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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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Mike Jay on Sherlock Holmes and the detective's changing relationship with cocaine
March 13th, 2024
As life accelerated at the end of the 1880s, some, like Sherlock Holmes, turned to a drug to help them to keep up.
A look back at the 'fastest long-distance train in the world'
March 8th, 2024
One of the great early trains and its claims to have travelled at 100mph.
From the Romans to Queen Victoria, Propaganda to Poisoning
March 1st, 2024
Our picks of a range of vibrant new history books that will be released over the month ahead.
An exclusive extract from'Rites of Passage: Death & Mourning in Victorian London' by Judith Flanders
March 1st, 2024
Judith Flanders on Peter Pan, Queen Victoria and attidues about death and dying.
On 23 February 1945 one of the iconic photographs of the Second World War was taken on the Pacifi...
February 23rd, 2024
We look at one of the best known images of the twentieth century.
From Shipwrecks to Jane Austen, Taiwan to Byzantium
January 30th, 2024
Shipwrecks, The West, The Wars of the Roses, Taiwan and more in our round up of new history books.
The bright lights of the 'wonder theatre of the world' caught the attention of a young Stanley Ku...
January 26th, 2024
In 1949 Stanley Kubrick, a young photographer on $50 a week, was sent on assignment to Chicago
A hundred years ago today, on 21 January 1924, the Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin died. Here's how ...
January 21st, 2024
The British newspapers respond to the demise of a brilliant and ruthless political figure
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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.