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"A hugely entertaining achievement." –Esquire “An engaging survey through a period of intellectual history that reveals as much about people who wear watches as the objects on their wrists." – Wall Street Journal "As impeccably crafted and precisely engineered as any of the watches on...

Penguin Presents the audiobook edition of Paths to the Past written and read by Francis Pryor. Landscapes reflect and shape our behaviour. They make us who we are and bear witness to the shifting patterns of human life over the generations. Formed by a complex series of natural and human...

Forgotten Urban HistoriesForgotten Urban Histories is a sharp, atmospheric, and beautifully immersive journey through the magnificent architectural layers hidden right beneath our feet. The premise is simple: while modern cities must constantly build, modernise, and push forward, we are incredibly fortunate that they rarely erase where they have been. Instead of demolishing their history, they preserve it in layers—sealing obsolete infrastructure beneath the tarmac, padlocking the gates to frozen time capsules, and creating a parallel, subterranean world where the past continues to exist ...

In recent years house histories have become the new frontier of popular, participatory history. People, many of whom have already embarked upon that great adventure of genealogical research, and who have encountered their ancestors in the archives and uncovered family secrets, are now turning to...

Brought to you by Penguin. How many women artists do you know? Who makes art history? Did women even work as artists before the twentieth century? And what is the Baroque anyway? Discover the glittering Sofonisba Anguissola of the Renaissance, the radical work of Harriet Powers in the...

Celebrating a decade of Columbia Global Reports, the Forerunners series revives groundbreaking works of investigative journalism and incisive analysis published a century before CGR’s founding. These texts, once forgotten or underexplored, reflect CGR’s core mission: fearless reporting...