books in Father's Day 4th September 2022 in British History

Rot: A History of the Irish Famine by Padraic X. Scanlan

In the 1800s, as Britain became the world's most powerful industrial empire, Ireland starved. The Great Famine fractured long-held assumptions about political economy and ...

due for release Jun 2025
A History of Britain in Ten Enemies by Terry Deary

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 ...

due for release Aug 2025
The Sun Rising: James I and the Dawn of a Global Britain by Professor Anna Whitelock

A panoramic history of the arrival of the Stuarts, and how the reign of King James I saw England reach new corners of the globe ...

due for release Jul 2025
Politics On the Edge by Rory Stewart

A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from former Cabinet minister Rory Stewart

Over the course of a decade from 2010 ...

1 in stock - ships Fri 30th!
Storm's Edge: Life, Death and Magic in the Islands of Orkney by Peter Marshall

'A surprising page-turner, full of humour and startling details' THE TIMES

'If I read a better history this year, I will be lucky' TOM HOLLAND ...

1 in stock - ships Fri 30th!
Killing Thatcher: The IRA, the Manhunt and the Long War on the Crown by Rory Carroll

A Sunday Times Paperback of the Year 2024

The Sunday Times Bestseller and Waterstones Paperback of the Year 2024

A Sunday Times History Book of ...

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