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All too often, a dynasty is defined by its men: by their personalities, their wars and reigns, their laws and decisions. Their mothers, wives, sisters ...
In July 1484 Tudor agent William Collingbourne - executed for treason in 1484 - tacked up a lampoon to the walls of St Paul's Cathedral: 'The ...
Despite their frequent visits to England, Queen Victoria never quite trusted the Romanovs. In her letters she referred to 'horrid Russia' and was adamant that ...
An extraordinary exploration of the ancestry of Britain through seven burial sites. By using new advances in genetics and taking us through important archaeological discoveries ...
For hundreds of years, the islands and their constituent tribes that make up the British Isles have lived next door to each other in a ...
The astonishing story of the Sassoons, one of the nineteenth century's preeminent commercial families and 'the Rothschilds of the East'
The Sassoons were one ...
In 1942 there was a domestic crisis in Britain. Public morale collapsed with a widespread feeling that Winston Churchill was no longer the right man ...
Was Charles I a tyrant? He was a small man with a stammer, who inherited three kingdoms when young but ultimately lost his head. His ...
Philippa of Hainault: Mother of the English Nation is the first full-length biography of the queen at the centre of the some of the most ...
'Old John of Gaunt, time-honour'd Lancaster' John of Gaunt (1340-1399) was the son of one king and the father of another. He claimed a ...
When Thomas Harding discovered that his mother's family had made money from plantations worked by enslaved people, what began as an interrogation into the ...
From the bestselling historian and acclaimed broadcaster
'A rich social history ... Paxman's book could hardly be more colourful, and I enjoyed each page enormously ...
'Fascinating' - 'Books of the Year', Financial Times
'London's twelve great rail termini are the epic survivors of the Victorian age... Wolmar brings them to ...
A ground-breaking portrait of the most turbulent century in English history
Among foreign observers, seventeenth-century England was known as 'Devil-Land'- a diabolical country of fallen ...
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, January 2022
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