History - Local Publications

This book includes over 100 watercolours which were painting around the Valletta area during the Second World War. They offer a rare glimpse of eve...

This book is written and brought together in honour of an ample and selfless lifework of Guido Lanfranco. The book bears a forward by Desmond Morri...

This publication is essential for those who want to study and truly appreciate the trials and tribulations endured by our forefathers in their figh...

Din mhix biss storja ta' ħajja ta' bniedem iżda wkoll kummentarju kritiku ta' dawk il-ġrajjiet importanti fl-istorja ta' Malta li żewqu dik il-ħajj...

Professor Joseph M. Pirotta who holds a Ph.D. in politics from the University of Reading, is a former head of the Department of International Relat...

The book is divided into three parts.The Peerage part comprises four sections packed with details about the Maltese nobility , the two Maltese Prin...

Professor Joseph M. Pirotta who holds a Ph.D. in politics from the University of Reading, is a former head of the Department of International Relat...

There are more than two dozen, and maybe three dozen, Neolithic (‘New Stone Age’) sites on Malta and Gozo. Nobody knows the actual figure because m...

Even though he himself was not a soldier, Eitel Kuhn was captured by British armed forces in November 1914 and was interned in ‘St Clement’s Camp’ ...

“Nation, Pride and Dignity. Borg Olivier and the National Anthem is another systematically constructed historical account, profusely annotated, wri...

This is the first complete biography of Mikiel Anton Vassalli (17641829). He a giant of an individual, who displayed remarkable courage, daring, a ...

Following the success of the first volume in this series, comes this unique book that visually documents the Valletta that once was and no longer e...

This is the fascinating account of a technological breakthrough which gave the Allies a propitious leg-up in achieving victory over the Nazis back ...

Edizzjoni ġdida, riveduta u aġġornata b’żjieda ta’ kapitlu ġdida filmitt anniversarju tasSette Giugno. Edizzjoni mimlija b’tagħrif ritratti u dokum...

The second of a series of five volumes of this unique series of books aimed at capturing the wealth of historical chapels in a way never seen befor...

Patrick Fenech has long harboured a secret desire to publish a photographic essay on the Maltese and Gozitan festa, by taking as many photographs o...

The starting point is the beginning of the 18th century, when the Order of St John introduced its second element to the fleet: the so-called vascel...

This book encapsulates the spirit of Malta’s Strait Street, a bohemian district with cabaret, theatre, jazz and dance hall culture. For me, a Bonac...

The Shipwreck of St Paul in AD60 is one important event that changed the history of the Maltese islands forever. When its feast day comes around, i...

The Great Mal'tese Composers: historical context, lives, and works' is the first comprehensive study of Maltese music to be written in the English ...

In his four-volume study, Pirotta meticulously examines Malta’s twenty-year transformation from Britain’s foremost Mediterranean fortress colony to...

Description The Knights of the Order of St John did not live in a social vacuum. As human beings they had their needs which often clashed with the...

The National Museum of Natural History was officially inaugurated on 22 June 1973. The display areas consisted of a geology and palaeontology halls...

Some years ago, Thomas Freller published a monograph on Malta and the Grand Tour, where the subject of Gozo and its visitors was treated in a rathe...

The journey that Malta’s sole civil airport made was, at times quite eventful and it was only thanks to the skills and nous of those handling the p...

Images by S.L. Cassar from the 1890s to the 1930s

Sheltered behind impressive ramparts, the city of Valletta is surrounded by water on three sides. As if in the process of detaching itself from the...

“On the evening of 10 June 1940, a Monday, we were listening to the radio, as usual. I can hear it still, loud and clear; Mussolini’s defiant voice...

‘Researched in depth… UXB Malta vividly captures the close relationships which developed between the soldiers and the islanders.’ Soldier Magazine ...

Fourth issue of the Journal of Baroque Studies The International Institute for Baroque Studies at the University of Malta has just published the f...

What they said about Giovanni Bonello’s Histories of Malta Closures and Disclosures – Volume Seven – The publication is yet another volume of Giov...

Part 1: The building of the Cathedral Museum and its historical transitions Mdina: A city of arts and seat of the mother church The institution of...