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The Elizabethans
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The Case of the Married Woman: Caroline Norton: A 19th Century Heroine Who Wanted Justice for Women
Author: Lady Antonia Fraser Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'Before biography was fashionable, Antonia Fraser made the past popular' Guardian 'As a pure storyteller, Antonia Fraser has few equals'...
On a Pedestal: A Trip around Britain's Statues
Author: Roger Lytollis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 This is a book for people who are interested in statues . . . and for people who aren't. It explores...
A Revolution of Feeling: The Decade that Forged the Modern Mind
Author: Rachel Hewitt Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 In the 1790s, Britain underwent what the politician Edmund Burke called 'the most important of all revolutions...a revolution in sentiments'. Inspired...
Our History of the 20th Century: As Told in Diaries, Journals and Letters
Author: Travis Elborough Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 What better way to understand Britain during the twentieth century than through the eyes of those who experienced it at first...
Henry VIII: A European Court in England
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The Day We Went to War
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The Day Peace Broke Out: The VE-Day Experience
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1603: A Turning Point in British History
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Ten Days to D-Day: Countdown to the Liberation of Europe
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The Story of England
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City Of Cities: The Birth Of Modern London
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The Spanish Armadas
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After The Victorians
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The Pebbled Shore
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Five Days in London: May 1940
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Royal Renegades: The Children of Charles I and the English Civil Wars
Author: Linda Porter Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 The fact that the English Civil War led to the execution of King Charles I in January 1649 is well known,...
The Plantagenets
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Author: Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 296 England, 1154. As Henry II seizes the throne after years of turmoil, a new dynasty is poised to haul this hitherto...
Richard III and the Princes in the Tower
Author: Alison Weir Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Alison Weir investigates one of the most enduring murder mysteries in English history - the death of the lost...
Queens of the Conquest: The extraordinary women who changed the course of English history 1066 - 1167
Author: Alison Weir Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 Full of passion and betrayal, murder and war, the first volume of an epic new series from bestselling historian...
Empireland: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain
Author: Sathnam Sanghera Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 The groundbreaking bestseller which examines the effect of empire on modern Britain In Britain, imperialism is everywhere - though...
Queens of the Crusades: Eleanor of Aquitaine and her Successors
Author: Alison Weir Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 The next volume in Alison Weir's magisterial history of the queens of Medieval England - including the life of...
The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life
Author: John le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 The Sunday Times no. 1 memoir now in paperback The Pigeon Tunnel, John le Carre's memoir and his...
The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution
Author: Christopher Hill Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 A gripping, extraordinary account of England in an era of revolutionary turmoil Within the English revolution of the mid-seventeenth...
Tudor Church Militant: Edward VI and the Protestant Reformation
Author: Diarmaid MacCulloch Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The leading book on the short, radically Protestant reign of Edward VI, reissued for the 500th anniversary of the...
Seashaken Houses: A Lighthouse History from Eddystone to Fastnet
Author: Tom Nancollas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 The enthralling history of Britain's historic rock lighthouses, exploring the enduring appeal of these magnificent, isolated sentinels, now in...
Our Boys: The Story of a Paratrooper
Author: Helen Parr Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 An unflinching, brilliant book on the Parachute Regiment and the Falklands War Our Boys brings to life the human...
London's Triumph: Merchant Adventurers and the Tudor City
Author: Stephen Alford Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 The story of the individuals whose ambition and recklessness transformed London, England and the world. Life in Europe was...
God's Englishman: Oliver Cromwell and the English Revolution
Author: Christopher Hill Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The classic life of Cromwell by one of Britain's great radical historians A nuanced biography of Oliver Cromwell, breaking...
This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World
Author: Jerry Brotton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 A richly detailed account of the little-known cultural and political relationship between Elizabethan England and the Islamic world In...
The British in India: Three Centuries of Ambition and Experience
Author: David Gilmour Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 A panoramic social history chronicling the lives of hundreds of British people of all classes in the most important...
Thomas Cromwell: A Life
Author: Diarmaid MacCulloch Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 752 'This is the biography we have been awaiting for 400 years' - Hilary Mantel Born in obscurity in Putney,...
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
Author: Lindsey Fitzharris Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The spellbinding story of a visionary British surgeon who changed medicine forever In The Butchering Art, historian Lindsey Fitzharris...
The Brothers York: An English Tragedy
Author: Thomas Penn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 The gripping new history of a dynasty that seized the English throne - then tore itself apart It is...
Churchill: Walking with Destiny
Author: Andrew Roberts Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1152 The blockbuster biography of the greatest Briton, by one of Britain's bestselling historians Winston Churchill towers over every other...
The Lost Imperialist: Lord Dufferin, Memory and Mythmaking in an Age of Celebrity
Author: Andrew Gailey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 Winner of the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography 2016 Frederick Hamiton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, enjoyed a glittering...
Portland Place, Secret Diary of a BBC Secretary
Author, Sarah Shaw Format, Hardback Number of Pages, 304 Portland Place is the diary of Sarah Shaw for the year of 1971, which she recently uncovered whilst clearing out her...
Young Prince Philip, His Turbulent Early Life
Author, Philip Eade Format, Paperback / softback Number of Pages, 384 'The narrative is as suspenseful as any thriller. Truly, an excellent read' Lynn Barber, Sunday Times Married for almost...
The Last Wolf: The Hidden Springs of Englishness
Author: Robert Winder Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 It is often assumed that the national identity must be a matter of values and ideas. But in Robert...
The Senecans
Author: Peter Stothard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A year after the death of Margaret Thatcher, a young woman arrives to ask Peter Stothard, former Editor of...
The Birth of the RAF, 1918: The World's First Air Force
Author: Richard Overy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 A short, brilliant account of the birth of the RAF for the centenary of its founding The dizzying pace...
Winds of Change: Britain in the Early Sixties
Author: Peter Hennessy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 624 The third volume of Peter Hennessy's landmark postwar history of Britain Harold Macmillan - the presiding figure in Peter...
The Six Wives of Henry VIII
Author: Alison Weir Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 Thoroughly researched and with a real understanding of the times these six fascinating women lived through, Alison Weir's book...
London: A Travel Guide Through Time
Author: Dr Matthew Green Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Step back in time and discover the sights, sounds and smells of London through the ages in this...
Clementine Churchill: A Life in Pictures
Author: Sonia Purnell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Without Winston Churchill's inspiring leadership Britain could not have survived its darkest hour. Without his wife Clementine, however, he might never...
Remember, Remember (The Fifth of November): The History of Britain in Bite-Sized Chunks
Author: Judy Parkinson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 'Claiming there are only 150 key things you really need to know that have shaped in the story of...
Harry's Last Stand: How the world my generation built is falling down, and what we can do to save it
Author: Harry Leslie Smith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 In November 2013, 91-year-old Yorkshireman, RAF veteran and ex-carpet salesman Harry Leslie Smith's Guardian article - 'This year,...
Appeasing Hitler: Chamberlain, Churchill and the Road to War
Author: Tim Bouverie Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 This thrilling Sunday Times bestseller is the first major account of the disastrous years of British indecision and infighting...