Bibliography
The main sources I have used for the history of the world as a whole (rather than for specific civilisations or regions), are:
Bahn, P. (ed.), Exploring the Ancient World, AA Media, 2008
Bayly, C.A., The Birth of the Modern World, 1780-1914, Blackwell, 2004
S. Christianson, 100 Diagrams that Changed the World, Batsford, 2014
J. Diamond, Guns, Germs and Steel, Vintage, 1997
J. Diamond, Collapse, Viking Penguin, 2005
F. Fernández-Armesto, Civilizations, Pan, 2001
S.E. Finer, The History of Government, 3 vols, Oxford, 1999
P. Frankopan, The Silk Roads, Bloomsbury, 2015
J. Haywood, The Penguin Atlas of Ancient Civilizations, Penguin, 2005
J. Haywood, The Cassell Atlas of the Medieval World, Cassell/Andomeda, 1998
S.J. Johnson, History of Science, Oneworld, 2007
J. Keegan, History of Warfare, Pimlico, 1993
L. Könemann et al, Historical Atlas of the World, Parragon, 2013
P.A. McAnany & N. Yoffee (eds.), Questioning Collapse, Cambridge, 2010
J.E. McClellan & H. Dorn, Science and Technology on World History, John Hopkins University Press, 2015
C. McEvedy, The New Penguin Atlas of Ancient History, Penguin, 2002
I. Morris, War: What’s it Good For?, Profile Books, 2014
A. Pace, Technology in World Civilization, MIT, 1991
G. Parker (ed.), The Times History of the World, 4th ed., Times Books, 2005
P. Parker et al, The Hammond Atlas of World History, Hammond/Times Books, 1999
J. Reader, Cities, Heinemann, 2004
J.M. Roberts, The Penguin History of the World, Penguin, 2013
P.N. Stearns (ed.), World History in Documents, New York, 2007
R. Stewart (ed.), Ideas that Shaped the World, Marshall, 1997
R. Szostak, Making Sense of World History, Routledge, 2021
R.J.A. Talbert, Atlas of Classical History, Routledge, 1996
H. Thomas, An Unfinished History of the World, Hamish Hamilton, 1982
P. Vidal-Naquet (ed.), The Collins Atlas of World History, Collins, 1998
P. Wilkinson, Religions, Darling Kindersley, 2008
H. Williams, Cassel’s Chronology of World History, Weidenfield & Nicholson, 2005
R. Houston (ed.), What Happened When in the World, Dorling Kindersley, 2015 – this is for children, it’s beautifully illustrated, and offers young people (and older people as well) a great introduction to world history.
C. Renfrew, (ed.), Past Worlds: The Times Atlas of Archaeology, Times Books, 1995
C. Scarre, (ed.), The Human Past, Thames & Hudson, 2005
P. Whitfield, Cities of the World: A History in Maps: A history in Maps, The British Library, 2005
These have been extensivley supplemented by articles in Wikipedia and Encyclopedia Britannica.