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An unmissable collaboration between two comedy legends - an ...
Few figures in British history have been so deeply and so consequentially involved with the British royal family as Winston Spencer Churchill. While numerous men ...
A major reassessment of one of Britain's most important monarchs
James VI & I, who died 400 years ago, was one of Britain's ...
'A brilliantly entertaining and revealing new transcription of Pepys's diary' Claire Tomalin
A collection of the most personal aspects of Samuel Pepys' diaries, to ...
A nation on the cusp of war. A king ousted from his capital by the people. A society on the brink of collapse. From Jonathan ...
Now available in paperback, The English Soul portrays the spirit and nature of English Christianity as it has developed over the last 1,400 years ...
The definitive history of the Spanish Armada, lavishly illustrated and fully revised
Selected by Foreign Affairs as one of the Best Books of 2023
"Will ...
'Impressively original and ingenious . . . Brings the talented women of the Restoration Court gracefully to life' OPHELIA FIELD, author of The Favourite
A spellbinding work of ...
Edmund Burke and Charles Fox made common political cause in eighteenth-century Britain for twenty-five years: They supported the rebellious American colonies, attacked the British slave ...
A seriously FUNNY, seriously CLEVER history of our early kings and queens by one of our favourite comedians and cultural commentators.
This will be the ...
Nowadays, we take for granted the ready availability of maps of all kinds. In mid-Tudor England, they were rare. All this was to change in ...
A lively new history of London told through twenty-five buildings, from iconic Georgian townhouses to the Shard
A walk along any London street takes you ...
The untold story of Robert Cecil, the ultimate Tudor spy-master
Robert Cecil, statesman and spymaster, lived through an astonishingly threatening period in English history. Queen ...
From dark crimes of passion to shocking tales of grave robbing, gruesome murders, dens of iniquity, Victorian seances and haunted graveyards - not far beneath London ...
'A powerful tale . . . compelling and brilliant' - ALISON WEIR
In March 1603, Queen Elizabeth I, the last Tudor monarch, lies dying at Richmond Palace. The queen ...
