Best History Books of 2023 selected by History Today
- Updated 8 months ago
- 25 Books
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Revolutions and rubles, godlings and fascist symbols, Shakespeare and silk: ten historians choose their favourite new history books of 2023
American Midnight
ByAdam Hochschild
2022 • 28 Readers • 384 pages • 4.2
Bede and the Theory of Everything
ByMichelle P. Brown
2023 • 313 pages
Boats in a Storm
ByKalyani Ramnath
2023 • 1 Reader • 392 pages
Courting India
ByNandini Das
2023 • 1 Reader • 481 pages
Dominion
ByStephen Bown
2023 • 425 pages
Fool
ByPeter K. Andersson
2023 • 224 pages
Journeys of the Mind
ByPeter Brown
2023 • 736 pages
One Fine Day: Britain's Empire on the Brink
ByMatthew Parker
1 Reader
Plants, Politics and Empire in Ancient Rome
ByAnnalisa Marzano
2023
Poppy
ByMINDEN
2022
Pure Wit
ByFrancesca Peacock
2023
Revolutionary Spring
ByChristopher Clark
2023 • 4 Readers • 897 pages
Shakespeare's First Folio
ByWilliam Shakespeare
2023
Silk: A World History
ByAarathi Prasad
2023 • 5 Readers • 386 pages • 2.5
8 Readers • 448 pages
The Fasces
ByT. Corey Brennan
2022 • 305 pages
The Floating University
ByTamson Pietsch
2023 • 332 pages
The Long View
ByRichard Fisher
2023
The Ruble
ByEkaterina Pravilova
2023 • 561 pages
The Scythian Empire
ByChristopher I. Beckwith
2023 • 1 Reader • 416 pages
Twilight of the Godlings
ByFrancis Young
2023 • 385 pages
Vagabond Princess
ByRuby Lal
2024 • 2 Readers
Victorious in Defeat
ByAlexander V. Pantsov
2023 • 2 Readers • 737 pages • 4
Volcanic
ByJohn Brewer
2023 • 1 Reader • 561 pages
What is a Playhouse?
ByCallan Davies
2022