Books from Tempus
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Thomas Bouch: The Builder of the Tay Bridge
By John RapleyIt was the longest bridge in the world--a true wonder of the time--but within a year it had collapsed. The Tay Railway Bridge was to have been the pinnacle of...
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The Forgotten Front: The East African Campaign, 1914-1918
By Ross AndersonThe first history of the East African Front of the First World War a campaign that inspired the Humphrey Bogart film The African Queen. The First World War began in...
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Tommy Goes to War
By Malcolm BrownThis work conveys the spirit of the British Tommy, weaving a concise analysis of the British Army in the First World War with first-hand accounts taken from uncensored letters and...
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Thursday's Universe
By Marcia BartusiakFrom the history of the science to the cutting edge of knowledge and technology, the story of modern astrophysics is told through interviews with and profiles of leading scientists and...
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David I: The King who Made Scotland
By Richard D. OramConsidered to be one of the greatest of Scotland's medieval kings, David was never expected to succeed to the throne. Before coming to the throne David made a career for...
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Prehistoric Pottery in Britain & Ireland
By Alex M. GibsonThis introduction to prehistoric pottery in Britain and Ireland is intended for the general reader and is not a specialist tool for in-depth research and analysis. Alex Gibson takes a...
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South Uist: Archaeology and History of a Hebridean Island
By Michael Parker Pearson, James Symonds, Niall M. SharplesArchaeology and history of South Uist.
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Pompeii: History, Life & Afterlife
By Roger LingRoger Ling describes the day-to-day life of Pompeii's inhabitants on the eve of the fatal eruption in AD 79, as well as the eruption itself and its aftermath. The city...
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The Last Frontier: The Roman Invasions of Scotland
By Antony Kamm"Ancient Scotland, then occupied by Celtic settlers, never became part of the Roman empire, in spite of being invaded on what is now accepted as four, rather than three, occasions....
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Landscapes of War: The Archaeology of Aggression and Defence
By Paul Hill, Julie WilemanFrom the earliest evidence of human aggression to the mordern era of sophisticated warfare, this book covers the archaeological aspects of war in the landscape using a multi-period thematic approach...
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The Roman Amphitheatre in Britain
By Tony WilmottThis study of all the Roman amphitheatres in Britain draws on the recent excavations at Chester, London and Silchester. Wilmott describes every ampitheatre, amphitheatre-type structure and mixed theatre/amphitheatre structure in...
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Defying Rome: The Rebels of Roman Britain
By Guy De la BédoyèreThe power of the Roman Empire was under constant challenge. Nowhere was this truer than in Britain, Rome's remotest and most recalcitrant province. A succession of idealists, chancers and reactionaries...
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Medieval England: From Hastings to Bosworth
By Edmund KingMedieval England presents the political and cultural development of English society from the Norman Conquest to the end of the Wars of the Roses. It is a story of change,...
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Britannia's Empire: Making a British World
By Bill NassonMore than Shakespeare, more than the invention of the railway, more than fair play, it was Empire which made Britain into Great Britain. By the early twentieth century, that Empire...
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Dying for the Gods: Human Sacrifice in Iron Age & Roman Europe
By Miranda Jane Aldhouse-Green, Miranda J. GreenExplains "the nature of sacrifice in antiquity" and "different aspects of the subject: the notion of flesh for the gods; rites of fire and blood; the significance of defleshing heads...
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The Wars of the Roses: The Soldiers' Experience
By Anthony GoodmanThe history of the Wars of the Roses from the common soldiers' perspective. Historians have researched extensively the motives and fortunes of kings, nobles and gentlemen in the Wars of...
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Britannia Prima: Britain's Last Roman Province
By Roger WhiteWhen Edward I took Caernarfon, seat of the Princes of Gwynedd, in 1278, he conquered the last remaining part of the Roman Empire. Why was it that this part of...
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Rorke's Drift, 1879: Anatomy of an Epic Zulu War Siege
By Edmund James YorkeRorke's Drift, 1879: Anatomy of an Epic Zulu War Siege
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Agatha Christie: The Finished Portrait
By Andrew NormanWhen Agatha Christie, the so-called “Queen of Crime”, disappeared from her home in Sunningdale in Berkshire for eleven days on 3 December 1927, the whole nation held its breath. The...
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Iceland Saga
By Magnus MagnussonUnrivaled as the greatest living scholar of Icelandic sagas, Magnusson here provides background on some of the aspects of the genre, period, culture, and some pivotal figures. Among his topics...