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The intriguing questions of cleanliness and health in seventeenth-century England. What was medicine like in the time of Shakespeare and Oliver Cromwell? How did Charles ...
King Arthur and the Battle for Britannia is the last in a series of three books. The first, King Arthur: Man or Myth, weighed the ...
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Britain had eased its problem of crowded jails and surplus criminals by packing them into ships and sending them ...
'The very best sort of panoramic portrait' David Kynaston
'The Edwardians have long been the lost decade of British history, yet they are that history ...
What killed Katherine Parr? She was the ultimate Tudor survivor, the queen who managed to outwit and outlive Henry VIII. Yet just over eighteen months ...
During the 1,000-year history of the English monarchy there have been eight kings with the name of Henry. The Eight King Henrys of England ...
Britain's first Labour government took office on 22 January 1924. Its centenary provides an opportunity to reassess the party's performance over the last ...
Rodney Castleden explores the purpose of great prehistoric projects like Avebury and Stonehenge and the nature of the society which built them. Were prehistoric people ...
"Compelling."-Mathew Lyons, Times (UK)
"Authoritative."-Marcus Nevitt, Spectator
"A sympathetic portrayal of communities fighting for all they held dear."-Lucy Wooding, Times Literary Supplement ...
A century ago a Labour government took power for the first time, meet the Wild Men who led the way...
'Superb' -- New Statesman 'Fascinating' -- The ...
The astonishing story of the Sassoons, one of the nineteenth century's pre-eminent commercial families and 'the Rothschilds of the East'
The Sassoons were one ...
A rich history of the years leading up to 1066 when Vikings, Anglo-Saxons and Normans vied for the English crown. A tale of loyalty, treason ...
Witchcraft! Just the mention of the name is enough to cause fear, even terror, in the minds and hearts of many people. But that is ...
Edward II is one of the most unsuccessful and unconventional kings in English history, and is well-known for having passionate and probably intimate relationships with ...
Katheryn Parr is mainly remembered today as being the sixth wife of King Henry VIII, the one who 'survived'. Katheryn was not only a wife ...
