Unseen Histories

The Past, Fully Present.

Welcome to Unseen Histories, a place where you can find out about the very best new history books, read author interviews and long-form pieces by the world’s leading historians. Our aim, as our name suggests, is to present history in an original, provoking and beautiful way. All our written pieces are accompanied by high quality visual material.

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Excerpt: His Majesty’s Airship by S.C Gwynne

The Life and Tragic Death of the World's Largest Flying Machine

November 3^rd, 2023

The R101 Airship was both a marvel and a disaster, as S. C. Gwynne explains.

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Art of the Grimoire

An Illustrated History of Magic Books and Spells

October 31^st, 2023

For Halloween, Unseen Histories presents a gallery of esoteric texts from Art of the Grimoire.

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His Majesty’s Airship

S.C. Gwynne on the world’s largest flying machine

October 30^th, 2023

The R101 Airship was both a marvel and a disaster, as S. C. Gwynne explains.

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A Family Portrait, 1864

Wet plate photography and the American Civil War

October 27^th, 2023

A family photograph from 1864 takes us back into black history and the American Civil War.

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A Brief Atlas of the Lighthouses at the End of the World

The Wild Beauty of Lighthouses

October 26^th, 2023

Jose Luis González Macías on a disaster at Eddystone Lighthouse

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Bennelong and Phillip

Kate Fullagar on two of Australia’s foundational figures

October 25^th, 2023

Kate Fullagar introduces us to two prominent figures in Australian history and she evaluates the relationship between them.

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Gliding Over Kill Devil Hills

10 October 1902

October 10^th, 2023

This set of photographs from 10 October 1902 showcase the Wright brothers' glider tests in North Carolina.

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Excerpt: Scarlet Town by Leonora Nattrass

1796. A rigged election. A town at war. A murderer at large.

October 5^th, 2023

With an introduction by the author, Leonora Nattrass.

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Scarlet Town

Leonora Nattrass on the paranoid politics of the 1790s

October 3^rd, 2023

Ahead of the release of her novel Scarlet Town, Leonora Nattrass talks to Unseen Histories about Cornwall, elections and the 1790s.

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