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In eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe everyone lived 'off the land' in one way or another. In Ireland, however, almost everyone lived 'on the land' as ...
Explore the lives of over forty men and women - great and otherwise - whose pioneering journeys beyond the Irish shore played a profound role in world ...
The Sunday Times Bestseller
A Sunday Times History Book of the Year
A Spectator Book of the Year
The Irish Times No.1 Bestseller
'As ...
Why did England's one experiment in republican rule fail?
Oliver Cromwell's death in 1658 sparked a period of unrivalled turmoil and confusion in ...
The first history of childhood in Tudor England
"Tudor Children is social history at its best. . . . By connecting with our own history as children, Orme ...
'(A)sensational book by one of our greatest and best-loved historians... Astoundingly good.' - Alison Weir
'Masterful, captivating, page-turning, this is solid gold history at its ...
"Overflowing with surprises."-William Dalrymple, The Spectator
"Essential reading."-Dan Jones, Times (UK)
"Fascinating and authoritative."-Jerry Brotton
The unlikely beginnings of the East India ...
What happened when Jane Austen's heroines and heroes were finally wed?
Marriage is at the centre of Jane Austen's novels. The pursuit of ...
Elizabeth I is renowned for the hugely successful reign that has led her to be considered one of the most celebrated monarchs in English history ...
The strange and poignant story of a Second World War witchcraft trial, from the bestselling author of The Ruin of All Witches
One of the ...
The second volume in the definitive history of Henry III's rule, covering the revolutionary events between 1258 and the king's death in 1272 ...
'An absolute treasure trove of sound advice and historical detail' Katherine May
'A delightful and a profound meditation on the variety of human experience' Ian ...
In his short new biography of Winston Churchill, author Peter Caddick-Adams writes than the recipe for Winston Churchill's success during his wartime premiership of ...
Ireland is a strikingly different country now to the one it was in the mid-1990s. Dramatic economic, social and cultural changes, including the Celtic Tiger ...
Historians and broadcasters Peter Snow and Ann Macmillan tell the real stories of the most powerful men and women in British history.
From Alfred the ...
