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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 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 ...
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 ...
Sixteen hundred years ago Britain left the Roman Empire and swiftly fell into ruin. Into this violent and unstable world came foreign invaders from across ...
Triumph and tragedy, love and loss, murder and malice in the lives of five fifteenth-century queens
Triumph and tragedy, love and loss, murder and malice ...
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 ...
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 ...
From the multimillion-copy bestselling author of the Horrible Histories, this is a witty, whistlestop tour through the history of Britain (for grown ups) - a ST ...
'An absorbing and eye-opening account of what the Plantagenets did for us.' - HELEN CASTOR
'Burt and Partington show precisely and engagingly why the Middle Ages ...
The classic, bestselling, official biography of Winston Churchill, back in print for the first time in two decades
'By far the most lucid, comprehensive and ...
PLUTARCH AWARD FOR THE BEST BIOGRAPHY OF 2024
SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE
'SUBLIME' A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024
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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 ...