We a good story
Quick delivery in the UK

History & Society

History books allow you to travel back in time. They let you discover a whole different era than our own with different lifestyles, morale compases and crises. To understand history is to understand, who you are, and what you come from. It is the foundation of today’s society and culture. In Tales’ selection of history and society books you can investigate both religion, mythologies, and wars with competent authors and scholars giving their interpretation of how events happened as they did and how we ended up with today’s society. Are you ready to get wiser of both past and present?
Show more
Filter
Filter
Sort bySort Popular
  • Save 16%
    - Essays on Islam in Europe
    by Abdal Hakim Murad
    £14.99

    These eleven theological essays explore the origins and nature of Islamophobia in Europe and the steady rise of national populism across the continent.

  • Save 25%
    by Jim McCarty
    £67.99

    Is our universe intelligently designed? What are the possibilities of healing, transformation, and service? What is the Law of One? After 19 years of research into the channeling phenomenon that involved communications with members of the Confederation of Planets in the Service of the One Infinite Creator, a group consciousness called Ra, who had evolved on the planet Venus, established contact with three dedicated seekers of truth to explore these and other questions. Ra said that all people and all of creation are One Being: the One Infinite Creator. They suggested that the process of learning to love (awakening to the “Original Thought”) is studied via humanity’s movement through all of time. The Ra Material sessions conducted by these three individuals examine the meaning of our cosmic existence and contain 106 transcripts of every conversation, including events leading up to first contact, and, in Book V, commentary about the contact. This 40th-anniversary boxed set includes all five books in hard cover.

  • Save 14%
    - Love, Lies and Justice on the Trail of a Nazi Fugitive
    by QC Sands & Philippe
    £9.49

    The new book by the winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize and author of the Sunday Times bestseller EAST WEST STREET - a historical detective story that sets out to uncover the truth behind what happened to leading Nazi Otto von Wachter

  • Save 17%
    - Inside Cambridge Analytica's Plot to Break the World
    by Christopher Wylie
    £9.99

  • by Hermann Hesse
    £11.49 - 22.49

  • by Oswald Mosley
    £22.49 - 26.99

  • - Containing the principles of spiritist doctrine on the immortality of the soul, the nature of spirits and their relations with men, the moral law, the present life, the future life, and the destiny of the human race: with an alphabetica
    by Allan Kardec
    £17.99 - 23.99

  • Save 23%
    - Reflections on Self-Delusion
    by Jia Tolentino
    £15.49

  • Save 15%
    - A History of the Northmen
    by W. B. Bartlett
    £10.99 - 18.99

    A comprehensive new history of the infamous Vikings. Those men and women raided and traded their way into history whilst at the same time helping to build new nations in Scandinavia and beyond.

  • - Unlearning Imperialism
    by Ariella Azoulay
    £31.99

    A passionately urgent call for all of us to unlearn imperialism and repair the violent world we share.

  • Save 20%
    - Because Following Jesus Was Never Meant to Be Safe
    by Craig Groeschel
    £11.99

  • Save 14%
    - How to Save the World from Financialisation
    by Grace Blakeley
    £9.49

    A readable polemic on the growing dominance of the finance industry over the UK economy, and what the left can do to challenge it.

  • Save 17%
    - Strategies to Overthrow the Enemy's Tactics and Walk in Total Freedom
    by John Ramirez
    £9.99

    The enemy uses fear as a tactic to torment and attack us--but Jesus came to destroy fear and set captives free. Using real-life examples, John Ramirez, once a satanic high priest, helps you find peace and purpose so you can walk fearlessly into your destiny, dismantling every stronghold, to repel the Enemy's attacks for a life of freedom!

  • Save 14%
    by Rachel DeLoache Williams
    £9.49

    How does it feel to be betrayed by your closest friend? A close friend who turns out to be the most prolific grifter in New York City...

  • - A Life in Art
    by Susan Napier
    £16.49

  • Save 14%
    - A Manifesto for Sharing Public Wealth
    by Guy Standing
    £9.49

  • Save 20%
    - A Game Plan for Discussing Your Christian Convictions
    by Gregory Koukl
    £11.99

    In Tactics, Gregory Koukl demonstrates how to artfully regain control of conversations, keeping them moving forward in constructive ways through thoughtful diplomacy. You'll learn how to maneuver comfortably and graciously through the minefields of a challenging discussion and how to get people thinking about Jesus.

  • Save 11%
    by Raven Smith
    £7.99

  • Save 15%
    - A Guide to Social Justice
    by Titania McGrath
    £10.99

    Woke will help you to become the woke person you need to be in an increasingly progressive world. In a non-patronising manner, Titania McGrath will explain why you are wrong about everything and how to become more like her.

  • Save 14%
    - The Downfall of Ordinary Germans, 1945
    by Florian Huber
    £9.49

  • Save 15%
    - An Epic History of the Wars for the Holy Lands
    by Dan Jones
    £10.99

    A history of the Crusades.

  • Save 15%
    - Imperialist Ideology in the Disney Comic
    by Armand Mattelart & Ariel Dorfman
    £14.49 - 88.99

    Censored and condemned, this is a Marxist critique of how our favourite cartoons are vehicles for capitalist ideology.

  • Save 14%
    by Claire Lombardo
    £9.49

    'Lombardo's impressive debut is a gripping and poignant ode to a messy, loving family in all its glory. She juggles a huge cast of characters with seeming effortlessness, bringing each to life with humour, vividness and acute psychological insight.' Madeline Miller, author of Circe and the Women's-Prize-winning The Song of Achilles

  • Save 10%
    - How the Wehrmacht Lost France
    by Jonathan Trigg
    £8.99

    'We weren't afraid of the Allies as soldiers, but we were afraid of their materiel - it was going to be men versus machines.'

  • Save 13%
    - The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
    by Sabrina Strings
    £22.49 - 97.49

    "String's "Fearing the Black Body" critically examines the concepts of fat phobia and race"--

  • Save 15%
    by Christiane Ritter
    £10.99

  • Save 15%
    by Neil Gaiman
    £10.99

    A glorious reinvention of the iconic bestseller Good Omens, soon to be a massive new TV launch on Amazon Prime Video and the BBC.

  • Save 14%
    - Tales from a life without technology
    by MARK BOYLE
    £9.49

    It was 11pm when I checked my email for the last time and turned off my phone for what I hoped would be forever.

  • Save 15%
    - The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
    by Adam Higginbotham
    £10.99

    The dramatic untold story of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster, based on original reporting and new archival research.

  • Save 15%
    - From our noble goals to our worst hypocrisies
    by Deborah Frances-White
    £10.99

    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER * 'This really is the "everything you have always wanted to know about feminism but were afraid to ask" manual. Essential reading for the planet' EMMA THOMPSON

History
The concept history covers a large range of topics all with its different focus. On top of Tales’ history books list, you find history books giving their in-depth view of some of World History’s most tragic events in modern time - World War 1 and World War 2. The two world wars affected most of the world and so many people lost their lives to them - both soldiers and civilians. The wars changed the world forever, and to understand how and why you need to dive into one of our many brilliant history books about the historic wars, giving you all the analysis and nuances you need - because we all know history books best, when they are thorough and give us new perspectives on historical events. 
If you instead are interested in politics during different historical periods, our selection of history books also contains that. The political system of a nation is a defining factor for how the citizens are treated and what conditions of life they have. The political factors can also lead to crises and wars, and in that way politics can make its mark on a whole historical era, but it can also lead to better times, giving the citizens better conditions and possibilities of social mobility. If you are interested, you will find all the history books in english right here. 
If you want to travel back to the fascinating Antiquity you should try reading the classics The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer. However they can be hard to understand in their original form. That is why we recommend you to dive into Stephen Fry’s fascinating interpretations of the antic classics. The works of the Antic Greeks, especially Homer, have that special kind of universality that all the classics refer to, even though the lyrics are about ancient mythological heroes such as Achilleus and Heracles (better known as Hercules) and their challenging adventures. The historical tales leave the reader with universal morales of life. In Stephen Fry’s version called Heroes the tales are giving a modern language and new relevans - especially for young people. 
It is also important to teach your kids about our common history and that is why you also find history books for kids in Tales’ wide selection. 

Society
A society is formed by a community of individuals and has gone through many changes throughout history. The history of our society has gone through many different stages, and in order to contain this diversity Tales’ collection has a rich amount of societal books from different time periods. You can find society books concerning and analyzing all from the traditional society, the modern society, and the post-modern society to the humanistic society. 

Educational textbooks
If you study history or social science Tales’ collection of History and Society is the perfect place to find your next educational textbook. History is one of the most important humanistic disciplines educating the future historians and museum inspectors. Without historians there will be nobody to investigate the historical data and texts and no one to evaluate them critically, and most importantly there would be no one to arrange history and the historical sources. Without them we would in fact lack a lot of vital information about who we are and what we come from, and we would not have the same ability to learn from history, which would be a great loss. That is why you need to start your journey as a history student in Tales’ selection of history books. 
Social science is also a cornerstone in understanding who we are and why we act as we act. As a social science student you should dive into our selection of societal books in order to get inspired for your next case study. 

Join thousands of book lovers

Sign up to our newsletter and receive discounts and inspiration for your next reading experience.