Sheffield books

Following the stunning victory of Jeremy Corbyn in the Labour Party leadership contest this September, much maligned and supposedly outdated terms such as socialism and collective ownership have started to re-enter British political discourse. As of

In the case of my new book, Guilty Women, Foreign Policy and Appeasement in Inter-war Britain - to twist around a well-worn cliché - you can tell a book by its cover. In less than a thousand words,

There are not many people who appear in the indexes of all three of these books, on quite different topics: A Handbook of Medieval Sexuality; Warfare and Society in the Barbarian West, 450-900; and The

In the early 1930s, Hermann Fegelein, one of Germany's most successful jockeys, met Heinrich Himmler. In 1937, he was appointed head of the main riding school of the SS. By July 1941 the SS Cavalry

The decision of Sheffield United football club to allow convicted rapist Ched Evans to resume training has prompted national interest – not to mention national outrage. Should convicted rapists be allowed to return to their

On 4 July 2014, it finally happened, and in Waterstones, Sheffield. Seven years after I began work on it, my contribution to the landmark Penguin History of Europe series was published. The complete series will