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Hourly History

140 non-fiction

Hourly History is a popular-history publishing project that produces concise introductions designed to be read in about an hour. Rather than representing a single conventional author, the name is used for books created by writers from different parts of the world and issued in a consistent, accessible format. The project aims to provide readers with a straightforward overview of a subject, concentrating on its principal events, figures and historical significance without the depth or scholarly apparatus of a full academic study.

Its extensive catalogue covers ancient civilisations, mythology, rulers, revolutions, political movements, military campaigns and modern conflicts. Titles include introductions to the Black Death, the English Civil War, the Wars of the Roses, the Battle of Waterloo, the Titanic and figures such as Oliver Cromwell and Vlad the Impaler. These books are nonfiction summaries rather than historical novels, so Hourly History should be treated on Historical Book Shelf as a collective author or publishing brand, with its titles listed in the nonfiction section.

Periods and events

Abolitionism & American Slaveryc. 1830–1865 CE Alfred the Great and Wessex871–899 CE American Civil War1861–1865 CE American Revolutionary Era1763–1783 CE American Revolutionary War1775–1783 CE Apache Wars and Chiricahua Resistance1849–1886 CE Arthurian BritainLegendary setting, conventionally c. 5th–6th centuries CE Assassination of Abraham Lincoln14–26 April 1865 Battle of Bosworth Field1485 CE Battle of Gettysburg1863 CE Boxer Rebellion1899–1901 CE British Raj1858–1947 CE California Gold Rush1848–1855 CE Captivity and Ransom of Richard I1192–1194 Captivity of Mary, Queen of Scots in England1568–1587 CE Carolingian Empire768–888 CE Chinese Civil War and Communist Revolution1927–1949 CE Confederate Government in Richmond1861–2 April 1865 Crimean War1853–1856 CE Dissolution of the Monasteries1536–1541 CE Dutch East India Company1602–1799 Early American Republic1783–1815 CE Early Colonial America1607–1763 CE Early People’s Republic of China1949–1966 CE East India Company Ascendancy1757–1833 CE East India Company Rule1757–1858 CE Edward I’s Conquest of Wales1277–1283 CE Edwardian Reformation1547–1553 CE Elizabethan Age1558–1603 CE Emancipation and Reconstruction1863–1877 CE English Civil War1642–1651 CE Execution of Charles I1649 CE First Battle of Bull Run21 July 1861 First Transcontinental Railroad1863–1869 French and Indian War1754–1763 CE French Revolution1789–1799 CE Great Fire of London1666 CE Great Fire of Rome64 CE Gunpowder Plot1605 CE Harrying of the North1069–1070 CE Henrician Reformation1530–1547 CE Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine1152–1189 CE Imperial Russia1721–1917 CE Indian Independence Movement1885–1947 CE Indian Wars of the American West1850–1890 CE Italian Wars1494–1559 CE Lady Jane Grey Succession Crisis1553-07-06–1554-02-12 Marcomannic Wars166–180 CE Mary I and the Counter-Reformation1553–1558 CE Napoleonic Era1792–1815 CE Native American Historyc. 15,000 BCE–present Old West and Frontier America1803–1912 CE Opium Wars1839–1860 CE Oregon Trail Migration1840–1869 CE Post-war Britain1945–1963 CE Princes in the Tower1483 CE Qing Dynasty1644–1912 CE Reign of Augustus27 BCE–14 CE Reign of Caligula37–41 CE Reign of Claudius41–54 CE Reign of Constantine I306–337 CE Reign of Edward I1272–1307 CE Reign of Henry VII1485–1509 CE Reign of Louis XIV1643–1715 CE Roman Conquest of Britain43–87 CE Russian Civil War1917–1922 CE Russian Revolution1917 CE Second Crusade1147–1149 CE Seven Years’ War1756–1763 CE Soviet Era1922–1991 CE St Bartholomew’s Day Massacre1572 CE Surrender at Appomattox Court House9 April 1865 Taiping Rebellion1850–1864 CE Texas–Comanche Conflict1821–1875 CE The Blitz1940–1941 CE Third Crusade1189–1192 CE Thirty Years’ War1618–1648 CE Underground Railroadc. 1800–1865 CE Victorian Era1837–1901 CE Wars of Scottish Independence1296–1357 CE Western Outlaws and Frontier Lawmen1865–1900 CE World War II1939–1945 CE

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Non-fiction by Hourly History (140 books)

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