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.
On 26 November 1922 Howard Carter first peered into the newly opened tomb of an ancient Egyptian boy-king. When asked if he could see anything, he replied: ‘Yes, yes, wonderful things.’
Those who understand desire win. And I intend to win.
June 2nd, 2022
Francis Bacon is an outsider at the court of King James I. When his political enemies form a deadly alliance against him, Bacon has no choice but to fight for his survival.
The Assassination of Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson MP
May 26th, 2022
In 1922, Sir Henry Wilson – the former head of the British army – was killed by IRA members in the most significant political murder to have taken place on British soil for more than a century
Drawing on the PIXPAST Archive's extraordinary collection, these rare images take us behind the lines, of Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union the impact of the harsh Russian winter in vivid detail.
A journey into the oddest corners of 60s Britain and the outer edges of science and reason
May 11th, 2022
An enthralling true story, of madness and wonder, science and the supernatural — a journey to the most powerful and unsettling reaches of the human mind.
An American Tragedy in Britain's Most Terrifying Prison
May 6th, 2022
The War of 1812 – the last time Britain and America went to war with each other. British redcoats incarcerate six thousand American sailors in the world’s largest prison: Dartmoor.
A luminous exploration of exile, the people who have experienced it, and the places they inhabit
May 4th, 2022
This is the story of three unheralded nineteenth-century dissidents, each exiled to a remote island. Each sacrificed freedom and home to larger ideas of freedom and home.
A story of obsession, illusion and the price of freedom
April 1st, 2022
Paris, 1750. In the midst of winter, as birds fall frozen from the sky, Madeleine, a new maid, arrives at the home of a celebrated clockmaker and his clever, unworldly daughter.