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Fighting Churchill, Appeasing Hitler: How a British Civil Servant Helped Cause the Second World War
Author: Adrian Phillips Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 No one doubts that appeasement failed, but Phillips shows that it caused active harm - even sabotaging Britain's preparations for war....
The Road: A Story of Romans and Ways to the Past
Author: Christopher Hadley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 'An absolute joy to read and an early contender for every list of History Books of the Year' Sunday...
Paper Bullets: Two Women Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis
Author: Jeffrey H. Jackson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Paper Bullets is the first book to tell the history of an audacious anti-Nazi campaign undertaken by an unlikely pair:...
Time Song: Journeys in Search of a Submerged Land
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Author: Julia Blackburn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Julia Blackburn has always collected things that hold stories about the past, especially the very distant past: mammoth bones, little shells...
Victorious Century: The United Kingdom, 1800-1906
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Author: David Cannadine (University of London) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 624 A sweeping history of nineteenth-century Britain by one of the world's most respected historians. "An evocative account ....
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'...
The Crown in Crisis: Countdown to the Abdication
Author: Alexander Larman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 In December 1936, Britain faced a constitutional crisis that was the gravest threat to the institution of the monarchy since the...
Elizabethans: A History of How Modern Britain Was Forged
Author: Andrew Marr Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 The Sunday Times bestseller Now a major BBC TV series presented by Andrew Marr David Attenborough. Marcus Rashford. Jan...
Queens of Georgian Britian
Author: Catherine Curzon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 220 Once upon a time there were four kings called George who, thanks to a quirk of fate, ruled Great Britain for...
On Every Tide: The Making and Remaking of the Irish World
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Author: Sean Connolly Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 A sweeping history of Irish emigration, arguing that the Irish exodus helped make the modern world When people think of Irish...
1942: Britain at the Brink
Author: Taylor Downing Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 'Taylor Downing vividly brings to life a terrible year' Max Hastings, Sunday Times 'Taylor Downing is a wonderful historian and a...
The Captain Class Frigates in the Second World War
Author: D. J. Collingwood Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 The Captain Class Frigates, seventy-eight sturdy, modern Destroyer Escorts, known affectionately by all who sailed in them as the DEs,...
Do You Know Who's Dead?: A hilarious celebration of what makes us Irish
Author: Paddy Duffy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Ireland: A country of 13-verse-long ballads, outspoken lunatics, strongly held trivial opinions and friendly exchanges about the day's names...
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...
House of Treason: The Rise and Fall of a Tudor Dynasty
Author: Robert Hutchinson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 King-makers. Conspirators. Criminals. Nobles. Seducers. The Howard family - the Dukes of Norfolk - were the wealthiest and most...
Lost Realms: Histories of Britain from the Romans to the Vikings
Author: Thomas Williams Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 'A beautiful, beautiful book . . . archaeology is changing so much about the way we view the so-called Dark Ages...
Loot: Britain and the Benin Bronzes
Author: Barnaby Phillips Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 "In 1897, Britain responded to the killing of a group of officials by razing an empire to the ground. The men...
Rebellion in the Middle Ages: Fight Against the Crown
Author: Matthew Lewis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 248 Shakespeare's Henry IV lamented 'Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown'. It was true of that king's reign and of...
Aerial Atlas of Ancient Britain
Author: David R. Abram Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 A spectacular collection of aerial photographs of Britain's most extraordinary prehistoric sites. This breathtaking collection of aerial images reveals ancient...
The Channel: The Remarkable Men and Women Who Made It the Most Fascinating Waterway in the World
Author: Charlie Connelly Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 A bulwark against invasion, a conduit for exchange and a challenge to be conquered, the English Channel has always been many...
The Restless Republic: Britain without a Crown
Author: Anna Keay Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 THE SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 WINNER OF THE POL ROGER DUFF COOPER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR...
Following in the Footsteps of King Arthur
Author: Andrew Beattie Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 The story of King Arthur is one of the best known in English history: he was the boy who was schooled...
Lost Realms: Histories of Britain from the Romans to the Vikings
Author: Thomas Williams Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 'A beautiful, beautiful book . . . archaeology is changing so much about the way we view the so-called Dark Ages...
She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth
Author: Helen Castor Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 When Edward VI - Henry VIII's longed-for son - died in 1553, extraordinarily, there was no one left to claim the...
The Unsettling of Europe: How Migration Reshaped a Continent
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Author: Peter Gatrell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 An acclaimed historian examines postwar migration's fundamental role in shaping modern Europe Migration is perhaps the most pressing issue of our...
The Last Hurrah: The 1947 Royal Tour of Southern Africa and the End of Empire
Author: Graham Viney Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 'A fascinating but too little noticed book which tells a great deal about [the Queen's] formation. It draws on a single...
Mr Horniman's Walrus: Legacies of a Remarkable Victorian Family
Author: Clare Paterson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Family patriarch John Horniman established the tea company that bore his name in 1826, which went on to become one of...
Henry VIII: The Decline and Fall of a Tyrant
Author: Robert Hutchinson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 'Hutchinson brilliantly conveys the atmosphere of terror...a gripping narrative' DAILY MAIL 'A brilliantly readable account of Henry's last years' SUNDAY TIMES...
Outbreak: 1939
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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...
Anatomy of a Killing: Life and Death on a Divided Island
Author: Ian Cobain (Y) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 On the morning of Saturday 22nd April 1978, members of an Active Service Unit of the IRA hijacked a car...
After The Victorians
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Shooting Victoria: Madness, Mayhem, and the Rebirth of the British Monarchy
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A Revolution of Feeling: The Decade that Forged the Modern Mind
Author: Rachel Hewitt Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 560 In the 1790s, Britain underwent what the politician Edmund Burke called 'the most important of all revolutions ... a revolution in...
The Last 100 Years (give or take) and All That
Author: Al Murray Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 'I squealed laughing at this but now worry that my knowledge of history has been dangerously ruined' Matt Forde A fascinating...
Square Haunting: Five Women, Freedom and London Between the Wars
Author: Francesca Wade Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 'Outstanding. I'll be recommending this all year.' - Sarah Bakewell 'A beautiful and deeply moving book.' - Sally Rooney 'I like...
The High Girders: The gripping true story of a Victorian dream that ended in tragedy
Author: John Prebble Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 'A tale of irresponsibility and inexperience' THE TIMES 'Graphically written with a sense of dramatic construction' SCOTSMAN On December 28th 1879,...
A Brief History of the British Monarchy: From the Iron Age to King Charles III
Author: Jeremy Black Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 The British monarchy is at a turning point. Concise and engaging, this book charts the very beginnings of British reign through...
Mr Horniman's Walrus: Legacies of a Remarkable Victorian Family
Author: Clare Paterson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Family patriarch John Horniman established the tea company that bore his name in 1826, which went on to become one of...
This Dark Business: The Secret War Against Napoleon
Author: Tim Clayton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 Between two attempts in 1800 and 1804 to assassinate Napoleon Bonaparte, the British government launched a campaign of black propaganda of...
The Plantagenets: The Kings Who Made England
Author: Dan Jones Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 672 This brilliant new book explores the lives of eight generations of the greatest kings and queens that this country...
Lancaster And York
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The Gunpowder Plot
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The Tyrannicide Brief
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Hell's Foundations: Town, Its Myths and Gallipoli
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The History of Britain Revealed: The Shocking Truth About the English Language
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By Permission of Heaven: The True Story of the Great Fire of London
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