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'Five stars from me...' AL MURRAY
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
'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 ...
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 ...
'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 ...
A thrilling new history of the fourteenth century - a time of catastrophe and conflict that shaped England for centuries to come - by the highly acclaimed ...
"A Short History of Ireland stands out for its brevity, but also for its accessibility. . . . A solid introduction not only to the key events and ...
A stunning new story of Queen Victoria's secret love for her servant John Brown, by the acclaimed historian Fern Riddell.
A passionate and provocative ...
