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'Learned, entertaining and highly approachable' BOB MORTIMER
'A treat' ALICE LOXTON
'Five stars from me...' AL MURRAY
An unmissable collaboration between two comedy legends - an ...
'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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The instant Sunday Times bestseller
The UK's bestselling medieval historian brings unforgettably to life the astonishing rise of Henry V, who survived rebellion, a ...
The real people that inspired Gentleman Jack and the gay romances in Bridgerton, long written out of the nation's story and now lovingly restored ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
