Popular history book reviews

Our review of Those Who Are About To Die: Gladiators and the Roman Mind, by Harry Sidebottom, first published in August 2025.

It is hot here in the UK and in Europe.

Our review of The Rage of Party: How Whig Versus Tory Made Modern Britain, by George Owers, first published in September 2025.

Ok here's what we've got from last month (published in the UK in hardback).

Our review of The Black Death: A Global History, by Thomas Asbridge, first published in April 2026.

Our review of The Four Heavens: A New History of the Ancient Maya, by David Stuart, first published in April 2026.

Here's the list from last month (history books published here in the UK in hardback): only nine but a wide range of topics.

Our review of The Coming Storm: Power, Conflict and Warnings from History, by Odd Arne Westad, first published in March 2026.

A nice collection of books from last month (published in the UK in hardback) ranging across time and space.

A veritable cornucopia1 of new history books out last month, with no fewer than 18 new titles identified from my exhaustive scraping of the internet.

Our review of Oliver Cromwell: Commander in Chief, by Ronald Hutton, first published in August 2024.

Our review of We the People: A History of the US Constitution, by Jill Lepore, first published in September 2025.

Our review of The Wolf Age: The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire, by Tore Skeie, first published in October 2021.

A slightly sparser list of new history books this month (Feb 2026, in hardback in the UK).

Our review of On Pedantry: A Cultural History of the Know-it-All, by Arnoud S.

I have combined January and Decemeber to give myself a break over xmas.

Our review of Rhyme and Reason: A Short History of British Poetry, by Mark Forsyth, first published in October 2025.

Our review of An Accidental History of Tudor England: From Daily Life to Sudden Death, by Steven Gunn, Tomasz Gromelski, first published in June 2025.