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"Excellent." BBC History Magazine
The Battle of Hastings and its aftermath nearly wiped ...
Draws on a lifetime's study and a decade of new research to address the first question that every visitor asks: how was Stonehenge built ...
A comprehensive history of the Georgians, comparing past views of these exciting, turbulent, and controversial times with our attitudes today.
The Georgian era is often ...
A deeply researched, analytically rich, and vivid account of England's early maritime empire
Drawing on a wealth of understudied sources, historian Eleanor Hubbard explores ...
The first biography of Charles Cornwallis in forty years-the soldier, governor, and statesman whose career covered America, India, Britain, and Ireland
Charles, First Marquis of ...
Contrary to nationalist legend and schoolboy history lessons, the British Empire was not a great civilising power bringing light to the
darker corners of the ...
I felt that Mary was there, pulling at my sleeve, willing me to appreciate the artistry, wanting me to understand the dazzle of the material ...
In 1962 the American statesman Dean Acheson famously charged that Britain had lost an empire and failed to find a new role. Nearly sixty years ...
A compelling account of why Ireland was so very Catholic for so long, and why that changed
When Berlin-based journalist Derek Scally visited Christmas Vigil ...
Initially a slaving vessel itself, the Black Joke was captured in 1827 and repurposed by the Royal Navy to catch its former compatriots. Over the ...
The paradigm-shifting classic that connected the dots between transatlantic slavery, capitalism and racism
'If one criterion of a classic is its ability to reorient our ...
The Tudor period has long gripped our imaginations. Because we have consumed so many costume dramas on TV and film, read so many histories, factual ...
One of Britain's premier historians overturns received wisdom on a much-maligned king
George III, Britain's longest-reigning king, has gone down in history as ...
Britain didn't just put the empire back the way it had found it.
In Uncommon Wealth, Kojo Koram traces the tale of how after ...
Manuscripts teem with life. They are not only the stuff of history and literature, but they offer some of the only tangible evidence we have ...
