Simon Read

Combat, cigars, and whiskey-from the jungles of Cuba and the mountains of the Northwest Frontier, to the banks of the Nile and the plains of South Africa, comes this action-packed tale of Winston Churchill's adventures as a war correspondent in the Age of Empire. Meer

Investigating the functioning of travel in political culture by using early modern small states as a case study, this book examines the complex relationship between Jacobitism, educational travel, and small state diplomacy. Meer

A fascinating yet gruesome look at the bloody history that helped shape Scotland Yard and modern crime-fighting into what it is today. Meer

Set against the backdrop of the Great Depression and based on police reports and the colourful tabloid reporting of the day, The Many Murders of... Meer