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'This book brings history alive' BERNADINE EVARISTO
WITH A BRAND NEW FOREWORD FROM ZADIE SMITH
'Black England is a book that will be relevant for ...
Winner of the 2020 PARLIAMENTARY BOOK AWARDS for Best Political Book by a Non-Parliamentarian
A Times Political Book of the Year
'An entertaining, thorough and ...
Recent years have seen a re-examination of Britain's imperialist past, with changes to how its citizens understand, study and scrutinize its history.
In Britain ...
The story of the Stuart dynasty is a breathless soap opera played out in just a hundred years in an array of buildings that span ...
'This book is an expression of love... Sublimely conceived and beautifully written' Gerard DeGroot, The Times
'Immersive, conversational and intensely visual' Helen Castor
Manuscripts teem ...
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
'Tender, fascinating ... Lucid and illuminating' Robert Macfarlane
Funerary rituals show us what people thought about mortality; how they felt about loss ...
The Western Rising of 1549 was the most catastrophic event to occur in Devon and Cornwall between the Black Death and the Civil War. Beginning ...
'Frank and incisive - an insightful look at the most tumultuous period of the Troubles.' - Ian Cobain
In the eleven months between August 1971 and July ...
A stunning tour de force and a remarkable achievement.- Alison Weir
This is Our Island Story for the modern age. - Charles Spencer
'Not just a ...
'Ackroyd makes history accessible to the layman' - Ian Thomson, Independent
Innovation brings Peter Ackroyd's History of England to a triumphant close. In it, Ackroyd ...
The bestselling classic In Search of the Dark Ages expanded and revised for the book's 40th anniversary. From Boudica to William the Conqueror, this ...
Scotland is one of the oldest nations in the world, yet by some it is hardly counted as a nation at all. Neither a colony ...
For almost 350 years the Plantagenet family held the English throne - longer than any dynasty in English history - and yet its origins were in Anjou ...
A TIMES BEST PAPERBACK OF 2022
'Glorious ... It's rare to read anything so teeming with life' SPECTATOR, Books of the Year
'This is Kynaston ...
ONE OF THE TIMES' BEST HISTORY BOOKS OF 2021
'The tale of the Phoenix Park murders is not unfamiliar, but Kavanagh recounts it with a ...