October 1989: Proclamation of the Republic of Hungary
This photograph, taken on 23 October 1989, shows the US ambassador as the Republic of Hungary was proclaimed by Matyas Szuros in Budapest.
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From Pompeii to Kim Philby, Renoir to Offa of Mercia, here’s a selection of history books that will be released over the month ahead. With books from @mollycrabapple.bsky.social, @richardstrachan.bsky.social, @rorynaismith.bsky.social and more👇
New History Books for April 2026 - Unseen Histories
From Pompeii to the Kim Philby, Renoir to Offa of Mercia
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1/2 Protecting their crown was a constant challenge for the Tudor monarchs. One of their most testing years came very shortly after King Henry VII seized the throne at the Battle of Bosworth. In 1497, confronted by threats on all sides, the first of the Tudors needed all his tenacity to survive.
A Year of Great Peril for the Tudors
In 1497 Henry VII faced multiple threats to his throne. We talk to Sean Cunningham about Perkin Warbeck, James IV and the Cornish Uprising.
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From Silence to the Battle of Trafalgar, King Henry VII to Adolf Hitler, here is a selection of anticipated new history books that will be released over the month ahead. With new books from @seanc1509.bsky.social, @carolinesharples.bsky.social, @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social and many more👇
New History Books for March 2026 - Unseen Histories
From Silence to the Battle of Trafalgar, Henry VII to Adolf Hitler
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In 1963, shortly after his death, Peter Rachman became infamous. The west London landlord was exposed as profiteering, amoral operator who had made his fortune dishonourably. Six decades on memories have faded. Now is the time, argues @neilrootwriter.bsky.social, to look at the whole story afresh👇
The Murky World of Peter Rachman
Neil Root investigates the life and times of the notorious slum landlord.
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Geoffrey Roberts weighs the significance of letters written by Kathleen Harriman during WW2. As US Ambassador to the Soviet Union, W. Averell Harriman held one of the most crucial postings of the 20th C. While his story is well known, until now that of his daughter has never been fully investigated👇
The Wartime Letters of Kathleen Harriman
Geoffrey Roberts weighs the historical significance of the wartime letters written by Kathleen Harriman.
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In 1838 an uprising took place in Kent. Led by a man calling himself 'Sir William Courtenay', supposedly a 'Knight of Malta' and a 'King of Jerusalem', the episode ended in shocking circumstances. Ian Breckon explains that this rebellion was very much the product of a distinctive historical moment👇
Mad Tom's Rising with Ian Breckon
The author Ian Breckon recalls one of the most peculiar revolts in English history
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From the Samurais to the Fascists, Charlotte Brontë to Daniel Defoe, here is a selection of anticipated new history books that will be released over the month ahead. With new books from @olegb.bsky.social, @mmier.bsky.social, @neilrootwriter.bsky.social and many more👇
New History Books for February 2026 - Unseen Histories
From Samurais to Fascists, Charlotte Brontë to Daniel Defoe. Here is a selection of anticipated books that will be published over the month ahead.
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Edoardo Albert, the author of a new biography of the Venetian military engineer Gabriele Tadino, describes a significant moment in the early 1520s as an emissary of the Knights Hospitaller begged him to leave Crete for Rhodes, where his skills were desperately needed against the expanding Ottomans👇
Gabriele Tadino Goes to Rhodes
Edoardo Albert pinpoints a critical moment in the contest between the Venetians, the Knights Hospitaller and the Ottomans.
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From the Footlights to the Baltic, the Declaration of Independence to Suleiman the Magnificent, here’s our new year picks for 2026. With books from @murrayp.bsky.social, @mcalvinbook.bsky.social, @alwynturner.bsky.social and many more👇
New History Books for January 2026 - Unseen Histories
Our picks of a range of vibrant new history books that will be released over the month ahead.
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Christmas Day lies dead ahead! Here are ten of our favourite history books published over the past year, with entries from @ianleslie.bsky.social, @drjoannepaul.bsky.social, @rooneyvision.bsky.social, @shafikmeghji.bsky.social, @highamnews.bsky.social and more👇 Happy Christmas, all! 🎄
Our favourite history books of 2025 - Unseen Histories
Looking for a history book this Christmas? Here's a list of our favourites.
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Stephen Bates charts the singular story of John Maundy Gregory. In the early 20th century Gregory was a confidant of kings and a political operative who made a fortune selling honours to wealthy individuals. In many ways he only refined a form of political corruption that was generations old.👇
The Men Who Sold Honours - Unseen Histories
Stephen Bates, author of The Man Who Sold Honours, charts the history of an old piece of political corruption..
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As the Napoleonic Wars drew to a close there were food riots. Opposition, meanwhile, was growing against the introduction of industrial technologies. It is in this world of extremes that Katherine Quarmby has set her novel. The Low Road is a captivating tale that is inspired by real history 👇
The Low Road - Unseen Histories
Katharine Quarmby, the author of The Low Road, casts an eye over Georgian England.
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From the North Sea to Mexico, fossil hunting to the Soviet Union, Louis D. Hall casts his eyes over a selection of history books that will be released over the month ahead. With new books from @historylauren.bsky.social, @zygaro.bsky.social and many more👇
New History Books for November 2025 - Unseen Histories
Our picks of a range of vibrant new history books that will be released over the month ahead.
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Jane Austen's novels tell stories about people getting married. There are good matches and bad matches and, for young ladies aged between 16 and 27, much depends on making the right choices. Emma Campbell Webster, tells us more about what it was like to be a young lady in Austen's time👇
You Are Elizabeth Bennet - Unseen Histories
We speak to the author of You Are Elizabeth Bennet, Emma Campbell Webster, about being a young lady in the late Georgian Age..
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In the 1890s an Irish writer called Bram Stoker sat in the London Library researching an idea he had for a chilling Gothic novel. The most vivid stimulus for Stoker's Count Dracula was seemingly a terrifying figure from the fifteenth-century. Elizabeth Drayson tells us about Vlad 'the Impaler'👇
Shining a light on Dracula - Unseen Histories
Elizabeth Drayson, author of Crucible of Light, tells us all Vlad the Impaler - a real life Dracula.
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The US military disrupts drug trafficking networks with operations at sea. In the early 1970s, however, criminals exploited a legal loophole to import marijuana from offshore boats. This, explains David Tuch, lay behind the founding moment in America's war on drugs: Operation Stopgap👇
Operation Stopgap: The First Shot in America’s War on Drugs - Unseen Histories
David Tuch, author of the book The Wireless Operator, tells us about Operation Stopgap.
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From the Caspian Sea to Burma, the Regency to U Boats; our history book picks for the month ahead. With new books from @theprofrog.bsky.social @lmbd1418.bsky.social @highamnews.bsky.social @andrewrsorkin.bsky.social @fourredshoes.bsky.social @edmond-smith.bsky.social @rory-stewart.bsky.social👇
New History Books for October 2025 - Unseen Histories
Our picks of a range of vibrant new history books that will be released over the month ahead.
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